SpaceNews.com
• Andrew Jones
China has conducted two launch campaigns aimed at improving communications capacity, including a Long March 5 flight lofting a classified payload and a LandSpace Zhuque-2E mission delivering experimental connectivity satellites. LandSpace also indicated further methane/liquid-oxygen launches later in the year.
FlightGlobal
• Kerry Reals
By FlightGlobal: The Qatari carrier will operate daily flights on the route from 1 August. Qatar Airways will reinstate flights between Doha and Philadelphia in August, after Oneworld alliance partner American Airlines confirmed it would not return to the Qatari capital.
Bloomberg
• John Micklethwait, Paula Doenecke
By Bloomberg: Anduril Industries Inc., one of the world’s most valuable defense-tech startups, would “absolutely” consider building its next weapons manufacturing hub outside the US, said Chief Executive Officer Brian Schimpf.
By Spaceflight Now: SpaceX is preparing to launch its next Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Thursday morning, a day before the company’s stock becomes publicly available on the Nasdaq.
FlightGlobal
• Murdo Morrison
By FlightGlobal: LATAM highlights region's aviation potential and the importance of effective public policies for its development LATAM Group officially hosted the 82nd IATA Annual General Meeting, the world's premier aviation gathering, which returned to the region after 27 years.
FlightGlobal
• Kerry Reals
By FlightGlobal: KLM's first Airbus A350 will join the carrier's fleet at the end of this summer KLM The Dutch carrier is due to receive its first A350 passenger jet in August or September.
CNBC
• Hayley Cuccinello
By CNBC: Personal investment firms of the ultra-rich are interested in space startups even without Elon Musk's name attached.
FlightGlobal
• David Kaminski-Morrow
FlightGlobal
• David Kaminski-Morrow
Reuters
• Abhijith Ganapavaram, David Shepardson
Space Intel Report
• Peter B. de Selding
Washington Post
• Faiz Siddiqui
Bloomberg
• Bailey Lipschultz, Charlotte Plaskwa, Davide Barbuscia, Edward Ludlow
