Airbus Defence and Space UK will be testing their new Skynet 6A at the UK’s National Satellite Test Facility. Space Force is opening a new commercial services procurement office in Chantilly, Virginia, that'll be known as COMSO. AT&T has filed with the Federal Communications Commission to lease spectrum to AST SpaceMobile, and more.

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T-Minus Guest

Our guest is Sita Sonty, Partner, Associate Director and Global Space Lead for Boston Consulting Group (BCG). Sita joins us to discuss edge computing in space. You can read her latest article on the subject published by Via Satellite, “Size of the Prize: How Will Edge Computing in Space Drive Value Creation?” Tune in to tomorrow’s episode of T-Minus Deep Space for our full extended interview with Sita.

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Selected Reading

UK’s largest satellite testing facility in Oxfordshire welcomes first customers- Business Magazine

Space Force commercial office to open new facility in Virginia- SpaceNews

AT&T Files With FCC to Lease Spectrum to AST SpaceMobile- Via Satellite

Rocket Lab Beats Guidance in Q1, Reporting $55M in Revenue- Via Satellite 

Intuitive Machines prepares for first lunar mission, faces challenge to NASA contract win- TechCrunch

Telesat eyes 2026 for first Lightspeed launches amid funding delays- SpaceNews  

Images From NASA’s Perseverance May Show Record of Wild Martian River- NASA

Liftoff: Modi's space push for India counts on private players- Reuters 

Chinese rocket scientists conducted frame-by-frame analysis of Starship launch- Interesting Engineering

China’s spaceplane conducted proximity and capture maneuvers with subsatellite, data suggests- SpaceNews

How Satellite Prevented a War for Water- Via Satellite 

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon falls 68% in April, first major drop under Lula- Reuters

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