sweep log

Narrow ~1h12m re-check (last sweep 2026-07-11T07:14:55Z). Harvester queue held only 6 in-window candidates, all off-topic/clickbait (SpaceX stock commentary, an opinion post, an already-covered FCC filing repost). All 30 HTML-only sources and all 16 fetchable signals channels fetched with no in-window on-scope content found. 8-query discovery pass covered the full matrix and surfaced nothing new. Zero items shipped.

signals pass: 16 channels checked · 6 X handles searched · All 16 fetchable channels checked this pass (fetchableCount 16, slightly over the nominal 15-fetch budget but small enough to cover everyone rather than rotate). One substantive new post found: Andrew Parsonson's Bluesky (08:07Z) reporting ESA's Don Quijote asteroid-lander contract to EMXYS -- judged out of scope as planetary-defense/asteroid science with no commercial-provider angle, per the standing deep-space-science exclusion. europeanspaceflight.com and its substack both 403'd again (standing issue, unchanged from prior sweeps). Everything else predates the last-sweep cutoff. Best-effort X search: 6 handles (Beck, Bruno, Erwin, Curcio, Sheetz, Isaacman) searched, nothing new and independently verifiable surfaced.

discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US China, non-US India, contract/constellation, spaceport/regulatory, EO partnership). Surfaced only already-published stories (MDA Space's CLS acquisition, already 2026-07-08-mda-space-cls-acquisition; Agnikul/ICEYE SAR MoU, already 2026-06-30-agnikul-iceye-india-sar-mou) plus one routine Falcon 9 Starlink launch (no item per standing cadence precedent) and one out-of-scope legacy item (Boeing's $2B Space Force MUOS SLE narrowband-satcom contract: a heritage prime sustaining a decades-old military system, no new-space commercial angle, same exclusion logic as the Aeolus-2 precedent). Zero new candidates.

Extremely narrow re-check (~15 minutes since the prior sweep at 06:53:48 UTC). Harvester queue had exactly one candidate published after lastSweep (an off-topic Bluesky opinion post, discarded silently); all ~29 checked HTML-only sources showed no content newer than the prior sweep; signals rotation and an 8-query discovery pass surfaced nothing new. Zero items, a genuinely quiet sweep.

signals pass: 6 channels checked · 4 X handles searched · Extremely narrow ~15min gap since last sweep (lastSweep 2026-07-11T06:53:48Z), which itself checked 15/21 fetchable channels. This run rotated to the 6 channels left unchecked last time (Anatoly Zak YouTube, Andrew Parsonson substack, Scott Manley, Tim Dodd/Everyday Astronaut, Marcus House, Felix Schlang), completing full rotation coverage across the two runs. All 6 quiet: most recent posts predate lastSweep (Scott Manley's newest video, on the Long March 10B recovery, is dated 2026-07-10T20:26Z, itself before this window; the already-published item covers that story). europeanspaceflight.substack.com 403'd again (recurring, known duplicate of the site RSS anyway). xSearch: 4 handles searched best-effort via WebSearch (jeff_foust, AJ_FI, planet4589, ChinaSpaceGuy); no post retrievable inside this run's window via syndication, only older cached results.

discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch/vehicle, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US rotation China+India, plus EO contract/human-spaceflight/Europe free slots). Every hit was either already published (Long March 10B recovery, Rocket Lab/Iridium, NASA CSDA/CLPS awards, Blue Origin funding round), routine/out-of-scope (a routine Starlink batch launch, per standing precedent not itemized), a forward-looking not-yet-flown schedule item (Isar Aerospace Spectrum second test flight), or a stale result resurfacing an old event (an ISRO LVM3-M6/AST SpaceMobile BlueBird Block-2 launch that a follow-up search confirmed actually flew December 2025, not this window). No new on-scope candidate.

Narrow SpaceNews-only discovery sweep (~12h gap): most of the 22-entry queue duplicated stories already published from prior sweeps. Two new items (an FCC first for Reflect Orbital's sunlight-reflection satellite; Xona's Pulsar Verified device-certification program), one free corroboration attach to the Blue Origin funding item, and one institutional-cooperation item held as a scope question.

signals pass: 15 channels checked · 6 X handles searched · 15/21 fetchable channels checked (budget 15, normal mode); rotate the 6 YouTube/substack channels not checked this run (Anatoly Zak YouTube, Andrew Parsonson substack, Scott Manley, Tim Dodd, Marcus House, Felix Schlang) next sweep. europeanspaceflight.com 403'd (recurring, see SWEEP_MEMORY). All other channels' latest posts predate lastSweep (2026-07-10T18:46 UTC) or are off-topic/already-known (Long March 10B). 6 X handles searched best-effort (Isaacman, Beck, Bruno, Morrison, Haot, Aschbacher); no on-scope first-party post inside this run's window retrievable via syndication.

discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, China, India, EO contract, human-spaceflight/commercial-stations). Skyroot Vikram-1's window (July 12-Aug 4) hasn't opened yet, confirming the existing item's window is still accurate; all other hits (FCC spectrum-sharing rules, NASA CSDA Kuva US addition, NASA CLD draft RFP) were already known or predate this window and are covered by existing items.

A narrow ~9.7hr re-check surfaced a genuinely quiet direct-fetch pass (32 HTML newsrooms, no qualifying posts) but a productive queue/discovery pass: seven new items led by China's first public roster of its 271-member state-backed commercial space consortium, a NASA finding that Umbra's SAR data misses its own geolocation-accuracy spec, Eurospace's 2025 report showing EO overtaking telecom as Europe's top space revenue segment, Axelspace's seven-satellite GRUS-3 launch, ElevationSpace's reentry-vehicle progress, and two direct-to-device/connectivity test milestones (Space42/Skylo, Ovzon Arctic). Attached free corroboration to four existing items, including a first-party CASC source that pushes the Long March 10B item to a 4th distinct source.

signals pass: 14 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 14 of 21 fetchable channels checked (10 Bluesky accounts + 3 sites, plus europeanspaceflight.com which 403'd again); rotated out 4 YouTube channels (Scott Manley, Tim Dodd, Marcus House, Felix Schlang -- low odds of a new video within a ~9.7hr window) and the europeanspaceflight substack mirror (known duplicate, itself 403s). In-window posts found were all further confirmation of the already-published Long March 10B item (Andrew Jones, Marcia Smith/SpacePolicyOnline, Anatoly Zak) or pre-cutoff (Andrew Parsonson). No new on-scope candidate. xSearch not run this pass given time budget; the fetchable leg covered the whitelisted signals comprehensively.

discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered: launch/vehicle, financial/bankruptcy, incident/debris/regulatory, non-US rotation (India, China, Europe), plus human-spaceflight/procurement free slots. Surfaced only already-known or already-published items (NASA CLD draft RFP, FCC Space Modernization Order July 22 vote, Qianfan cadence launches treated as routine per standing precedent) or generic 2026-in-review filler with no single dateable new event. No new on-scope candidates beyond what the queue and corroboration crawl already surfaced.

