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On July 14, Space Foundation and L3Harris Technologies brought together emerging space professionals in Palm Bay, Florida for the New Generation Space Leaders Event: Launching the Future. NASA interns, National Space interns, and early-career professionals from across Florida's space industry spent the evening networking with industry leaders, hearing from company executives, and touring select L3Harris manufacturing facilities. Read: https://lnkd.in/g8PgTdib #STEM #L3Harris #Defense #Aerospace NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Space Foundation CEO Heather Pringle took the stage at the 2026 Aspen Security Forum | Aspen Strategy Group on Tuesday for "Out of This World: Space and Security." Joined by Kari Bingen of Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Robert Lightfoot of Lockheed Martin, and Dan Smoot of Vantor, and moderated by NBC News's Andrea Mitchell, the panel addressed the growing role space plays in the evolving global security conversation. Thank you to the Aspen Security Forum for the opportunity to be part of this important dialogue. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/g-iPDJPs #AspenSecurity

🏆 The IAF Excellence in International Cooperation Award 2026: Meet the Recipient! ⭐ The IAF Excellence in International Cooperation Award 2026 is bestowed to Steve Eisenhart Steve Eisenhart served as Space Foundation's Senior Vice President – Strategic & International Affairs and later Senior Advisor, retiring in January 2026 after more than 29 years at the Foundation. The award will be presented during the IAC2026 Opening Ceremony on Monday, 5 October 2026 and is presented annually to an individual who has demonstrated excellence in their efforts to promote and facilitate global engagement and cooperation in the space sector. 🚀 🔗 Meet the recipient: https://lnkd.in/e2dmZ8GG #iafastro #IAFAwards #InternationalCooperation #IAC2026

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Space Foundation will release the annual Global Space Economy Number on Tuesday, July 21.   For 20 years, Space Foundation has tracked the trends, investments, and market forces shaping the global space economy — producing the authoritative number on where the industry stands and where it is heading.   CEO Heather Pringle will make a video announcement Tuesday, July 21 at 8 a.m. Mountain Time. Online attendees will receive access to the full report.   Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gHmvz34X     Photo: NASA

Registration is now open for Faga Forum 2026.   The only space intelligence conference designed exclusively for the TS/SCI community, featuring leaders from the Intelligence Community, United States Department of War and cleared industry at The Aerospace Corporation in Chantilly, Virginia on October 22.   Past forums have featured speakers from ODNI, USSPACECOM, the National Space Intelligence Center, The Aerospace Corporation, Lockheed Martin, Blue Origin, and the House Armed Services Committee.   This is where the people shaping national security space policy and architecture come to talk candidly about what's ahead. If you hold a clearance and shape the future of national security space, this is where you need to be.   Register now: https://lnkd.in/g_4iV8Y6 #FAGA2026 #Defense #Aerospace

Come meet Carlos Garcia-Galan, Program Manager for NASA's Moon Base.   The #MoonBase will be humanity's first permanent lunar outpost — where astronauts will live, work, and explore near the Moon's South Pole, laying the groundwork for future missions to Mars.   - When: Thursday, July 16 | 12:00–1:00 PM ET - Where: Russell Senate Room 198 - Lunch provided by Chick-fil-A. - Space is extremely limited. RSVP to msumner@spacefoundation.org   Learn more about the Moon Base program: https://lnkd.in/emPXtzDb     Credit: NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

The Space Community Mourns Wally Funk Wally Funk, aviator, last surviving member of the Mercury 13, and the only one of the thirteen to reach space, passed away on July 8, 2026, at the age of 87. Denied the chance to fly in the 1960s despite outperforming nearly every test put before her, she finally reached space in 2021 aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard at age 82. As a flight instructor, she trained more than 3,000 pilots and logged more than 30,000 hours of flight time. The space community has lost one of its most enduring pioneers. Space Force Intercepts Satellite The U.S. Space Forces – Space (S4S) and True Anomaly announced the successful completion of the first tactical operational sortie under the #VictusHaze mission on July 1. True Anomaly's JACKAL-0004 autonomous orbital vehicle executed a rapid rendezvous and proximity operations intercept by finding, approaching, and imaging a newly deployed target satellite within 61 hours of receiving an action order — beating the military's strict 72-hour target. The mission marks the first commercial orbital intercept in history and signals a new era of in-space operations. SpaceX Sets Reuse Record SpaceX broke another rocket reuse record on July 9 when it launched its most-flown #Falcon9 booster for a 36th time, in support of the #Starlink 10-42 mission, adding another 29 broadband satellites to the company's low Earth orbit constellation. Booster 1067 is now pursuing the all-time record held by #NASA's Space Shuttle Discovery, which launched and returned 39 times. SpaceX has now completed 80 Falcon 9 launches in 2026 alone. Credit: WallyFly.com, Rocket Lab / U.S Space Force, SpaceX

Space Foundation CEO Heather Pringle joins this year's Aspen Security Forum | Aspen Strategy Group, July 14-17.   On opening night, she'll take the stage for "Out of This World: Space and Security" alongside Kari Bingen of Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Robert Lightfoot of Lockheed Martin, and Dan Smoot of Vantor, moderated by NBC News's Andrea Mitchell.   Space is no longer a supporting actor in the national security conversation — it's central to it. From cooperation between the commercial and military sectors to the infrastructure that underpins our whole global communications network, the decisions being made right now will shape the security landscape for decades.   Learn more: https://lnkd.in/g-iPDJPs

The global space economy just got bigger. On July 21 at 10:00 AM MT, Space Foundation CEO Heather Pringle reveals the new number... and what's driving it. Tune in using the link below. #GlobalSpaceEconomy #SpaceFoundation #CommercialSpace #SpaceIndustry