Space.com
• Keith Cooper
New research suggests Saturn’s rings formed when a titanic moon collided and was shredded, with debris potentially creating the irregular moon Hyperion and altering Saturn’s axial tilt. Models indicate the impact’s mass and timing could explain the rings’ composition and the planet’s current orientation.
Via Satellite
• Rachel Jewett
By Via Satellite: BlackSky Technology announced a deal with an unnamed international customer for a dedicated Gen-3 satellite.
Bloomberg
• Lorelei Smillie, Loren Grush, Sana Pashankar
By Bloomberg: Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin “will move heaven and Earth” to get to the moon before rival SpaceX, said Chief Executive Officer Dave Limp.
Via Satellite
• Rachel Jewett
By Via Satellite: ST Engineering iDirect will integrate the network management program from G&S SatCom into its Intuition ground system software.
Bloomberg
• Yazhou Sun
By Bloomberg: Powerlaw Corp., a fund that owns stakes in Anduril Industries Inc., SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic PBC, is filing to sell shares in New York, giving retail investors a shot at profiting from some of the biggest private companies in artificial intelligence, defense and space.
Universe Today
• Alan Boyle
By Universe Today: SpaceX founder Elon Musk now says he wants to build a city on the moon before building a city on Mars. Is either scenario realistic? In the latest episode of the Fiction Science podcast, biologist Scott Solomon, the author of a new book titled.
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.
Space Intel Report
• Peter B de Selding
By Space Intel Report: MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — The future economic viability of large GEO-orbit satellites is likely to be….
European Spaceflight
• Andrew Parsonson
NASA Spaceflight
• Chris Bergin, Martin Smith