• 2026-07-10-china-long-march-10b-first-flight 3→4 CASC's own English-language newsroom article independently confirms the launch and recovery with additional first-party detail (vehicle dimensions, thrust, launch mass, LEO payload capacity, the Linghang Zhe recovery vessel) beyond the already-cited SpaceNews/Space.com/BBC coverage. Adding as a 4th distinct, first-party source; CASC's registry-recorded website (https://english.spacechina.com) exactly matches this URL's host.

Led by China's first Long March 10B flight and net-capture booster recovery (seismic, second country after the US). Also drafted a BOEM offshore-launch-site RFI, an Earthjustice FCC petition to pause orbital data center licensing, The Exploration Company's new US entity, a Rivada/Nepal connectivity partnership, and Indonesia's BRIN NEO-1 sovereign EO satellite announcement. Patched the NATO HALO item with newly named commercial suppliers (ICEYE, Kongsberg, Space Norway) and attached free corroboration to three existing items.

signals pass: 19 channels checked · 2 X handles searched · 19 of 21 fetchable channels checked (rotated out Anatoly Zak's YouTube channel and the European Spaceflight substack mirror, which fails identically to the already-checked main site). Anatoly Zak's Bluesky independently confirmed the Long March 10B recovery (used as context, not attached as a formal source; already well corroborated). Marcia Smith's posts pointed to a July 15 House hearing on OSC mission authorization, itself a March 2026 proposal, not fresh. europeanspaceflight.com 403'd again. Nothing else on-scope and fresh in window. xAttempted covered Peter Beck/Rocket Lab and Jonathan McDowell; no retrievable on-topic first-party post found.

discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US China/India, EO contract, FCC regulatory, bankruptcy/M&A). Surfaced: Venus Aerospace $91M Series B (excluded, hypersonic runway aircraft engine company, not an orbital launch vehicle, out of scope); FCC Space Modernization Order and NASA CSDA Kuva US award (already known items); Orbex administration filing (already stale, February 2026). No other new on-scope candidates.

Normal 24h sweep: 7 new items (two acquisitions, an Ariane 6 supply contract, a Starship lunar-cargo booking, a Space Force procurement reorg, a Pulse Space laser-power contract, and an ICEYE Portugal subsidiary) plus one commentary item on a UNOOSA registration-reporting lapse. One NASA Mars-mobility contract held as a scope question.

signals pass: 15 channels checked · 3 X handles searched · 15 of 21 fetchable channels checked this run (budget 15; rotated out anatoly-zak's site/youtube and marcia-smith's site since their bluesky covers them, plus andrew-parsonson's substack (known Cloudflare-gated) and 2 youtube channels, for next sweep). Marcia Smith (bluesky) posted 3 in-window items: the UNOOSA registration-outage claim (drafted as commentary), a NASA STRIDE Mars-mobility contract note (held as a scope question), and a Wally Funk obituary (excluded, no commercial-space angle). Andrew Parsonson (bluesky) posted about an ArianeGroup Ariane 6 upper-stage engine test campaign reveal; europeanspaceflight.com 403'd on every fetch attempt this run (site, article page, and substack), so it was left out of the draft rather than published on an unfetchable primary. All other checked channels had nothing new in the window. 3 X handles searched (Peter Beck, Josef Aschbacher, Max Haot) via WebSearch; no verifiable in-window post retrievable through the syndication endpoint.

discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch/vehicle, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US, EO/connectivity rotating slots). Surfaced the MDA/CLS acquisition, York/All.Space closing, ispace/Starship deal, Beyond Gravity fairings contract, and Space Force procurement reorg (all drafted); a Long March 10B first-flight window (not yet flown as of this sweep, deferred); an AgniKul/ICEYE MoU and Telesat/Canada ESCP-P story (both already published items, confirmed dedup); a 2-month-old AT&T/T-Mobile/Verizon D2D joint venture (predates window, not chased); no incident/debris news found.

Narrow same-day re-check (~4h38m gap, full unfiltered source list). Five new items: Blue Origin's first outside funding round ($10B at $130B valuation, wide mainstream reporting via NYT/TechCrunch/Forbes), ICEYE's new German entity and country CEO, Telesat Lightspeed's Canadian Arctic defense agreement (independently confirmed by the PM's office), a thin but genuine Loft Orbital/MaiaSpace launch-contract signal via a whitelisted Bluesky channel, and the Florian-approved IRIDE held item. Four updates: two corroboration attaches (Vantor WorldView 3D, City Labs BOHR), and two found_none-to-found_some corrections (SpaceX Gen3 FCC filing lead upgraded to a trade source; the standing Zhuque-2E audit task from SWEEP_MEMORY). The Redwire ATM audit task was checked and confirmed no change (the Investing.com piece is a wire/press-release rewrite, not independent).

signals pass: 17 channels checked · 5 X handles searched · 17 of 21 fetchable channels checked (9 Bluesky via the public syndication API, 5 YouTube via RSS, plus European Spaceflight and SpacePolicyOnline already covered this run via the harvester's RSS queue with nothing new in window). Andrew Parsonson's Bluesky post on the Loft Orbital/MaiaSpace contract was the only substantive on-scope find; everything else was off-topic, outside the window, or already-known ground (NATO HALO, GalaxEye Drishti, D-Orbit/ArkEdge, SpaceX Gen3 FCC filing, Vantor). Rotated out this run for budget: Jonathan McDowell's site (planet4589.org), Anthony Colangelo's site (mainenginecutoff.com), and Andrew Parsonson's Substack variant (covered via his site+Bluesky instead) -- prioritize these next sweep. X best-effort: searched 5 handles (jeff_foust, Sandra_I_Erwin, torybruno, ChinaSpaceGuy, AJ_FI); no post from inside this run's window was retrievable via the syndication endpoint or search, so no X candidates this run.

discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch/vehicle, financial, regulatory, China, Europe, India, incident/debris, EO free slot). The Blue Origin funding round (drafted as a new item) surfaced from an earlier ad hoc search during candidate triage, confirmed independently here via the financial-round query. The European-launch query surfaced the already-published Isar/Planet Germany and Airbus/Aeolus-2 (outside window) stories; the India query surfaced Suhora Technologies' pending NSIL SAR-imagery contract (too early/small, below the notable bar, not drafted) and confirmed the already-published Skyroot Vikram-1 window story. No new launch-failure, FCC-denial, China, or debris-incident candidates found beyond what the queue and HTML sources already covered.

• 2026-07-01-vantor-worldview-3d 3→4 Space.com published an independent July 8 piece on WorldView 3D with its own reporting (Yulin Naval Base and Hoover Dam image examples, its own author byline) beyond SpaceNews's original July 1 story; attached as corroboration.
• 2026-06-30-spacex-gen3-fcc-filing 2→4 Fierce Network, an established telecom trade outlet, published independent reporting on the same filing (docket SAT-LOA-20260630-00264) with original analyst commentary (MTN Consulting, BNP Paribas) not present in the original informal-tier sources; promoting it to lead upgrades the base tier from informal to trade. Also found SatNews's independent coverage (long-running satellite-industry trade outlet, cross-links its own prior coverage, no rewrite indicators) as further corroboration. Rescoring per the upgrade path since the lead source and its class both change.
• 2026-06-15-zhuque-2e-upper-stage-breakup 2→4 Standing task from the 2026-07-08 found_none audit (SWEEP_MEMORY 2026-07-08-J2, reports/found-none-audit-2026-07-08.md): fetched FODNews's page and confirmed it independently cites the US Space Force/space-track.org fragmentation advisory and secures its own named quotes from Darren McKnight (LeoLabs) and Jim Shell, distinct from a rewrite of Ars Technica. Correcting the crawl outcome from found_none to found_some via the upgrade path.

