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Three new items: a Chinese Yaogan-50 (02) reconnaissance satellite breakup shedding 43 tracked debris pieces, GalaxEye's first-for-India US patent on its OptoSAR imaging architecture, and Kazakhstan's forum-announced plan for a nine-satellite (expandable to 14) international EO constellation with Mongolia, Congo and Nigeria. The queue was otherwise dominated by the still-open ISRO-privatization Google News wave, SpaceX stock-speculation content-mill pieces, and several already-published stories (Isar Aerospace's orbital flight, the Starbase Louisiana NEPA-waiver rule, the Starship Pacific reentry EA, the Aug 4 Space Force AMTI vendor awards) resurfacing under new headlines.

Signals pass: 14 channels checked · 1 X handle searched · 14 of 17 fetchable channels checked (rotated out europeanspaceflight.com site + substack, already covered via the harvester's own European Spaceflight RSS feed, and the marcia-smith site leg, which 403s the same as the harvester's own SpacePolicyOnline source). Everything found was already published (Isar Aerospace orbit, EOS-05, HyImpulse, Project-S, PLD Space, NASA/Blue Origin Mars comms, Sierra Space Dream Chaser, Schiess change of command) except Jonathan McDowell's Yaogan-50 breakup post, surfaced via a discovery-pass search rather than a dedicated handle query and drafted as a new incident item with its verbatim text pulled via the syndication endpoint; counted as one xAttempted.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US x3, EO procurement). Only the Yaogan-50 (02) breakup was new; all other hits (Isar Spectrum orbital flight, FCC licensing modernization, China's 140-launch target, India privatization/space-economy targets, NASA/KBR/EarthDaily EO contracts, Rocket Lab/JAXA) were already published or predate the window (the Rocket Lab/JAXA Electron contract is an October 2025 announcement resurfacing).

• 2026-08-25-orbitaid-rpo-demo-2027 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-08-24-star-catcher-aethero-power-purchase-agreement 3→4 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-08-25-lonestar-ares-shield-satellite-defense 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-08-25-aerospace-corp-disksat-neumann-license 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-08-24-tendeg-newten-antenna 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-08-25-esa-draco-reentry-cdr 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window

Narrow same-day re-check (~4h22m gap). One new item: Austrian Airlines' first Starlink-equipped flight, part of the ongoing Lufthansa Group rollout. Queue was otherwise dominated by the still-open ISRO-privatization Google News wave and SpaceX stock-speculation content-mill pieces; HTML, signals, and discovery legs all converged on already-published stories.

Signals pass: 12 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 12 of 17 fetchable channels checked (rotated out planet4589.org, mainenginecutoff.com, spacepolicyonline.com site, russianspaceweb.com site, europeanspaceflight substack, all covered via their bluesky/bare-site legs instead this run). One notable find (Anatoly Zak: unofficial reports of a Progress MS-35 launch postponement) was judged out of scope: Russian ISS government cargo resupply with no commercial-provider angle, and sourced only to unofficial/unnamed reports. Everything else surfaced was already published earlier in today's sweep sequence (Isar Aerospace orbital flight, Blue Origin Mars Telecom contract, Sierra Space Dream Chaser cargo award, Schiess Space Force change of command). xSearch not run this narrow re-check; no fetchable-channel lead pointed at an unconfirmed X post worth chasing.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US x2, EO procurement, Europe partnership). Every hit traced to already-published items (K2 Space funding, OHB/SES IRIS2, ESA Launcher Challenge, NOAA RODB2, CSDA On-Ramp 2, Pixxel Series C) or general trend pieces with no new dateable fact. Zero new candidates from this pass; the one new item this sweep (Austrian Airlines Starlink) came from the harvester queue's Google News leg, not discovery.

Narrow same-day re-check (~4h gap). One new item (ICEYE/Sompo Japan flood-claims partnership, first-party, noise) plus two updates: Pixxel's Series C round is now confirmed closed (upgraded from an informal in-progress report to mainstream/trade sources), and Isar Aerospace's CCO put a first on-the-record figure on its post-launch order pipeline. The queue, HTML pass, signals pass, and discovery matrix otherwise converged on already-published stories (Isar's orbital flight, EOS-05, the ongoing ISRO-privatisation wave with no Florian ruling yet).

Signals pass: 14 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 14 of 17 fetchable channels checked (rotated out the bare europeanspaceflight.com site and marcia-smith's/andrew-parsonson's bare sites, covered via their bluesky legs instead); europeanspaceflight.substack.com/feed 403'd again, per the standing pattern. Nothing new beyond already-published stories (Isar orbital flight, ESA summit remarks) surfaced. No X search run this narrow re-check; the fetchable legs plus discovery pass gave full coverage.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US, procurement). Surfaced PLD Space's Series C extension and Kepler Aerospace's seed round, both already published from the prior sweep; nothing else new.

• 2026-07-07-pixxel-temasek-funding-round 2→4 The round reported as in-progress on 2026-07-07 (NewsBytes, informal, SNR 2) has now closed with named terms; upgrading the lead to a directly-fetched mainstream source and rescoring from the better source class.

Deep sweep (7-day window, triggered by two consecutive zero-add sweeps): re-examined the full previously_presented queue, checked every fetchable signals channel, and ran a 12-query discovery matrix. Two genuinely new items: Kineis' first-party break-even/revenue target and a SpaceX-vs-Viasat FCC interference petition over Viasat-3 F2. Everything else the queue, signals, and discovery surfaced (Isar Aerospace expansion recaps, Rassvet orbit-failure follow-ups, the ISRO privatisation wave, Planet's Q2 earnings from a second angle, several already-published SSA/funding items) was either already covered or judged out of scope.

Signals pass: 15 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · Deep-sweep mode: checked all 17 fetchable channel entries (some people cover multiple types). Only genuinely new items: Josef Aschbacher's Paris Space Summit post (already an open held.json scope question, no new ruling) and Anatoly Zak's Progress MS-35 launch-postponement report (routine Roscosmos ISS cargo resupply, judged out of scope as a non-commercial government mission, not chased). Andrew Parsonson's substack RSS continued to 403 as in prior sweeps; his site and bluesky were both checked directly instead. xSearch (best-effort handles) skipped this run: budget was spent on the deep-sweep discovery matrix and the fetchable leg surfaced nothing actionable to chase further on X.

Discovery pass: 12 queries · 12-query deep-sweep matrix (triggered by two consecutive zero-add sweeps, 2026-09-06 fourth and 2026-09-07 first; window covered the full 7-day queue per candidates-context mode:deep). All surfaced leads (Isar/Astroscale ADRAS-J2, PLD Space Series C extension, MUOS ground-segment DoD task order) were already published or judged below the inclusion bar; the two items in this draft came from the Kineis feed and a queue Google News entry, not from this pass.

