SpaceNews.com
• Audrey Schaffer
SpaceNews.com reports: No more free rides: it’s time to pay for space safety.
SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
By SpaceNews.com: House and Senate appropriators have released the text of a spending bill that largely rejects the steep cuts the Trump administration proposed for NASA.
SpaceNews.com
• Andrew Jones
By SpaceNews.com: China’s astronauts complete cave training amid preparations for moon missions China’s astronaut corps has completed a near month-long underground cave training, conducted in part to prepare for future crewed lunar landing missions.
Payload
• Rachael Zisk
By Payload: On the last day of the year, the in-space manufacturing startup said it successfully generated plasma aboard its ForgeStar-1 craft in LEO. The manufacturing furnace aboard the sat reached temperatures north of 1,000°C, which is essential for the orbital semiconductor manufacturing that the company is hoping to achieve.
SpaceWatch Global
• Joshua Faleti
By SpaceWatch Global: The Japanese Ministry of Defense (MOD) has awarded 7 Japanese companies a public tender for a Satellite constellation project.
CNBC
• Dylan Butts
By CNBC: SpaceX's Starlink is offering free broadband internet service to the people of Venezuela through Feb. 3, amid the fallout of a U.S. military operation in the country.
Fox Business
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NASA Spaceflight
By NASA Spaceflight: In a strategic push to bolster launch infrastructure amid growing military and commercial demands for….
Reuters
• Mike Stone
By Reuters: The deal could provide AE Industrial with opportunities in space exploration and the Pentagon's emerging Golden Dome initiative.
Space Intel Report
• Peter B de Selding
