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• Isaacman, senators emphasize urgency in returning humans to the moon

  

  Senate Commerce Committee leaders said they hope to swiftly confirm Jared Isaacman as NASA administrator as he delivered a “message of urgency” about returning astronauts to the moon before China.

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• Missile Defense Agency clarifies ‘SHIELD’ vendor selection is not a Golden Dome preview

  

  MDA selected 1,014 vendors for the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program

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• A New Industrial Age in Orbit

  

  For decades, building a space mission meant a hard choice between two imperfect models. The first was the traditional prime: capable, proven, and thorough, but slow and expensive. Customers paid […]

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• SLI bets on satellite leasing with $200 million commitment to AscendArc

  

  Asset-financing specialist SLI plans to buy two small GEO satellites from U.S. startup AscendArc in a deal valued at more than $200 million, betting that operators will increasingly choose to lease spacecraft rather than buy them outright.

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• Space Force top buyer says rapid commercial innovation is reshaping military space strategy

  

  Speaking at the 2025 SpaceNews Icon Awards, Purdy said the pace of progress outside government is setting the agenda for how the service develops technology.

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