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Associated Press • Bernard Conodn

SpaceX faces first public-company earnings test as shares fall 50% from June peak

SpaceX is preparing to report its first quarterly results since its blockbuster June IPO, with investors focused on whether Elon Musk can substantiate the company’s growth prospects. The earnings event comes as shares have halved from their peak and early backers face a potential windfall of up to $1 trillion.

Also: dailymail.com, the-independent.com and Economic Times

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2026-08-03T21:14:44.849306-07:00

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SpaceNews.com • Jeff Foust

NASA, SpaceX studying how to prevent future upper stage lunar collisions

By SpaceNews.com: With a Falcon 9 upper stage set to hit the moon this week, SpaceX says it is working with NASA on ways to prevent similar collisions in the future.

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2026-08-03T19:15:10.391377-07:00

Satellite Launch Vehicles & Space Transportation Commercial Space

NASA Spaceflight • John Sharp

Launch Preview: Starlink, AST SpaceMobile, and Chinese missions fill launch manifest

By NASA Spaceflight: The first full week of August is shaping up to be another busy period for the global launch industry, with six missions scheduled from Asia and the United States.

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2026-08-03T14:30:51.184270-07:00

Bloomberg • Reshmi Basu

EchoStar Unit Hughes Satellite Files for Bankruptcy as Debt Falls Due

By Bloomberg: Hughes Satellite Systems Corp. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Sunday, saying intensifying competition was undermining its core broadband business.

SpaceNews.com

Hughes files for bankruptcy after GEO business loses ground to Starlink

Via Satellite

Hughes Files for Chapter 11 With Plan to Reorganize Around Enterprise, Defense Business

Also: Space Intel Report, Runway Girl, CNET, SpaceWatch Global and al.com

8 Sources

2026-08-03T00:14:38.321534-07:00

Satellite M&A

Via Satellite • Rachel Jewett

ETL Acquires Software Developer Amphinicy Technologies

By Via Satellite: ETL Systems has acquired Amphinicy Technologies, which develops software for satcom and Earth Observation markets, in a move the company said will help solve more complex ground segment challenges for its customers.

Also: Satellite Evolution

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2026-08-03T13:44:37.889545-07:00

ArianeGroup Launch Vehicles & Space Transportation Commercial Space

European Spaceflight • Andrew Parsonson

ArianeGroup Keeps MaiaSpace Operating Despite Negative Equity

By European Spaceflight: ArianeGroup has opted to keep MaiaSpace operating after the launch startup’s shareholders’ equity into negative territory.

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2026-08-03T08:14:50.234680-07:00

Satellite Commercial Space Space Policy & International Cooperation Policy & Regulation

SpaceNews.com • Sandra Erwin

Xona secures spectrum approval for satellite navigation network

By SpaceNews.com: WASHINGTON — Xona Space Systems has received conditional federal approval to broadcast commercial navigation signals from a planned constellation of more than 250 satellites, clearing a major regulatory obstacle as the startup prepares to begin deploying the network, the company said Aug.

Also: Via Satellite

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2026-08-03T08:44:34.002726-07:00

North America Launch Vehicles & Space Transportation Commercial Space

Ars Technica • Eric Berger

SpaceX is set to acquire 130,000 acres of marshland in southern Louisiana

By Ars Technica: A Louisiana launch site would offer several significant advantages.

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2026-08-03T07:44:39.024775-07:00

SpaceX faces first public-company earnings test as shares fall 50% from June peak

NASA, SpaceX studying how to prevent future upper stage lunar collisions

Launch Preview: Starlink, AST SpaceMobile, and Chinese missions fill launch manifest

EchoStar Unit Hughes Satellite Files for Bankruptcy as Debt Falls Due

Hughes files for bankruptcy after GEO business loses ground to Starlink

Hughes Files for Chapter 11 With Plan to Reorganize Around Enterprise, Defense Business

ETL Acquires Software Developer Amphinicy Technologies

ArianeGroup Keeps MaiaSpace Operating Despite Negative Equity

Xona secures spectrum approval for satellite navigation network

SpaceX is set to acquire 130,000 acres of marshland in southern Louisiana

Musk likely to face tough questions during SpaceX's first earnings call as a public company

NASA, SpaceX studying how to prevent future upper stage lunar collisions

Launch Preview: Starlink, AST SpaceMobile, and Chinese missions fill launch manifest

ETL Acquires Software Developer Amphinicy Technologies

Jupiter's moon Europa may have signs of life in its buried ocean

Xona secures spectrum approval for satellite navigation network

Jupiter's moon Europa may have signs of life in its buried ocean

SpaceX Investors Are Ready to Quiz Musk Over Ever-Closer Ties With Tesla

Planet Acquires Berlin Innovation Campus Space to Set up its First European Production Facility

University of Warwick Astronomers Detect Tiny, Previously Undocumented Debris in Geosynchronous Orbit

SpaceX looks beyond Falcon 9 as Starfall targets in-space logistics and Boeing advances Starliner cargo plans

Companies and governments vie for increasingly valuable space-spectrum rights

China launches secretive TJS-27 satellite pair into new orbit, upgrades Tianlian relay network

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