CNBC
• Hugh Leask
Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust has reduced SpaceX to 11.1% of its assets and sold its remaining Tesla stake. The changes reduce the trust’s exposure to two companies associated with Elon Musk, while SpaceX remains a significant portfolio holding.
Breaking Defense
• Theresa Hitchens
By Breaking Defense: To translate between the SpaceX-built SDN Backbone and other Pentagon communications and missile tracking satellites, sources said the Space Force is eyeing 12 or 13 Space Exchange Point birds.
Universe Today
• David Dickinson
By Universe Today: Flashback to 1977. Jimmy Carter was U.S. president, Star Wars was a box office hit, and the two Voyager spacecraft departed on an historic Grand Tour of the solar system.
SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
By SpaceNews.com: United Launch Alliance believes that changes to the solid rocket boosters for its Vulcan rocket will address problems seen on two launches.
Space.com
• Samantha Mathewson
By Space.com: A 4.1-billion-year-old meteorite discovered in the Sahara Desert offers a rare glimpse into Mars' early history.
Payload
• Daniel Molland
By Payload: Russia’s recent RPO likely allowed it to characterize ICEYE's radar in enough detail to build a ground-based jammer (or spoofer) to deploy in Ukraine next year.
SpaceWatch Global
• Joshua Faleti
By SpaceWatch Global: AST SpaceMobile will support STR under a USSF program to advance space-based sensing using commercially developed satellite technology.
Reuters
• Andrew Osborn
By Reuters: Russia needs to urgently expand its homegrown equivalent to Starlink, its Security Council said on Friday, warning that Elon Musk's satellite network could be used to destabilise society and politics in unspecified countries.
The Daily Debrief
One concise daily briefing across aviation, defense and space—key developments, corroborating sources, and the context leaders need to act.
Space Intel Report
• Peter B. de Selding
Space.com
• Robert Z. Pearlman
Bloomberg
• Joe Lovinger, Madlin Mekelburg
Bloomberg
• Kevin Kingsbury