Zero-item sweep, ~8h gap. The harvester queue (27 candidates) was almost entirely the ongoing ISRO-privatization Google News wave (still an open held.json scope question with no Florian ruling), SpaceX stock-speculation/content-mill chatter, and already-published stories (the Sept 6 Starlink Vandenberg launch, the 4iG/SpaceX Starlink Mobile Europe deal, ISRO's EOS-05 launch). The 8-source HTML pass, a 15-of-17-channel signals pass, and a 10-query discovery matrix all independently confirmed nothing new on-scope moved since the last sweep.

Signals pass: 15 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 15 of 17 fetchable channels checked (via public.api.bsky.app for bluesky accounts); skipped europeanspaceflight.substack.com/feed (standing 403) and Marcia Smith's spacepolicyonline.com site (already covered via the harvester's SpacePolicyOnline RSS feed in this run's queue). Every post/article found predates lastSweep (2026-09-06T21:00:28Z) or is already published (Isar Aerospace Spectrum orbital flight, ESA Launcher Challenge, Vivienne Machi's Sept 4 AMTI/reentry pieces). No X searches run; budget spent entirely on the mandatory fetchable leg.

Discovery pass: 10 queries · Full matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US rotating China/India/Europe, EO, human spaceflight). Every hit traced to an already-published item (Isar Aerospace Spectrum orbital flight, PLD Space Series C extension, ESA European Launcher Challenge contracts, Blue Origin Mars Telecommunications Network award, ISRO EOS-05/GSLV launch, NOAA/Spire radio-occultation contract) or was out of scope/stale (NASA Deep Space Network antenna, already judged out of scope 2026-09-06-G).

• 2026-08-24-iran-starlink-crackdown-arrests 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-08-24-beyond-reach-labs-flarewing 3→4 persistence: survived uncontested past the window

Zero-item sweep. The harvester queue was almost entirely recurring ISRO-privatization Google News duplicates (already an open held.json scope question with no Florian ruling), SpaceX stock-speculation/analyst-recap content-mill pieces, and a Starlink batch launch already published by an earlier same-day sweep. The HTML pass, a rotated 15-of-17-channel signals pass, and an 8-query discovery matrix all independently confirmed the same small set of stories, every one of them already on the site.

Signals pass: 15 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 17 fetchable channels, rotated to 15 within budget (dropped europeanspaceflight.substack.com/feed, known 403 per standing note, and Anatoly Zak's duplicate bluesky leg, person covered via russianspaceweb.com site). All in-window posts/pieces traced to already-published items (Isar Aerospace Spectrum orbital flight, Cowboy Space lease, Schiess change-of-command, SB-AMTI vendor pool) or predate the window; one borderline lead (Jeff Foust's Sept 4 link to a NASA Pandora smallsat 'begins science mission' SpaceNews piece) was a routine ops-status update on an 8-month-old mission with no new commercial-supply fact, left undrafted as routine ops per CLAUDE.md's science-scope exclusion. No X searches run this pass; budget spent entirely on the mandatory fetchable leg given the narrow window.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Full matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, China, non-US). Every hit traced to an already-published item (Isar Aerospace orbital flight, PLD Space Series C, EOS-05 launch, Galactic Energy Pallas-1 debut, NOAA/Spire+PlanetiQ RODB-2 award, Starlink batch) or was stale (an ICEYE/IHI satellite-constellation agreement dated October 2025, surfaced only because it matched the India/Japan query terms).

Quiet narrow re-check: one new item, a routine Starlink batch launch from Vandenberg, plus two updates attaching new detail (NASA's LRO crater imagery, Isar Aerospace's post-launch expansion plans) to already-published items. The queue was dominated by the ongoing ISRO privatisation saga and SpaceX stock chatter, both already handled.

Signals pass: 12 channels checked · 7 X handles searched · 12 of 17 fetchable channels checked (rotated out spacepolicyonline.com's and russianspaceweb.com's bare sites since their bluesky mirrors were checked instead, and all three European Spaceflight legs since the harvester's own feed for it showed nothing past lastSweep). Everything substantive found (Isar Aerospace's orbital success, BepiColombo separation, Blue Origin Mars contract, Schiess change of command) was already published by the prior sweep; Marco Langbroek's feed was entirely off-topic dragonfly photography. Searched 7 X handles via WebSearch; no on-scope first-party post text was retrievable via the syndication endpoint this run.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US, plus rotating slots). Surfaced one candidate, Dynasty Fab LLC's June 17 Chapter 11 filing (a small Roseville, Michigan metal fabricator that supplies SpaceX launch-mount hardware), judged out of scope as a diversified industrial supplier serving aerospace, automotive, and maritime clients, not a space-primary company. Every other hit (PLD Space's funding round, Hughes's bankruptcy, EO contract awards, the ISRO privatisation saga, Isar Aerospace's launch) was already published or is an already-open held entry.

Quiet narrow re-check (~5h56m gap): zero new items. The only genuine development was a procedural update to the standing FAA environmental-waiver item (comment period closed, Earthjustice-represented groups filed formal opposition Sept 1). The harvester queue was dominated by SpaceX stock/analyst-note chatter and a recirculating ISRO staff-privatization story already sitting in held.json with no ruling; both correctly left untouched. Direct-fetch (8 sources), a 16-of-17-channel signals pass, and an 8-query discovery matrix all independently confirmed nothing else on-scope moved since the last sweep.

Signals pass: 16 channels checked · 6 X handles searched · 16 of 17 fetchable channels checked (europeanspaceflight.substack.com/feed skipped again per its standing 403 pattern, 2026-08-09-G/2026-09-05-G; the bare site was fetched instead and covers the same author). All content found was same-day Isar Aerospace Spectrum congratulatory posts (Aschbacher, Foust, Parsonson) already fully covered by the existing 2026-09-05 item, plus Marco Langbroek off-topic political posts (discarded). Vivienne Machi's Aviation Week author page surfaced one new but paywalled trend piece on orbital-cargo/reentry firms with no single dateable new fact, left undrafted. Searched 6 X handles (jeff_foust, Sandra_I_Erwin, Peter_J_Beck, mouthofmorrison, ChinaSpaceGuy, AJ_FI); no retrievable on-scope post beyond what bluesky already surfaced.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Full matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US, plus FCC and multilateral rotating slots). Every candidate surfaced was already published: PLD Space Series C extension, Kepler Aerospace seed round, the FCC satellite licensing overhaul, Spire/PlanetiQ NOAA radio-occultation contracts, and the already-tracked Orbex insolvency and FCC licensing precedents. No genuinely new story found.

Narrow same-day re-check (~8h gap). Harvester queue was dominated by ISRO-privatisation-letter reposts (already held) and SpaceX stock/IPO chatter. Two new items: Cowboy Space's Kent, WA facility lease for orbital-data-center hardware, and Oppenheimer's Sept 2 SpaceX price-target raise to $280.

