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• China launches PRSC-EO3 for Pakistan, lofts internet test and environment monitoring satellites

  

  China took its total launches this year to 26 over the weekend, with a trio of flights of legacy and newer Long March rocket models.

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• NASA reserves science payload space for Mars telecommunications mission

  

  NASA is reserving a small amount of space on a Mars telecommunications spacecraft for science, which could be one or more cubesats.

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• Space Force faces surge in demand for heavy-lift launches

  

  An additional 25 ‘high-energy’ missions are being forecast for 2027-2029

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• Space Force awards up to $3.2 billion for Golden Dome interceptor prototypes

  

  Contracts with 12 companies aim to test competing designs for boost-phase missile intercept from space

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• The governance gap: Why orbital data centers need certification before they scale

  

  For more than two decades in sourcing and supply-chain architecture, we’ve watched industries scale only when their supply chains become predictable, certifiable and repeatable.  Orbital and lunar data centers are now approaching that same inflection point. Hardware gets us into orbit; governance keeps us there. While we celebrate launch cadences, the orbital-grade supply chain is […]

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