Via Satellite
• Rachel Jewett
Mbryonics will collaborate with NTT to build a high-speed communications backbone for space applications under a newly announced memorandum of understanding. The effort targets scaling optical-communications capabilities to support faster, higher-throughput connectivity for space users.
Space.com
• Robert Z. Pearlman
By Space.com: A pair of SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets just placed more than 50 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit after liftoffs from California and Florida on June 3 and June 4, 2026.
European Spaceflight
• Andrew Parsonson
By European Spaceflight: The Exploration Company has revealed plans for Yrene, a reusable heavy-lift rocket powered by its new Storm engines.
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.
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.
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.
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.
