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Today is Wednesday, April 9th, 2025. I'm Maria Vermazes and this is T minus T minus 20 seconds. Blue Skies Space has been selected by the Italian Space Agency to design a fleet of satellites that could orbit the and map the early universe. 4Redwire has signed an MOU with ispace US to jointly pursue commercial lunar exploration and science missions for the NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services or CLPS Initiative and other customers. VAST has announced that Japan Manned Space Systems Corporation, Interstellar Lab and Exo Biosphere are the latest payload partners for its Haven 1 lab. Astroscale US will conduct two refueling operations of a US DOD satellite in GEOST stationary orbit for the USSF. USSF SSC launches a new initiative to enhance unclassified threat information sharing with commercial space companies Happy Wednesday everybody. If you are in Colorado Springs for the Space Symposium, then we hope you have a fruitful Day three of the conference and if you're not with us then we hope you enjoy our social media updates. If you're a listener and you are at symposium, please come by and say hi. We will be at the aws booth number 1036 on Thursday from 9am now then, let's dive into today's intel briefing, shall we? The US Space Force's Space Systems Command has launched a new initiative to enhance unclassified threat information sharing with commercial space companies. The Orbital Watch program is run by the SSC Front Door Office. USSF describes it as a rapid communication platform and released an unclassified threat fact sheet authored by Headquarters Space Force intelligence to over 900 commercial providers in the Front Doors Catalog in March. Orbital Watch intends to communicate critical and classified threat information to ensure that commercial providers can build resilient systems and mitigate threats such as cyber intrusions, electronic warfare and adversarial on orbit activities. Orbital Watch is the culmination of partnerships with various organizations within the government intelligence community. USSF says it is taking decisive steps to strengthen collaboration with commercial space providers, improve collective situational awareness, and enhance overall resilience in the space domain. The program will roll out in phases. Its initial operating capability, or Beta phase, is focused on outbound dissemination on a quarterly basis that provides industry with assessments of evolving risks in the space domain. Now for some updates from the 40th Space Symposium here in Colorado Springs. Astroscale US announced that it will conduct two refueling operations of a US Department of Defense satellite in geostationary orbit for the United States Space Force. The mission aims to demonstrate the ability of commercial servicing, mobility and logistics providers to deliver on orbit capabilities supporting the warfighter. The Astroscale US Refueler will be the first spacecraft to conduct hydrazine refueling operations above GEO and will be the first ever on orbit refueling mission supporting a DoD asset. Astroscale US selected the Southwest Research Institute to build the bus for the mission and orbit FAB's refueling interfaces. The spacecraft is scheduled to launch in the summer of 2026. The highlight of the space symposium so far for us anyway has been our tour of Vast's Haven 1 space station, which by the way, they have on display in the north hall patio. So go check out our social media accounts for pictures and videos, including one of our goofball senior producer Alice almost knocking herself out on their observation window. It's really funny. Anyway, VAST has announced three new payload customers at this conference. Japan Manned Space Systems Corporation, Interstellar Lab and EXO Biosphere are the latest payload partners for its Haven One Lab. VAST says that their commercial space station is on track for deployment in May 2026 and is already nearing full capacity. Redwire Technologies has signed an MOU with Ispace us. The company signed the agreement at the Space Symposium to jointly pursue commercial lunar exploration and science missions for the NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services, or CLPS initiative and other customers. Now. Redwire is one of 14 prime contractors on the CLPS IDIQ contract and together with ispace US, the team will be pursuing future CLPS missions leveraging the proven ISPACE lunar lander Blue Skies Space has been selected by the Italian Space Agency to design a fleet of satellites that could orbit the moon and map the early universe. The project, named Radioluna, aims to uncover whether a fleet of small satellites in a lunar orbit could detect faint radio signals from the universe's earliest days. Now these signals are nearly impossible to pick up from Earth due to man made radio interference, and those radio signals come from a time before the first stars were formed, when the universe was mostly hydrogen. And by listening from the far side of the moon, free from Earth's radio noise, scientists could use the satellites to uncover a missing piece of the puzzle in our understanding of the cosmic dark ages. Blue Sky Space will establish the viability of operating simple and cost effective cubesats equipped with commercial off the shelf components orbiting the Moon and will be led by Blue Skies Space Italia, which is a subsidiary of the UK based company Project Partner ohb. Italia will be responsible for the definition of a viable platform in a moon orbit.