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Pentagon’s Golden Dome includes a space layer, signaling future orbital demand
A U.S. government slide deck shows Golden Dome built on four layers that include satellites plus three land-based tiers, with an ambitious 2028 target. Slides reference an estimated $175 billion cost, $25 billion already appropriated, and a furthe...View Commentary -
NASA and Roscosmos Chiefs Meet Face-to-Face in Houston
Roscosmos Director Dmitry Bakanov arrived in Houston for talks with acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy, the first head-level meeting since 2018. Agenda items include extending ISS operations to 2030 and safeguarding joint lunar-science payloads ...View Commentary -
Pentagon broadens Golden Dome bidding beyond SpaceX
Reuters reports that the POTUS' administration has asked Amazon’s Project Kuiper, major defense primes and several launch startups to submit proposals for Golden Dome, the $175 billion missile-tracking satellite network previously expected to lean...View Commentary -
Senate Bill Shields NASA Science Portfolio from Deep Cuts With One Notable Exception
The Senate Appropriations Committee’s draft FY 2026 Commerce-Justice-Science bill restores nearly all of the $3.4 billion in science cuts proposed by the White House, keeping NASA’s science account at roughly $7.3 billion and directing continued o...View Commentary -
Trump Administration Review Confirms SpaceX Contracts Too Critical to Cut
An internal review initiated under President Trump evaluated SpaceX’s federal contracts following a political fallout with Elon Musk, finding that the company remains indispensable to U.S. government operations. The investigation, prompted by Musk...View Commentary -
Trump Threatens Deportation as Musk Renews Attack on GOP Spending Bill
President Donald Trump said he would “look” at deporting Musk and using the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) against him after the SpaceX and Tesla chief again blasted the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” a Republican tax-and-spending package p...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 -
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 Industry Chiefs Pursue Joint LEO Constellation Factory
Responding to an EU Commission call for “a single market for space,” Airbus, Leonardo and Thales met this week to refine “Project Bromo,” a shared production line for low-Earth-orbit satellites. Reuters reports that while antitrust and cost-sharin...View Commentary -
White House Directs Review of SpaceX Contracts Amid Musk–Trump Rift
The Trump administration has reportedly instructed NASA and the Department of Defense to reevaluate their ongoing contracts with SpaceX, following Elon Musk’s public dispute with former President Trump. The review includes billions of dollars in l...View Commentary
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