Helium leak further delays Starliner crewed test flight (spacenews.com)
NASA and ESA complete agreement for cooperation on Mars rover mission (spacenews.com)
Omnispace reports interference from Starlink direct-to-device payloads (spacenews.com)
FAA reauthorization bill includes short-term learning period extension (spacenews.com)
OneWeb coverage target held up by India regulatory delays (spacenews.com)
Intuitive Machines making upgrades to second lunar lander (spacenews.com)
India plans Chandrayaan-4 moon sample return, will involve private sector (spacenews.com)
ULA could fly dummy payload on next Vulcan launch if Dream Chaser is delayed (spacenews.com)
NASA and JAXA to operate XRISM as-is despite instrument issue (spacenews.com)
Op-ed: Space Economics 101: Why the Math on Refueling Just Doesn’t Add Up (spacenews.com)
Lunar lander company ispace sees opportunities in Japan-U.S. Artemis agreement (spacenews.com)
Serbia becomes latest country to join China’s ILRS moon base project (spacenews.com)
FAA to begin environmental review of Starship launches from Kennedy Space Center (spacenews.com)
NASA’s strategy for space sustainability (spacenews.com)
Starlink soars: SpaceX's satellite internet surprises analysts with $6.6 billion revenue projection (spacenews.com)
Avio leans on defense business amid lull in launches (spacenews.com)
Congressional letter seeks big increase in NASA science budget (spacenews.com)
China launches its first medium Earth orbit broadband satellites (spacenews.com)
Sierra Space prepares to ship Dream Chaser to Florida (spacenews.com)
Aiming for Apophis (spacenews.com)
Virgin Galactic plans higher mothership flight rate with next-generation spaceplanes (spacenews.com)
Chang’e-6 enters lunar orbit ahead of far side landing attempt (spacenews.com)
Rocket Lab pushes back Neutron debut to 2025 (spacenews.com)
China launches first Long March 6C rocket (spacenews.com)
Rocket Lab pushes back Neutron debut to 2025 (spacenews.com)
Only slightly disappointing, and not too surprising. It’s honestly pretty impressive how little the timeline has slipped so far. Neutron was announced in 2021 with a target launch date in 2024. If it takes only 33% longer, that will still be pretty quick for rocket development.