Space.com
• Mike Wall
European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot is scheduled to make history on Aug. 18 as the first French woman to conduct a spacewalk. The event will be broadcast live, offering viewers access to a milestone in France’s human-spaceflight participation.
Wall Street Journal
• Shelby Holliday
By Wall Street Journal: The U.S. Space Force uses space to fight wars on Earth. Now, it’s preparing for a future in which wars could be fought in space. WSJ’s Shelby Holliday spoke with Gen.
NASA Spaceflight
• Justin Davenport
By NASA Spaceflight: After last week’s Chang Zheng 7A launch failure, China returns to action with the high-profile Chang’e 7 robotic lunar mission and the second test flight of the ZhuQue-3 partially reusable launcher.
Universe Today
• Matthew Williams
By Universe Today: Engineers developed a unique fabric-based design for a ground-penetrating radar that will be a key instrument on NASA’s SkyFall Mars helicopters. The hardware will enable the SkyFall mission’s trio of planetary rotorcraft to use ground-penetrating radar to study the Martian subsurface.
SpaceNews.com
• Andrew Parsonson
By SpaceNews.com: tion, CC BY-SA 4.0 JOHANNESBURG — The European Union has sanctioned the head of a Roscosmos subsidiary developing a synthetic aperture radar satellite system for the Russian military.
SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
By SpaceNews.com: WASHINGTON — HEO, the Australian company that uses Earth observation satellites to take images of other spacecraft, has signed an agreement with Planet to access that company’s satellites.
Via Satellite
• Mark Holmes
By Via Satellite: Katalyst Space has won a major new contract from the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) as the U.S. Government looks to tap into the latest deorbiting technologies.
Space.com
• Josh Dinner
By Space.com: China's space program has returned to flight after an Aug. 10 Long March 7A rocket explosion, launching both a Long March 12 and a Long March 2C rocket on Sunday (Aug.
The Daily Debrief
One concise daily briefing across aviation, defense and space—key developments, corroborating sources, and the context leaders need to act.
SpaceNews.com
• Andrew Jones
SpaceNews.com
• Juliet Hannay
NASA Spaceflight
• Chris Bergin, Martijn Luinstra
Aviation Source
• Len Varley
