Payload
• Jacqueline Feldscher
FCC Chair Brendan Carr says the commission is expected to vote on its Space Modernization Order on July 22, a move aimed at advancing reforms to how satellites are licensed. The timing signals the next step in FCC-driven regulatory modernization for the space sector.
Space.com
• Josh Dinner
By Space.com: Former NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine questions the designs for NASA's commercial moon landers for its Artemis program.
Space Intel Report
• Peter B. de Selding
By Space Intel Report: TUPPER LAKE, NY— International Telecommunication Union (ITU) regulators declined to accept a one-year extension of a deployment deadline for Open Cosmos’s proposed broadband constellation pending receipt of further information on what the company has done to develop the project.
Bloomberg
• Abhishek Vishnoi
By Bloomberg: Wall Street’s biggest banks shopped SpaceX shares for $135 a pop during its record initial public offering. Just weeks later, sell-side analysts from many of those same banks are telling clients those shares should be worth $236 each on average.
Wall Street Journal
SpaceNews.com
• Sandra Erwin
By SpaceNews.com: Space Force recently awarded two of its biggest satellite contracts to SpaceX, strengthening the company’s position in the military’s next generation space networks.
newsable.asianetnews.com
Space.com
• Josh Dinner
By Space.com: A satellite aboard SpaceX's Transporter-17 rideshare mission is the first commercially designed and operated spacecraft to harness nuclear energy in orbit.
Ars Technica
• Stephen Clark
By Ars Technica: Amazon says it has enough satellites in orbit to begin initial broadband service at mid-latitudes later this year.
SpaceWatch Global
• Joshua Faleti
By SpaceWatch Global: AAIS and SJAC have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen exchanges between Singapore and Japan's aerospace industries.
