Space.com
• Josh Dinner
Rocket Lab is set to launch its “Ten Owl of Ten” mission from New Zealand on June 26, adding to Japan-based Synspective’s Earth-imaging constellation. The flight underscores the company’s ongoing cadence of dedicated Electron missions supporting constellation growth for space imaging customers.
NASA
• Leejay Lockhart
By NASA: NASA has selected Rocket Lab to provide the launch service for both the agency’s PolSIR (Polarized Submillimeter Ice-cloud Radiometer) and Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance Sensor-2 (TSIS-2) missions.
SpaceNews.com
SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
By SpaceNews.com: The African nation of Botswana is the latest country to sign the Artemis Accords outlining best practices for space exploration.
Reuters
• Joey Roulette
By Reuters: SpaceX plans to begin next month building an eight‑mile (13-km) natural gas pipeline called "Starpipe" to its Texas launch facilities, according to county filings, as Elon Musk’s company seeks to ramp up launches of its next‑generation Starship rocket.
Breaking Defense
• Theresa Hitchens
By Breaking Defense: Three Chinese rocket bodies have exploded over the last four years, creating dangerous debris that "will linger for decades to centuries, potentially colliding with other space objects," LeoLabs study author Darren McKnight told Breaking Defense.
Via Satellite
• Rachel Jewett
By Via Satellite: Capella Space validated a Mynaric optical communications terminal on its newest satellite — the first time Capella has deployed an optical terminal.
Via Satellite
• Mark Holmes
By Via Satellite: A group of companies and organizations including Infleqtion, Voyager Technologies, Monarch Quantum, Armada, and the University of Colorado Boulder have joined forces to move the U.S.’s quantum space ambitions forward.
SpaceNews.com
• Debra Werner, Emma Gatti
By SpaceNews.com: For years, small satellite manufacturers have built their business plans around the idea that SpaceX could launch their payload to space. Through its Falcon 9 Transporter and Bandwagon rideshare missions, SpaceX offered frequent, reliable and inexpensive transportation to sun-synchronous and mid-inclination orbits.
European Spaceflight
• Andrew Parsonson
SpaceWatch Global
• Joshua Faleti
