European Spaceflight
• Andrew Parsonson
European Spaceflight reports: Poland has committed 2 billion PLN (€470 million) to build six communications satellites as an added contribution to the IRIS2 constellation.
Last Updated: Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025, 8:21 PM PDT
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SpaceNews.com
• Jason Rainbow
By SpaceNews.com: The fledgling small geostationary satellite manufacturing market is splitting across a spectrum of vertical integration strategies as companies weigh sovereignty, speed and scale in reshaping space-based communications.
Reuters
• Joey Roulette
By Reuters: NASA on Wednesday night resumed plans to moor an uncrewed cargo craft to the International Space Station after resolving an early engine-shutdown issue it said was caused by a "conservative safeguard" in the vehicle's software settings.
russianspaceweb.com
• Anatoly Zak
By russianspaceweb.com: Sixth mission of the GLONASS-K satellite (No. 18L).
Space.com
• Josh Dinner
By Space.com: The life of an astronaut comes with a lot of poking and prodding.
Via Satellite
• Rachel Jewett
By Via Satellite: SpaceX's Gwynne Shotwell talked about what SpaceX’s recent spectrum buy from EchoStar will mean for Starlink’s Direct-to-Cell business.
Breaking Defense
• Theresa Hitchens
By Breaking Defense: The reorganization of the JCO will involve two elements: setting up processes for JCO to provide commercial space monitoring data directly to operators and establishing an acquisition pathway for that data.
Space.com
• Elizabeth Howell
By Space.com: But at least some of the changes might be reversible.
Payload
• Douglas Gorman
SpaceNews.com
• Debra Werner
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SpaceWatch Global
• Torsten Kriening
