Space.com
• Andrew Jones
A Chinese astronaut performed the second spacewalk of the Shenzhou 21 mission outside the Tiangong space station, recording China’s sixth extravehicular activity and tying the national record. The EVA adds to Taikonaut operational experience and on-orbit maintenance capability as Beijing expands sustained presence in LEO.
Bloomberg
• Isabelle Lee, Lu Wang
By Bloomberg: For decades, the path into America’s most important stock benchmarks followed a predictable rhythm: go public, prove yourself, wait your turn. Now the three firms that control those benchmarks are considering whether to rewrite the rules to absorb trillion-dollar IPOs from SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic.
European Spaceflight
• Andrew Parsonson
By European Spaceflight: ESA plans to offer a €50 million incentive to launch the demonstration missions for its LEO Cargo Return Services initiative aboard European rockets.
Bloomberg
• Ott Ummelas
By Bloomberg: A spaceport in Norway will host a German startup’s orbital launch attempt this week.
Payload
• Jacqueline Feldscher
By Payload: The FAA announced Tuesday that US launchers had all transitioned to the five-year-old licensing requirements, leaving no one still operating under legacy regulations.
Space Intel Report
• Peter B de Selding
By Space Intel Report: LA PLATA, Maryland — Satellite platform builder Kongsberg NanoAvionics of Lithuania has signed a multimillion-dollar/euro contract….
SpaceNews.com
• Christina Lucas, Natalia Szlarb, Tatiana Sainati
By SpaceNews.com: Frontier justice: navigating the future legal landscape for private actors in space law.
SpaceNews.com
• Andrew Jones
By SpaceNews.com: China signals new target for 2027 asteroid deflection test China has identified a new target near-Earth asteroid for its first planetary defense kinetic test mission, which is scheduled to launch in December 2027.
Canada.ca
European Spaceflight
• Andrew Parsonson
Payload
• Jacqueline Feldscher
