Via Satellite
• Frank Wolfe
The U.S. Space Force plans to request nearly $1.5 billion for the Space Data Network (SDN) Backbone in a future fiscal 2027 reconciliation bill. The move signals continued push to scale the services that underpin space-enabled defense data exchange and connectivity.
SpaceNews.com
• Sandra Erwin
By SpaceNews.com: WASHINGTON — U.K.-based startup Applied Atomics has raised $4 million in pre-seed financing and established a U.S. presence as it seeks to carve out a position in the market for spacecraft mobility, a sector attracting interest from military customers looking for more maneuverable satellites .
Space.com
• Paul Sutter
By Space.com: A new study analyzed how NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory might be able to confidently spot biosignatures in the atmosphere of a distant ancient Earth.
SpaceNews.com
• Sandra Erwin
By SpaceNews.com: WASHINGTON — LeoLabs said June 10 it has deployed a mobile space-tracking radar in the Indo-Pacific region that is being used to monitor Chinese satellites and other spacecraft.
SpaceNews.com
• Sandra Erwin
By SpaceNews.com: Concerns that America’s launch infrastructure may not keep pace with rising demand are reviving interest in an unconventional workaround: sea-based rocket launch.
Bloomberg
By Bloomberg: India has effectively frozen approvals for Starlink, according to people familiar with the matter. Officials are concerned about the use of satellite terminals in the Iran war, creating a new hurdle for Elon Musk's internet service in a key growth market.
Payload
• Douglas Gorman
By Payload: With Adagio-XL, Symphony Space is getting into the orbital data center game.
SpaceNews.com
• Rosa Schmidt
By SpaceNews.com: become essential infrastructure. Financial markets rely on their timing signals. Military operations depend on their communications and surveillance. Navigation, disaster response, logistics, climate monitoring, most systems that underpin modern economies have some orbital component.
Ars Technica
• Jon Brodkin
NASA Spaceflight
• Arran Reid, Chris Bergin
The Hill
• Peter A. Garretson, Richard M. Harrison