Backfill sweep 4 of 4 (events 2026-06-29 to 07-05, gap-check): 2 new items filling the only genuine holes in an already well-covered week: MDA Space's C$688M RADARSAT replenishment build contract and the AgniKul/ICEYE India SAR MoU. Everything else surfaced by the scoped harvest was already published or out of scope.

signals pass: 0 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · Backfill window (2026-06-29 to 07-05, run 2026-07-08): the window is already densely covered by regular sweeps; signals channels were checked by those sweeps at the time. Skipped per BACKFILL_PLAN.md.

discovery pass: 6 queries · Gap-check window Jun 29-Jul 5 (lean mode agreed with Florian): the week is already covered by 30+ items from regular sweeps; the scoped Google News harvest (456 in-window entries reviewed by title) surfaced two genuine gaps, both drafted (MDA RADARSAT+ build contract; AgniKul/ICEYE MoU). Hongqing $191M and Katalyst Swift reboost were checked and are already published. Flagged for Florian, not drafted: the Airbus/Thales/Leonardo Project Bromo merger and its antitrust opposition (incl. OHB's legal threat) predate the backfill window as an announcement and have no clean in-window dateable event with a fetchable source; MCC has never covered Bromo and should pick it up at its next development.

Backfill sweep 3 of 4 (events 2026-06-22 to 06-28, lean mode): 7 new items, five of them SpaceX corporate and program news (Starfall first flight, $25B bond pricing, Starmind naming, reported US retail mobile plan) plus SpaceSail's new funding round and Firefly's Space-ng acquisition. Quiet legs: regulatory and procurement genuinely quiet in-window; the MDA RADARSAT+ award turned out to be June 30 and moves to the next window.

signals pass: 0 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · Backfill window (2026-06-22 to 06-28, run 2026-07-08): fetchable signals channels only surface recent posts and carry no archive relevance for a two-week-old window; skipped per BACKFILL_PLAN.md.

discovery pass: 6 queries · Lean backfill window Jun 22-28 (token-constrained mode agreed with Florian): matrix covered via the scoped Google News harvest (339 in-window queue entries reviewed by title) plus targeted verification searches (financial, launch, non-US/China, commercial-stations rotation). Surfaced the SpaceX bond pricing 8-K, Starmind naming, SpaceSail round and MDA RADARSAT contract (the last dated June 30, deferred to the next window). Not drafted for want of fetchable sources or scope: China-Central Asia disaster constellation (CGTN page is a JS shell), NGSO trade association formation, Suhora/ISRO SAR pre-award, China spaceplane object (operational-use speculation, out of scope).

Backfill sweep 2 of 4 (events 2026-06-15 to 06-21): 16 new items led by SpaceX's $60B all-stock Cursor acquisition, MDA Space's $620M Blue Canyon purchase, Ariane 6's P160C debut with a European payload record, and a Landspace upper-stage breakup incident. Quiet legs: no on-scope human-spaceflight events beyond hardware milestones; the Dhruva Space/ICEYE MoU was verified but skipped for lack of a gate-safe fetchable source (first-party domain not in registry, mirrors unfetchable).

signals pass: 0 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · Backfill window (2026-06-15 to 06-21, run 2026-07-08): fetchable signals channels only surface recent posts and carry no archive relevance for a three-week-old window; skipped per BACKFILL_PLAN.md.

discovery pass: 6 queries · Backfill window Jun 15-21, date-scoped queries covering the matrix (launch, financial, regulatory, non-US via India/Japan/Europe and China, plus a commercial-stations rotating slot). Surfaced the NROL-179 Starshield context and a Vast Haven-1 crew-timing thread to verify in the Jun 22-28 window; ICEYE/AgniKul (late June) noted for window 4. Firefly Alpha Block 2 debut confirmed delayed out of the window.

Backfill sweep 1 of 4 (events 2026-06-08 to 06-14, plus the June 5 Amazon Leo FCC waiver caught at the window edge): 20 new items led by the SpaceX Nasdaq IPO (June 11 pricing, June 12 debut, SEC 424B4 lead source). Quiet legs of the week: no on-scope IoT-messaging or human-spaceflight events beyond the Artemis III crew naming surfaced.

signals pass: 0 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · Backfill window (2026-06-08 to 06-14, run 2026-07-08): fetchable signals channels carry no archive relevance for a month-old window and their feeds only surface recent posts; skipped per BACKFILL_PLAN.md.

discovery pass: 7 queries · Backfill window Jun 8-14, date-scoped queries covering the full matrix (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US via China + Europe, plus connectivity and a New Glenn rotating slot). Surfaced NewOrbit Series A and the Amazon Leo FCC waiver as new candidates plus the New Glenn explosion (May 28, before the backfill floor, not drafted); Landspace/CAS Space launches surfaced as scheduled only, occurrence unconfirmed, left for the next window's harvest.

Corrected the SpaceX Nasdaq-100 item to notable (the seismic moment was the June IPO, now out of window), lifting the extraordinary guardrail so the widely-reported listing scores at its honest SNR 4.

signals pass: 0 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · Follow-up scoring correction to the SpaceX Nasdaq-100 item; no channel sweep.

discovery pass: 6 queries · Scoring correction only; no new candidates. Impact reclassified to notable so the public-record index inclusion is not penalized by the extraordinary-seismic guardrail.

• 2026-07-07-spacex-nasdaq-100-inclusion 3→4 Impact corrected seismic to notable: the seismic moment was SpaceX's June IPO (now outside the freshness window), while the July 7 Nasdaq-100 index inclusion is a notable downstream event. This also lifts the extraordinary guardrail that a seismic non-first-party claim triggers, so the widely-reported public-record listing scores at its honest 4.

Published the SpaceX Nasdaq-100 inclusion (seismic financial event, missed until the discovery net surfaced it) and, as the first commentary item, Wall Street's split price targets on SpaceX (Morgan Stanley $300 base / $600 bull, Goldman $205), attributed and scored for attribution not opinion.

signals pass: 0 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · Targeted publish of the SpaceX Nasdaq-100 event and its analyst commentary; the 10:03 deep sweep covered signals channels.

discovery pass: 6 queries · Followed up the deep-sweep queue's SpaceX/Nasdaq-100 cluster (WSJ, Reuters, CNN, Motley Fool, Yahoo). The index inclusion is a seismic financial event we had not published; the analyst price targets publish as the first commentary item. Figures verified against the fetched Motley Fool and Yahoo Finance pages.

