European Spaceflight
• Andrew Parsonson
The Exploration Company has disclosed plans for Yrene, a reusable heavy-lift rocket designed around its newly developed Storm engines. The announcement positions Yrene within the broader push for repeatable launch architectures, where engine performance and reusability are central to delivering lower cost and higher cadence.
SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
By SpaceNews.com: Asteroid mining startup AstroForge has completed its latest spacecraft for launch later this year, incorporating lessons from a failed mission last year.
Space Intel Report
• Peter B. de Selding
By Space Intel Report: LA PLATA, Maryland — Canadian Space Agency (CSA) President Lisa Campbell and former NASA Chief Economist Alexander MacDonald, a Canadian citizen, said Canada is well placed to profit from NASA’s sudden shift in priorities and the cancellation of the Lunar Gateway program.
Bloomberg
• Sana Pashankar
By Bloomberg: Axiom Space announced that it had secured roughly an additional $175 million from investors, bringing the startup’s most recent fundraising round to more than $525 million as it works to develop a commercial space station.
European Spaceflight
• Andrew Parsonson
By European Spaceflight: The Exploration Company has completed an initial drop test to validate the recovery system of its Nyx spacecraft ahead of a planned 2028 demonstration mission.
SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
By SpaceNews.com: NASA is working on a streamlined management approach for a nuclear electric propulsion mission the agency wants to launch in two and a half years.
SpaceNews.com
• Andrew Jones
By SpaceNews.com: HELSINKI — China is establishing an industrial policy framework to support a push to build space-based computing infrastructure, with the emergence of influential coordinating bodies.
SpaceWatch Global
• Joshua Faleti
By SpaceWatch Global: KSAT and the Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space, Inc. have extended their long-term partnership to further accelerate the "QPS-SAR Project".
Bloomberg
• Annie Massa, Bill Allison, Sophie Alexander
