SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
The FAA is preparing to begin collecting user fees for commercial space launches and reentries for the first time, a shift that could generate millions of dollars annually. The move follows the FAA’s transition to 14 CFR Part 450, consolidating launch and reentry licensing into a single framework.
DefenseNews.com
• Aaron Mehta
By DefenseNews.com: SpaceX has been certified for military space launch, the US Air Force announced Tuesday.
Space.com
• Tereza Pultarova
By Space.com: AI algorithms can sharpen naturally blurry images taken by ground-based telescopes, revealing details otherwise visible only to space-borne machines like Webb and Hubble.
Payload
• Douglas Gorman
By Payload: Meta announced an agreement today to secure up to 1 GW of power capacity through Overview Energy’s planned solar power-beaming satellite system.
Space.com
• Leonard David
By Space.com: NASA is exploring ways to use a fleet of drones to explore the lunar south pole with an ambitious new MoonFall project.
SpaceWatch Global
• Joshua Faleti
By SpaceWatch Global: Canadian Space Agency astronaut Colonel Joshua Kutryk has been assigned to NASA's SpaceX Crew-13 mission to the ISS.
European Spaceflight
• Andrew Parsonson
By European Spaceflight: ESA contract disclosures have revealed that its cost the agency roughly €51 million to launch the Sentinel-1C Earth observation satellite aboard a Vega C rocket.
SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
By SpaceNews.com: The ousted director of New Mexico’s Spaceport America repeatedly violated state law and policies while running the commercial launch site, a report found.
European Spaceflight
• Andrew Parsonson
Space Intel Report
• Peter B. de Selding
