Firefly Aerospace and Millennium Space Systems enter a six-month hot standby phase for the US Space Force’s VICTUS NOX mission. QinetiQ's U.S. subsidiary has been awarded a $224 million five-year contract to engineer systems and provide other professional support services for the Space Development Agency’s future layered network of missile tracking satellites in low-Earth orbit. Helsinki-based ReOrbit has completed an oversubscribed Seed funding round for $7.4 million, and more. 
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Selected Reading
Space Force is branching out with new subordinate command in Japan- Stars and Stripes
 KDDI Signs Agreement with SpaceX to Bring Satellite-to-Cellular service to Japan
QinetiQ Wins $224M SDA Proliferated Architecture Support Contract- GoveConWire
NASA Awards Contracts for NOAA Sounder for Microwave-Based Applications Study
ReOrbit Completes Oversubscribed $7.4M Seed Funding Round: Enabling Real-Time Dataflow in Space
AAC Clyde Space Q2 Report 
Polaris on course to develop hypersonic spaceplane Aurora- IE
AstroCardia develops artificial 'space heart' to study heart health- Space Applications
Spiral Blue Unveils Australia’s First ‘your Code In Space’ Initiative
Space Force in discussions to establish a cyber component to US Cyber Command- Defense Scoop
Old Soviet satellite breaks apart in orbit after space debris collision- Space.com
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