MANUFACTURING AND OPERATIONS

• Stoke Space has test-fired a highly efficient engine it is developing for the first stage of its fully reusable launch vehicle.
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• Kepler Communications announces the successful validation of optical inter-satellite links (OISLs) between two data relay satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO). During a commissioning and early operations phase, Kepler established optical inter-satellite links between two Pathfinder satellites equipped with Space Development Agency (SDA) compatible Tesat SCOT80 optical terminals
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FINANCE, FUNDING AND M&A

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CORE SERVICES

• Yahsat ordered a pair of low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites from Airbus amid a $1.1 billion program for its next two geostationary broadband spacecraft, the Emirati operator announced June 10.

• The companies said the LEO satellites would be based on Arrow, a satellite platform derived from the 150-kilogram spacecraft Airbus helped build for OneWeb’s broadband constellation, without providing details.
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PRODUCT, PARTNERSHIPS & ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Planet Labs today announced it is collaborating with NVIDIA on its onboard processing capabilities for its high-resolution Pelican™-2 satellite. Through this collaboration, Planet will leverage the NVIDIA Jetson edge AI platform for its next-generation high-resolution mission and fly the technology on its Pelican-2 satellite set to launch later this year.
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• ST Engineering iDirect and PT. Bis Data Indonesia recently decided to partner and deploy a next-generation hub infrastructure for the Indonesian government-owned Satria-1 satellite.
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• ClearSpace, CSEM, EPFL and Klepsydra have invested in the development of a flash lidar based real-time autonomous navigation system for In-Orbit Servicing (IOS).
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• Redwire Corporation has officially broken ground on the company’s 30,000 square foot, state-of-the-art microgravity payload development and space operations facility at the Novaparke Innovation & Technology Campus in Floyd County, Indiana.
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• KaleidEO, a startup based out of Bengaluru and a subsidiary company of SatSure Analytics India Pvt Ltd, announced the successful aerial testing of its high-performance optical and multi-spectral earth observation payload. This milestone makes KaleidEO one of the first private Indian companies to design & develop a high-resolution optical EO payload
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LAUNCH CONTRACTS AND MISSIONS

• Scout Space, a startup specializing in space domain awareness through in-space observation, announced June 10 it signed a launch services agreement with ABL Space Systems. 

• The agreement is for the launch of Scout’s “Owlet-01” telescope on ABL’s third flight of its RS1 small-satellite launcher scheduled for later this yeaR
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• Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity spaceplane conducted its final commercial mission June 8, taking a Turkish researcher and three private astronauts on a suborbital spaceflight.
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SPACE INDUSTRY ←→ DOWNSTREAM

• Galaxy 1 joins Viasat’s ELEVATE program to provide integrated SATCOM solutions
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REGULATORY & GOVERNMENT

• China’s human spaceflight agency announced the selection of 10 new astronauts Tuesday, aiming to bolster its spaceflight capabilities for future missions, including potential crewed lunar landings.
  The China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO) selected 10 astronauts for its fourth batch of astronauts, it announced June 11. The 10 consist of eight pilots and two payload specialists. The latter pair are China’s first astronauts from Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions. 
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• NASA has selected seven companies to conduct studies of “out of the box” concepts for the agency’s Mars Sample Return (MSR) program that can deliver samples faster and cheaper than current plans.
  NASA announced late June 7 it selected proposals from Aerojet Rocketdyne, Blue Origin, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Quantum Space, SpaceX and Whittinghill Aerospace for 90-day studies of alternative MSR concepts. Each award is worth up to $1.5 million.
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• Ubotica Technologies has been selected by the European Commission as a key participant in the ARCHYTAS project
  Ubotica’s SPACE:AI technology brings AI processing directly to EO satellites and will play a central role in the project. By analyzing data on-orbit, SPACE:AI enables faster threat detection, classification, and response times for defence applications. This eliminates the need to transmit massive amounts of data to Earth, improving efficiency and mission effectiveness.
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