SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
Lunar Outpost has raised $30 million as it revises its lunar rover designs to align with NASA’s updated Artemis architecture. The funding underscores how quickly commercial surface-mobility developers are being forced to adapt to changing program requirements as Artemis evolves.
NASA Spaceflight
• Martin Smith
By NASA Spaceflight: China is preparing to launch both cargo and crew missions to its Tiangong space station, as a new cargo freighter is tested in low-Earth orbit and new designs are revealed to expand the orbiting outpost.
By Spaceflight Now: Rocket Lab announced the block sale of five Neutron rocket launches and three Electron rocket flights to a secret customer.
Space.com
• Stefanie Waldek
By Space.com: A new study suggests the impact that formed the moon's South Pole-Aitken basin scattered deep mantle material toward the lunar south pole, where NASA's Artemis astronauts may soon collect samples that reveal the moon's ancient history.
Space Intel Report
• Peter B. de Selding
By Space Intel Report: LA PLATA, Maryland — MDA Space said it remains on schedule to open the high-volume production facility that will be producing Telesat’s Lightspeed broadband and Globalstar’s direct-to-device (D2D) satellites, an event the company hopes will draw new customers, including defense ministries interested in satellites for.
Via Satellite
• Rachel Jewett
By Via Satellite: HawkEye 360 raised $416 million in its initial public offering (IPO) on Thursday, becoming the second space company to go public this year. The signals.
Via Satellite
• Rachel Jewett
By Via Satellite: Spire has opened a new satellite manufacturing facility in Munich the company says has the capacity to produce up to 100 satellites per year.
SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
By SpaceNews.com: Redwire is taking a renewed interest in lunar landers given the demand signal from NASA to support the agency’s ambitions to develop a moon base.
SpaceWatch Global
• Joshua Faleti
