The Aerospace Corporation has a lot going on. The researchers and engineers at our more than 150 labs and 22 locations across the country are all working to improve the space enterprise for everyone. And we've been doing it continuously since the '60s, when we supported Apollo and other programs at the dawn of the first space age.

We're proud of our wide-ranging technical expertise, but that very variety leads to our teams' accomplishments appearing across industry journals, whitepapers, in podcasts and on stage at events, and of course at rocket launches. If you wanted to keep up (and we try), you'd need to check a couple dozen sources every day.

Now you can just check Kickstage. This is our new front page for collecting everything Aerospace does that we think people ought to know about. Whether you're a commercial space company we already work with, a startup we could help grow, an investor who needs objective facts, or a space enthusiast who wants to hear about the latest tech and science, Kickstage is for you.

For instance, even now we're at Space Symposium in Colorado, where government and commercial space meet to build new partnerships and find the next big thing. We're hosting a few events and our team will be doing panels and other content; you can find the full schedule here, or — that's right, check Kickstage regularly to see what we've gotten up to.

From here on out you'll find the newest projects, launches, and partnerships from Aerospace here, as clear and concise as we can make them, with links to the source material if you want to dive deeper. We'll also have snippets of our podcasts and any media that our experts and leaders appear on — and probably plenty more we haven't thought of yet.

So why "Kickstage"?

The term comes from the apogee kick motor, a rocket engine sometimes used once the first stage takes a spacecraft out of the atmosphere, and the second stage puts it into orbit; this third stage is used to achieve the exact desired trajectory.

Rocket Lab calls it a "kick stage," which we thought captured both the physics and the business of space in one phrase. Plus, it's kind of what we do: help others get into space with precision and a light touch. So with permission, we borrowed it and removed the space (it's cleaner).

Our experts and partners will keep doing what they do, and everything from papers to podcasts to prototypes will keep living where they do. But we'll collect them on Kickstage, giving them that little boost to launch them towards a friendly conjunction with your attention.

Kickstage is still a work in progress! We're just getting started, so don't be surprised if things change over the weeks and months to come.