SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
Japan’s H3 returns to flight after a December failure, with launches reported on June 11 and then rescheduled to June 12 due to weather at Tanegashima. The mission is the first for the booster-free H3-30 configuration, using three LE-9 expander-bleed-cycle engines and carrying six small satellites.
Space Intel Report
• Peter B. de Selding
By Space Intel Report: BERLIN — European governments spent years trying to figure out how to stimulate demand for their Ariane 6 heavy-lift rocket so that, even it it’s not profitable, its losses could be kept to a level acceptable to its contributing nations.
Bloomberg
• Will Daley
By Bloomberg: S&P 500 Index futures rise 0.6% as of 7:36 a.m. in New York following fresh evidence that the US and Iran are nearing a provisional agreement to end their war.
Space.com
• Elizabeth Howell
By Space.com: A part of Canadarm2 robotic arm on the ISS broke in May, requiring repairs by spacewalking astronauts no earlier than June 30. A spare is already on the station.
Via Satellite
• Mark Holmes
By Via Satellite: The Canadian government has signed a slew of new contracts as it looks to boost its capabilities in Earth Observation (EO).
Via Satellite
• Jeffrey Hill
By Via Satellite: Department of State signed a two-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with SpaceX to utilize the Starlink satellite internet system to enhance international disaster preparedness and U.S.
SpaceWatch Global
• Joshua Faleti
By SpaceWatch Global: Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and Reflex Aerospace have entered a strategic co-development partnership at ILA Berlin 2026.
SpaceWatch Global
• Torsten Kriening
By SpaceWatch Global: cosine has just signed a contract to deliver a hyperspectral camera for ESA's RAMSES mission - the rendezvous with asteroid Apophis as it makes its exceptionally close pass by Earth in 2029, a genuinely once-in-a-generation event.
SpaceNews.com
• Debra Werner
Bloomberg
• Frances Schwartzkopff
Ars Technica
• Stephen Clark
European Spaceflight
• Andrew Parsonson
