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UK and France deliver €1.5 B recapitalisation for Eutelsat/OneWeb
Britain confirmed a €163.3 million investment that preserves its 10.9 % “golden-share” stake in Eutelsat, joining a larger French cash injection to bring the rescue package to €1.5 billion. The money will accelerate OneWeb Gen-2 deployment and hel...View Commentary -
Sean Duffy appointed acting NASA administrator during budget negotiations
President Trump named Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy as interim head of NASA after withdrawing the previous nominee in May. Reuters reports that Duffy will guide the agency through an appropriations cycle that includes proposed workforce redu...View Commentary -
SpaceX Targets $400 B Valuation in New Internal Share Sale
TechCrunch reports that SpaceX is arranging a fresh fundraising round paired with an employee tender offer that could lift the company’s valuation from roughly $350 billion to about $400 billion. Sources say the deal would involve selling new shar...View Commentary -
Internal Post Shows Starlink Factory Output Tops 113 000 Kits per Week
Independent X analyst (@xdnibor) flagged a now-deleted 13 June image from SpaceX’s internal tracker indicating Starlink hardware production has reached about 113 000 user-terminal kits per week—roughly 16 000 per day. At that cadence the Bastrop a...View Commentary -
Trump Threatens Deportation as Musk Renews Attack on GOP Spending Bill
President Donald Trump said he would “take a look” at using the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) against Musk after the SpaceX and Tesla chief again blasted the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” a Republican tax-and-spending package projected to...View Commentary -
Robinhood Brings Tokenized OpenAI and SpaceX Shares to EU Investors
Trading-app Robinhood said it will let European users buy blockchain-based tokens that track private-company equity in OpenAI and SpaceX, expanding an initial list of 200 tokenized U.S. stocks and ETFs announced on 30 June. The tokens trade around...View Commentary -
Blue Origin’s 13th New Shepard flight carries six tourists to the Kármán line
Blue Origin launched mission NS-33 from West Texas on 29 June, giving six paying passengers about three minutes of microgravity and views 105 km above Earth. The hop marked the company’s 33rd New Shepard flight and brought the running total of hum...View Commentary -
SpaceX Plans $250 M ‘Gigabay’ to Boost Starship Output by 2026
A Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation filing, caught by space analyst Niall-Ian Anderson on X, shows SpaceX will build a 700,000-square-foot “Gigabay” at Starbase, Cameron County, for roughly $250 million. The structure will replace older...View Commentary -
Brussels Plans Competitiveness Fund Window for Defence and Space Innovation
In a joint letter released 25 June, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and EU foreign-policy chief Kaja Kallas said the forthcoming European Competitiveness Fund for 2028-34 will include a dedicated “Resilience, Defence and Space” envelope....View Commentary -
EU Space Act Sets Unified Rules to Clean Up Orbit and Spur Competition
The European Commission on 25 June proposed the EU Space Act, a single-market framework intended to harmonise licensing, debris mitigation and cybersecurity across the bloc. The draft rules target 128 million tracked objects in orbit by mandating ...View Commentary
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