SpaceNews.com
• Sandra Erwin
The U.S. Space Force has placed into operational service a new mobile satellite-jamming system—Meadowlands—within its electronic warfare portfolio. The service operationally accepted the jammer earlier this month, positioning it to temporarily disrupt an adversary’s communications.
Reuters
By Reuters: NASA administrator Jared Isaacman on Tuesday said three companies — Astrobotic, Firefly Aerospace and Intuitive Machines — were awarded contracts to send more uncrewed lunar landers to the moon's surface under the agency's Artemis moonbase project.
SpaceNews.com
• Commercial Space Federation
By SpaceNews.com: J une 30, 2026 – Washington, D.C. — The Commercial Space Federation (CSF) announced today that Matthew Williams, a former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense and Chief of Staff to the Secretary of the Air Force, will join the association as Senior Advisor, National Security.
European Spaceflight
• Andrew Parsonson
By European Spaceflight: ArianeGroup subsidiary MaiaSpace is considering adding a fourth Prometheus engine to the Maia rocket’s first stage to double its performance.
Space.com
• Leonard David
By Space.com: Researchers met recently for the first "Humans to Titan Summit 2026," which explored how to send astronauts to the huge Saturn moon.
Payload
• Douglas Gorman
By Payload: Satellogic partnered with SpaceKnow, the AI-powered geospatial intelligence analysis company, to build AI applications on top of Satellogic’s growing stock of satellite imagery.
Space Intel Report
• Peter B. de Selding
By Space Intel Report: BALLYSEEDE, Ireland — Sweden’s SSC Space and US launch-service provider FIrefly Aerospace said they have concluded sufficient regulatory and technical preparations to announce a first launch of Firefly’s Alpha vehicle from Sweden’s Esrange facility in 2028.
SpaceNews.com
• Jason Rainbow
By SpaceNews.com: Five-month-old startup Orbital has asked the Federal Communications Commission for permission to deploy up to 100,000 data center satellites, aiming to bring 10 gigawatts of computing power from space to meet rising artificial intelligence demand.