Signals pass: 14 channels checked · 2 X handles searched · 14 of 17 fetchable channels checked (skipped europeanspaceflight.substack.com/feed, still 403 per standing pattern; spacepolicyonline.bsky.social and anatolyzak.bsky.social skipped as redundant with each person's checked site channel this run). Only new find: Jeff Foust's bluesky post on Cowboy Space's Kent facility lease, drafted as a new item. Best-effort X search on 2 handles (Peter Beck, Tory Bruno) found no retrievable on-scope post.

Discovery pass: 10 queries · Matrix covered (launch/vehicle, financial, incident/debris, non-US, bankruptcy/M&A). Most hits were already-known or stale/recycled stories (a 2025 NVS-02 failure report recirculating, a July Raymond James $800 SpaceX price target reappearing as September filler, the already-published Isar Aerospace launch). Two genuinely new candidates surfaced and drafted: Cowboy Space's Kent facility lease and Oppenheimer's Sept 2 SpaceX price-target raise. The White House/Paris-summit and ISRO-privatisation-letter stories are already sitting in held.json awaiting Florian; not re-queued.

• 2026-08-18-cnes-compact-telescope-rfi 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window

Isar Aerospace's Spectrum reached orbit on its second flight, the first orbital launch from Western Europe, caught first via the mandatory signals pass; ISRO completed the first 100% thrust test of its semi-cryogenic engine power head. Queue, HTML pass, and discovery matrix were otherwise fully quiet.

Signals pass: 12 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 12 of 17 fetchable channels checked (rotated out Marcia Smith's and Andrew Parsonson's duplicate site/substack legs and Anthony Colangelo, already thin this gap). Foust and Parsonson both confirmed Isar Aerospace's Spectrum reaching orbit within minutes of the event, ahead of any trade-outlet writeup; every other channel's in-window content (Aschbacher's BepiColombo post, Andrew Jones' Pallas-1/Shenzhou posts, Zak's Proton-PM/Progress posts, Vivienne Machi's AMTI/Schiess pieces) was already published by earlier sweeps.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered; every hit traced to already-published items (PLD Space Series C extension, Kepler Aerospace seed round, NOAA NESDIS TMATE-adjacent award) or generic background with no fresh dateable fact.

Narrow same-day re-check. One new item: three previously-undisclosed Space Force SB-AMTI vendors (Blue Origin, Boeing, Umbra) named by Aviation Week, dated to their June 2 contract signing. One scope question queued for Florian (ISRO staff associations' privatization letter). Isar Aerospace's Spectrum second launch is scheduled for 20:00 UTC today and had not occurred as of this sweep.

Signals pass: 14 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 14 of 17 fetchable channels checked this narrow re-check (skipped Marcia Smith's/Anatoly Zak's duplicate site legs already covered via their bluesky feeds, and the substack leg which still 403s per 2026-08-09-G); everything found was already published (BepiColombo, Schiess CSO, Blue Origin Mars telecom, Sierra Space Dream Chaser, Isar Aerospace pre-launch chatter) except Vivienne Machi's Aviation Week SB-AMTI vendor-pool piece, drafted as a new item. No X handles searched given the fetchable leg's yield; budget not needed.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US/China, EO-procurement, FCC, India, Europe); every result traced to already-published items (PLD Space Series C extension, European Launcher Challenge contracts, FCC D2D NPRM, ISRO privatization background) or the pre-launch Isar Aerospace Spectrum attempt (scheduled 20:00 UTC today, not yet occurred).

Narrow ~5.5h re-check following an active prior sweep: the harvester queue was almost entirely EOS-05 launch-reaction pieces and SpaceX stock chatter, the HTML pass and a 16-of-17-channel signals pass turned up nothing not already merged, and an 11-query discovery matrix confirmed the same. Zero new items, zero updates; a genuinely quiet gap, not under-coverage.

Signals pass: 16 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 16 of 17 fetchable channels checked (europeanspaceflight.substack.com/feed 403'd, standing failure per 2026-08-09-G); every substantive lead found (Project-S, HyImpulse Series A extension, PLD Space Series C extension, ArcSpace welding demo, Blue Origin Mars comms contract, NASA launch-procurement office, Sierra Space Dream Chaser, Schiess change-of-command, Isar Spectrum scrub) was already published by the prior two same-day sweeps; Isar Aerospace's second Spectrum flight remains unflown as of this run's `now`. xSearch not run this pass; the fetchable leg alone covered the same ground the queue and discovery pass also found, and no thin lead needed X follow-up.

Discovery pass: 11 queries · Matrix fully covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US China/India, connectivity, launch-infra rotating slots); 5 candidates surfaced (PLD Space Series C, Kepler Aerospace seed round, European Launcher Challenge contracts, OHB/SES IRIS2, Isar Spectrum scrub), all already published by the prior sweeps.

Quiet ~8h gap: the harvester queue was almost entirely SpaceX stock/IPO chatter and already-published ISRO EOS-05 coverage. Three genuinely new items shipped from the signals and direct-fetch legs: ESA/JAXA's BepiColombo separating from its transfer module to begin Mercury arrival, a thinly-sourced SpaceNews report of NASA consolidating launch procurement into one office, and SpaceX's FCC filing urging the commission to sunset its $4.5B rural broadband High-Cost Fund over rural ISP objections.

Signals pass: 15 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 15 of 17 fetchable channels checked (rotated to skip Marcia Smith's and Anatoly Zak's site legs in favor of their bluesky legs, and covered all three of Andrew Parsonson's legs this run; his substack 403'd). Every genuinely new lead this run (BepiColombo MTM separation via Aschbacher/Foust/Ars Technica; the NASA launch-office and SpaceX/FCC High-Cost Fund stories via Foust's and Broadband Breakfast's Sept 2-4 coverage) traced back to material already fetched or found via WebSearch off this leg. Everything else checked (Isar Aerospace's Sept 4 Spectrum scrub, Project-S stealth exit, HyImpulse/PLD Space funding extensions, Sierra Space Dream Chaser payloads, Blue Origin's Mars Telecom win, Crew-13's delay to late September, Galactic Energy's Pallas-1 debut, the SAT Streamlining Act markup) was already published under an existing id. No X search run this pass; the fetchable leg was fully productive and budget went to chasing and sourcing the three new leads instead.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch/vehicle, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US/China, bankruptcy, EO procurement, human-spaceflight, non-US launch contracts). Every surfaced candidate (Orbex's Feb administration, Astroscale/Isar ADRAS-J2, PLD Space and HyImpulse funding, NASA's CSDA On-Ramp 2 awards, the CLD program status) was already published under an existing id or predates this run's window and was previously covered; nothing new.

