Moon   Human Spaceflight & Space Stations   NASA  
Ars Technica • Eric Berger

NASA tells Northrop Grumman to stop work on lunar HALO module as affected employees are reassigned

NASA has asked Northrop Grumman to stop work on the agency’s lunar HALO module, with the company reassigning most affected employees across existing opportunities and programs. The move signals a near-term change to NASA’s lunar hardware development path and contractor execution priorities.

2026-06-18T14:05:42.565428-07:00
Satellite   M&A   Launch Vehicles & Space Transportation   Commercial Space  
Space Intel Report • Peter B. de Selding

EQT Private Equity purchases rideshare mission manager Exolaunch, which expects 250% revenue increase this year

By Space Intel Report: BRUSSELS — EQT Private Equity of Sweden is purchasing ride-share mission management and integration provider Exolaunch of Germany in a transaction of undisclosed value that dealroom.co estimated at $339 million, an amount that would testify to Exolaunch’s rapid growth in the last couple of years.

SpaceNews.com

EQT to acquire Exolaunch

Also: CNA and douglasmmessier.substack.com
2026-06-18T09:20:38.853943-07:00
Launch Vehicles & Space Transportation   Commercial Space  
Bloomberg • Brian W Smith, Davide Barbuscia, Gowri Gurumurthy

SpaceX Bankers Preparing for Bond Sale of at Least $20 Billion

By Bloomberg: Bankers for Elon Musk’s SpaceX are preparing to hold calls with investors as soon as next week to discuss a potential bond offering on the heels of the company’s record IPO, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

Also: CNA, Seeking Alpha and newsable.asianetnews.com
2026-06-18T09:50:27.617610-07:00
Satellite   Middle East   Europe   Aviation Safety & Regulation   Space Defense & Militarization   Geopolitical Developments & Conflict Impact   Cybersecurity (Cyber Threats & Protection)  
Space.com • Tereza Pultarova

'It's quite a bit more than we expected': Satellite reveals immense scale of GPS signal tampering

By Space.com: For the first time, an experimental satellite has mapped the scale of GPS jamming across Europe and the Middle East from space.

2026-06-18T06:21:52.894727-07:00