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Political impatience risks schedule slips and cost overruns for NASA’s Artemis lunar program

Political pressure to accelerate Artemis timelines is increasing the risk of schedule slips, cost growth and technical trade‑offs across NASA’s lunar programme. Shortened decision windows and architecture changes are straining contractors, compressing launch margins for SLS/Orion and complicating plans for a crewed lunar landing target.

2026-03-11T06:27:22.735834-07:00

European Spaceflight

Cyprus becomes first user of EU GOVSATCOM secure satcom service

2026-03-11T02:54:15.759878-07:00

Space Intel Report

Telesat secures land for Lightspeed landing stations in Quebec and Saskatchewan ahead of planned December launch

2026-03-10T07:59:14.060181-07:00

European Spaceflight

ESA launches SME design call for spaceplane-based launcher with novel propulsion

2026-03-10T04:12:24.583722-07:00

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Political impatience risks schedule slips and cost overruns for NASA’s Artemis lunar program Political pressure to accelerate Artemis timelines is increasing the risk of schedule slips, cost growth and technical trade‑offs across NASA’s lunar programme. Shortened decision windows and architecture changes are straining contractors, compressing launch margins for SLS/Orion and complicating plans for a crewed lunar landing target.

2026-03-11T06:27:22.735834-07:00

Political impatience risks schedule slips and cost overruns for NASA’s Artemis lunar program

European Spaceflight

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Cyprus becomes first user of EU GOVSATCOM secure satcom service Cyprus has become the first country to use the EU's GOVSATCOM secure satellite communications service, marking the programme's initial operational uptake. The move signals availability of encrypted, sovereign satcom links to EU member states and the start of practical service delivery.

2026-03-11T02:54:15.759878-07:00

Cyprus becomes first user of EU GOVSATCOM secure satcom service

Payload

DC Moot Court Tests Federal Regulatory Reach Over Commercial Megaconstellations A moot court in Washington this month will bring lawyers, industry counsel and regulators together to probe how far federal authority extends over commercial megaconstellations, testing statutory limits on the FCC and other agencies, questions of preemption, and the legal framework for licensing, safety and liability.

2026-03-10T08:15:19.873917-07:00

DC Moot Court Tests Federal Regulatory Reach Over Commercial Megaconstellations

Space Intel Report

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Telesat secures land for Lightspeed landing stations in Quebec and Saskatchewan ahead of planned December launch Telesat has acquired three tracts of land — including sites in Estevan, Saskatchewan and Papineauville, Quebec — and executed leases as it builds landing stations for its Lightspeed LEO broadband network. The moves come ahead of a possible first Lightspeed launch as soon as December and international outreach to Australia, Norway and the UK.

2026-03-10T07:59:14.060181-07:00

Telesat secures land for Lightspeed landing stations in Quebec and Saskatchewan ahead of planned December launch

SpaceWatch Global

Amsterdam Space Symposium spotlights security, defence and industrial policy in Europe’s space debate The inaugural Amsterdam Space Symposium convened Europe’s space community in a no‑nonsense forum combining security, defence, climate and industrial policy — the candid intersection industry leaders and policymakers say is essential to build sovereign capabilities, align funding and accelerate operational responses to geopolitical pressures.

2026-03-10T06:20:09.911650-07:00

Amsterdam Space Symposium spotlights security, defence and industrial policy in Europe’s space debate

European Spaceflight

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ESA launches SME design call for spaceplane-based launcher with novel propulsion The European Space Agency has issued a solicitation inviting European small and medium-sized enterprises to design a spaceplane-based launch system that integrates novel propulsion technologies. The study seeks SME-led proposals to evaluate spaceplane architectures and propulsion integration for future European access-to-space options.

2026-03-10T04:12:24.583722-07:00

ESA launches SME design call for spaceplane-based launcher with novel propulsion

SpaceNews.com

Mars advocates: NASA's lunar return can advance crewed Mars goals Mars mission proponents say NASA's renewed human-return-to-Moon program can be leveraged as a practical stepping stone toward eventual crewed Mars missions, providing a near-term arena to develop and validate systems, operations and programmatic pathways needed for longer-duration interplanetary exploration.

2026-03-09T21:09:09.942633-07:00

Mars advocates: NASA's lunar return can advance crewed Mars goals

Via Satellite

Swissto12's micro‑GEO push: flexible payloads and the sovereign‑space case Swissto12 CEO Emile de Rijk outlines the company's cutting‑edge payload technology and a micro‑GEO approach that prioritizes smaller, reconfigurable geostationary platforms. He presents flexible, modular satellites as a route to rapid capability delivery and to compete with larger GEO incumbents while meeting sovereign-space needs.

2026-03-09T13:53:00.218450-07:00

Swissto12's micro‑GEO push: flexible payloads and the sovereign‑space case

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Political impatience risks schedule slips and cost overruns for NASA’s Artemis lunar program

Cyprus becomes first user of EU GOVSATCOM secure satcom service

Telesat secures land for Lightspeed landing stations in Quebec and Saskatchewan ahead of planned December launch

ESA launches SME design call for spaceplane-based launcher with novel propulsion

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