Space.com
• Mike Wall
United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V is scheduled to lift 29 Amazon internet satellites into orbit on April 27. The mission follows recent Kuiper/LEO deployment milestones and underscores the continued cadence push needed to expand in-orbit capacity for Amazon’s broadband ambitions.
AeroTime
• Clement Charpentreau
By AeroTime: Dassault has selected Spain’s Arkadia Space to supply the propulsion system for its VORTEX-D reusable spaceplane demonstrator.
SpaceNews.com
• Michelle Buckner
By SpaceNews.com: On April 10, the Orion capsule carrying Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch, Victor Glover and Jeremy Hansen splashed down in the Pacific, completing the first crewed lunar mission in more than 50 years.
SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
By SpaceNews.com: The FAA is ready to begin collecting user fees for the first time for commercial launches and reentries, which could generate millions of dollars annually.
Space.com
• Tereza Pultarova
By Space.com: AI algorithms can sharpen naturally blurry images taken by ground-based telescopes, revealing details otherwise visible only to space-borne machines like Webb and Hubble.
DefenseNews.com
• Aaron Mehta
By DefenseNews.com: SpaceX has been certified for military space launch, the US Air Force announced Tuesday.
Payload
• Douglas Gorman
By Payload: Meta announced an agreement today to secure up to 1 GW of power capacity through Overview Energy’s planned solar power-beaming satellite system.
Space.com
• Leonard David
By Space.com: NASA is exploring ways to use a fleet of drones to explore the lunar south pole with an ambitious new MoonFall project.
