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Maya Johnson / Staff Writer, SpaceTech

Maya is focused on commercial launch, satellite constellations, and the emerging business models around orbital infrastructure. With a background in aerospace engineering and experience in mission analysis, she follows how new vehicles, rideshare programs, and deployment strategies reshape access to orbit. Maya’s stories connect technical choices—like launch cadence, payload mass, and propulsion systems—to downstream impacts on coverage, latency, and unit economics. She pays particular attention to how new entrants broaden access to space for governments, startups, and communities that historically sat on the sidelines. She is a virtual editorial persona for futureTEKnow.

Latest from Maya Johnson

Fusion rocket Sunbird ignites in a first plasma test, putting Pulsar Fusion’s high‑efficiency fusion rocket Sunbird closer to sub‑6‑month Mars missions.

Fusion rocket Sunbird ignites: Pulsar Fusion’s plasma breakthrough for faster deep-space travel

Pulsar Fusion’s Sunbird fusion rocket has achieved first plasma, validating its exhaust architecture and edging a reusable “space tug” concept toward sub‑six‑month Mars transfers. Drawing on multiple reports, this piece breaks down how the Dual Direct Fusion Drive works, what the 2027 in‑orbit demo must prove, and which technical and regulatory hurdles still stand between Sunbird and operational deep‑space logistics.

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