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Aircraft Finance & Leasing Commercial Space

Bloomberg • Tasos Vossos

SpaceX reportedly weighs a major financing as tech companies increase bond sales despite higher borrowing costs

Tech companies are accelerating bond issuance even as financing costs rise, challenging the usual pattern of slowing sales when debt gets more expensive. Talk of potentially large financings from SpaceX and Broadcom has sharpened investor concern about the growing wave of corporate debt.

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2026-10-10T13:05:00.568832-07:00

Space Exploration & Science Missions

Universe Today • Andy Tomaswick

Stratospheric Balloon Telescope Peeks Above The Clouds At The Sun

By Universe Today: There’s lots of things you can do with balloons. Children’s birthday parties come to mind, as do retirement parties. But you can also observe the Sun in unprecedented detail with one - or at least with a suite of equipment attached to a gondola floating beneath one.

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2026-10-10T04:55:01.686763-07:00

Space Policy & International Cooperation

Space.com • Hanneke Weitering, Robert Z. Pearlman

On this day in space! Oct. 10, 1967: The Outer Space Treaty is ratified to lay out how countries can use outer space

By Space.com: On Oct. 10, 1967, the international Outer Space Treaty on how countries can use outer space ratified. Here's why it mattered.

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2026-10-10T05:05:26.335218-07:00

defense Satellite Space Force Launch Vehicles & Space Transportation Space Defense & Militarization

Space.com • Mike Wall

SpaceX launches 21 satellites to orbit for the US military after 5-day delay (video)

By Space.com: SpaceX launched 21 "data transport" satellites for the U.S. military today (Oct. 10), sending them up from California's central coast.

Also: Northrop Grumman and SpaceNews.com

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2026-10-10T01:05:22.039491-07:00

LEO Human Spaceflight & Space Stations NASA

Ars Technica • Eric Berger

NASA issues long-awaited call to industry for private space stations

By Ars Technica: We’ve made it clear that NASA will never give up its presence in low Earth orbit.".

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2026-10-09T15:05:24.960981-07:00

Satellite North America Commercial Space

SpaceWatch Global • Joshua Faleti

FCC's 15,000-Satellite SpaceX Approval Moves Starlink Mobile Closer to a Standalone Wireless Service

By SpaceWatch Global: FCC approves SpaceX’s 15,000-satellite Starlink Mobile system, granting spectrum flexibility that could reshape satellite-to-phone services.

Wall Street Journal

SpaceX Makes Big Play to Become a Wireless Carrier

Via Satellite

SpaceX Moves to Acquire Nationwide Low-Band Spectrum for Starlink Mobile

Also: SpaceNews.com, Ars Technica, CNBC, Bloomberg, Reuters, Aero-News, smallsatnews.com, Financial Times, CNA, Yahoo Finance, ANI News Agency, techxplore.com and 50 more

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2026-10-08T01:15:42.295836-07:00

Satellite North America Commercial Space

Via Satellite • Rachel Jewett

2026-10-08T14:05:38.699299-07:00

JWST Space Exploration & Science Missions

Universe Today • Brian Koberlein

The Most Distant FRB Tells The Story Of Its Origin

By Universe Today: Astronomers use the Webb to study a distant fast radio burst and reveal clues as to the origin of these mysterious events.

Space.com

Mysterious 10-minute X-ray burst from a distant galaxy may have come from 2 dead stars colliding

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2026-10-09T10:35:31.401502-07:00

SpaceX reportedly weighs a major financing as tech companies increase bond sales despite higher borrowing costs

Stratospheric Balloon Telescope Peeks Above The Clouds At The Sun

On this day in space! Oct. 10, 1967: The Outer Space Treaty is ratified to lay out how countries can use outer space

SpaceX launches 21 satellites to orbit for the US military after 5-day delay (video)

NASA issues long-awaited call to industry for private space stations

FCC's 15,000-Satellite SpaceX Approval Moves Starlink Mobile Closer to a Standalone Wireless Service

SpaceX Makes Big Play to Become a Wireless Carrier

SpaceX Moves to Acquire Nationwide Low-Band Spectrum for Starlink Mobile

SpaceX Moves to Acquire Nationwide Low-Band Spectrum for Starlink Mobile

FCC's 15,000-Satellite SpaceX Approval Moves Starlink Mobile Closer to a Standalone Wireless Service

SpaceX Makes Big Play to Become a Wireless Carrier

The Most Distant FRB Tells The Story Of Its Origin

Mysterious 10-minute X-ray burst from a distant galaxy may have come from 2 dead stars colliding

AI Issuers Are Upending Longstanding Safety Valve

Stratospheric Balloon Telescope Peeks Above The Clouds At The Sun

On this day in space! Oct. 10, 1967: The Outer Space Treaty is ratified to lay out how countries can use outer space

SpaceX launches 21 satellites to orbit for the US military after 5-day delay (video)

NASA issues long-awaited call to industry for private space stations

ESA governments to meet in December to assess cost of launching their own astronauts; no financing expected

NASA Signs Space Nuclear Pact, Says Moon Base Is Ahead of Schedule

ESA governments to meet in December to assess cost of launching their own astronauts; no financing expected

Ship 40 Returns Home as Ship 42 gets more Cryo Proof Testing

Astrogate Labs Teams with Spacebeam on Optical Links and Ground Service

SpaceX acquires nationwide low-band spectrum to expand Starlink into U.S. mobile service

SpaceX acquires nationwide low-band spectrum to expand Starlink into U.S. mobile service

Trump disclosed more than $1 million in SpaceX debt purchases ahead of unveiling space policy

Amazon builds its 1,000th satellite, with Project Kuiper internet rollout weeks away

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