CNBC
• Annie Palmer
Blue Origin is reportedly seeking outside investment in its first public fundraising round, valuing the company at $130 billion, according to sources cited by CNBC. The move signals renewed scale-up funding for the rocket company’s programs and commercialization roadmap.
Space.com
• Brett Tingley
By Space.com: The U.S. Space Force has acquired one of its first publicly acknowledged offensive weapons, one that can blast adversary satellites with electromagnetic radiation.
New York Times
• Andrew Ross Sorkin, Bernhard Warner, Brian O’Keefe, Ian Mount, Michael J. de la Merced, Niko Gallogly, Sarah Kessler
By New York Times: The rocket company founded by Jeff Bezos is set to take on external investors for the first time, at a $130 billion valuation.
AeroTime
• Miquel Ros
By AeroTime: Venus Aerospace, a Houston, Texas-based startup, announced on July 8, 2026, that it has closed a $91 million Series B funding round which will support the further development of its high-thrust rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE) technology.
SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
By SpaceNews.com: The May 28 explosion of a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket at Cape Canaveral’s Launch Complex 36 did more than destroy a rocket and severely damage a launch pad.
SpaceNews.com
• Darío Buschiazzo
By SpaceNews.com: AST SpaceMobile recently deployed three more BlueBird satellites into low Earth orbit as it advances plans for a space-based cellular broadband network of 45 to 60 satellites by the end of the year.
New York Times
• Christoph Koettl
By New York Times: For two decades, satellite imagery has been my window into the unreachable.
SpaceWatch Global
• Joshua Faleti
By SpaceWatch Global: Tumbleweed has launched its first mission Oasis Alpha, to a Sun-synchronous 590km low Earth orbit, aboard SpaceX's Transporter 17 mission.
SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