• 2026-08-20-novaspace-eo-satellites-2035-forecast 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-08-20-cnes-kayrros-firewatch-wildfire 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window

Narrow ~3h38m re-check: queue was dominated by an already-covered ISRO EOS-05 launch and SpaceX stock chatter; HTML, signals, and discovery legs were otherwise fully quiet. Two genuinely new, on-scope product-demo items shipped: ST Engineering iDirect's 5G NR-NTN modem pilot and Sparkle/Hellas Sat's quantum-safe satellite link, both at noise impact with wide trade corroboration.

Signals pass: 13 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 13 of 17 fetchable channels checked (rotated to skip Marcia Smith's and Anatoly Zak's duplicate bluesky legs and Andrew Parsonson's substack/bluesky legs in favor of their richer site legs); nothing newer than the 17:27 UTC lastSweep and on-topic. European Spaceflight's Isar Aerospace Spectrum scrub (Sept 4, 5th scrub attempt, no confirmed cause beyond possible weather) and Aviation Week's AMTI vendor piece (restates the already-published 2026-08-04 Rocket Lab/STR $615M award) were both checked and left undrafted as too thin / not new. No X search run this pass given the narrow ~3h38m gap and a fully quiet fetchable leg; budget not needed.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US, EO procurement, human-spaceflight). All surfaced candidates (K2 Space Series D, York/All.Space acquisition, ESA European Launcher Challenge contracts) were already published under existing ids; nothing new.

One new item this narrow re-check: AST SpaceMobile's first commercial direct-to-cellular launch outside the US, in Japan alongside Rakuten Mobile (Aug 4, chased as a predates-window gap). Queue was almost entirely EOS-05 launch reaction and SpaceX stock chatter; HTML sources, signals pass, and an 8-query discovery matrix were otherwise fully covered ground.

Signals pass: 13 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 13 of 17 fetchable channels checked this narrow re-check (rotated out mainenginecutoff.com and planet4589.org/space/jsr, both low-frequency, plus the andrew-parsonson site/substack legs since his bluesky covered the same ground). Jeff Foust flagged a NASA astrophysics smallsat ops-start piece (routine-ops shape, left undrafted) and an Isaacman/McAlister item already published earlier today. Andrew Parsonson's bluesky confirmed Isar Aerospace's Sept 4 Spectrum launch scrub (no launch occurred, left undrafted) and the Project-S seed round (already published 2026-09-02). Vivienne Machi's Aviation Week author page surfaced a paywalled orbital-cargo/reentry trend piece (Outpost et al), general analysis not a discrete event, left undrafted. No X searches run this narrow re-check; budget spent on the fetchable leg and the Rakuten/AST chase.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, China, EO-procurement, failure, bankruptcy, India/Japan). Everything surfaced was already published (PLD Space Series C, PSLV-C62, New Glenn explosion, Starship Flight 13) or a stale resurfacing (a Sept 2025 Astroscale/NewSpace India PSLV deal). The Rakuten/AST SpaceMobile Japan D2C item was found via the harvester queue's Nikkei Asia entry, chased under the predates-window convention back to its actual Aug 4 event date.

Narrow same-day re-check (~6h gap). Queue was almost entirely EOS-05 launch reaction pieces and SpaceX stock chatter already covered by the prior sweep; genuine finds were the FAA's finalized Starship Pacific-reentry environmental review (updated via the queue's Federal Register feed) and a Payload/Space Intel Report piece on ASD Eurospace's GALAXY report of European space CEOs (drafted as commentary). All 8 HTML sources and 12 of 17 signals channels were quiet in-window.

Signals pass: 12 channels checked · 5 X handles searched · 12 of 17 fetchable channels checked this run, rotating out Josef Aschbacher/Anatoly Zak/Marcia Smith/Andrew Parsonson's duplicate legs and Jonathan McDowell's weekly JSR site (checked last narrow re-check). All quiet in-window except Aviation Week's Vivienne Machi and europeanspaceflight.com, both of which surfaced only already-published stories (Schiess change of command, Boeing/O3b mPower, Project-S) plus one general trend feature not tied to a discrete event. Searched 5 X handles (jeff_foust, SciGuySpace, Sandra_I_Erwin, Peter_J_Beck, torybruno); nothing on-scope and freshly posted found via search.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch/vehicle, financial, incident/debris, non-US/China, bankruptcy, regulatory, EO procurement, launch contracts). All surfaced candidates were already known to MCC (Isar/Maritime Launch Nova Scotia, Isar/Astroscale ADRAS-J2, FCC July 22 licensing overhaul) except the FAA Starship FONSI (drafted as an update) and the ASD Eurospace GALAXY report (drafted as commentary), both found via the queue/site legs, not this pass.

ISRO returned to flight with EOS-05, its first geosynchronous imaging satellite; Planet Labs posted record revenue and its first adjusted profit; Space Force got a new Chief of Space Operations; NASA's Isaacman pushed back on blanket commercialization; and SpaceX flew a Falcon 9 booster within two flights of its reuse record. Quiet queue otherwise, dominated by EOS-05 reaction pieces and SpaceX stock chatter.

Signals pass: 11 channels checked · 1 X handle searched · 11 of 17 fetchable channels checked (narrow ~7h43m gap; rotated out Marcia Smith's/Anatoly Zak's site legs and McDowell/Colangelo sites since their bluesky feeds and harvester RSS already cover the same ground). Every substantive find (PLD Space, HyImpulse, Synspective, Boeing/O3b mPower, Axiom Sortie Suit, Sierra Space Dream Chaser, Schiess) was already published by an earlier same-day sweep; only the Isaacman X thread (via Payload's reporting) and Schiess coverage were used. xSearch: verified Jared Isaacman's @NASAAdmin post via the syndication endpoint for the commentary item.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident, non-US/China, EO procurement, bankruptcy, regulatory, India privatization). All candidates traced to already-published items (Castelion/Muon Series C, NOAA Spire/PlanetiQ radio-occultation contract, Isar Aerospace Spectrum flight still scheduled) or remained unconfirmed/stale (ISRO PSLV/LVM3 privatization still lacks a signed contract for those specific vehicles, per the standing open question; NASA launch-procurement consolidation story stays paywalled beyond one sentence with no independent pickup found).

• 2026-08-20-spacewerx-stratfi-2026-awards 3→4 persistence: survived uncontested past the window

SES extended its Peruvian Navy satellite deal and Satellogic locked SynMax in as the exclusive maritime channel for its upcoming Merlin constellation; three prior-day items (Axelspace/Airbus, 4iG/Starlink Mobile, KSAT Hyper) picked up genuine new trade-press detail via Via Satellite's own reporting.

