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Private Rescue Mission Fails and NASA’s Swift Telescope Heads for Uncontrolled Reentry

LINK lost attitude control with critical propellant depleted, making a boost impossible and exposing limits of a rushed commercial servicing test.

Starcloud Raises $250 Million to Expand Orbital AI Data Centers

NASA Cancels Rescue of Aging Swift Observatory After Servicer Failures

Rocket Lab Hits Record Quarter as Neutron First‑Flight Window Narrows

Rocket Lab Posts Record Q2 Revenue but Lowers Margin Outlook and Sees Stock Drop

LINK Servicer Slows Spin as Teams Prepare Flight‑Software Fix

Environmental Groups Urge FCC to Halt Licensing of Proposed Space Data‑Center Constellations

Gravity-1 Rocket Launches Nine Satellites From Ship Off Shanghai

SDA Restarts Tranche 1 Launches and Reaches Half of Transport Constellation

FCC Authorizes Reflect Orbital’s Single Sunlight‑Beaming Satellite

Private Robotcraft Launches to Rescue NASA’s Swift Telescope

Launch Failure Delays Mission to Rescue NASA’s Swift Telescope

Companies Propose Massive Orbital AI Data‑Center Fleets as New Analyses Question Feasibility

NASA Delays Launch of Robotic Rescue for Swift Telescope

U.S. Robot Mission Readies to Boost Aging Swift Space Telescope

NASA Stages Rapid Commercial Mission to Save Falling Swift Space Telescope

NASA Readies Commercial Robot to Reboost Falling Swift Telescope

SpaceX Publicizes Plan for Up to One Million Orbital AI Satellites

ESA–China SMILE Mission Targets Tuesday Launch To Image Earth’s Magnetic Shield

Space Force Launches $1.84 Billion Andromeda To Expand GEO Surveillance