Bloomberg
• Yazhou Sun
Powerlaw Corp., a fund with stakes in SpaceX, Anduril, OpenAI and Anthropic PBC, has filed to list in New York to sell shares to the public. The move would give retail investors a route to gain liquid exposure to prominent private companies across space, defense and artificial intelligence.
Universe Today
• Alan Boyle
By Universe Today: SpaceX founder Elon Musk now says he wants to build a city on the moon before building a city on Mars. Is either scenario realistic? In the latest episode of the Fiction Science podcast, biologist Scott Solomon, the author of a new book titled.
SpaceNews.com
• Andrew Jones
By SpaceNews.com: China’s Space Epoch raises new funding, targets 2026 launch and recovery attempt Chinese launch startup Space Epoch has secured B-round funding as the company moves towards a first orbital launch and recovery attempt late this year.
Space Intel Report
• Peter B de Selding
By Space Intel Report: MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — The future economic viability of large GEO-orbit satellites is likely to be….
Payload
• Jack Kuhr
By Payload: The investor playbook has flipped: In the era of AI, Asset-light, high-margin good businesses (software) start to look bad, while greasy, capital-intensive, bad businesses (hardware) now look good.
SpaceNews.com
By SpaceNews.com: Global leaders meet at Space-Comm Expo in London to accelerate future of European space industry.
European Spaceflight
• Andrew Parsonson
By European Spaceflight: SatVu has secured £30 million in new funding to expand its thermal infrared Earth observation constellation.
Universe Today
• Andy Tomaswick
By Universe Today: Results are coming out from the samples returned by China’s Chang’e-6 sample return mission to the far side of the Moon. They offer our first close-up look at the geology and history of the far side, and a recent paper published in Science Advances from researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences has very interesting insights about the impact history of the Moon itself, and even some for the solar system at large.
European Spaceflight
• Andrew Parsonson
NASA Spaceflight
• Chris Bergin, Martin Smith