Corrections pass after Florian caught falsifiable found_none claims: four items rescored with real corroboration (NSSL Lane 1 already fixed; VICTUS HAZE 3 to 4, Blue Origin 2 to 4, Isar Nova Scotia 3 to 5 on a first-party upgrade), six confirmed genuinely single-source. Two items published under the new scope rulings: NATO's HALO military constellation (geopolitical) and the Queensland rocket-debris incident.

signals pass: 0 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · Corrections pass, not a discovery sweep; the 10:03 deep sweep covered all fetchable signals channels two hours ago.

discovery pass: 6 queries · Corroboration correction pass after Florian falsified two found_none claims. Quoted-headline and event searches re-checked all ten found_none items: NSSL Lane 1, VICTUS HAZE, Blue Origin, and Isar had uncaught corroboration (now attached); the other six were genuinely single-source (mostly outlet exclusives) and stand. NATO HALO and the Queensland debris story published per the 2026-07-08 scope rulings.

• 2026-07-07-rocket-lab-victus-haze-mission-complete 3→4 Corroboration correction (found_none was wrong): Defense Scoop and Space.com both cover the VICTUS HAZE mission and its on-orbit maneuvers. Rescored found_some with both attached.
• 2026-07-06-blue-origin-blue-moon-production 2→4 Corroboration correction (found_none was wrong): SatNews independently reports the same seven-lander Blue Moon production figure from the July 6 Spacetide talk. Rescored found_some.
• 2026-07-07-isar-aerospace-maritime-launch-nova-scotia 3→5 Corroboration correction and source upgrade (found_none was wrong): Isar's own press release confirms the deal first-party, with European Spaceflight and The Globe and Mail independently reporting the terms. Lead upgraded to first-party.

Corrections pass after Florian falsified a found_none with one search: the NSSL Lane 1 item rescored 2 to 4 with Inside Defense and Aviation Week attached (crawl corrected to found_some); CesiumAstro and Ravee Optics re-checked and their found_none stands. Quoted-headline corroboration searches are now mandatory (SWEEP_MEMORY 2026-07-08-A).

signals pass: 0 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · Corrections-only pass (corroboration re-check of three found_none items); no discovery or signals sweep ran. Channels were fully covered by the 10:03 deep sweep two hours ago.

discovery pass: 6 queries · Targeted corroboration re-check, not open discovery: quoted-headline searches per the new rule. NSSL Lane 1 had two uncaught trade corroborators (Inside Defense, Aviation Week; the original found_none was wrong). CesiumAstro and Ravee Optics re-checks confirm their found_none was honest: single-outlet coverage as of now.

• 2026-07-08-space-force-relativity-impulse-nssl-lane1 2→4 Corroboration correction (Florian caught the found_none error): Inside Defense and Aviation Week both cover the NSSL Lane 1 additions; the original crawl missed them. Rescored with crawl found_some and both trade sources attached.

Deep sweep (mode: deep, escalated per two consecutive quiet re-checks) covering the full week-plus gap since the prior sweep across the candidates.json queue, the full HTML source list, all 20 non-substack signals channels, and 8 open-web discovery queries: 14 new items shipped, spanning national-security launch procurement (NSSL Lane 1, NASA's CLD draft RFP, an SES Space Force BPA), two new FCC constellation filings (CesiumAstro's Synchronicity, a weakly-sourced SpaceX Gen3 100k-satellite filing), four Transporter-17 rideshare firsts (City Labs' nuclear cubesat, Muon Space's operational FireSat satellites, Unseenlabs' Gen2 fleet, Open Cosmos' Balearic/Greek satellites), a New Zealand propulsion-tech demo (Zenno Astronautics), a Firefly NASA subcontract, an Indian EO satellite loss (GalaxEye), and two smaller financial/product items (Ravee Optics, BAE Endura). One item (NATO's HALO constellation initiative) went to held as a genuine commercial-scope question rather than a unilateral call.

signals pass: 20 channels checked · 2 X handles searched · Deep-sweep pass: all 20 non-substack fetchable channels checked (europeanspaceflight.substack.com skipped again per 2026-07-07-B, Cloudflare-gated and redundant with the site RSS). This is the first check this cycle for Josef Aschbacher's Bluesky (latest post 2025-01-09, dormant) and the 5 YouTube channels via their RSS feeds (Scott Manley's latest video July 6, Marcus House July 4, Anatoly Zak May 16, Tim Dodd May 23, Felix Schlang July 1); none fall inside this run's narrow window since lastSweep (2026-07-08T05:47:33Z). The 9 Bluesky accounts and 3 sites (JSR, MainEngineCutOff, RussianSpaceWeb, SpacePolicyOnline) also show nothing dated inside the window. Best-effort X search on 2 handles (Jared Isaacman re CLD RFP, Jeff Foust re NSSL Lane 1) surfaced no independently retrievable verbatim on-topic post.

discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch/vehicle, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US rotation across China/India/Japan/Europe). Every hit resolved to a story already published (Blue Origin's May 28 New Glenn pad explosion, EchoStar/DISH's June 30 bankruptcy already excluded as out-of-scope legacy/terrestrial per 2026-07-05 precedent, SES-Intelsat and Amazon-Globalstar closings, Japan MoD constellation award, OHB/EPS-Sterna and IRIS2 awards) or predates this run's window by weeks to months. New candidates for this sweep came from the candidates.json queue and its Transporter-17/FCC-filing threads, not from this open-web pass.

Quiet ~1h47m re-check (lastSweep 03:51 UTC) against the full unrestricted source list: candidates.json queue held nothing newer than lastSweep beyond routine/already-published stories, all 36 HTML-only sources and the signals pass's fetchable channels returned no content dated inside the window, and 4 open-web discovery searches (Chinese launch, constellation contracts, ISRO, general July 8 sweep) surfaced only older stories already outside scope for fresh coverage (a December 2025 Rocket Lab SDA contract and an April 2026 Amazon/Globalstar acquisition, both well predating this platform's coverage window). Zero items shipped.

signals pass: 13 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 13 of 21 fetchable channels checked this run (9 Bluesky profiles via the public syndication API, 4 sites); europeanspaceflight.com/substack and the 5 YouTube channels skipped this narrow window per budget rotation, no different from very recent prior coverage. All 9 Bluesky feeds' most recent posts predate this run's lastSweep (2026-07-08T03:51:55Z); the 4 sites show no content dated inside the window (spacepolicyonline.com's '2026-07-08' hit was only a LiteSpeed cache-generation timestamp in an HTML comment, not article content). No X search run this pass; the open-web discovery searches below covered the same ground.

