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.
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.
SpaceWatch Global
• Joshua Faleti
By SpaceWatch Global: The EU has signed a declaration together with partner countries in support of the In-Space Operations and Services (ISOS) pilot mission.
Bloomberg
• Yasutaka Tamura
By Bloomberg: SpaceX raised $2.2 billion from Japanese investors, according to a regulatory filing on Friday, as part of the world’s largest-ever initial public offering.
SpaceWatch Global
• Guest Author
By SpaceWatch Global: Can space-based solar farms and orbital data centres increase Kessler Syndrome risks? Examining legal gaps, due regard and space sustainability.
CNBC
• Lora Kolodny
By CNBC: Heading into its IPO, SpaceX's only profitable business is Starlink. But there are red flags for investors. Average revenue per user is down, just as the company is trying to move into more cities and suburbs, where it will face steeper competition from terrestrial broadband providers.
Bloomberg
• Frances Schwartzkopff
Ars Technica
• Stephen Clark
European Spaceflight
• Andrew Parsonson
Via Satellite
• Mark Holmes
