European Spaceflight
• Andrew Parsonson
SaxaVord Spaceport will operate a launch window spanning August through early September to support a rocket test flight. Rocket Factory Augsburg is preparing to conduct the inaugural RFA ONE launch from SaxaVord no earlier than 10 August, making scheduling and range operations the immediate gating items for the mission.
Universe Today
• Evan Gough
By Universe Today: JAXA's Hayabusa 2 has completed its flyby of asteroid Torifune. The spacecraft came within about 800 meters of the asteroid's surface.
Via Satellite
• Rachel Jewett
By Via Satellite: Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) has awarded SES Space and Defense a five-year blanket purchase agreement (BPA) for global Ku-band connectivity, including a number of managed connectivity services.
Via Satellite
• Rachel Jewett
By Via Satellite: CesiumAstro submitted an FCC filing for a 737-satellite constellation called Synchronicity to provide reconfigurable connectivity to fixed and mobile.
Payload
• Jacqueline Feldscher
By Payload: FCC Chair Brendan Carr announced last week that the commission is expected to vote on the Space Modernization Order on July 22.
Bloomberg
• Abhishek Vishnoi
By Bloomberg: Wall Street’s biggest banks shopped SpaceX shares for $135 a pop during its record initial public offering. Just weeks later, sell-side analysts from many of those same banks are telling clients those shares should be worth $236 each on average.
Wall Street Journal
New York Times
Space.com
• Josh Dinner
By Space.com: Former NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine questions the designs for NASA's commercial moon landers for its Artemis program.
Space Intel Report
• Peter B. de Selding
By Space Intel Report: TUPPER LAKE, NY— International Telecommunication Union (ITU) regulators declined to accept a one-year extension of a deployment deadline for Open Cosmos’s proposed broadband constellation pending receipt of further information on what the company has done to develop the project.
