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The private space industry encompassing reusable rockets, satellite launches, and orbital services from companies like SpaceX and China's LandSpace.
Jeff Bezos said Blue Origin will likely go public in several years, after its first outside raise of $10 billion at a reported $140 billion valuation. Outside investors get about 7% of a company with no listing date and a rocket not due to fly again until December.
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A White House memo asks federal agencies to clear the way to 1,000 US launches and re-entries a year by 2030, from 178. The scarce input is range frequency and airspace, not hardware.
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LandSpace has brought a Zhuque-3 booster back to Earth, a first for China, but no Chinese booster has flown twice, and SpaceX has done it hundreds of times. Launch savings come from reflying hardware, and China's 2030 'space power' plan depends on exactly that.
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MinXray's portable unit flew on the private Fram2 mission in March 2025, and radiologists on the ground called the crew's images clear enough to diagnose from. The report appeared in Radiology in July 2026.
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About €20bn and 51 deals were announced at the Paris space summit, on top of an ESA budget member states had already approved. The dates suppliers will be judged against came from Macron's address, not from a contract.
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A Sandia-led team pulled the energy of New Glenn's May 29 hotfire explosion out of infrasound recorded as far away as northeast Texas, putting the blast at an estimated 0.131 kilotons of TNT equivalent using infrasound data alone.
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The memo orders agencies to clear paperwork, spectrum and airspace for more than 1,000 launches a year by 2030. It appropriates nothing, so the value flows to whoever already has capital in the ground.
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