Space Intel Report
• Peter B de Selding
SES says shifting market demand will reduce its fleet of more than 90 large geostationary satellites, warning the future economic viability of big GEO platforms is uncertain and prompting the operator to reassess fleet size and business model.
SpaceNews.com
• Andrew Jones
By SpaceNews.com: China’s Space Epoch raises new funding, targets 2026 launch and recovery attempt Chinese launch startup Space Epoch has secured B-round funding as the company moves towards a first orbital launch and recovery attempt late this year.
Payload
• Jack Kuhr
By Payload: The investor playbook has flipped: In the era of AI, Asset-light, high-margin good businesses (software) start to look bad, while greasy, capital-intensive, bad businesses (hardware) now look good.
SpaceNews.com
By SpaceNews.com: Global leaders meet at Space-Comm Expo in London to accelerate future of European space industry.
European Spaceflight
• Andrew Parsonson
By European Spaceflight: SatVu has secured £30 million in new funding to expand its thermal infrared Earth observation constellation.
Universe Today
• Andy Tomaswick
By Universe Today: Results are coming out from the samples returned by China’s Chang’e-6 sample return mission to the far side of the Moon. They offer our first close-up look at the geology and history of the far side, and a recent paper published in Science Advances from researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences has very interesting insights about the impact history of the Moon itself, and even some for the solar system at large.
Payload
• Douglas Gorman
By Payload: Kepler selected NanoAvionics as its preferred satellite bus provider in Europe, giving Europeans access to Kepler’s optical comms network.
SpaceWatch Global
• Niels Buus
By SpaceWatch Global: For decades, the European Space Agency (ESA) has been the gravitational center of European space. It shaped priorities, pooled funding,.
European Spaceflight
• Andrew Parsonson
NASA Spaceflight
• Chris Bergin, Martin Smith
NASA Spaceflight
• Justin Davenport
