SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
MDA Space has won a CAD 688 million contract to build a radar imaging (SAR) replenishment satellite for the Canadian Space Agency, supporting the RADARSAT Constellation. The award comes as Canada evaluates options for a next-generation satellite system, extending continuity for SAR data availability.
Via Satellite
• Alvaro Ovejero, Juan Cacace
By Via Satellite: The European Commission’s proposal to re-authorize the 2 GHz Mobile Satellite Services band beyond 2027 comes at a time when satellite connectivity is increasingly shaped by geopolitical considerations as much as technical or commercial ones.
Via Satellite
• Mark Holmes
By Via Satellite: FOSSA, a Spanish IoT satellite company, has closed a new funding round worth 9.25 million euros ($10.5 million) to fund international expansion and global deployment of its sovereign satellite capabilities.
Space.com
• Chelsea Gohd
By Space.com: Could Martian mudstones be holding evidence of ancient microbes? New findings strengthen the case that the Red Planet once held life.
SpaceNews.com
• Sandra Erwin
By SpaceNews.com: WASHINGTON — Vantor has chosen BAE Systems to build its next generation of high-resolution imaging satellites. The selection reunites Vantor with the former Ball Aerospace business that helped develop DigitalGlobe’s Earth-observation satellites.
SpaceNews.com
• Scott McIntosh
By SpaceNews.com: America’s electric grid is entering a period of unprecedented strain. Utilities across the country are scrambling to keep up as power-hungry AI data centers expand at a staggering pace, often consuming as much electricity as small cities.
SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
By SpaceNews.com: Commercial space station company Vast added several companies and organizations to its network of partners for microgravity research and manufacturing.
SpaceNews.com
• Sandra Erwin
By SpaceNews.com: WASHINGTON — York Space Systems said June 24 that a satellite it built for the U.S. Space Force successfully demonstrated two-way tactical communications using ultra-high-frequency (UHF) links from low Earth orbit.
NASA Spaceflight
• Eleanor Day
Bloomberg
• Brian W Smith, Caleb Mutua, Davide Barbuscia
