SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
On May 13, the House Appropriations Committee advanced a spending bill that rejects many of the NASA cuts proposed by the administration, holding NASA’s budget flat rather than allowing reductions. The measure raises the odds of continued congressional pushback on NASA’s topline and priorities.
Payload
• Jacqueline Feldscher
By Payload: Blacknight Space Labs will provide companies up to $100,000 each. In addition, accelerator companies will get startup 101 education, mentorship, assistance breaking into the defense space market—and help with everything from fundraising, to navigating the government contracting system, to finding customers.
SpaceNews.com
• Jean-Francois Morizur
By SpaceNews.com: the proliferation of Earth observation satellites in orbit, the increasing sophistication of sensors and surging demand for imagery and geospatial intelligence across a growing number of sectors, it is no surprise that more data is now collected than ever before.
SpaceNews.com
• Andrew Jones
By SpaceNews.com: China has added a new batch of satellites to the Qianfan megaconstellation, while the commercial Zhuque-2E made a return-to-flight featuring numerous improvements.
Space Intel Report
• Peter B. de Selding
By Space Intel Report: JAKARTA — With direct-to-device broadband startup AST SpaceMobile, raising cash for a multibillion-dollar network, aligning terrestrial spectrum from mobile network operators (MNOs) with future satellite spectrum and deploying each satellite’s 223-square-meter antenna in low Earth orbit — all of them legitimate.
European Spaceflight
• Andrew Parsonson
By European Spaceflight: ESA has opened a €16 million call for one or more sounding rocket missions to carry five experiments to space in 2027 or 2028.
SpaceWatch Global
• Torsten Kriening
By SpaceWatch Global: At the 41st Space Symposium, planetary defense, space policy's most multilateral domai, began drifting into the US commercial-supremacy architecture.
SpaceWatch Global
• Joshua Faleti
By SpaceWatch Global: ispace, inc. and the University of Leicester have signed an Agreement to deliver a Raman spectrometer payload to the lunar surface.
SpaceNews.com
• Sandra Erwin
European Spaceflight
• Andrew Parsonson
