Space.com
• Tereza Pultarova
A new study reports a debris cloud made up of fragments as small as 2 inches (5 cm) in an orbital region populated by mission-critical satellites. The authors warn the concentration of tiny pieces in a high-traffic zone could pose escalating collision risk—effectively raising insurance and replacement costs for operators.
Space.com
• Sharmila Kuthunur
By Space.com: Backed by a $1.1 billion valuation, Skyroot Aerospace is betting that its Vikram-1 rocket can help transform India's commercial launch industry. And Vikram-1 is set to fly soon.
SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
By SpaceNews.com: Reditus Space, a startup developing recoverable and reusable spacecraft, has completed its first vehicle for launch later this year.
SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
By SpaceNews.com: Voyager Technologies has completed its acquisition of lunar infrastructure company Astrobotic weeks after it won two NASA lunar lander missions.
Bloomberg
• Alan Crawford
By Bloomberg: Europe is competing with US, China and Russia to establish a sovereign space industry.
Space.com
• Mike Wall
By Space.com: Reflect Orbital just got approval to launch its first light-directing space mirror, which it plans to do later this year. Tens of thousands more such craft could follow over the next 10 years.
SpaceWatch Global
• Joshua Faleti
By SpaceWatch Global: SpaceRCO has selected Innovative Signal Analysis to develop an adaptable radar‑warning sensor for U.S. military satellites in GEO orbit.
SpaceWatch Global
• K.-P. Ludwig
By SpaceWatch Global: Germany plans a military satellite constellation of up to 1,200 satellites. But industrial capacity, launch dependence, and European politics remain major challenges.
NASA Spaceflight
• Haygen Warren
Universe Today
• Matthew Williams
