Ars Technica
• Stephen Clark
The NASA Office of Inspector General says Boeing’s Starliner certification may be delayed until 2027, roughly a decade later than the program’s original schedule. The assessment highlights continued schedule risk for Starliner’s readiness to support crewed missions.
Space Intel Report
• Peter B. de Selding
By Space Intel Report: BALLYSEEDE, Ireland — The UN committee crafting a coordinated international framework for space situational awareness and satellite collision avoidance has hit a roadblock: Some nations refuse to allow private sector operator-to-operator communications, insisting that government agencies be the first contact point.
AeroTime
• Ian Molyneaux
By AeroTime: NASA has picked a further wave of flight-proven moon landers to deliver science payloads to the lunar surface for its Moon Base Program.
SpaceWatch Africa
SpaceNews.com
• John Abbott
By SpaceNews.com: When SpaceX publicly listed, the coverage focused on the rockets, the valuation, and the personalities. That’s understandable. But the more important story is what the IPO signals about where the space economy is heading — and what that means for the countries and companies that have been quietly building it.
SpaceNews.com
• Chuck Webb, Greg Hoyt
By SpaceNews.com: mall, errant drone can scrub a space launch at the cost of millions of dollars in delays, with further repercussions spanning across multiple commercial and government launch service providers.
Bloomberg
• Bruce Einhorn
By Bloomberg: A big test still lies ahead with the long-delayed debut of the Neutron rocket.
Payload
• Douglas Gorman
By Payload: Lunar Forge’s idea is to drastically reduce the cost required to set up fission reactors, by using regolith to build the majority of the support structure to house and shield the reactor core.
SpaceNews.com
• Jason Rainbow
By SpaceNews.com: EchoStar subsidiaries tied to its satellite TV and abandoned 5G network businesses have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, advancing a prepackaged restructuring plan to repay debt early after selling spectrum to SpaceX and AT&T.
SpaceWatch Global
• Torsten Kriening
