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.@Esa selected the winners of the first stage of its European Launcher Challenge (ELC). Each launcher now stands the chance to win a maximum of €169M ($198.3M).

Lunar Helium-3 Mining, LLC (LH3M) secured its fifth US patent last month, covering the company’s end-to-end architecture for He-3 detection, extraction, and refinement on the Moon.

.@K2SpaceCo, the CA-based startup building low-cost, high-power satellites optimized for MEO, has spent the last year buying down risk and burning up fuel in preparation for its first customer mission in February 2026.

The fireworks were a little bigger at Boeing’s Independence Day celebrations: On July 3, SSC awarded the company a $2.8B contract to deliver two highly secure communications satellites for nuclear command and control.

If Monopoly made a rocket themed board game, @Exolaunch would have a hotel on every space. The Berlin-based launch integrator announced a partnership with @orbexspace to sell satellite operators a ride on the UK launcher’s Prime and Proxima rockets.

.@AstSpacemobile and its long-time investor, @vodafone, deepened their partnership this week with the formation of a new joint venture—SatCo—in Luxembourg.

What’s the purpose of a SBIR award? That’s the question at the heart of a lawsuit York Space Systems has filed against the military, over a contract awarded to fellow satellite builder Apex Space.

RT @PortalSpaceSys: 🖖 “We couldn’t make Star Trek happen if we didn’t innovate the engines that push humanity around.”. Portal CEO @JeffTho….

The future of the US lunar return hinges on @SpaceX and @blueorigin’s development of landers that can bring astronauts from the Orion spacecraft down to the surface of the Moon.

Outside of a few hubs, space policymakers rarely have technical expertise to rely on when crafting rules that will guide the industry—and engineers creating the next wave of space tech rarely think about how their systems will be governed.

Atomic-6 won a $2M contract from SSC to continue development of its Light Wing solar array, which collapses to enable RPO and stealth missions.

.@NOAA's FY 2026 budget proposal, released yesterday, includes plans to gut the Office of Space Commerce (OSC) and terminate federal funding for the Traffic Coordination System for Space (TraCSS).

Objects in orbit stay there for a long time, and we keep putting more up there. Now, researchers say that despite efforts by satellite operators to limit collisions, popular orbits are too crowded for long-term stability.

Skynopy secured €15M ($17.6M) in seed funding to accelerate the expansion of its ground station network, and attempt to meet growing demand for data downlink services.

.@Relativityspace began developing a methalox engine for its medium-lift Terran R rocket no earlier than 2021, and first fired it in late 2023. @RocketLab announced the methalox engine for its Neutron vehicle in 2021, and fired it in 2024.

.@EutelsatGroup's €1.35B fundraise, expected to close before the end of the year, will finance the replacement of sats in its OneWeb LEO constellation.

The @EU_Commission released its long-awaited proposal for an EU Space Act. The act aims to boost the region’s space industry.

The fast-evolving orbital environment in the age of private space presents new challenges for nuclear strategy. In response, the @SWFoundation and @CarnegieCorp are starting a new program to bring together experts from both disciplines.

.@Firefly_Space and the @SSCspace signed an agreement to establish launch operations at Sweden’s Esrange Space Centre near Kiruna, but a recent agreement between the US and Swedish governments have made the collaboration a reality.

.@OrbitsEdge, a FL-based space computing startup, will send its first space rated computing platform to orbit early next year.