Reuters
NASA awarded SpaceX a $946 million contract for three additional astronaut missions to the International Space Station, expanding the company’s total crew-transport agreement to $5.92 billion and extending its role in the agency’s human-spaceflight program through 2030.
Space.com
• Josh Dinner
By Space.com: EuroSuit is designed to be put on in a hurry.
SpaceNews.com
• Kelevitch
By SpaceNews.com: In the first quarter of this year, roughly 978,000 maritime GPS jamming events were recorded worldwide. Ninety-eight percent of them happened in one place: the Middle East Gulf.
Via Satellite
• Jeffrey Hill
By Via Satellite: Nigerian Communications Satellite Limited (NigComSat) signed a contract with Hughes Network Systems earlier this week to utilize its Jupiter scalable gateway system in support of the operator’s NIGCOMSAT-2A and NIGCOMSAT-2B satellites servicing Africa.
Payload
• Douglas Gorman
By Payload: Space Cargo Unlimited secured a dedicated mission on SpaceX’s new Starfall reentry vehicle, and it's already booked a third of the vehicle.
Ars Technica
• Eric Berger
By Ars Technica: “I can tell you SpaceX has already gone captive.".
SpaceWatch Global
• K.-P. Ludwig
By SpaceWatch Global: As the world's spacefaring nations gather in Paris, one narrative dominates: that Europe is falling behind. This narrative is convenient, because it postpones action to some future date.
SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
By SpaceNews.com: The head of ESA is optimistic that member states will back plans to pursue human spaceflight and other key programs at a critical December meeting.
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Ars Technica
• Eric Berger
SpaceNews.com
• Sandra Erwin
SpaceWatch Global
• Niels Buus
SpaceWatch Global
• Joshua Faleti
FlightGlobal
• David Kaminski-Morrow
Reuters
• Akash Sriram, Mariam E Sunny