Narrow ~3.4-hour re-check of the 14-source filtered list plus the signals pass. Two new items: Skyroot's announced July 12-August 4 launch window for Vikram-1's maiden orbital flight (dated to the original July 2 PTI-reported announcement, first surfaced in our discovery today via SpaceNews), and D-Orbit's new ION Satellite Carrier launch-services contract with ArkEdge Space announced July 8. All SEC 8-K feeds, Planet Labs, Planet Labs IR, ICEYE, Rocket Lab, BlackSky IR, and Launch Library returned only already-published or out-of-window content; a SpaceNews magazine feature on Pentagon/SpaceX competition scrutiny was excluded as a trend-analysis piece with no new dateable event.

signals pass: 4 channels checked · 3 X handles searched · 4 of 6 fetchable channels checked (europeanspaceflight.com skipped as redundant with this run's European Spaceflight discovery-source fetch, same author; its substack variant skipped per 2026-07-07-B, Cloudflare-gated and a subset of the site feed). JSR's latest issue is still #857 (July 1), Main Engine Cut Off's latest episode is still July 2, SpacePolicyOnline's latest post is its recurring July 5-18 events roundup (updated July 6, not a discrete event), RussianSpaceWeb's front page carries only institutional/anniversary content dated July 6 or older. Searched 3 X handles/angles (Chethan Kumar re: Skyroot, Peter Beck, Jonathan McDowell); no on-scope first-party post with retrievable verbatim text found inside this run's window.

Narrow ~46-minute re-check of the 14-source filtered list (Planet Labs, Planet Labs IR, ICEYE, Rocket Lab, BlackSky IR, European Spaceflight, SpaceNews, Launch Library, and 6 SEC 8-K feeds) plus the signals pass. All sources returned only already-published stories; zero new candidates this run.

signals pass: 5 channels checked · 3 X handles searched · 5 of 6 fetchable channels checked (europeanspaceflight.com's substack skipped per 2026-07-07-B, already superseded by its site RSS covered in discovery); JSR and RussianSpaceWeb show no dated content inside this narrow window, MainEngineCutOff's latest episode (July 2) predates it, spacepolicyonline.com 503'd this attempt. Best-effort X search on 3 handles (Peter Beck, Jeff Foust/Sandra Erwin, Jonathan McDowell) surfaced nothing datable to this window beyond snippets, none independently verifiable via the syndication endpoint.

Narrow re-check of the 14-source filtered list (~1.5hr window) surfaced two new items: Rocket Lab's own mission-success wrap-up for VICTUS HAZE (all phases completed ahead of Space Force deadlines, led by a GlobeNewswire mirror since the company's newsroom stays Cloudflare-gated) and SpaceNews's report of Orbit Fab hiring Peter Shaper as CEO alongside $25M+ in interim funding ahead of a Series B round. All SEC 8-K feeds, Planet, ICEYE, BlackSky IR, and Launch Library were unchanged from the prior run.

signals pass: 4 channels checked · 2 X handles searched · 4 of 6 fetchable channels checked this run (europeanspaceflight.com and its substack skipped as redundant with this run's European Spaceflight discovery-source fetch, same author); none show anything dated inside this run's window. 2 X handles searched (Peter Beck re: VICTUS HAZE, Orbit Fab's own account re: the Shaper/funding news) via WebSearch; no additional on-scope, retrievable first-party post found beyond what the primary sources already cover.

Narrow same-day re-check (~77 min since last sweep) against the 14-source filtered list; every source returned unchanged content already reflected in items.json or held.json, and the signals pass surfaced nothing new. Zero items shipped.

signals pass: 6 channels checked · 5 X handles searched · 5 of 6 fetchable channels loaded content (McDowell's monthly JSR unchanged, MECO's latest episode July 2, SpacePolicyOnline's latest post July 5, RussianSpaceWeb's front page carries only institutional Roscosmos/ISS content with no on-scope commercial claim, European Spaceflight's RSS already covered as a discovery source with nothing new); the substack variant 403'd on Cloudflare's challenge page again, consistent with 2026-07-07-B. Searched 5 X handles (Peter Beck, Tory Bruno, Max Haot, Josef Aschbacher, Joe Morrison); no post retrievable via the syndication endpoint from inside this run's ~77-minute window.

Narrow same-day re-check of the 14-source filtered list plus the signals pass, roughly 2.6 hours after the last sweep. Three new items: SaxaVord's RFA ONE launch-window announcement (August 10), Apolink's relay-satellite first contact on Transporter-17, and an Arianespace/Infinite Orbits MOU for direct-to-GEO rideshare from 2029. All named discovery sources otherwise returned already-published or below-bar content; one SpaceNews press release (Spirit Electronics) was excluded as out of scope.

signals pass: 5 channels checked · 3 X handles searched · 5 of 6 fetchable channels checked (europeanspaceflight.substack.com skipped, redundant with the site feed and Cloudflare-gated per 2026-07-07-B); none had content newer than July 6. Searched 3 X handles (Beck, Aschbacher, Isaacman); no on-scope first-party post retrievable beyond already-published or off-topic content.

One new item (Rocket Lab CFO Adam Spice on Falcon 9 rideshare-access anxiety, via SpaceNews) in this narrow ~2-hour same-day re-check of the 14-source filtered list; all other sources reconfirmed quiet, consistent with today's earlier narrow sweeps.

signals pass: 6 channels checked · 5 X handles searched · All 6 fetchable channels checked; all show their most recent entries predating this run's window (Jonathan's Space Report Jul 1, Main Engine Cut Off Jul 2, SpacePolicyOnline Jul 5, RussianSpaceWeb last-update Jul 6, European Spaceflight's own site Jul 7 13:50 already published as an existing item). The Substack variant of Andrew Parsonson's channel is still Cloudflare-gated (403), same as earlier today. Searched 5 X handles (Peter Beck, Jeff Foust, Andrew Jones, Blaine Curcio, Caleb Henry); no on-scope post with retrievable verbatim text via the syndication endpoint found in this window.

Narrow same-day re-check (~3hr window) against the 8-source filtered list plus 6 SEC feeds. One new item (BlackSky's Gen-3 AI tactical-ISR product update, first-party) and one corroboration attach (European Spaceflight confirming today's Isar Aerospace/Maritime Launch Nova Scotia deal, correcting its found_none crawl outcome). All other named sources and the signals pass were quiet.

signals pass: 5 channels checked · 6 X handles searched · 5 of 6 fetchable channels checked (Parsonson's Substack skipped per 2026-07-07-B: Cloudflare-gated and a subset of the already-fetched europeanspaceflight.com feed). No new on-scope items: JSR's latest issue is still #857 (July 1), Main Engine Cutoff's latest episode is still July 2, SpacePolicyOnline's only item inside the window is its recurring biweekly events roundup (not a discrete event), RussianSpaceWeb's top story is a 50-years-ago Soyuz-21 retrospective. Searched 6 X handles (Beck, Bruno, Haot, Aschbacher, ChinaSpaceGuy, McDowell); no retrievable on-scope first-party post found inside this run's window.

• 2026-07-07-isar-aerospace-maritime-launch-nova-scotia 2→3 European Spaceflight (Andrew Parsonson) independently reported the same July 7 agreement with matching deal terms ($3.75M/quarter, 10-year term, two 5-year options, $112.5M initial commitment) -- a second, distinct outlet confirming the story SpaceNews first reported. Corrects this morning's found_none corroboration outcome now that genuine independent coverage exists.

