Bloomberg
• Sana Pashankar
Vast Space—founded by former crypto executive Jed McCaleb—will establish a European headquarters in Paris and fly French astronaut Thomas Pesquet on two crewed missions. The deal, announced at France’s Choose France Summit, links Pesquet to ISS operations and to Haven-1, with crew transport via SpaceX capsules.
techfundingnews.com
• Abhinaya Prabhu
By techfundingnews.com: PLD Space is committing €35 million to build its launch complex at Europe’s only operational spaceport, becoming the first private operator to deploy capital at this scale at the ELM-Diamant site in French Guiana.
European Spaceflight
Via Satellite
• Mark Holmes
By Via Satellite: The Polish Space Agency was established in 2014 and since then, has contributed to growth in Poland’s commercial space agency. Poland is now one of the seven largest nations contributing to the European Space Agency (ESA).
Space Intel Report
• Peter B. de Selding
By Space Intel Report: LA PLATA, Maryland — The undisclosed customer for small-GEO satellite manufacturer Swissto12’s 7th satellite is Viasat Inc., which already has three Swissto12 HummingSat’s on order as a result of Viasat’s purchase of Inmarsat.
Payload
• Douglas Gorman
By Payload: Bellatrix Aerospace is teaming up with Korean optical payload manufacturer TelePIX on a new VLEO demo satellite, launching NET 2028.
Bloomberg
• Phil Serafino
By Bloomberg: Index providers, fund managers rush to accommodate Musk’s company Expand Photographer: Mark Felix/Bloomberg Contact us: Provide news feedback or report an error Confidential tip?.
The Independent
SpaceNews.com
• Craig Hrinkevich
By SpaceNews.com: After more than three decades in public and project finance, I have learned that real inflection points in infrastructure development rarely announce themselves loudly.
SpaceNews.com
• Andrew Jones
By SpaceNews.com: China conducted the maiden launch of its reusable Long March 12B rocket Monday, providing no advance warning and delivering operational payloads to orbit.
SpaceWatch Global
• Joshua Faleti
European Spaceflight
• Andrew Parsonson
