Chinese astronauts
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China is preparing to launch its next manned spacecraft, Shenzhau-19 to its space station. It will carry four astronauts, including a nuclear rocket scientist. At the same time, Deep Blue Aerospace has become China’s first space tourism company, announcing an offering of suborbital flights this week.
Time to blast off!
News Headlines:
US finalized restrictions on investments in Chinese tech and AI (RT)
No new limits on Ukraine's use of US arms if North Korea joins Russia's fight, Pentagon says (RT)
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Space News:
Access to capital remains tough for space companies (SN)
China’s Deep Blue Aerospace reveals suborbital tourism plans (SN)
Proliferated LEO, hybrid cloud capabilities enable U.S. forces to operate more disconnected (DS)
SDA taps Umbra for satellite integration study (SN)
Satellite servicing industry faces uncertain military demand (SN)
Space Force is 'assessing' impacts of Vulcan Centaur booster nozzle failure (AT)
Applying AI to satellite manufacturing is proving tricky (SN)
U.S. satellite jammer is set for delivery as flaws are fixed (BBG)
The Pentagon is struggling to bring in new launch providers (DO)
China to send youngest crew, including nuclear rocket scientist, to space station (SCMP)
Chile, Cyprus join Artemis Accords (SN)
Orion has a heat-shield issue; NASA is being cagey about it (AT)
Space Force sees a surge in demand for foreign military sales (DN)
ESA plans measures to help European space industry (SN)
ExoAnalytics observes more than 500 pieces of debris from last week’s Intelsat-33e breakup (SN)
SpaceX launches more satellites for NRO’s proliferated constellation (SN)
Boeing launched a $24B share sale, one of the largest ever by a public company, to address liquidity needs and avert a credit downgrade (RT)
Space Force awards Northrop $1.8B contract for extension for missile warning satellites (SN)
Space Force orders more missile-tracking satellites from Millennium in $386M follow-on deal (DN)
AstroForge picks up first commercial deep space license (PL)
Boeing explores sale of space business, including Starliner (WSJ)
Deal Flow:
Proteus Space secures major investment and partnership with SAIC to advance MERCURY, Proteus’ digital/physical twin for satellite buses (EB)
Lumen Orbit has reportedly raised $10M+ seed round from undisclosed investors to advance its data centers in space moonshot (TC)
Opportunities
The Air Force’s Air Mobility Command is seeking expertise and advisory related to the commercial space future operations environment (SAM)
SpaceCom is conducting market research on potential service providers for its Commercial and Military Satellite Communications Operations Support (COSMOS) requirement (SAM)
Editor's Picks:
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Nicholas Slayton gives a history lesson on Project Horizon—a Cold War Army plan for a manned, nuclear-powered, lunar base.
Lighter Side:
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