Signals pass: 13 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 13 of 17 fetchable channels checked, one per person, rotating out duplicate channels for people with 2-3 entries (Marcia Smith's second bluesky leg, Andrew Parsonson's site and substack legs). Vivienne Machi's Aviation Week page surfaced the Boeing/O3b mPower final-delivery story, already published 2026-09-02; Jeff Foust's bluesky items (Progress MS-35, Proton-PM fire update) and Andrew Jones' items (Isar Spectrum next attempt, ArcSpace) were either not-yet-flown/routine or already covered. No X searches run this pass; budget went to the fetchable leg and the discovery matrix instead.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US/Chinese, regulatory, agency contracts, bankruptcy, EO/connectivity). Three candidates surfaced (Open Cosmos/UK TacSys framework, PLD Space Series C extension, Isar/Astroscale ADRAS-J2 launch contract) were all already published under existing ids; the Isar Aerospace Spectrum second-flight item is scheduled for Sept 4, not yet flown.

• 2026-09-02-axelspace-airbus-imagery-partnership 2→3 Via Satellite's own Sept 3 writeup independently covers the Sept 1 Axelspace/Airbus GRUS imagery partnership with distinct wording and a CEO quote, giving genuine trade-press corroboration where the original crawl found nothing but wire-mirrors of the same release. Requesting corroboration_2plus now that real coverage exists.

Quiet narrow re-check: two genuinely new items (Planet's European defense/intel data deal, Galaxia's Simera Sense hyperspectral payload buy), one geopolitical scope call (White House pressure on US firms to skip Macron's Paris space summit) queued for Florian, and an otherwise fully covered queue, HTML pass, signals pass, and discovery matrix.

Signals pass: 12 channels checked · 3 X handles searched · 12 of 17 fetchable channels checked (rotated out Jonathan McDowell's stale site, and Marcia Smith's/Anatoly Zak's/Andrew Parsonson's duplicate site legs in favor of their bluesky feeds). Almost entirely quiet or already-known: Marcia Smith's two new posts (Rocket Lab Venus mission status, House floor schedule) were not discrete new facts; Andrew Parsonson's Isar Aerospace post and Josef Aschbacher's BepiColombo post both restated facts already in the queue or lacking a fresh industry angle. Searched 3 X handles (Peter Beck, Sandra Erwin, Joey Roulette), no retrievable on-scope post from this window.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US, EO contracts, bankruptcy/M&A). All 3 candidates surfaced (Kepler Aerospace seed round, Astrum Space SPAC, PLD Space/HyImpulse rounds) were already published under existing ids; the Technip Energies/SpaceX Starbase Louisiana $10B facility story was chased but left undrafted as an unattributed 'report suggests' bid rumor with no named source and no company confirmation.

Quiet ~6h re-check: two new items (Kineis/Netmore hybrid IoT partnership, ArcSpace's 2M-euro orbital-welding seed round) and one update adding CNES's French-industry detail to the already-published Roman telescope launch; the harvester queue was almost entirely SpaceX stock chatter and ISRO pre-launch previews, and both the signals pass and 8-query discovery matrix mostly found stories already published by earlier same-day sweeps.

Signals pass: 13 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 13 of 17 fetchable entries checked (rotated out Marcia Smith's and Anatoly Zak's duplicate bluesky legs plus Andrew Parsonson's site, keeping his substack RSS, since each person's other channel was already covered); europeanspaceflight.substack.com 403'd. Jeff Foust's bluesky surfaced the paywalled NASA-launch-office story (already logged 2026-09-03-A, left undrafted) and the House SAT Streamlining Act markup and Rocket Lab/Synspective launch, both already published; everything else already covered or off-topic. No X search run this pass; the fetchable leg alone covered the budget.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, China, India, Europe, EO contracts, bankruptcy); PLD Space's Sept 1 Series C extension and ArcSpace's funding surfaced but only ArcSpace was genuinely uncovered (PLD Space already published same-day); everything else traced to already-published items or off-window history (Orbex, Momentus)

Quiet ~7h48m re-check following an active prior sweep: the harvester queue was almost entirely SpaceX stock-speculation and off-topic chatter, and the HTML/signals legs mostly reconfirmed already-published ground. Two genuinely new items from the discovery pass: Chang Guang Satellite's 19-satellite dedicated 3D-mapping constellation and Munich's Project-S emerging from stealth with seed funding for orbital debris radar. A SpaceNews lead on a new NASA launch-procurement consolidation office was chased but left undrafted: paywalled beyond one sentence, no independently verifiable specifics.

Signals pass: 15 channels checked · 4 X handles searched · 15 fetchable channels checked (rotated to skip Marcia Smith's and Anatoly Zak's duplicate bluesky legs since their sites were checked instead; spacepolicyonline.com and europeanspaceflight.substack.com both 403'd, continuing the standing pattern). Jeff Foust's feed surfaced a same-window SpaceNews lead ("New NASA office to consolidate launch procurements") that stayed too thin to draft: the page is paywalled beyond its one-sentence lead, no named office, timeline, or quotes found via search or aggregator mirrors. Everything else found (HyImpulse Series A extension, Rocket Lab/Synspective, Pallas-1) was already known to MCC. Searched 4 X handles (Joe Morrison, Blaine Curcio, Scott Tilley, Brian Weeden); no fetchable on-scope first-party post found.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch/vehicle, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US/China, plus rotating free slots). Two genuinely new items surfaced (Chang Guang's 3D mapping constellation, Project-S seed funding); everything else (UAE Starlink license, 4iG/SpaceX Starlink Mobile, Crew-13 delay, NOAA RODB-2 awards, Isar Aerospace/ISRO upcoming launches) was already published or is a future-scheduled launch, not yet occurred.

• 2026-08-20-starlink-india-gen2-reapplication 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-08-19-eartheye-in2-partnership 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-08-19-speedcast-tgs-all-leo-starlink 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-08-19-stoke-space-nova-fit-checks 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-08-20-latconnect60-transcelestial-optical-network 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-08-20-draper-proteus-space-on-orbit-mission 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-08-20-spacesail-1b-series-b 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window

Narrow same-day re-check (~3h50m gap); queue was almost entirely SpaceX stock-speculation and off-topic chatter, and the HTML/discovery/signals legs mostly reconfirmed already-published ground. Three genuinely new items: Open Cosmos's UK TacSys framework selection, Boeing's final O3b mPower satellite delivery to SES, and a single-sourced Ars Technica report on NASA/Axiom's simplified Artemis IV spacesuit. A Rocket Lab 'Hungry Hippo' fairing story was chased and dropped as a likely stale-resurfacing trap (its Aug 27 completion claim did not check out against any dated primary source).

