SpaceNews.com
• Jarosław Adamowski
Polish space company Eycore placed its first SAR Earth-observation satellite, Eycore-1, into orbit, leveraging the firm’s synthetic aperture radar technology. The launch also carried additional LEO smallsat payloads on SpaceX’s CAS500-2 mission, including three satellites using NanoAvionics satellite buses.
SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
By SpaceNews.com: Artemis 2 was a success in more ways than one. The mission, lasting just over nine days, demonstrated that the Orion spacecraft could safely support a crew on a trip around the moon.
Space.com
• Andrew Jones
By Space.com: Two private companies are partnering up to establish a repeatable debris removal service for low Earth orbit, and they want to debut it in 2027.
European Spaceflight
• Andrew Parsonson
By European Spaceflight: ESA has awarded Thales Alenia Space a €26.1 million contract to develop six optical telescopes for its €1 billion LISA mission.
SpaceNews.com
• Sandra Erwin
By SpaceNews.com: NVER — Data and intelligence providers, along with governments, are outsourcing the construction and operation of Earth-observation constellations, favoring access to data and analytics over owning the satellites and ground systems that produce them.
Breaking Defense
• Theresa Hitchens
By Breaking Defense: The former NASA administrator still has eyes for the moon, but is now focusing on possible future Space Force operations in cislunar space.
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Space.com
• Keith Cooper
By Space.com: A prototype ion engine that uses lithium metal vapor as a propellant has aced its first tests, achieving 25 times more power than the ion engine on the Psyche mission.
Payload
• Douglas Gorman
By Payload: Under the agreement, announced today, the Edge Aerospace will develop an architecture and use-case road-map for orbital data centers.
Via Satellite
• Rachel Jewett
