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On the same day this week, Thaicom admitted its next satellite won't serve customers until H1 2029, Optus completed a life-extension servicing engagement on an aging spacecraft, and Arianespace paused an upper-stage upgrade to protect the Ariane 6 ramp. Three announcements, one broken replacement equation โ and on-orbit servicing collecting the difference.
Two dated milestones this week: NASA declared the LEMS lunar surface instrument complete โ the first payload Artemis astronauts will deploy by hand โ and issued a formal RFI on Moon-base health research. Add new moonquake ice-prospecting science and Chang'e 7 on the pad for late August, and the lunar economy's foundation advanced on every front at once.
After a year in which the Pentagon forbade officials from discussing Golden Dome, Gen. Michael Guetlein went on record this week โ repeatedly โ warning that most initial funding is committed and a continuing resolution would stop the program cold. Contractors are booking the money through legacy programs while the FY27 fight looms.
SpaceX's AI ambitions aren't new โ what changed this week is that the sell side started underwriting them: Musk put a $500 billion revenue figure on a two-year clock, Argus upgraded to Buy with a $160 target, and ARK revived merger scenarios. Meanwhile Rocket Lab and Firefly showed how little of that halo reaches the rest of the launch sector.