SpaceWatch Global
• Torsten Kriening
At the annual Perspectives Spatiales forum hosted by Novaspace at Salons Hoche in Paris, France's key space decision‑makers gathered to confront recent program failures and chart policy and industrial responses. The meeting highlighted tensions over funding, capability gaps and governance of national and European space projects.
Via Satellite
• Rachel Jewett
By Via Satellite: UK space experts recently spoke about national security and defense competition in the space domain during Space-Comm in London.
Wall Street Journal
• Ed Ballard
By Wall Street Journal: Plus, the Iran war enters new phase with attacks on energy infrastructure, and what our tech columnist wishes he’d known about EVs.
Universe Today
• Andy Tomaswick
By Universe Today: In 1959, the Luna 2 probe from the Soviet Union became the very first human-made object to reach our closest celestial neighbor. In the decades since, we have been leaving footprints - both literally and figuratively - all over the Moon.
Universe Today
• Andy Tomaswick
By Universe Today: The European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) probe is on its (very long) way to Jupiter, and will finally arrive at the King of Planets in 2031.
Space.com
• Tereza Pultarova
By Space.com: "You only need to affect one satellite's actions to cause problems.".
SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
By SpaceNews.com: NASA is proposing a sharp increase in the rate of robotic lunar lander missions, a move that has excited but also puzzled the space community.
ESA
By ESA: Thanks to the success of the Arctic Weather Satellite prototype and Eumetsat’s recent greenlight to develop a full constellation of similar satellites called Sterna, the European Space Agency has awarded OHB Sweden with the contract to build 20 satellites.This marks a major step toward better monitoring rapidly evolving weather, improving forecasts of severe events in vulnerable regions such as the Mediterranean, and closing critical data gaps over the Arctic – the fastest-warming region on Earth and a key driver of Europe’s weather systems.
NASA Spaceflight
• Bastiaan Vellekoop, Chris Bergin
