Bloomberg
• Edward Ludlow, Sana Pashankar
SpaceX has begun rejecting some satellite operators that want dedicated launch rides on Falcon 9 after 2028, according to people familiar with the matter. The move signals a shift in customer planning toward Starship, despite its still-unproven status.
SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
By SpaceNews.com: More than two dozen major NASA projects say they have been affected by the loss of a fifth of NASA’s civil servant workforce in the last year.
Via Satellite
• Rachel Jewett
By Via Satellite: Frequency Electronics reports $18 million in recent contract wins, including an $11 million award from an undisclosed major aerospace prime contractor to support a proliferated satellite program.
Via Satellite
• Rachel Jewett
By Via Satellite: Iceye and KT SAT have a new strategic partnership to offer flood monitoring solutions in South Korea to government and commercial organizations. This marks the first deployment of Iceye Solutions in South Korea.
Via Satellite
• Zaheer Ali
By Via Satellite: Orbital data centers are now taking shape enough to have brand names. SpaceX has put Starmind on the map, with Elon Musk describing it as an AI satellite megaconstellation that could eventually operate as “orbital data centers” at enormous scale.
Space Intel Report
• Peter B. de Selding
By Space Intel Report: LA PLATA, Maryland — The German government, whose skepticism about Europe’s Iris2 multi-orbit secure connectivity project is well-known and long-standing, accepted a remarkably pro-Iris2 statement following the July 17 Franco-German Council of Ministers in Brühl, Germany.
Space Intel Report
• Peter B. de Selding
By Space Intel Report: LA PLATA, Maryland — Thales Group’s space business, run mainly through Thales Alenia Space and Telespazio, continued its recovery in the three months ending June 30, with increases in both sales and profit, despite a customer’s cancellation of two geostationary-orbit telecommunications satellites.
Payload
• Douglas Gorman
By Payload: EO data is a privilege, not a right, and the US government wants to control what EO satellite operators can and can’t share with the public.
SpaceWatch Global
• Joshua Faleti
European Spaceflight
• Andrew Parsonson
Politico
• Andrew Howard, Audrey Decker, Calen Razor, Jasper Goodman, Jennifer Scholtes, Katherine Hapgood, Kelsey Brugger, Mark Satter, Meredith Lee Hill, Mia McCarthy, Riley Rogerson, Robert King, Samuel Benson, Simon J. Leven
