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.
Report recommends major expansion of Florida seaport to support space industry (spacenews.com)
Rocket issue scrubs launch of Starliner crewed test flight (spacenews.com)
SabreSat: Redwire's vehicle to dart through very low Earth orbit (spacenews.com)
Capella Space using AI to automate ship identification (spacenews.com)
Rocket Lab announces supplier agreements for military satellite project (spacenews.com)
Op-ed Robert Zubrin: A practical approach to the Mars Sample Return mission (spacenews.com)
NASA needs to decide whether it wants to have an effective Mars exploration program or a happily empowered planetary protection bureaucracy. It can’t have both.