Payload — More than 100,000 middle and high school students participated in the American Rocketry Challenge, which was organized by organizations such as the Aerospace Corporation and the U.S. Space Force.

Communications Daily — Speakers at a seminar organized by Aerospace Corporation and George Washington University said RF diversity could help tackle GPS interference problems, but would see a major regulatory fight.

DefenseScoop — U.S. Space Force completed the mission just three months after it notified Lockheed Martin and SpaceX to prepare for liftoff — a much faster pace than traditional national security launches that can take two years.

Politico — “[Gaining and maintaing space superiority] requires new personnel, new training concepts, new ranges, a whole host of capabilities. […] I get very little pushback when I acknowledge that we need to grow in a managed way to make sure we can accomplish these new missions.”

Space News — While a recent Congressional Budget Office report suggesting Golden Dome could exceed $500 billion, Gen. Chance Saltzman, chief of space operations, expressed skepticism about any current estimates. “There’s always sticker shock, because space in these kinds of capabilities are[…] unique, in the sense that there’s not a lot of market that would drive at a cost down.”

DefenseScoop — Meink will be the top civilian leader for the Department of the Air Force as it undertakes a wide range of modernization efforts. For the Space Force, Meink will oversee satellite programs, such as the Space Development Agency’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture.

Defense News — Space Systems Command announced a new Joint Antenna Marketplace, aimed at helping it to leverage commercial capacity and relieve the strain on its Satellite Control Network.

The New York Times — Don Pettit, NASA’s oldest active astronaut, took many photos and videos during his 220 days at the International Space Station. Sometimes he set up five cameras at the same time in the cupola module, which provides a panoramic view of space and Earth.

SpaceNews — Gen. Stephen Whiting, the new head of U.S. Space Command, put it bluntly: “Without space-based capabilities, the joint force cannot shoot, cannot move, and cannot communicate the way they need to at the speed and scale necessary to win on the modern battlefield.”

The Straits Times — Aerospace’s Richard Lamb said that Singapore’s location, demographics, and economy are all “good arguments for entering the spaceport conversation”. That sentiment echoes a 2023 paper published by Aerospace’s Center for Space Policy and Strategy, which said Singapore has “all the makings of a serious space nation”.