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Last Updated: Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025, 3:27 AM PDT
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European Spaceflight
• Andrew Parsonson
ESA Awards Contract for Reusable Rocket Stage Recovery Vessel
By European Spaceflight: ESA has awarded a contract to Ingegneria Dei Sistemi to design a reusable rocket stage recovery vessel as part of Avio’s €40 million reusable upper stage project.
600th Long March Mission Delivers More GuoWang Satellites, Cementing China’s Largest Mega-Constellation
By china-in-space.com: GuoWang has become China's largest mega-constellation effort too.
Payload
• Jacqueline Feldscher
Payload’s Lunar & Mars Economy Summit — Day 2: Former NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine on Moon 'Militarization' and Industry Implications
By Payload: To anyone worried about “militarizing” the Moon, Jim Bridenstine has some sage advice: get over it.
SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
Axiom Space replaces CEO after less than six months, raising questions about commercial space station program
By SpaceNews.com: Commercial space station developer Axiom Space has replaced its chief executive after less than six months on the job.
smallsatnews.com
• SmallSatNews Staff
GomSpace wins €760k ESA contract to accelerate AOCS software development
By smallsatnews.com:  A new contract for GomSpace—a smallsat company with a 75 satellite mission track record—has been received by the company, valued at 760,000 euros.
SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
Artemis Accords nations mark fifth anniversary
By SpaceNews.com: Five years after the first countries signed the Artemis Accords, a growing group of nations continues to work on how to implement the document.
Ars Technica
• Eric Berger
NASA and Lockheed Consider Launching Orion on Commercial Rockets, Signaling Major Shift in Artemis Strategy
By Ars Technica: “We’re trying to crawl, then walk, then run into our reuse strategy.”….