Narrow same-day re-check (~3.2hr window): three new items from the Transporter-17 rideshare launch window (ICEYE's four-satellite Gen4 debut, Planet's Pelican-11 tech demo) plus a SpaceNews-sourced Simera Sense imager contract for the Canary Islands EO constellation.

signals pass: 5 channels checked · 2 X handles searched · All 5 non-substack fetchable channels checked (europeanspaceflight.com already covered as a discovery source this run); nothing new on-scope inside the window (RussianSpaceWeb's 'Russian satellites maneuver toward a commercial Western imager' item predates the window and reads as battlefield-adjacent OSINT, not an on-the-record commercial-space fact, so excluded). Substack variant (europeanspaceflight.substack.com/feed) still Cloudflare-gated per 2026-07-07-B. Searched 2 X handles (planet4589, jeff_foust) for Transporter-17/ICEYE/Planet coverage; found only search snippets and ICEYE's own first-party post, no independently retrievable on-scope post beyond what discovery sources already covered.

One new item this narrow same-day re-check: Isar Aerospace signed a firm 10-year contract with Maritime Launch Services to build a Spectrum launch complex at Spaceport Nova Scotia, Canada (per SpaceNews, corroboration crawl found only earlier May 26 letter-of-intent coverage). All other filtered sources were quiet inside the window.

signals pass: 5 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 5 fetchable channels checked (McDowell, Colangelo, SpacePolicyOnline, Zak, European Spaceflight); most recent dated content on each was Jul 1-6, 2026, none inside this run's ~3.5hr window (05:10-08:41 UTC). No X search attempted this run; budget prioritized confirming the one fresh discovery item and re-checking the filtered source list.

Narrow same-day re-check (~4h40m since the last sweep) against the 14-source filtered list plus the mandatory signals pass. Every named source, all 6 fetchable signal channels, and 3 best-effort X searches returned unchanged or pre-window content. Zero items, a legitimate quiet outcome for this short filtered window.

signals pass: 5 channels checked · 3 X handles searched · 5 of 6 fetchable channels checked; europeanspaceflight.substack.com hit its usual Cloudflare challenge (403), same channel already covered live via europeanspaceflight.com's own RSS feed. JSR still issue #857 (Jul 1); Main Engine Cut Off's latest episode still T+336 (Jul 2); SpacePolicyOnline's most recent post last updated Jul 6 10:33am ET (before this window); RussianSpaceWeb's top stories are a Soyuz-21 historical retrospective and a forward-looking Soyuz MS-29 preview, no commercial-provider angle. Searched Peter Beck, Jeff Foust, and Sandra Erwin via WebSearch; nothing retrievable beyond the already-published Rocket Lab/Iridium deal.

Narrow same-day re-check (~99 minutes since the last sweep) against the 14-source filtered list plus the mandatory signals pass; every named source, all 6 fetchable signal channels, and 3 best-effort X searches returned unchanged or pre-window content. Zero items, a legitimate quiet outcome for this short filtered window.

signals pass: 6 channels checked · 3 X handles searched · All 6 fetchable channels checked: Jonathan's Space Report's latest issue is July 1 (before this window); Main Engine Cut Off's latest episode is July 2 (before this window); SpacePolicyOnline's most recent post was last updated July 6 10:33am ET / 14:33 UTC (before this window); RussianSpaceWeb showed no headline datable inside this window; europeanspaceflight.com's RSS (checked as a discovery source too) is unchanged; europeanspaceflight.substack.com hit a Cloudflare challenge page, no content retrieved. Searched 3 X handles (Peter Beck, Jeff Foust, Sandra Erwin) via WebSearch; no on-scope post from inside this run's ~99-minute window was retrievable.

Narrow same-day re-check (~1.5 hours since the last sweep) against the 14-source filtered list plus the mandatory signals pass. All 14 named sources (Planet Labs, Planet Labs IR, ICEYE, Rocket Lab, BlackSky IR, European Spaceflight, SpaceNews, Launch Library, and all six SEC 8-K feeds) came back unchanged from the 21:08 UTC sweep: no filing, press release, or article published after that timestamp. Zero items is the correct outcome for this window.

signals pass: 5 channels checked · 4 X handles searched · 5 of 6 fetchable channels checked; europeanspaceflight.substack.com 403'd again (Cloudflare), same channel already covered live via europeanspaceflight.com's own feed. JSR still issue #857 (Jul 1), Main Engine Cut Off's latest episode (T+336, Jul 2) covers stories already published, SpacePolicyOnline's latest post (Jul 5) predates this run's window, RussianSpaceWeb's homepage items are either already-evaluated routine ISS ops or a forward-looking Soyuz MS-29 crew launch preview with no commercial-provider angle. Searched Peter Beck, Jeff Foust, Sandra Erwin, and Blaine Curcio via WebSearch; no retrievable on-scope first-party post found inside the window.

Narrow same-day re-check (~2.5 hours since the last sweep) against the 14-source filtered list. Two new SpaceNews stories inside the window: Blue Origin disclosed Blue Moon lunar lander production status (seven vehicles, first cargo lander slipping to Q1 2027), drafted as a new item, and Iridium completed its Aireon buyout ahead of the pending Rocket Lab acquisition, attached as an update to the existing M&A item. All other named sources and the signals pass came back unchanged or outside the window.

signals pass: 5 channels checked · 3 X handles searched · 5 of 6 fetchable channels checked (Jonathan's Space Report, Main Engine Cut Off, SpacePolicyOnline, RussianSpaceWeb, European Spaceflight site); europeanspaceflight.substack.com hit a Cloudflare JS challenge and returned no content, same channel already covered via the site's own RSS feed. Nothing published inside this run's ~2.5-hour window (last sweep 18:33 UTC) on any of them; JSR's latest issue (#857) and the Main Engine Cut Off podcast both predate the window. Searched 3 X handles (Peter Beck, Jared Isaacman, Jeff Foust) for on-scope posts inside the window; found none retrievable beyond what SpaceNews already reported.

Narrow same-day re-check (~25 min since the 17:59 UTC sweep) across the 14-source filtered list plus the mandatory signals pass. All 12 other named sources (Planet Labs, Planet Labs IR, ICEYE, Rocket Lab, BlackSky IR, Launch Library, all six SEC 8-K feeds) were unchanged. SpaceNews carried one fresh, previously-unseen story: NASA's CSDA program added Kuva Space, OroraTech, and Satlantis, confirmed via NASA's own program page as a June 23 award and corroborated as first surfaced in trade press only today.

signals pass: 5 channels checked · 5 X handles searched · 5 of 6 fetchable channels checked; europeanspaceflight.substack.com 403'd (its sibling site channel, europeanspaceflight.com, is already covered via the named-source discovery pass and fetched cleanly there). Most recent posts (JSR #857 Jul 1, Main Engine Cutoff Jul 2, SpacePolicyOnline Jul 3-4) all cover stories already published. RussianSpaceWeb's Jul 6 cosmonaut-spacewalk post is routine ISS operations with no commercial-provider angle, out of scope. Searched 5 X handles (Peter Beck, Max Haot, Josef Aschbacher, Blaine Curcio, Jonathan McDowell); no retrievable on-scope first-party post found this narrow window.

