Bloomberg
• Bruce Einhorn
Rocket Lab is ratcheting up its effort for the long-delayed debut of Neutron, positioning the next milestone as a key test with intensifying competitive pressure from SpaceX. The update underscores how schedule execution remains central to sustaining Neutron’s commercial and strategic momentum.
SpaceNews.com
• Chuck Webb, Greg Hoyt
By SpaceNews.com: mall, errant drone can scrub a space launch at the cost of millions of dollars in delays, with further repercussions spanning across multiple commercial and government launch service providers.
SpaceNews.com
• John Abbott
By SpaceNews.com: When SpaceX publicly listed, the coverage focused on the rockets, the valuation, and the personalities. That’s understandable. But the more important story is what the IPO signals about where the space economy is heading — and what that means for the countries and companies that have been quietly building it.
SpaceNews.com
• Jason Rainbow
By SpaceNews.com: EchoStar subsidiaries tied to its satellite TV and abandoned 5G network businesses have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, advancing a prepackaged restructuring plan to repay debt early after selling spectrum to SpaceX and AT&T.
SpaceNews.com
• Debra Werner
By SpaceNews.com: SAN FRANCISCO – Vantor, the company previously known as Maxar Intelligence, unveiled WorldView 3D July 1, to provide customers with updated and high-definition imagery.
Payload
• Douglas Gorman
By Payload: Lunar Forge’s idea is to drastically reduce the cost required to set up fission reactors, by using regolith to build the majority of the support structure to house and shield the reactor core.
AeroTime
• Ian Molyneaux
By AeroTime: NASA has picked a further wave of flight-proven moon landers to deliver science payloads to the lunar surface for its Moon Base Program.
SpaceWatch Africa
SpaceWatch Global
• Joshua Faleti
By SpaceWatch Global: Space in Africa releases the NewSpace Africa Conference Impact Report, detailing the conference's contribution to the African space industry.
