SpaceNews.com
• John Abbott
A focus on SpaceX’s rockets, valuation and personalities misses the core signal: the IPO’s market messaging about investment priorities and the trajectory of the space economy. The report frames the listing as a barometer for companies and countries that have been building more quietly.
SpaceWatch Global
• Joshua Faleti
By SpaceWatch Global: Space in Africa releases the NewSpace Africa Conference Impact Report, detailing the conference's contribution to the African space industry.
SpaceNews.com
• Jason Rainbow
By SpaceNews.com: EchoStar subsidiaries tied to its satellite TV and abandoned 5G network businesses have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, advancing a prepackaged restructuring plan to repay debt early after selling spectrum to SpaceX and AT&T.
AeroTime
• Ian Molyneaux
By AeroTime: NASA has picked a further wave of flight-proven moon landers to deliver science payloads to the lunar surface for its Moon Base Program.
SpaceWatch Africa
Payload
• Douglas Gorman
By Payload: Lunar Forge’s idea is to drastically reduce the cost required to set up fission reactors, by using regolith to build the majority of the support structure to house and shield the reactor core.
European Spaceflight
• Andrew Parsonson
By European Spaceflight: Latitude plans to conduct the inaugural flight of its unnamed rocket from Oman’s Etlaq Spaceport in late 2027.
SpaceNews.com
• Debra Werner
By SpaceNews.com: SAN FRANCISCO – Vantor, the company previously known as Maxar Intelligence, unveiled WorldView 3D July 1, to provide customers with updated and high-definition imagery.
Space.com
• Elizabeth Howell
By Space.com: A new NASA audit says the agency will need to purchase more astronaut flights to the ISS by 2030 and focuses on issues with Boeing's Starliner spacecraft.
European Spaceflight
• Andrew Parsonson