Signals pass: 14 channels checked · 4 X handles searched · 14 fetchable channels checked (rotated to skip Marcia Smith's and Anatoly Zak's duplicate bluesky legs since their sites were checked instead; Andrew Parsonson's substack 403'd, his site succeeded). Jeff Foust's feed surfaced the House licensing bill and Rocket Lab/Synspective 11th-satellite stories, both already published same-day. Everything else found (Telesat/Cailabs, Northwood Space, PLD Space, HyImpulse, Pallas-1, Blue Origin Mars Telecom) was already known to MCC. Searched 4 X handles (Peter Beck, Max Haot, Jared Isaacman, Tory Bruno); no fetchable on-scope first-party post found beyond already-published stories.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · 8-query matrix covered (launch/vehicle, financial, incident/regulatory, China, India, FCC regulatory, EO procurement, M&A/bankruptcy). 4 candidates surfaced (Kepler Aerospace seed round, Astrum Space/Black Spade SPAC, PLD Space Series C extension, HyImpulse Series A extension); all already published under existing ids.

A narrow same-day re-check (~5.5h gap) surfaced 10 new items via the signals pass, direct HTML fetches, and discovery: an Electron/Synspective launch, a House subcommittee markup on FCC licensing reform, Turkey's Artemis Accords signing, Sierra Space's Dream Chaser payload contracts, a fire at Russia's Proton-PM engine plant, a Telesat/Farcast antenna demo, an Astroscale/Isar debris-removal launch contract, a York Space VLEO platform, a predates-window UAE Starlink license grant, and a predates-window FAA spaceport RFI. No held items or updates this run; the harvester queue itself was heavily SpaceX-stock-speculation and off-topic, with essentially every genuine find coming from the signals pass or direct fetches.

Signals pass: 13 channels checked · 2 X handles searched · 13 of 17 fetchable channels checked (skipped Jonathan McDowell's stale site, and Parsonson's/Zak's/Marcia Smith's site legs in favor of their bluesky feeds already covered). Jeff Foust's bluesky feed was the single richest find of the run: Blue Origin's Mars orbiter contract (already published), House SAT Streamlining Act markup, Turkey's Artemis Accords signing, PLD Space and Rocket Lab/Synspective's 11th StriX launch all traced back to his posts. Andrew Parsonson's bluesky surfaced HyImpulse and PLD Space funding, both already published earlier today. Anatoly Zak's bluesky surfaced the Proton-PM fire. Aviation Week's author page 403'd on fetch (used cached search result instead). 2 targeted X searches (ChinaSpaceGuy/mouthofmorrison, SpaceDavenport) returned only stale (pre-window) posts, nothing usable.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered: launch/vehicle (Astroscale/Isar), financial (Louisiana tax incentives, already published), incident/regulatory (Proton-PM fire, FAA RFI, SAT Streamlining Act), non-US (UAE license, Proton-PM/Russia). Gayatri Rubbers (India) traced to a genuine but too-minor, pre-window supplier pilot order; Korean debris-cleanup piece was an evergreen market-trend explainer, not a dated event. Both left undrafted.

A near-total-junk queue (41 candidates, ~90% Russia/Rassvet stumble reaction already folded into the existing item this morning, plus SpaceX stock and Roman-telescope reaction chatter) still yielded four genuinely new items via the mandatory HTML pass, the signals pass, and direct chases of queue leads: a HyImpulse funding extension, an Axelspace/Airbus imagery-distribution partnership, 4iG's first European Starlink Mobile agreements with SpaceX, and SAS completing its A320neo Starlink rollout. One existing item (ESA/ispace-Europe MAGPIE) was updated and its lead upgraded to ESA's own first-party page after a Sept 2 signing ceremony.

Signals pass: 15 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 15 of 17 fetchable channels checked (rotated out Andrew Parsonson's substack and bluesky as same-person duplicates of his site, which was checked). Genuine finds: European Spaceflight's HyImpulse funding story (drafted) and ESA's MAGPIE signing-ceremony page (folded into the July 24 item as an update); everything else traced to already-published items (Roman launch, IRIS2/OHB, PLD Space Series C, Northwood factory, European Launcher Challenge) or was off-topic/non-commercial (Dutch/Belgian domestic politics reposts, routine ISS spacewalks). No X search leg run this pass; the fetchable leg alone supplied this run's best find.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, China-language, EO contract, bankruptcy/M&A, India, spaceport/regulatory). One candidate traced to a genuine near-duplicate of an already-published item (Telespazio Iberica Canary Islands EO contract, already covered 2026-07-07 under the Simera Sense angle); everything else was already-known ground (K2 Space, PLD Space, SpaceSail, OHB Sweden, NASA CSDA, Kulasekarapattinam) or pre-2026 stale (Virgin Orbit, Vector Launch history).

• 2026-07-24-esa-ispace-europe-magpie-contract 4→5 ESA's own Sept. 2 page confirms the MAGPIE contract's formal implementation signing ceremony (Space for Inspiration event, Copenhagen) and adds first-party mission-instrument detail not in the original Payload/European Spaceflight reporting; upgrading the lead source to ESA's first-party page per the upgrade path.

Narrow same-day re-check (~9h43m gap): a near-total-duplicate harvester queue (58 post-filter candidates, dominated by SpaceX Louisiana/stock-speculation follow-up and Bluesky launch-schedule chatter) plus a clean HTML and mostly-clean signals pass still surfaced a genuine escalation on Bureau 1440's struggling second Rassvet batch (ISW's near-total-failure assessment), a public-records-based follow-up on the SpaceX Louisiana tax incentives, and one new single-sourced MDA Space product item.

Signals pass: 14 channels checked · 5 X handles searched · 14 of 17 fetchable channels checked (skipped Marcia Smith's site and Anatoly Zak's site as same-person Bluesky/harvester-queue duplicates, and Andrew Parsonson's substack as a same-person site/bluesky duplicate). Everything found (PLD Space Series C, OHB/SES IRIS2, NASA/Blue Origin Mars Telecom, Telesat/Cailabs, Northwood Space, US Space Academy EO) was already published; Turkey's Artemis Accords signing matches the still-open Serbia scope question already in held.json, not re-queued. Best-effort X search on 5 handles (Peter Beck, Joe Morrison, Blaine Curcio, Brian Weeden, Scott Tilley) surfaced nothing dateable in this run's window.

Discovery pass: 9 queries · 9 queries covering the full matrix. Only new candidate was the MDA Space D2D announcement (drafted above); the D2D-spectrum query's top hit (EchoStar selling AWS-4/H-block spectrum to SpaceX for $17B) traced to a September 8, 2025 announcement, a full year stale, and was left undrafted. Everything else traced to already-published ground (ESA European Launcher Challenge, SES/OHB IRIS2, NOAA radio-occultation awards, CSDA On-Ramp 2, Kulasekarapattinam privatization EOI).

Narrow same-day re-check landed a major find via the signals pass (Blue Origin's $700M NASA Mars Telecommunications Network win over Rocket Lab, via Jeff Foust's bluesky ahead of trade pickup) plus three genuine contract/product items from the HTML pass (Kymeta DoD terminal order, Intuitive Machines two-satellite order, Inmarsat Maritime safety data hub) and SpaceX's FCC filing confirming Starship Flight 14 will attempt the vehicle's first orbital insertion around Sept. 15. The queue was otherwise dominated by SpaceX stock/IPO speculation, scheduled-launch previews, and off-topic content.

