NASA Spaceflight
• Bastiaan Vellekoop, Chris Bergin
SpaceX has completed cryogenic proof and initial pad-2 testing of Booster 19 and Ship 39, clearing major hardware checks ahead of Starship Flight 12 and the Version 3 debut. The company is targeting an early‑April 2026 launch as Starbase's second orbital pad nears commissioning.
Ars Technica
• Eric Berger
By Ars Technica: Company has previously tested its technology on the International Space Station.
Space.com
• Andrew Jones
By Space.com: It was the second spacewalk of the Shenzhou 21 mission.
Bloomberg
• Isabelle Lee, Lu Wang
By Bloomberg: For decades, the path into America’s most important stock benchmarks followed a predictable rhythm: go public, prove yourself, wait your turn. Now the three firms that control those benchmarks are considering whether to rewrite the rules to absorb trillion-dollar IPOs from SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic.
European Spaceflight
• Andrew Parsonson
By European Spaceflight: ESA plans to offer a €50 million incentive to launch the demonstration missions for its LEO Cargo Return Services initiative aboard European rockets.
Bloomberg
• Ott Ummelas
By Bloomberg: A spaceport in Norway will host a German startup’s orbital launch attempt this week.
Payload
• Jacqueline Feldscher
By Payload: The FAA announced Tuesday that US launchers had all transitioned to the five-year-old licensing requirements, leaving no one still operating under legacy regulations.
Space Intel Report
• Peter B de Selding
By Space Intel Report: LA PLATA, Maryland — Satellite platform builder Kongsberg NanoAvionics of Lithuania has signed a multimillion-dollar/euro contract….
SpaceWatch Global
• Joshua Faleti
SpaceWatch Global
• Joshua Faleti
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