SpaceNews.com
• Sandra Erwin
LeoLabs said June 10 that it has deployed a mobile space-tracking radar in the Indo-Pacific, using the system to monitor Chinese satellites and other spacecraft. The move expands deployable, regional space surveillance coverage focused on tracking threats and improving space domain awareness.
Space.com
• Paul Sutter
By Space.com: A new study analyzed how NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory might be able to confidently spot biosignatures in the atmosphere of a distant ancient Earth.
Via Satellite
• Frank Wolfe
By Via Satellite: The U.S. Space Force (USSF) plans to request nearly $1.5 billion for the Space Data Network (SDN) Backbone in a future fiscal 2027 reconciliation bill.
SpaceNews.com
• Sandra Erwin
By SpaceNews.com: Concerns that America’s launch infrastructure may not keep pace with rising demand are reviving interest in an unconventional workaround: sea-based rocket launch.
Payload
• Douglas Gorman
By Payload: With Adagio-XL, Symphony Space is getting into the orbital data center game.
Bloomberg
By Bloomberg: India has effectively frozen approvals for Starlink, according to people familiar with the matter. Officials are concerned about the use of satellite terminals in the Iran war, creating a new hurdle for Elon Musk's internet service in a key growth market.
SpaceNews.com
• Rosa Schmidt
By SpaceNews.com: become essential infrastructure. Financial markets rely on their timing signals. Military operations depend on their communications and surveillance. Navigation, disaster response, logistics, climate monitoring, most systems that underpin modern economies have some orbital component.
SpaceWatch Global
• Joshua Faleti
By SpaceWatch Global: ESA will implement an astronaut mission to the ISS for Czech's Aleš Svoboda as part of the first PAM to the ISS NASA awarded to Vast.
The Hill
• Peter A. Garretson, Richard M. Harrison
Bloomberg
• Alastair Marsh, Frances Schwartzkopff, Olivia Raimonde
NASA Spaceflight
• Arran Reid, Chris Bergin
Reuters
• Rajesh Kumar Singh