Signals pass: 13 channels checked · 4 X handles searched · 13 of 17 fetchable channels checked (McDowell/Colangelo/Machi via site, rest via bluesky API); Jeff Foust's bluesky post surfaced the NASA/Blue Origin Mars Telecom award before any other outlet, used as whitelist-observer corroboration. Marcia Smith's House CR passage post and McDowell's routine JSR catalog update had no stated commercial-space consequence, left undrafted. Vivienne Machi's only new post (Telesat/Cailabs) was already published earlier today per SWEEP_MEMORY 2026-09-01-L. Searched 4 X handles (Beck, Isaacman, Haot, plus a general sweep); nothing new and verifiable via the syndication endpoint.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered; G20/ISRO satellite hit was a stale April 2026 restatement, a Technip Energies/SpaceX turbine-fuel deal was unawarded tender speculation (out per the process-not-fact rule), and NISAR/Nepal-flood coverage read as human-interest on an EO capability rather than a discrete transaction; none drafted.

Narrow same-day re-check (~6h38m gap) after a productive morning sweep; queue was near-total SpaceX-stock/data-center speculation and Roman Space Telescope reaction, with the Brownsville water-deal refund follow-up unfetchable at every outlet carrying it (MyRGV and ValleyCentral both 403'd, KSAT didn't confirm the detail) and a same-day Telesat/Cailabs optical-connectivity release already published by the prior sweep. One genuinely new item shipped: Helogen's October in-orbit biomanufacturing missions (Payload exclusive). Signals and discovery passes both came up empty against already-published ground.

Signals pass: 15 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 16 of 17 fetchable channels checked (Jonathan McDowell's site skipped, known stale since 2026-08-31-P). spacepolicyonline.com's site and russianspaceweb.com's site both failed to load (challenge page / connection reset); substituted each person's bluesky channel instead, both of which are also in the fetchable list. europeanspaceflight.com's substack feed 403'd; substituted Andrew Parsonson's bluesky. All content found (Aschbacher, Langbroek, Henry, Farrar, Berger, Foust, Jones, Colangelo, Smith x2, Zak, Parsonson, Machi) either predates the window or matches items already published by the prior same-day sweep (PLD Space Series C, SES/OHB IRIS2, Diffraqtion, Sutherland spaceport dup, Pallas-1 debut, Northwood Space factory). No xSearch handles searched this run given the fetchable leg's full coverage and nothing new to corroborate via X.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch/vehicle, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US rotating on India/Japan, plus M&A and spaceport/spectrum free slots); every hit traced to already-published ground (PLD Space, NOAA CDP, NASA CSDA On-Ramp 2, Quantum Space SPAC, York/All.Space, JAXA/Rocket Lab Electron, FCC licensing overhaul) or historical/off-window results. Zero net-new candidates from this leg.

Narrow same-day re-check: four same-day items (PLD Space Series C extension, Kepler Aerospace India seed round, Vantor's Indo-Pacific maritime contract, Telesat/Cailabs optical partnership) plus two predates-window ESA contract gaps the discovery pass caught (Sentinel-1 NG, Aeolus-2), and a mainstream-corroboration attach on today's Pallas-1 debut-launch item.

Signals pass: 16 channels checked · 10 X handles searched · 16 of 17 fetchable channels checked (Marcia Smith's substack RSS skipped as a same-person duplicate of her site/bluesky already checked). Everything on-topic traced to already-published items (Sutherland/HIE duplicate flagged in SWEEP_MEMORY, MTG-I2, IRIS2/OHB). Andrew Parsonson's europeanspaceflight.com surfaced the PLD Space Series C item drafted this run via the regular queue. Searched 10 of 31 X handles (rotating set); no on-scope first-party post retrievable via the syndication endpoint beyond ground already covered.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US x2, EO contract, Europe contract, spaceport). The Europe-contract query surfaced two never-covered predates-window gaps (ESA/Thales Alenia Sentinel-1 NG, Airbus/ESA Aeolus-2), both drafted as new items with actual event dates; all other hits traced to already-published ground (European Launcher Challenge, Sentinel-3 launch, Kulasekarapattinam spaceport handover, Pallas-1).

Narrow same-day sweep: Galactic Energy's seismic Pallas-1 debut launch (found via WebSearch/queue) and Northwood Space's new Torrance antenna factory (found via the signals pass) were the only genuinely new items. The queue was almost entirely Roman Space Telescope launch reaction and SpaceX stock speculation; a Japan/AST SpaceMobile D2C spectrum story was chased but left undrafted over a source discrepancy on whether service has actually commenced.

Signals pass: 15 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 15 of 17 fetchable channels checked (skipped Marcia Smith's and Andrew Parsonson's own sites as duplicates of their already-checked bluesky/substack channels this run). mainenginecutoff.com 403'd. Jeff Foust and Andrew Parsonson both posted the already-published Aug 31 OHB/IRIS2 MEO contract (no update needed); Vivienne Machi's Aviation Week author page surfaced the new Northwood Space factory item, drafted above. X leg not run this pass; budget spent on the fetchable bluesky/site/substack legs.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, China non-US, FCC, EO contracts, Europe, India). All leads traced to already-published items (K2 Space Series D, NASA CSDA On-Ramp, ESA European Launcher Challenge, India spaceport privatization) or had no dateable new commercial-space event.

• 2026-08-18-intuitive-machines-eagle-vswir 3→4 persistence: survived uncontested past the window

Narrow same-day re-check (~5.5h gap): all ten unfiltered HTML sources and 12 of 17 signals channels were quiet in-window, and an 8-query discovery matrix traced every lead to already-published ground. Three genuinely new items came from the Google-News/harvester queue's Via Satellite entries: a DIU manufacturing-scale-up award for All.Space's Hydra terminal, NorthStar leading an ESA consortium on uncontrolled-reentry forecasting, and Viasat's ViaSat-3 F3 entering commercial service over Asia-Pacific.

Signals pass: 12 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 12 of 17 fetchable channels checked (rotation covers the rest next narrow re-check); everything found traced to already-published items (Diffraqtion, Roman Space Telescope launch, SES/OHB IRIS2) or was too thin/off-window to draft (Rocket Lab-Synspective Electron slip to NET Sept 1 not yet flown, Anatoly Zak's Progress MS-35 campaign-status post, europeanspaceflight.substack.com 403'd). No X search run this narrow pass; the fetchable leg alone covered the window.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch/vehicle, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US x2, EO/institutional x2); every lead traced to already-published items (ESA Launcher Challenge Aug 27, MDA/Telesat Lightspeed Aug 4, Long March 7A failure Aug 10) or stale/off-window ground, nothing new.

