18.06.2026 The Glow Says It All: Exolaunch’s Next Chapter 🚀 What a warm welcome, as always! The team has that incredible ability to make me feel completely at home. Thank you for bringing that same warmth to the Berlin office, it truly felt like home. Elena, Robert, Kier, Connor, having all of you there that day and sitting around the same table for a coffee session, sharing both personal and sectoral insights, and engaging in such friendly yet professional discussions was extremely valuable and enjoyable. ☕ I sincerely appreciate each of you taking the time to be there, and my thanks go to all team members who made that day so welcoming. I also had the chance to see the newly expanded Berlin office, there are so many great spaces around, but my personal favorite turned out to be the meeting rooms. The meeting rooms with views of Berlin’s iconic landmarks such as the TV Tower, the Dom, and Tiergarten, one of Berlin’s most enjoyable green spaces, are just incredible. The combination of the inspiring office space with different giant rockets in each corner, especially the giant Starship, makes every session an absolute pleasure. 🚀🚀 Working at Exolaunch is not only enjoyable but also highly motivating. It is an ideal place to be productive while working with an outstanding partner. Also, a special thanks to Olga, who is always just a call away and very much part of the Exolaunch spirit, even if she couldn’t be there in person that day. And Jeanne, she always holds a special place for me, and I am sure for the launch industry as a whole. Unfortunately we couldn’t meet during this visit, but it turned out she was busy chasing a big deal at the time, on an investment tour tied to the EQT discussions.🪶🏆 This momentum makes perfect sense in light of the recent news: EQT, the Stockholm-listed private equity firm, has agreed to acquire Exolaunch, marking EQT’s first-ever investment in the space sector. It’s a strong vote of confidence in the team and the work being done here, and EQT has already signaled plans to back Exolaunch’s global expansion and further investment in next-generation satellite and launch deployment technology. 🏅 Ad Astra ✨ Ceyda
19.04.2026 Back-to-Back.🚀 Blue Origin Means Business🪶 New Glenn just completed its third flight — and for the first time on a vehicle of this scale, the booster flown on the second commercial mission was recovered, turned around, and reflown on the very next flight. NG-2 to NG-3, same stage, back-to-back commercial missions. That’s not a test milestone. That’s an operational statement. To achieve first booster reuse on only the third flight of a rocket this size is a pace that, frankly, the industry didn’t expect from Blue Origin this soon. The question was never whether they could — it was when, and why it was taking so long. NG-3 answered part of that. The upper stage anomaly and the off-nominal orbit for BlueBird 7 are real, and they matter. But the trajectory is set — and as launch cadence becomes the primary focus, the remaining gaps will close. The hardware is already proving it can be trusted with back-to-back missions. The confidence in hitting more precise targets on the next ones is well-founded. The commercial launch market needed more of this. Not just more rockets — more operators capable of sustained, repeatable service at this scale. Every mission that demonstrates that raises the ceiling for the entire industry. Now, all eyes on the next one.👀🔮 Cheers, Ceyda
23.05.2026 Have You Ever Seen a Satellite Film Its Own Rocket — Live?🥂🚀📸📹 SpaceX & Starship Just Changed Everything — Again I don’t even know where to start with this one. Honestly, if you didn’t watch this flight live, I feel sorry for you — because what we witnessed was one of those moments you just don’t forget. From the moment Starship hit 105 km on its way down, the sky — or whatever you call that boundary between space and atmosphere — just lit up. This gorgeous, vivid purple plasma started wrapping around the vehicle and I was already losing my mind. But then, as it pushed down toward 50 km, that purple deepened. It got darker, richer, more intense — a full large reverse plasma glow that made Starship look like it was wearing a crown of fire. I’ve watched a lot of reentries. Nothing looked like this. Then at 84 km, something small happened that was actually enormous. A tiny correction burn. Just a brief ignition, almost like a whisper — but the precision of it, the confidence of it, was staggering. This machine knew exactly where it was and exactly what it needed to do. And then again at 43 km, another correction, and at 42 km hitting maximum dynamic pressure, Starship calmly entered a flap load test. Mid-reentry. Testing its own flaps. Under real stress. In real time. I mean — come on. Between 50 and 44 km the temperatures peaked, and the active cooling kicked in and just handled it. Around 43.7 km we hit peak pressure, and from 42.7 all the way down to 40 km, that flap test ran right through Mach 7. Mach 7. And it was smooth. That’s the part that gets me every time — how smooth it all looked from the outside while the physics happening around that vehicle were absolutely violent. At 4 km, Starship made its final turn over the Indian Ocean, the aft flaps making these small, almost graceful adjustments, and then at just 0.4 km — that final ignition fired. And it landed. Beautifully. On the ocean. And as it settled, it gave us one last