SpaceNews.com
• Jarosław Adamowski
Polish space company Eycore placed its first SAR Earth-observation satellite, Eycore-1, into orbit, leveraging the firm’s synthetic aperture radar technology. The launch also carried additional LEO smallsat payloads on SpaceX’s CAS500-2 mission, including three satellites using NanoAvionics satellite buses.
SpaceNews.com
• Sandra Erwin
By SpaceNews.com: NVER — Data and intelligence providers, along with governments, are outsourcing the construction and operation of Earth-observation constellations, favoring access to data and analytics over owning the satellites and ground systems that produce them.
Payload
• Jacqueline Feldscher
By Payload: In March, the Office of Space Commerce (OSC) unveiled its plan to serve as a one-stop shop for licensing novel space missions.
NASA Spaceflight
• Ryan Weber
By NASA Spaceflight: Over six months after the end of Flight 11, the old design, Pad 1, was demolished, and conversion to the newer pad design, like Pad 2, is underway. In that time, crews have made impressive progress, with excavation of the trench about to start.
Space.com
• Chelsea Gohd
By Space.com: Blue Origin's MK1 moon lander has passed its tests in the vacuum chamber as NASA continues to develop the hardware needed to return astronauts to the moon.
SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
By SpaceNews.com: Artemis 2 was a success in more ways than one. The mission, lasting just over nine days, demonstrated that the Orion spacecraft could safely support a crew on a trip around the moon.
Space.com
• Andrew Jones
By Space.com: Two private companies are partnering up to establish a repeatable debris removal service for low Earth orbit, and they want to debut it in 2027.
European Spaceflight
• Andrew Parsonson
By European Spaceflight: ESA has awarded Thales Alenia Space a €26.1 million contract to develop six optical telescopes for its €1 billion LISA mission.
Space.com
• Andrew Jones
Via Satellite
• Rachel Jewett
