Bloomberg
• Yasutaka Tamura
SpaceX has raised $2.2 billion from Japanese investors, according to a regulatory filing, as the company prepares what is described as the world’s largest-ever initial public offering. The move adds a Japan-specific capital slice to the broader IPO execution already underway.
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.
SpaceNews.com
• Debra Werner
By SpaceNews.com: SAN FRANCISCO – The European Space Agency awarded AAC Clyde Space a 10.9 million euro ($12.6 million) contract to complete development and demonstrate VHF Data Exchange System (VDES) satellites for the Inflecion maritime domain awareness program.
CNBC
• Leslie Picker, Yun Li
By CNBC: The Elon Musk-led company plans to direct a percentage in the low 20s of the offering to retail buyers, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Ars Technica
• Stephen Clark
By Ars Technica: Some missions are using more than what their paperwork would say.".
SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
By SpaceNews.com: The U.S. Space Force is seeking potential users of a new launch site at Vandenberg Space Force Base reserved for smaller rockets.
Bloomberg
• Frances Schwartzkopff
By Bloomberg: The list of sustainability-focused fund managers opting to blacklist SpaceX is growing, as they contemplate the unprecedented level of control that Elon Musk will hold over the rockets-to-chatbot behemoth.
Space.com
• Samantha Mathewson
By Space.com: A “galaxy-killing” wind driven by cosmic mergers may explain why many massive galaxies in the early universe stopped forming stars far earlier than expected, according to new JWST and ALMA observations.
Via Satellite
• Mark Holmes
CNBC
• Hayley Cuccinello