big dramatic bang of a view, like it knew it had an audience and wanted to stick the landing in style. But here’s the part I need you to really sit with for a second — because this is the detail that absolutely broke my brain. This flight carried 20 Starlink satellites. Of these, 18 were dummy units simulating deployment trials, while 2 were actual flight test satellites. But one of those satellites had a flash device built inside it. After it separated from Starship, it triggered that flash — and captured live video of Starship from the outside. A satellite. That just launched from a rocket. Turned around and filmed that rocket. From space. I’ve been following SpaceX for years and I genuinely had to pause and just stare at the ceiling when I processed this. This is the moment of this entire flight for me. This changes how we think about what these missions can document going forward. And Super Heavy — look, I won’t pretend I wasn’t a little gutted. The flight computer decided landing conditions weren’t safe enough and didn’t fire the landing burn, so we didn’t get to see the booster come down this time. But you know what? That’s actually the system working. It made a call. The right call. And the flight was still incredible from every other angle. This test was everything. Plasma, precision, satellites photographing rockets, a computer smart enough to know its own limits. Every single flight, Starship becomes more of what it was always meant to be — and I genuinely cannot wait for what comes next.⏳🚀🔮 Cheers, Ceyda
16.04.2026 What a 24 Hours for Space!⏳💯 In less than 24 hours, two of the most powerful rockets ever built both nailed their static fire tests — and I can’t stop thinking about it. April 15 — SpaceX Starship V3 fired all 33 Raptor 3 engines on the Super Heavy booster at Starbase, Texas. One day after Ship 39 already completed its full-duration upper stage burn. Flight 12 is targeting May 2026. April 16 — Blue Origin New Glenn hot fired its 7 BE-4 engines at Cape Canaveral — using a flight-proven booster for the very first time. NG-3 is targeting launch as soon as April 19. Same 24 hours. Different coasts. Two rockets both destined to carry humanity back to the Moon. 🌕 History doesn’t wait. And neither does this industry. 🔥 Cheers Ceyda
11.04.2026 Welcome, Artemis🚀 There are missions that test systems, and there are missions that quietly redefine what it means to be human. Led by NASA, Artemis II will carry four astronauts beyond low Earth orbit for the first time in over half a century. Since Apollo 17, no human has traveled this far from Earth. Generations have lived and worked in orbit, aboard stations like the International Space Station, circling just a few hundred kilometers above the surface—close enough to feel connected, close enough to still belong. Artemis II breaks that familiarity. As Orion leaves Earth orbit, it doesn’t just gain altitude; it gains perspective. The distance grows from hundreds to hundreds of thousands of kilometers. Earth stops being a place and becomes a point—fragile, distant, suspended in black. And then something even more subtle happens. At one moment in the mission, while the Artemis II crew moves through deep space, another group of humans continues orbiting Earth. Between them, the distance stretches to over 400,000 kilometers—not Earth to spacecraft, but human to human. Two points of humanity, separated by the largest distance we have ever created between ourselves. It’s not a headline most people will notice. But it changes the narrative. For decades, we measured exploration by how far we could go from Earth. Now, we are beginning to measure how far we can exist from each other. And in between those two human points—there is nothing. No infrastructure, no stations, no immediate support. Just vacuum, trajectory, and trust in engineering. And when you leave everything behind, something else changes. Earth itself. From orbit, it feels detailed. Alive. Immediate. From deep space, it becomes quiet. Finite. Almost abstract. Artemis II is often described as a test mission—and technically, it is. It validates the Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft for what comes next. But it’s also a reminder of something we tend to simplify too quickly. Artemis II does not land on the Moon—by design. And maybe that’s exactly the point. Because the real milestone isn’t who lands first, or under which flag, or through which program—government or private. The real milestone will be the moment humans stand on the Moon again, no matter the vehicle, no matter the mission architecture. Artemis II is part of that trajectory. A step that doesn’t claim the surface— but makes the return to it inevitable. And when that landing happens again—through Artemis, or any other mission that carries humanity forward— it won’t belong to a program. It will belong to all of us. All the best, Ceyda🌑
