Space.com
• Mike Wall
Russia’s Progress 96 uncrewed cargo spacecraft is scheduled to reach the International Space Station on Sept. 19. The arrival will be broadcast live, offering coverage of the spacecraft’s rendezvous and delivery operation at the orbiting outpost.
Reuters
By Reuters: NASA said Friday that the agency had given SpaceX a $946 million contract to fly three more astronaut missions to the International Space Station, extending the company's crewed flights to the station through 2030.
Wall Street Journal
NASA Spaceflight
• Martin Smith
By NASA Spaceflight: As China integrates crewed and robotic missions to further its lunar exploration program, it is also advancing plans to return the first samples collected from Mars.
SpaceNews.com
• Jason Rainbow
By SpaceNews.com: The third and final terabit-class ViaSat-3 broadband satellite has entered service over the Americas, the U.S. operator announced Sept. 17, days after SpaceX launched the final three spacecraft for Luxembourg-based SES’ O3b mPower network.
Space.com
• Josh Dinner
By Space.com: A new European-designed spacesuit has been tested aboard the International Space Station — and ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot says the prototype still has some design kinks to work through.
SpaceNews.com
• Kelevitch
By SpaceNews.com: In the first quarter of this year, roughly 978,000 maritime GPS jamming events were recorded worldwide. Ninety-eight percent of them happened in one place: the Middle East Gulf.
Via Satellite
• Jeffrey Hill
By Via Satellite: Nigerian Communications Satellite Limited (NigComSat) signed a contract with Hughes Network Systems earlier this week to utilize its Jupiter scalable gateway system in support of the operator’s NIGCOMSAT-2A and NIGCOMSAT-2B satellites servicing Africa.
Payload
• Douglas Gorman
By Payload: Space Cargo Unlimited secured a dedicated mission on SpaceX’s new Starfall reentry vehicle, and it's already booked a third of the vehicle.
The Daily Debrief
One concise daily briefing across aviation, defense and space—key developments, corroborating sources, and the context leaders need to act.
SpaceNews.com
• Sandra Erwin
Ars Technica
• Eric Berger
SpaceWatch Global
• Niels Buus
SpaceWatch Global
• Joshua Faleti
