SpaceWatch Global
• Joshua Faleti
OHB Italia has signed a contract with antenna specialist HPS GmbH, appointing HPS to procure the communications antenna for the Apophis-bound “Ramses” spacecraft. The agreement was formalized at SmallSat Europe 2026, with procurement responsibilities assigned to HPS GmbH.
Space.com
• Mike Wall
By Space.com: Cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev will perform a spacewalk outside the International Space Station today (May 27), and you can watch the action live.
Bloomberg
• Loren Grush
By Bloomberg: NASA picked Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, Firefly Aerospace and other space firms to send robotic landers, rovers and even drones to the moon as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to jumpstart a lunar base before the end of the decade.
SpaceNews.com
• Mike Gruss
By SpaceNews.com: Open Cosmos, based in the United Kingdom, is facing a 2028 deadline to field an ambitious broadband constellation for Europe.
Satellite Evolution
• Satellite Evolution Group
By Satellite Evolution: Eutelsat and Anuvu have signed a new multi-year agreement for capacity on the EUTELSAT 10B satellite.
SpaceNews.com
• Jason Rainbow
By SpaceNews.com: Starcloud has ordered optical terminals from SpaceX to use Starlink as a global data-relay network for its future orbital data centers, deepening ties with the company it is counting on to launch full-size spacecraft.
SpaceNews.com
• Debra Werner
By SpaceNews.com: AMSTERDAM – The recent surge in European defense spending could bolster Europe’s entrepreneurial space sector, but only if bureaucratic roadblocks are cleared, panelists said at the SmallSat Europe conference.
Payload
• Anne Cheever, Ellen P. Carlin
By Payload: LEO’s most promising market opportunity—in-space manufacturing—doesn’t yet have the commercial demand to sustain itself. Government support is what will get us there.
SpaceWatch Global
• Joshua Faleti
SpaceWatch Global
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SpaceWatch Global
• Joshua Faleti
SpaceNews.com
• Andreas Raspotnik, Johannes Schmied-Wirén
