SpaceNews.com
• Sandra Erwin
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command awarded Starfish Space a $54.5 million contract to operationalize Otter, the company’s orbital mobility vehicle for GEO satellite servicing. Starfish will use large-scale simulations and Google Cloud–based machine learning to mature autonomous rendezvous, docking and in‑orbit servicing functions.
Reuters
By Reuters: China successfully launched into orbit a reusable experimental spacecraft aboard a Long March-2F carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the country's northwest on Saturday, state news agency Xinhua reported.
South China Morning Post
By Spaceflight Now:  Update 11:23 a.m. EST (1623 UTC): Adding addition comments from SpaceX.
Reuters
By Reuters: Elon Musk's SpaceX told investors it will prioritize going to the moon first and attempt a trip to Mars at a later time, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing sources.
SpaceNews.com
• Jeff Foust
By SpaceNews.com: After losing about 20% of its civil servant workforce in the past year, NASA’s administrator says the agency plans to bring more expertise in-house.
By Spaceflight Now:  It’s the end of an era as SpaceX transitions all of its planned Dragon flights from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
Via Satellite
• Rachel Jewett
By Via Satellite: Blue Origin is now targeting the satellite constellation market, in one of the biggest and perhaps even most surprising story of the year, Blue Origin.
SpaceNews.com
By SpaceNews.com: At least 5,000 federal workers left their positions in the U.S. space workforce last year. These are some of their stories.
Space Intel Report
• Peter B de Selding
