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A commercial spacecraft sent to save NASA's ageing Swift telescope from crashing to Earth has begun tumbling in orbit after two of its three reaction wheels failed. Engineers are now racing to stabilise it before attempting the rescue.
Lunar Station Corp is combining decades of NASA lunar imagery with new algorithms to help companies decide where to land, mine and build on the Moon. The work feeds into a wider European and international race to map lunar water and minerals.
Amazon has asked American regulators to approve a huge new satellite fleet that would let ordinary smartphones connect to space instead of cell towers, intensifying its rivalry with Elon Musk's SpaceX.
Hyderabad startup Skyroot Aerospace successfully placed payloads into low Earth orbit on 18 July, making India only the third country where a private company has achieved orbital launch capability. The mission marks a turning point for India's rapidly expanding commercial space sector.
Shanghai Xingshu Tiansuan Space Technology has begun deploying what it says will become China's first commercial space-based computing network, ultimately comprising 1,000 satellites capable of processing AI workloads directly in orbit.
A robotic spacecraft built by Arizona startup Katalyst Space Technologies lifted off from the Marshall Islands on 3 July, beginning a months-long mission to haul NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory back to a stable orbit before atmospheric drag destroys it.