An escalating feud between President Trump and Elon Musk June 5 included threats to cancel SpaceX contracts and decommission spacecraft, although those words have yet to become actions.
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It’s one thing to talk about commercial geospatial intelligence and another to see it.At the 2025 GEOINT Symposium in St. Louis last month, companies displayed their latest imagery and discussed […]
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China launched a fourth group of satellites for its Guowang low Earth orbit megaconstellation Thursday, but released few details about the payload or objectives.
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Resilience, the second mission by Japanese company ispace, likely crashed attempting a landing on the moon June 5.
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The chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee unveiled a proposal to add $10 billion to a budget reconciliation bill to offset cuts to NASA human spaceflight and exploration programs.
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Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) said the delays are "not helpful" and could force Congress to act unilaterally on defense spending.
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Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), who sits on the Armed Services Committee, introduced the Quad Space Act
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The Pentagon’s long war with its own procurement bureaucracy is entering a new phase. The Trump administration has directed an overhaul of defense acquisition by accelerating modernization and embracing commercial […]
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In this week's episode of Space Minds Retired Space Force Lt. Gen. John Shaw explains what it was like building a new military branch, the risks of commercial integration and the race to protect U.S. satellites in orbit.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Hydrosat announced plans June 5 to gather thermal-infrared imagery with a second satellite launching later this month on the SpaceX Transporter-14 rideshare. VanZyl-2 has four times the […]
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A space station research conference has been canceled and the future of a long-running planetary science conference is in doubt as NASA pulls back support for those events.
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The move reflects the democratization of space-based Earth observation technology as well as broader geopolitical realignments.
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Europe is expected to publish a draft law by the end of June to overhaul the regulation of space services, introducing unified rules for companies operating in or selling to the European market.
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Jared Isaacman made clear he believes his nomination to be administrator of NASA was pulled by the White House because of his ties to Elon Musk.
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The company aims to create a digital proving ground for AI systems across air, land, sea, and space operations.
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Since the start of the second Trump administration, NASA’s formal advisory committees have largely been suspended. While the congressionally mandated Aerospace Safety Advisory Committee has continued its work, the NASA […]
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On May 5, 2025, Interlune — a Seattle-based startup — announced a new agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE): they’ll deliver helium-3, harvested from the moon, to Earth […]
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Japanese company ispace is set to make its second attempt to land on the moon this week as the company looks ahead to larger, more ambitious lunar landers.
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When the White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released its top-level budget proposal for fiscal year 2026 on May 2, NASA and the space industry feared the worst. […]
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Under the agreement, Saab can access Maxar's satellite imagery, 3D data, technical expertise and Maxar's visual-based navigation technology.
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Astroscale has completed the critical design review of a servicer aiming to remove a OneWeb broadband satellite from low Earth orbit next year, the Japanese venture’s British subsidiary announced June 4.
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Impulse Space has raised $300 million in a “preemptive” funding round to enable the in-space transportation company to expand and develop electric propulsion technologies.
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Amentum (previously Jacobs Technology) was selected to provide engineering services at East and West Coast facilities
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June 3, 2025 – Washington, D.C. – In an effort to strengthen advocacy for the U.S. space industry, the Commercial Space Federation (CSF) is proud to announce the creation of […]
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Voyager Technologies launched its initial public offering of shares June 2, targeting a valuation of $1.6 billion for the six-year-old space and defense company.
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A Rocket Lab Electron successfully placed a BlackSky high-resolution imaging satellite into orbit on a June 2 launch.
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The failure of SpaceX’s Starship on its most recent test flight had a different root cause than the previous failure, despite happening at about the same time.
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The Next Generation Operational Control System (OCX) is a critical software upgrade for the Global Positioning System (GPS) infrastructure and is now more than eight years behind schedule.
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Impulse Space has signed an agreement with satellite operator SES to transport that company’s satellites to medium and geostationary orbits.
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As a new era of space exploration and development unfolds — one with far more private-sector investment and leadership — the potential for rapid growth is promising. National security, deep […]
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The Senate is set to vote on confirming Jared Isaacman’s nomination to be NASA administrator in early June.
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Dawn Aerospace announced May 22 that it has started taking orders for an uncrewed spaceplane capable of taking small payloads on suborbital flights.
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The Federal Aviation Administration has given final approval to SpaceX for the next Starship launch, now scheduled for no earlier than next week.
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DoD increases contract ceiling to $1.3 billion as artificial intelligence transforms battlefield targeting
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The European Space Agency will request funding from member states for an Earth observation satellite system for security applications, blurring the line between its traditional civil focus and defense work.
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Californian software startup PiLogic announced $4 million in seed funding May 22 to develop satellite diagnostics and other artificial intelligence tools tailored for space applications.
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This is a bonus edition of Space Minds by SpaceNews. Our guest today is Devin Brande, Director, Commercial Operations, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
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Blue Origin revealed new details about its development of an Artemis lunar lander as the company nears the first launch of a smaller lander.
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ST. LOUIS — The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency announced awards May 21 to Palantir Technologies, the University of Illinois and Ursa Space Systems at the GEOINT Symposium 2025. Through a $13.8 […]
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'We signed a piece of paper that explains the roles and responsibilities of each organization'
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