• SpaceX grapples with Raptor production problems

  Problems increasing production of the Raptor engines that power SpaceX’s Starship vehicle have led to personnel shakeups at the company and a warning from founder Elon Musk that the company risked “bankruptcy” if the company could not resolve them.

• Civil Commercial

  NASA inspector general warns of space station gap

• Military

  Mike Griffin critical of U.S. response to China’s advances in hypersonic weapons

• Commercial

  Lightfoot to lead Lockheed Martin space unit

• Commercial

  Anuvu raises $50 million for small GEO mobility constellation

• Commercial

  Airbus Ventures leads Q-Ctrl’s $25 million quantum sensor funding round 

• Policy & Politics

  Op-ed | Creating sustainable value from space

• Military

  Biden taps former Air Force procurement official LaPlante to run Pentagon acquisitions

• Military

  DARPA to launch DoD’s first in-space manufacturing research program

• Military

  Space Force official: Satellites in orbit have become pawns in geopolitical chess games

• Commercial

  India orders halt on Starlink presales until it gives regulatory approval

• Asia

  ADA Space raises $55.6 million in Series B round

• Commercial

  Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic select astronauts for future flights

• Civil

  Russian node module docks with ISS

• Commercial Launch

  Chinese space firms present big ambitions at commercial space forum

• Civil

  JWST undamaged from payload processing incident

• Commercial

  Astroscale raises $109 million Series F round

• Asia

  Kuaizhou-1A rocket launches classified Shiyan-11 satellite

• Commercial

  Intelsat and SES meet C-band clearing deadline ahead of schedule

• Commercial

  OneWeb mulls debris-removal service for failed satellite

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