European Spaceflight
• Andrew Parsonson
A T-Minus Barracuda sound rocket experienced an anomaly after launch from Spaceport Nova Scotia, leading teams to abandon a second planned flight. The outcome underscores ongoing reliability challenges for suborbital launch operations and range/mission planning in Canada.
Space.com
• Keith Cooper
By Space.com: A laser system, previously tested on board the International Space Station, helped to stream video directly from the Artemis 2 mission on its way around the moon.
SpaceNews.com
• Sandra Erwin
By SpaceNews.com: WASHINGTON — The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is soliciting input from the space industry on how the United States could rapidly restore critical space capabilities if satellites were disabled or destroyed during a conflict.
Space.com
• Sharmila Kuthunur
By Space.com: Scientists analyzing a powerful X9 solar flare found unusual changes in the sun's atmosphere hours before eruption, offering clues to space weather forecasts.
Space Intel Report
• Peter B. de Selding
By Space Intel Report: PARIS — Europe’s Iris2 multi-orbit secured connectivity network, facing pressure from European governments to limit it schedule delays, is adding 66 smaller satellites to its low-Earth-orbit component to assure launches starting in 2029, with the full-capacity, 264-satellite system to be launched around 2032,.
SpaceNews.com
• Michael J. Patterson
By SpaceNews.com: For years, space architecture was treated mostly as a question of placement: where to put a spacecraft, and how reliably it could hold position.
Bloomberg
• Pablo Mayo Cerqueiro
By Bloomberg: German satellite maker OHB SE is kicking off a stock offering to help it contribute to Europe’s space and defense programs as well as increase its free float.
SpaceWatch Global
• Joshua Faleti
By SpaceWatch Global: Unseenlabs has successfully launched BRO-22, the first satellite from a foreign private company to fly aboard Japan’s H3 Launch Vehicle. The launch took place on Friday, June 12, 2026, from the Yoshinobu Launch Complex at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Tanegashima Space Center.
Reuters
• Laura Matthews, Saqib Iqbal Ahmed
