SpaceWatch Global
• Joshua Faleti
Venturi Space plans a €250 million investment in France to build a 16,000 sq m technology center in Toulouse dedicated to designing and manufacturing critical technologies for lunar and Martian mobility. The facility will also serve as a production hub to assemble the company’s rovers.
Bloomberg
• Sana Pashankar
By Bloomberg: Vast Space, founded by former crypto tycoon Jed McCaleb, will establish a European headquarters in Paris and send French astronauts on two crewed missions to space, the company announced Monday.
SpaceNews.com
techfundingnews.com
• Abhinaya Prabhu
By techfundingnews.com: PLD Space is committing €35 million to build its launch complex at Europe’s only operational spaceport, becoming the first private operator to deploy capital at this scale at the ELM-Diamant site in French Guiana.
European Spaceflight
The Economist
• The Economist
By The Economist: Finance & economics | Giga-IPOs Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI? Watch out for indigestion Share Illustration: Fortunate Joaquin Jun 1st 2026 | 6 min read T hey promise to be the biggest stockmarket debuts ever.
Via Satellite
• Mark Holmes
By Via Satellite: The Polish Space Agency was established in 2014 and since then, has contributed to growth in Poland’s commercial space agency. Poland is now one of the seven largest nations contributing to the European Space Agency (ESA).
Space Intel Report
• Peter B. de Selding
By Space Intel Report: LA PLATA, Maryland — The undisclosed customer for small-GEO satellite manufacturer Swissto12’s 7th satellite is Viasat Inc., which already has three Swissto12 HummingSat’s on order as a result of Viasat’s purchase of Inmarsat.
Bloomberg
• Phil Serafino
By Bloomberg: Index providers, fund managers rush to accommodate Musk’s company Expand Photographer: Mark Felix/Bloomberg Contact us: Provide news feedback or report an error Confidential tip?.
Payload
• Douglas Gorman
By Payload: Bellatrix Aerospace is teaming up with Korean optical payload manufacturer TelePIX on a new VLEO demo satellite, launching NET 2028.
SpaceWatch Global
• Joshua Faleti
