European Spaceflight
• Andrew Parsonson
NASA has delivered the first braking engines for ESA’s Rosalind Franklin Mars mission, advancing key hardware needed for the spacecraft’s Mars entry and descent profile. Separate work continues to secure the required RHUs (radioisotope heater units), keeping power-system qualification on the critical path.
Ars Technica
• Financial Times
By Ars Technica: Move would test whether group can turn ambition into a mass-market phone business.
Space Intel Report
• Peter B. de Selding
By Space Intel Report: BRUSSELS — The EU Commission’s proposed Digital Networks Act (DNA) faced rough going by other European organizations and, surprisingly, even from satellite-sector companies that are supposed to be a principal beneficiary.
SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
By SpaceNews.com: NASA astronauts on the space station are preparing for a spacewalk to repair a robotic arm as safety advisers raise concerns about its long-term health.
Space.com
• Tariq Malik
By Space.com: NASA's daring Swift Boost mission launches June 27 to save the nearly 22-year-old Swift observatory , which is being dragged out of space by Earth's atmosphere.
Payload
• Douglas Gorman
By Payload: Crustdata found that ~1,330 SpaceX alumni have founded new ventures after leaving the company. Collectively, these founders have raised $9.2B to date.
Universe Today
• Mark Thompson
By Universe Today: When Artemis II swept around the far side of the Moon this April, carrying the first humans beyond Earth orbit in more than fifty years, NASA had prepared its four astronauts for something more than flying the spacecraft.
Space.com
• Josh Dinner
By Space.com: Rocket Lab is poised to launch the "Ten Owl of Ten" mission from New Zealand today (June 26), adding to Japanese company Synspective's imaging constellation.
Breaking Defense
• Theresa Hitchens
SpaceNews.com
• Debra Werner, Emma Gatti
European Spaceflight
• Andrew Parsonson
