NASA Spaceflight
• Aaron McCrea
NASA Spaceflight reports: Numerous upgrades have been observed at Cape Canaveral during the recent flyover, as efforts continue to bring upgraded systems online for private launchers, including SpaceX, Blue Origin, Relativity, Stoke, and ULA, as well as government agencies such as NASA with the SLS.
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Ars Technica
• Eric Berger
By Ars Technica: “NASA appears to be acting in accordance with a fringe, extremist ideology.”….
Via Satellite
• Rachel Jewett
By Via Satellite: BackSky COO Nick Merski explains how the Gen-3 satellite rollout supports new use cases for its customers and greater nuance in observation.
Via Satellite
• Rachel Jewett
By Via Satellite: Planet has signed a multi-year contract expansion with Colombia’s government entity responsible for geographic data, to add AI monitoring.
NASA Spaceflight
• Kevin Reed
By NASA Spaceflight: NASASpaceflight.com is currently tracking a developing situation involving the salvage of SpaceX Starship booster parts off the coast near Brownsville, Texas. The construction and salvage ship LB Jill appeared on the Port of Brownsville’s manifest explicitly stating “To Load Rocket Parts 1 M/T,” strongly suggesting salvage operations of rocket debris from previous Starship flights.
Space.com
• Andrew Jones
By Space.com: Comet 3I/ATLAS is the third confirmed interstellar visitor to our solar system. But with the Rubin Observatory now scanning the sky, many more may soon be found.
satnews
• SatNews Staff
By satnews: Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: KTOS) has successfully demo’d an end-to-end 5G-NTN network that combines the Kratos OpenSpace® software-defined satellite ground system with Intelsat’s space and ground network, including its cloud-native, virtualized 5G core.
SpaceNews.com
• Jarosław Adamowski
By SpaceNews.com: Polish space company SatRev launches Omani ground station amid international expansion.
SpaceNews.com
• Andrew Jones
European Spaceflight
• Andrew Parsonson
Space Intel Report
• Peter B. de Selding
SpaceWatch Global
• Joshua Faleti
SpaceWatch Global
• Joshua Faleti
SpaceWatch Global
• Joshua Faleti