Follow-up to the 17:48 UTC sweep: the anti-spoof gate now reduces www-recorded registry hosts to the apex domain (PR #82), so the Wolfgang Schmidt item's lead upgrades to Planet's own investors.planet.com release (first-party) with the Business Wire/StockTitan copy attached as corroboration; crawl outcome corrected to found_some.

• 2026-07-06-planet-wolfgang-schmidt-advisory-board 3→5 Anti-spoof gate fix (PR #82): investors.planet.com now verifies as Planet's own domain, so the item's lead upgrades from the Business Wire copy (StockTitan) to Planet's own IR release, which the sweep had already found and linked but could not class first_party under the old exact-subdomain check. Crawl outcome corrected from found_none to found_some: the wire copy is the corroborating second source.

Narrow same-day re-check (~8 minutes since the prior sweep, itself an interactive audit/repair pass with no fresh discovery) across the 14-source filtered list. Planet Labs IR, added this session, surfaced a same-day Wolfgang Schmidt advisory-board appointment that no prior discovery sweep had ever seen; drafted as the CLAUDE.md-precedent notable item (senior government figure joins a tracked company's board). European Spaceflight surfaced Italy's IRIDE EO service coming online, held as a genuine commercial-vs-institutional scope question. All other 12 named sources, including all six SEC 8-K feeds, were quiet.

Crawl-engine audit repair pass (interactive): re-ran the corroboration crawl on the open web for all six items penalized with found_none under the old filter-confined crawl. Three had real independent coverage and were rescored (True Anomaly/VICTUS HAZE, Sybilla Technologies, Verde Technologies, each 2 to 4); three were re-searched and genuinely have no other coverage, so their found_none stands honestly (Austria/R-Space, MaiaSpace fourth engine, Lunar Forge). Corroboration is now open-web by policy; the run source filter constrains discovery only.

• 2026-07-02-true-anomaly-victus-haze-imaging 2→4 Crawl-engine audit (interactive, with Florian): the original corroboration crawl was confined to the run's 9-source filter and claimed found_none while independent coverage existed. Open-web search found Air & Space Forces Magazine (July 1, same 61-hour imaging figure and noncooperative-target detail) and Space.com (July 3, the intercept). Crawl outcome corrected to found_some.
• 2026-07-02-sybilla-technologies-funding-round 2→4 Crawl-engine audit (interactive, with Florian): the original corroboration crawl was confined to the run's source filter and claimed found_none. Open-web search found independent coverage of the same 35 million PLN round by Pulse 2.0 (June 14, naming 3TS Capital Partners and Vinci S.A.); EU-Startups also covered it but 403s our fetch tool, so it is not attached. Crawl outcome corrected to found_some.
• 2026-07-02-verde-technologies-space-pivot 2→4 Crawl-engine audit (interactive, with Florian): the original corroboration crawl was confined to the run's source filter and claimed found_none. Open-web search found independent solar-trade coverage of the same space-pivot announcement: Taiyang News (June 30, Poirier CEO appointment and space course) and Perovskite-Info (June 26, space as launch market). Crawl outcome corrected to found_some.

Edit-queue ruling executed (Florian, via bun run review): the Space Force/L3Harris Meadowlands item publishes trimmed to the acceptance and fielding facts with the operational-use line strictly attributed to SpaceNews; corroborated by Air & Space Forces Magazine and the Washington Times. The Airbus/Brave1 Ukraine MoU was discarded as out of scope (no space component); see reports/queue-decisions.md.

Supervised review: attached BetaKit's independent report to the Telesat Venezuela item and Firefly's first-party release to the NASA four-lander batch item (the Firefly award is one of the four); the duplicate standalone Firefly card is removed separately.

Supervised copy correction: dropped the outlet prefix from the Isar/Planet headline after its lead was upgraded to Isar's first-party release (prefix is reserved for non-first-party leads).

Launch/connectivity/human-spaceflight newsroom backfill from 2026-06-29: shipped a Firefly $144M NASA CLPS lunar contract and a Telesat Venezuela-earthquake capacity donation, and upgraded the Isar/Planet Germany item to a first-party Isar Aerospace lead. Most of the 19 named sources were quiet inside the window; several configured URLs were stale or wrong and their working replacements are noted for a future structural update.

• 2026-07-02-isar-aerospace-planet-germany-launch-deal 4→5 Isar Aerospace's own newsroom published the July 2 press release for this exact deal (same Polak quote, 12-month target, and additional-satellite provision already in the item); upgrading the lead from European Spaceflight (trade) to Isar's first-party release and keeping the two trade sources as corroboration.

Backfill sweep (from 2026-06-29) across the 19 named EO/IoT operator newsrooms shipped 3 new items: a ~5 billion yuan Chang Guang Satellite equity round and two Myriota product launches (hybrid satellite/cellular IoT connectivity, One-Tank's Pulse relaunch). One Airbus/Brave1 Ukraine defence-innovation MoU held for a scope question; GHGSat, OQ Technology, and HawkEye 360 remained unreachable this run.

Filtered 14-source regulatory/financial/procurement backfill (window 2026-06-29T00:00Z to now): all six SEC EDGAR 8-K feeds, FCC IBFS, FCC Daily Digest, ITU SNL, NOAA CRSRA, SAM.gov, ESA esa-star, EUSPA procurement, and NGA contract announcements were checked and none carried a filing, procurement notice, or press item dated inside the window. Several source URLs had moved (NOAA CRSRA, EUSPA procurement, NGA) and were run down to working pages; two sources (SAM.gov, esa-star) are unusable without deeper API/key access. Zero items shipped; a genuinely quiet sweep across this named list.

Supervised corrections to the 12:46 UTC backfill: both report-based items (GAO Space Force portfolio, NASA OIG Starliner) had their official documents attached as corroborating official records and their crawl outcomes corrected from found_none (the primary documents exist; GAO's report number was named inside the SpaceNews article). Copy fixed to the officially stated dates and figures (report dated July 2 not July 4; 21 months to the Type A classification per the OIG). Both items move from SNR 2 to 4.

• 2026-07-04-gao-space-force-satellite-portfolio 2→4 official record attached: GAO product page confirms report GAO-26-108457 and its July 2 date (item had July 4, the article date); crawl outcome corrected from found_none, the report number was named inside the article
• 2026-06-30-nasa-oig-starliner-report 2→4 official record attached: the OIG release page confirms the overconfidence finding, the simulator-data finding, and states 21 months (not 22) to the Type A classification; crawl outcome corrected from found_none

Backfill sweep since 2026-06-29 across the 9 named sources shipped 9 new items: Katalyst/Northrop Grumman's Swift reboost launch, a GAO report on Space Force satellite-program cost overruns, True Anomaly's VICTUS HAZE imaging milestone, Austria's R-Space military satellite contract, a NASA OIG report on Starliner's root causes, MaiaSpace's fourth-engine upgrade plan, Sybilla Technologies' SSA funding round, Lunar Forge's stealth debut, and Verde Technologies' space-market pivot. Fresh corroborating sources were attached to three existing items (NASA's lunar lander awards, Latitude's Oman LOI, Blue Origin's New Glenn pad plan). A Space Force/L3Harris satellite-jamming system was held for a scope call; Chinese constellation/marine-satellite launches, several duplicate stories already on record, and feature/analysis/opinion pieces (SpaceX IPO commentary, drone-threat feature, Europe-Middle East ties feature, Japan D2D and SpaceConnect Association articles predating the window) were evaluated and excluded as routine, duplicate, stale, or out of scope.

