SpaceWatch Global
• Guest Author
#SpaceWatchGl’s Part II lays out how ISOS4I might be made operationally ready, focusing on command-and-control structures, the industrial and funding pathways, and the strategic risks involved in turning a technical system into a resilience capability.
Space Intel Report
• Peter B. de Selding
By Space Intel Report: BERLIN — Tesat Spacecom of Germany, which pioneered the use of satellite optical laser communications terminals on satellites, has seen multiple competitors surface and a veteran competitor, Mynaric, purchased out of bankruptcy from Rocket Lab of the United States.
New York Times
• Kenneth Chang
By New York Times: Without a rescue mission, NASA’s Swift Observatory, which studies some of the most powerful explosions in the universe, will burn up in the atmosphere within a few months.
SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
By SpaceNews.com: As SpaceX and others pursue development of very large launch vehicles, a new study suggests that there may be such a thing as a rocket that is too large.
Space.com
• Mike Wall
By Space.com: NASA astronauts Chris Williams and Jessica Meir will fix the International Space Station's Canadarm2 during a spacewalk today (June 30), and you can watch the action live.
SpaceWatch Global
• Joshua Faleti
By SpaceWatch Global: Rocket Lab has completed its 10th consecutive StriX launch for Synspective, whose Earth observation constellation now numbers ten operational satellites, all deployed by Electron.
Wall Street Journal
SpaceNews.com
• Emma Gatti
By SpaceNews.com: MILAN — The European Space Agency will rely on external lunar topographic data during the design phase of its Argonaut lunar lander, and possibly for its first mission, while working toward developing its own lunar mapping capability for later missions.
Payload
• Elizabeth Howell
By Payload: Time is running out to keep the ISS in orbit, as the chair of a NASA advisory committee warned last week that risk margin for regular operations “is now reduced to an alarming level.”.
European Spaceflight
• Andrew Parsonson
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• Technical Readiness
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