Space.com
• Josh Dinner
NASA is preparing LOXSAT (Liquid OXygen Flight demonstration), a satellite mission intended to test technologies for in-space transfer and storage of cryogenic propellants. The in-orbit “gas station” capability is positioned as a key enabling step for Artemis missions targeting crewed return to the Moon.
European Spaceflight
• Andrew Parsonson
By European Spaceflight: ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher has called on Europe to develop an autonomous human spaceflight capability.
SpaceNews.com
• Sandra Erwin
By SpaceNews.com: WASHINGTON — Since SpaceX disrupted the satellite communications market with low-latency broadband from low Earth orbit, traditional satellite operators have promoted “multi-orbit” architectures that combine low Earth orbit, medium Earth orbit and geostationary satellites into integrated communications systems designed to survive outages, attacks and congestion.
Runway Girl
• Mary Kirby
By Runway Girl: Boeing and Gilat have reached a milestone toward offering Gilat’s multi-orbit Sidewinder ESA a future line-fit solution for IFC.
Space Intel Report
• Peter B. de Selding
By Space Intel Report: LA PLATA, Maryland — Small satellite manufacturing GomSpace of Denmark and Sweden reported a 43% increase in revenue and a 22% increase in adjusted EBITDA for the three months ending March 31 and booked a sizable net profit relating to a long-standing debt from an undisclosed satellite constellation startup.
SpaceNews.com
• Sandra Erwin
By SpaceNews.com: WASHINGTON — Quindar, a Denver-based startup specializing in satellite ground systems, said it signed an agreement with Portal Space Systems to provide mission management services for upcoming missions involving maneuverable spacecraft.
SpaceNews.com
• Jason Rainbow
By SpaceNews.com: Lynk Global has secured regulatory approval to test how its direct-to-device satellites could extend private utility networks using terrestrial spectrum from Anterix in the United States.
Payload
• Jacqueline Feldscher
By Payload: The commercial space station company announced this morning that it would start selling satellite buses, specifically targeting the low-cost, high-volume, high-power niche for missions from comms, to EO, to national-security programs.
Space Intel Report
• Peter B. de Selding
Space Intel Report
• Peter B. de Selding
European Spaceflight
• Andrew Parsonson
