SpaceNews.com
• Darío Buschiazzo
AST SpaceMobile has deployed three additional BlueBird satellites into low Earth orbit, moving ahead of its plan to build a space-based cellular broadband network. The company is targeting deployment of 45 to 60 satellites by the end of the year as it scales capacity in-orbit.
CNBC
• Annie Palmer
By CNBC: Bezos' Blue Origin is raising outside capital in a round valuing the rocket company at $130 billion, sources told CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin.
Space.com
• Brett Tingley
By Space.com: The U.S. Space Force has acquired one of its first publicly acknowledged offensive weapons, one that can blast adversary satellites with electromagnetic radiation.
New York Times
• Andrew Ross Sorkin, Bernhard Warner, Brian O’Keefe, Ian Mount, Michael J. de la Merced, Niko Gallogly, Sarah Kessler
By New York Times: The rocket company founded by Jeff Bezos is set to take on external investors for the first time, at a $130 billion valuation.
Space Intel Report
• Peter B. de Selding
By Space Intel Report: TUPPER LAKE, NY — Thailand’s Thaicom satellite fleet operator said its Thaicom 9 satellite, which had been scheduled for launch this year, has been delayed to March 2027 following a power system anomaly discovered on one of the four other Astranis Space Technologies micro-GEO satellites that were sharing a SpaceX.
AeroTime
• Miquel Ros
By AeroTime: Venus Aerospace, a Houston, Texas-based startup, announced on July 8, 2026, that it has closed a $91 million Series B funding round which will support the further development of its high-thrust rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE) technology.
SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
By SpaceNews.com: The May 28 explosion of a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket at Cape Canaveral’s Launch Complex 36 did more than destroy a rocket and severely damage a launch pad.
SpaceWatch Global
• Joshua Faleti
By SpaceWatch Global: Tumbleweed has launched its first mission Oasis Alpha, to a Sun-synchronous 590km low Earth orbit, aboard SpaceX's Transporter 17 mission.
SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
European Spaceflight
• Andrew Parsonson
