Space.com
• Sharmila Kuthunur
Skyroot Aerospace is positioning Vikram-1 as a potential catalyst for India’s commercial launch industry, backed by a $1.1 billion valuation. The company says the rocket is set to fly soon, as it prepares its bid for a first-of-its-kind private-sector path to orbit for India.
SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
By SpaceNews.com: Reditus Space, a startup developing recoverable and reusable spacecraft, has completed its first vehicle for launch later this year.
SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
By SpaceNews.com: Voyager Technologies has completed its acquisition of lunar infrastructure company Astrobotic weeks after it won two NASA lunar lander missions.
Space.com
• Tereza Pultarova
By Space.com: Tiny pieces of space debris only 2 inches (5 centimeters) in size clutter a valuable orbital region where some of the most indispensable satellites reside, a new study has found.
Bloomberg
• Alan Crawford
By Bloomberg: Europe is competing with US, China and Russia to establish a sovereign space industry.
SpaceWatch Global
• Joshua Faleti
By SpaceWatch Global: SpaceRCO has selected Innovative Signal Analysis to develop an adaptable radar‑warning sensor for U.S. military satellites in GEO orbit.
Space.com
• Mike Wall
By Space.com: Reflect Orbital just got approval to launch its first light-directing space mirror, which it plans to do later this year. Tens of thousands more such craft could follow over the next 10 years.
SpaceWatch Global
• K.-P. Ludwig
By SpaceWatch Global: Germany plans a military satellite constellation of up to 1,200 satellites. But industrial capacity, launch dependence, and European politics remain major challenges.
NASA Spaceflight
• Haygen Warren
Universe Today
• Matthew Williams
