Ars Technica
• Stephen Clark
SpaceX has begun commissioning a second launch pad at its Starbase facility in Texas, enabling parallel processing and higher sortie cadence for both Falcon and Starship campaigns. The additional pad increases operational resilience at the complex and supports an accelerating launch tempo for commercial and government missions.
Space.com
• Elizabeth Howell
By Space.com: "This milestone essentially marks the birth of our flight system.".
European Spaceflight
• Andrew Parsonson
By European Spaceflight: Tokyo-headquartered Astroscale has selected Isar Aerospace to launch its ELSA-M orbital debris removal demonstrator no earlier than 2028.
Payload
• Austin Corona
By Payload: “Africans don't choose sides, at least for now…so these countries are typically not locked into one provider,” said Mustapha Iderawumi, a senior analyst at Space in Africa—a Lagos, Nigeria-based market research firm.
Payload
• Jacqueline Feldscher
By Payload: Two days. Nine panels. Two dozen speakers—and that’s just the space content.
SpaceWatch Global
• Torsten Kriening
By SpaceWatch Global: On March 10, 2026, the U.S. Department of State published a Federal Register notice that, at first glance, reads like standard outreach.
SpaceNews.com
• Askar Sinchev, H E Zhaslan Madiyev, Olaf J Groth
By SpaceNews.com: Kazakhstan must choose: be Eurasia’s tech broker or become a pawn in the new global space race.
SpaceNews.com
• Andrew Jones
By SpaceNews.com: China ends month-long launch hiatus with separate Guowang and Shiyan-30 satellite missions China resumed orbital launch activity Thursday with a pair of missions lifting off from Hainan and Xichang spaceports, launching satellite internet and technology test satellites.
Space Intel Report
• Peter B de Selding
SpaceNews.com
• Jason Rainbow
