Payload
• Douglas Gorman
Investors and companies poured capital into Europe’s space sector in 2025, driving rapid commercial growth across launch, satellites and services. The immediate challenge is converting that funding into durable industrial scale, sovereign capabilities and resilient supply chains to compete globally.
NASA
• Jessica Taveau
By NASA: Jared Isaacman was sworn in Thursday as NASA's 15th administrator by District Judge Timothy J. Kelly. The oath was taken during a ceremony held at the.
Bloomberg
• Sana Pashankar; Loren Grush
By Bloomberg: President Donald Trump signed an executive order that aims to return astronauts to the moon through NASA’s Artemis space program with an eye toward building a permanent lunar presence.
New York Times
• Jonathan O’Callaghan
By New York Times: An unusual object orbiting a rapidly spinning star might be a new phenomenon in the universe.
Bloomberg
• Loren Grush
By Bloomberg: NASA’s new administrator, Jared Isaacman, said the agency will pick whichever company builds its moon lander the fastest — whether that be Elon Musk’s SpaceX or Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin — to put humans on the lunar surface for the first time in more than 50 years.
SpaceNews.com
• Richard DalBello
By SpaceNews.com: What problem is charging for Space Situational Awareness supposed to solve?.
Reuters
• Juby Babu
By Reuters: SpaceX's Starlink said one of its satellites experienced an anomaly in space on Wednesday that created a "small number" of debris and cut off communications with the spacecraft at 418 km (259.73 miles) in altitude, a rare kinetic accident in orbit for the satellite internet giant.
Via Satellite
• Rachel Jewett
By Via Satellite: Moody's Ratings has today downgraded the credit assessment of SES, citing wearker results and the cost of the Intelsat integration.
