SpaceNews.com
• Mihail Várdai
The piece argues that “treaty” and “voluntary agreement” models alone may be insufficient to manage AI-enabled threats in space. It highlights how dual-use capabilities could undermine trust and cooperation, accelerating worst-case escalation unless governance and safeguards keep pace.
SpaceWatch Global
• Joshua Faleti
By SpaceWatch Global: The European Space Agency has launched a new call for proposals in collaboration with the UK Space Agency, through the ESA InCubed program.
SpaceWatch Global
• Joshua Faleti
By SpaceWatch Global: ESA awards ispace-EUROPE the second phase of the MAGPIE (Mission for Advanced Geophysics and Polar Ice Exploration.) contract.
SpaceNews.com
• Sandra Erwin
By SpaceNews.com: ocket Lab WASHINGTON — Rocket Lab will establish a new launch site in Alaska under a $266 million U.S. Space Force contract for up to 18 suborbital missions, expanding the company’s role in military launch services as the Pentagon seeks more capacity for weapons testing.
SpaceWatch Global
• Guest Author
By SpaceWatch Global: Karolina Sarna examines why commercial Earth Observation remains trapped in project-based delivery and what is needed to build the institutional layer that enables scalable EO markets.
SpaceWatch Global
• Joshua Faleti
By SpaceWatch Global: Voyager renews partnership with Reditus Space to deliver end-to-end microgravity mission services aboard the latter's ENOS reentry vehicle.
Payload
• Victoria Woodburn
By Payload: SpaceX flew the 13th test flight of its Starship rocket Friday evening, ending with the first intact Starship put in the water.
Bloomberg
• Yash Roy
By Bloomberg: The Exploration Company Gmbh, a potential European rival to Elon Musk’s SpaceX, is in talks to raise at least $300 million, in part from the European Union’s Scaleup Europe Fund, bumping the company’s valuation to more than $2 billion, the Financial Times reported.
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Ars Technica
• Stephen Clark