13.03.2026 💫Signals of Exponential Accessibility in Space🚀 The long-anticipated transformation of the launch market is no longer a distant vision—it is beginning to signal itself more clearly than ever. What we are seeing today is not just a set of technical updates or isolated milestones. It is the early indication of a structural shift—one that points toward exponentially increasing accessibility to space. With the latest direction from SpaceX, the transition from traditional rideshare models toward Starship introduces something fundamentally different: an extremely cheaper access regime. Even at the level of initial one-to-one launches, this shift already signals a step-change in economics. And when scaled, the implication is clear—space is no longer limited by marginal cost improvements, but instead moving toward a model of exponential accessibility. This does not only mean lower prices. It means more frequent missions. More actors entering the market. More ambitious architectures becoming feasible. And inevitably, it also means that regulatory frameworks and space governance will need to evolve alongside this acceleration. At the same time, Blue Origin has delivered a strong signal & action with the successful flights of New Glenn. The execution was sharp, clean, and notably smooth—marking a confident step into this new phase. Now, attention shifts from capability to availability. When will Blue Origin open its commercial services? How will this new capacity translate into real market access? Beyond these developments, the broader heavy-lift landscape remains equally critical. Will Rocket Lab position itself effectively in this emerging segment with Neutron? When will it be ready—and at what cost structure will it enter? And while these well-known players shape the current narrative, other heavy-lift initiatives progressing in parallel are also under close watch. Their timelines, strategies, and technological choices will play a defining role in how this transition unfolds. In that sense, this is not a moment of competition alone—it is a moment of convergence. A convergence toward interplanetary ambition. Toward scalable infrastructure. And most importantly, toward a future where access to space becomes progressively—and exponentially—more attainable. The signals are here. The shift has begun. Cheers Ceyda😉
22.11.2025 ⚜️Exolaunch: Time Machine Party🔮 Exolaunch’s Time Machine party was truly something else! They put together an incredibly impressive show, and I’m genuinely grateful for the invitation. It was one of those rare, intimate private events—small in size but absolutely rich in atmosphere. Boutique, high-level, elegant, and full of character… every detail reflected quality. On top of the amazing concept, reconnecting with all my friends and the entire Exolaunch team I care so much about made the night even more special. It was such a joy to catch up with everyone, share thoughts, laugh together, and simply enjoy the moment. The timing was perfect too—right in the middle of the fair—and our little Pit Stop meet-up later that evening at the Bremen Park Hotel venue was the perfect touch. I was also delighted to meet all the new team members joining the Exolaunch family. Looking forward to seeing everyone again at future events, parties, and all those surprise gatherings we know they’re great at. Huge congratulations to the team for the fantastic venue choice and creative concept. And a warm, heartfelt thank you to Jeanne, Robert, Kier, Olga, Connor, Nadine, and Elena for welcoming me with such energy and kindness throughout the night. And of course—don’t forget to check out our photos in the “In the Media” section! 🚀 Cheers Ceyda😉
21.11.2025 Space Tech Expo 2025 Europe 🥨– A Remarkably Successful Week👸 Last week at Space Tech Expo Europe was vibrant, crowded, full of interest, and overall a truly wonderful experience. It was an extremely productive and efficient week—one that offered both professional depth and great momentum for everything we are currently building.🏆 Being there with my beloved technical, business, commercial, sales, and marketing teams, with whom I am working on Space Mission Management, as well as all my wonderful colleagues from other departments, was genuinely exciting. Almost the entire Reflex Aerospace team was in circulation throughout the expo, and that collective presence created incredible energy. And of course, as a true marketing genius move, having a permanent professional tattoo artist at our booth was likely a world-first in expo history. The lines in front of the booth lasted for hours, and we remained one of the most visited—and often the most crowded—booths of the entire event.💯 I would also like to thank all friends and professional contacts who attended the Reflex x Jena Optronik party; the turnout and interest exceeded all expectations. 🥂 Walter and our C-level board have long provided a clear, forward-looking vision for the company, and that vision was strongly felt across the team throughout the expo and clearly reflected in our company culture. Professionally, this extremely efficient and productive week was filled with countless meetings and catch-ups—perhaps hundreds—with friends, colleagues, and members of my wider professional network. While I unfortunately cannot list every single person here, I would like to apologize in advance and extend special thanks to some of the teams and organizations I had the pleasure of meeting: SpaceX, Rocket Lab, DLR, Isar, Exolaunch, Marble Imaging, Launch 42, Safran, UARX, D-Orbit, Arkadia, IAGB, Constellr, Odysseus, Gilmour, Luxembourg Space Agency, Beyond Gravity, Space Structures… and many more.🪐✨ My sincere thanks to hundreds of companies for the valuable discussions. And to those I couldn’t meet due to my fully booked schedule—or to the contacts whose meetings I had to decline or forward to my teammates—I truly hope we can reconnect at the next events. 🥠🌊 Warm regards Ceyda🪶