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Season 1 · Episode 496

Shut the front door.

USSF launches the Orbital Watch program. Astroscale US to conduct two refueling operations of a US DoD satellite. Vast announces three new partners. And more.

T-Minus Space Daily · N2K Networks

April 9, 202512m 11s

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Show Notes

The US Space Force’s (USSF) Space Systems Command (SSC) Front Door office has launched a new initiative designed to enhance unclassified threat-information-sharing with commercial space companies. Astroscale US to conduct two refueling operations of a US Department of Defense (DoD) satellite in geostationary orbit (GEO) for the USSF. Vast has announced that Japan Manned Space Systems Corporation, Interstellar Lab, and Exobiosphere are the latest payload partners for its Haven-1 Lab, and more.


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Selected Reading

USSF launches Orbital Watch, strengthens U.S. Commercial Space Industry 

Astroscale U.S. to Lead the First-Ever Refueling of a United States Space Force Asset

Vast Announces Three Additional Payload Partners for the Haven-1 Lab: JAMSS, Interstellar Lab, and Exobiosphere

Redwire and ispace-U.S. Sign MOU to Jointly Pursue Commercial Lunar Exploration Missions

Blue Skies Space awarded funding to design a fleet of satellites that will orbit the Moon and map the early universe

NASA Welcomes Bangladesh as Newest Artemis Accords Signatory

Japanese Space Startup Makes Deal to Buy US-made Rocket Engines - Bloomberg 

Trump's NASA nominee backs US moon program in talks with lawmakers, sources say- Reuters 


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