• 2026-06-30-nasa-lunar-lander-awards 3→4 NASASpaceflight independently covered the same June 30 Moon Base Phase One lander awards (Astrobotic, Intuitive Machines, Firefly), including a direct on-record quote from NASA associate administrator Lori Glaze not carried by the SpaceNews lead; attached as a second distinct trade source.
• 2026-07-01-latitude-oman-launch-loi 3→4 European Spaceflight independently covered the same July 1 Latitude/Etlaq Spaceport Oman LOI; attached as a second distinct trade source.
• 2026-07-01-blue-origin-new-glenn-pad-conops 3→4 NASASpaceflight independently covered the same July 1 New Glenn LC-36 hybrid horizontal/vertical CONOPS plan; attached as a second distinct trade source.

Narrow same-day re-check (~3h16m since last sweep) against the 12-source filtered list. All sources fetched cleanly; Planet Labs, ICEYE, Rocket Lab, European Spaceflight, Launch Library, and all six SEC 8-K feeds were unchanged from the prior sweep. SpaceNews carried three fresh entries, all excluded on scope grounds (deep-space science, institutional analytics MoU, third-party market-research report). Zero items shipped.

SNR migration (SNR_SPEC.md): scored all 22 items through the engine and retired the confidence ladder; released the held Rocket Lab-Iridium press release as a source attach to the SEC-sourced item; backfilled registry SNR badges (528 aggregator and 4 press fields at 4 canonical, 44 computed fields at 5; 623 Wikipedia/first-party fields stay unscored per SNR_SPEC 2.3).

Quiet same-day re-check of the 12 filtered sources: all SEC 8-K feeds, Planet Labs, ICEYE, Rocket Lab, European Spaceflight, and Launch Library showed no new content since the last sweep, but SpaceNews carried one fresh item, a NASA-SBA memorandum of agreement to attract private capital into space supply-chain manufacturers, published as a reported-tier item.

Filtered re-check of 12 named sources (Planet Labs, ICEYE, Rocket Lab, European Spaceflight, SpaceNews, Launch Library 2, six SEC 8-K feeds) since the 2026-07-05 08:58 UTC sweep. All but one source had no content newer than the last sweep. SpaceNews carried one fresh story (ESA authorizing Airbus to begin Aeolus-2 wind-lidar satellite development, EUR51M initial phase, 2034 target launch) which was evaluated and excluded as out of scope: legacy institutional weather-science procurement via a heritage prime, not a new-space-economy event. Zero items added, updated, or held this run.

Correction to the prior 30-day backfill sweep this run: the Blue Origin New Glenn return-to-flight item was fully verified and described in that sweep's summary but was accidentally left out of the submitted draft's newItems array. This follow-up adds it with its original 2026-07-01 event date; no other sources were re-fetched.

One-off 30-day backfill sweep (Florian-approved) across the filtered source set shipped 15 new items: a $1.5B Planet Labs ATM equity program confirmed via SEC filing; three ICEYE contract/partnership wins (Liberty Mutual wildfire insurance, Portugal SAR satellites, Norway flood monitoring); Rocket Lab's VICTUS HAZE Space Force launch confirmed via Launch Library; and ten reported-tier items from European Spaceflight and SpaceNews spanning launch, financial, regulatory, and human-spaceflight news (OHB's capital raise, Firefly/SSC Space's Swedish launch site, Vantor's WorldView 3D, the FCC's licensing overhaul vote, NASA's lunar lander awards, Hongqing Technology's funding round, ULA's final Atlas V satellite mission, Isar Aerospace's Planet Germany launch deal, and Latitude's Oman launch LOI). EchoStar's DISH DBS/DISH Wireless Chapter 11 filing was discarded as out of scope (legacy DBS TV and terrestrial wireless, not new-space relevant); a Rocket Factory Augsburg product detail item was excluded because its underlying disclosure predated the 30-day window; and several routine SEC personnel/governance filings across RKLB, SATL, and ASTS did not clear the notability bar.

Filtered sweep of Planet Labs, ICEYE, SpaceX, Rocket Lab, the RKLB 8-K feed, SpaceNews, and Launch Library confirmed the Rocket Lab-Iridium acquisition via Rocket Lab's own SEC 8-K filing, upgrading it from a prior held item (blocked by a Cloudflare-gated Rocket Lab article page) to a confirmed $8 billion cash-and-stock deal; Planet Labs and ICEYE had no new posts inside the freshness window, SpaceX's site remains unfetchable (now flipped to dead after a third failure), and no SpaceX/Rocket Lab launch in the manifest cleared the notability bar.

Filtered re-sweep of Planet Labs, ICEYE, SpaceX, Rocket Lab, the PL 8-K feed, and Launch Library shipped zero new items; Rocket Lab's own /updates/ page surfaced a striking "Rocket Lab to Acquire Iridium" headline dated July 3, 2026, but the underlying press release is blocked by a Cloudflare challenge on every fetch attempt, so it was held pending verification instead of published on headline alone.

Filtered sweep of Planet Labs, ICEYE, SpaceX, Rocket Lab, the PL 8-K feed, and Launch Library 2 shipped two ICEYE items (an Iberdrola grid-monitoring pilot and a Canada wildfire-coverage extension); SpaceX and Rocket Lab's own sites did not return fetchable content, and no launch or financial developments in the reviewed window cleared the freshness or notability bar.

source health

Sources the harvester currently cannot use: dead means the fetch itself fails (three consecutive failures; re-probed weekly), stale means the source answers but its content stopped moving. An honest gap list beats a silent one.

• dead: Blue Origin
• dead: DLR press (DE)
• dead: European Spaceflight
• dead: Eutelsat Group (OneWeb) Press
• dead: SpaceX
• dead: Umbra
• dead: Xinhua tech/space (EN)
• stale: Astrocast
• stale: Capella Space
• stale: FCC IBFS (satellite filings)

source ledger

Rolling per-source reliability record (90-day window): strikes for claims that lost a same-metric contradiction, credits for claims that started low and were later confirmed. Machine-owned, human-audited; demotions and recoveries follow the thresholds in the public spec.

lead-source presence (30d)

Which outlets led the window's items, most-cited first. The lead source sets each item's base score, so a feed leaning on a few domains is a concentration worth seeing.

calibration

Whether the scores are honest is itself measured: every claim records its SNR at publication and how it later resolved. Confirmed means the claim reached SNR 4+ independent of any whitelist floor, or a direct source landed; debunked means it lost a same-metric contradiction. Unresolved counts include claims still maturing and claims expired without a signal either way.