NASA Spaceflight
• Ryan Weber
Following completion of Starship Flight 12 about three weeks ago, SpaceX is pivoting to Flight 13 and the hardware supporting it: Booster 20 and Ship 40. Both vehicles have finished cryogenic proof testing and are set to complete static fire next, marking a key propulsion and integration milestone.
SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
By SpaceNews.com: NASA has provided more details about the revised approaches that Blue Origin and SpaceX are taking to accelerate work on Artemis lunar landers.
time.com
• Jeffrey Kluger
By time.com: The pressure is on the company—and newly minted trillionaire Elon Musk—to deliver.
Wall Street Journal
Bloomberg
• Yasutaka Tamura
By Bloomberg: SpaceX raised $2.2 billion from Japanese investors, according to a regulatory filing on Friday, as part of the world’s largest-ever initial public offering.
Wall Street Journal
SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
By SpaceNews.com: Japan’s H3 rocket launched June 11 on its first flight since a failure in December, placing six smallsats in orbit.
Reuters
• Laura Matthews, Saqib Iqbal Ahmed
By Reuters: Investors will soon get a new way to bet on SpaceX's trajectory: options on the stock are set to begin trading as soon as Tuesday, with early activity expected to be heavy, volatile, and likely expensive.
Associated Press
NASA Spaceflight
• Martin Smith
By NASA Spaceflight: China kicked off a busy month with three missions for a single internet constellation in the span of nearly four days. Another maiden launch saw the nation’s tallest rocket successfully reach orbit, though the debut raised eyebrows with the absence of airspace notices ahead of the mission.
Bloomberg
• Will Daley
By Bloomberg: S&P 500 Index futures rise 0.6% as of 7:36 a.m. in New York following fresh evidence that the US and Iran are nearing a provisional agreement to end their war.
SpaceWatch Global
• Torsten Kriening
Ars Technica
• Stephen Clark
