SpaceNews — A manufacturing issue involving a European company, Thales Alenia Space, resulted in corrosion in modules produced for both the lunar Gateway and Axiom Space’s commercial space station.

Aerospace's Sam Wilson, director for strategy and national security for the Center for Space Policy and Strategy, joined The Downlink Podcast to discuss the U.S. Space Force's proposed budget.

SpaceNews — The U.S. Space Force is sharply increasing its demand for heavy-lift launches, with an additional 25 missions are being forecast for 2027-2029.

Aviation Week — “There's at least 40 different companies that have expressed interest in some element of the DiskSat,” Debra Emmons, VP and CTO at Aerospace. “Some are space companies thinking about doing spacecraft manufacturing at scale. Others are thinking about it as a host platform for their payloads or mission operators.”

Breaking Defense — The U.S. Space Force not plan to fund future iterations of a data relay constellation managed by the Space Development Agency (SDA), officials revealed, opting instead to build out a new constellation dubbed the “backbone” of the service’s budding Space Data Network (SDN).

Air and Space Forces Magazine — The four operations centers would cost $250 million each and be built at Kirtland Air Force Base, Redstone Arsenal, Schriever Space Force Base, and Grand Forks Air Force Base.

Air and Space Forces Magazine — During Space Symposium, Air Force Secretary Troy Meink said the service recently issued a baseline indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract for space-based air moving target indication to multiple providers.

U.S. Space Force — Purdy emphasized the importance of accelerating acquisition models, noting that space acquisition processes have pivoted from planning to doing and are keenly focused on delivering integrated, resilient warfighting capabilities.

SpaceNews — Introduced at Space Symposium, the “Future Operating Environment” and “Objective Force” visions offer insight into how the Space Force expects on-orbit threats and enabling technology to evolve over the next 15 years and a roadmap for how it will meet that change.

SpaceNews — “I look for Aerospace to be in that space between government and the private sector, where we are leveraging and harnessing what the private sector is bringing to the table so that we can accelerate what the nation needs in space to keep us ahead on the space front,” said CEO Tanya Pemberton.