Narrow same-day re-check (~2h40m gap) after a near-total-duplicate SpaceX-stock/turbine-speculation and Roman-telescope-followup queue; the only genuinely new find was a Starlink community pricing discount for residents near the new Starbase Louisiana site, chased via discovery search since the queue itself only carried its stock-reaction fallout.

Signals pass: 11 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 11 fetchable channels checked (10 via Bluesky public API, McDowell's site); every post since the 14:36 UTC lastSweep either predates the window or traces to already-published stories (Diffraqtion funding, SES/OHB IRIS2, Sutherland duplicate). No X handles searched this narrow re-check; the fetchable leg fully covered the budget.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Full matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, China, India, Europe, EO, bankruptcy/exec). Every hit traced to already-published items (CesiumAstro/1Aardvark, Quantum Space/Bridenstine, Kulasekarapattinam privatization, IRIS2/OHB, Hughes Chapter 11, LandSpace booster landing) or was too stale to chase (Array Labs $20M round, dated Jan 6 2026).

Narrow same-day re-check, ~9h gap. Two new items: OHB's nearly €1 billion SES contract to build all 18 IRIS2 MEO satellite platforms, and a $5M+ pre-seed extension for quantum-imaging startup Diffraqtion. Queue and HTML/signals passes were otherwise near-total duplicates of Roman Space Telescope launch coverage and SpaceX stock/OpenAI-Cursor feud speculation; discovery matrix traced every other lead to already-published ground.

Signals pass: 12 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 12 of 17 fetchable channels checked (rotation, ~9h gap since last sweep); spacepolicyonline.com 403'd as usual. Andrew Parsonson's bluesky independently confirmed the SES/OHB IRIS2 contract already surfaced via the queue. Vivienne Machi's Aug 28 'US Space Academy' executive-order piece is institutional workforce policy with no named commercial contractor or market-access change, left undrafted per the standing institutional-disclosure exclusion. No X handles searched this pass (fetchable leg fully covered the useful ground).

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US x3, constellation contract, layoffs). Every hit traced to already-published items (Long March 7A failure, Muon Space Series C, Telesat/MDA expansion, Hughes/EchoStar bankruptcy, H3/Michibiki launch, ISRO LVM3 tech transfer, Kulasekarapattinam spaceport) except the two drafted items, both surfaced via the queue rather than discovery itself.

Narrow same-day re-check dominated by Roman Space Telescope launch-day coverage and already-published ground; the only genuinely new find was Firefly CEO Jason Kim's on-record commentary (via Yahoo Finance and SatNews) that rocket supply still trails satellite demand despite SpaceX's dominance, drafted as commentary.

Signals pass: 13 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 13 of 17 fetchable channels checked (rotated out Anthony Colangelo's site and Andrew Parsonson's substack/bare-site legs, already covered by his Bluesky feed and europeanspaceflight.com's own listing checked in the discovery pass; SpacePolicyOnline's own site 403'd, its Bluesky leg substituted). Every substantive find traced to already-published items (Roman Space Telescope launch coverage, Sutherland/HIE spaceport acquisition -- already published 2026-08-25/28 and a known duplicate per SWEEP_MEMORY 2026-08-30-N, not redrafted -- ESA Launcher Challenge, Draco CDR, Ariane 6/Argonaut RPS). Andrew Parsonson's Polish Space Agency newsletter teaser named no discrete new fact or commercial-space consequence; left undrafted. Andrew Jones' Galactic Energy Pallas-1 debut is scheduled for Sept 1, not yet flown. No X/xSearch handles searched this run given the strength of the queue/HTML/discovery legs.

Discovery pass: 10 queries · 10 queries covering the full matrix plus two targeted at the Firefly CEO lead. All other hits traced to already-published or stale/out-of-scope ground (Iran Larak Island military strikes, misreported as 'rocket launch sites'; stale True Anomaly 2024 layoffs resurfacing; already-published India EO-PPP, ISRO privatization, FCC licensing overhaul, NASA CSDA On-Ramp 2, EarthDaily/NRO). Only the Firefly CEO commentary was genuinely new.

Quiet narrow-gap re-check (~4h11m since last sweep): two genuine gaps found outside the near-total Roman Space Telescope launch-day queue, both spaceport-infrastructure stories the harvester's Google News and signals legs surfaced rather than routine wire coverage.

Signals pass: 15 channels checked · 4 X handles searched · 14 of 17 fetchable channels checked (europeanspaceflight.com and spacepolicyonline.com site legs skipped, redundant with the harvester's own already-fetched RSS coverage of those exact sources this run; the substack RSS 403'd). One genuine gap found: Andrew Parsonson's bluesky surfaced HIE's Aug 25 Sutherland Spaceport asset acquisition, drafted as a new item. Searched 4 of 31 X handles (Peter Beck, Tory Bruno, Max Haot, Blaine Curcio), nothing new or on-scope surfaced; a stale Aug 9 Elon Musk tweet about Starlink-in-cars resurfacing in Yahoo Autos/Jalopnik reaction pieces today was not drafted (three weeks stale, speculative musing, not chased).

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial x2, incident, non-US x2, regulatory, M&A); every hit traced to already-published or already-covered ground (Muon Space Series C, FCC D2D NPRM, GalaxySpace Thailand, BlackStar Orbital/Pono SPAC, SpaceX/Cursor). Space-Eyes' $638M SPAC merger with McKinley (a counter-drone/geospatial-intel company with a satellite constellation still in planning) was reviewed and treated as out of scope: its current business is drone detection, not a commercial space operator. Both new items this run came from the candidate queue and the signals pass, not this leg.

A near-total-duplicate queue (dominated by Roman Space Telescope launch coverage and SpaceX stock/IPO churn) yielded two genuine finds: a five-month-old, never-covered Delta/Amazon Leo in-flight WiFi deal chased via discovery, and today's NASA/SpaceX Crew-13 launch delay from a Dragon oxidizer leak.

Signals pass: 13 channels checked · 3 X handles searched · 13 of 17 fetchable channels checked (rotated out Marcia Smith's and Anatoly Zak's site legs since their Bluesky feeds cover the same ground); everything in-window traced to already-published stories (MTG-I2, Sutherland spaceport, ESA Launcher Challenge, Roman Space Telescope launch commentary). Searched 3 named executives (Beck, Isaacman, Haot) on X, no on-scope first-party post beyond already-published/future-dated material.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US x2, EO, Europe, M&A); every hit traced to already-published items (Muon Space Series C, CesiumAstro, ESA European Launcher Challenge, Hughes/Dish bankruptcies, NASA CSDA EO awards) or a known stale trap (India's year-old Allied Orbits EO-PPP story).

A quiet queue dominated by Roman Space Telescope launch-day coverage and SpaceX stock chatter still yielded two real items: NASA's flagship Roman Space Telescope launched on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy, and discovery surfaced an unconfirmed but multiply-reported Royal Air Maroc/Starlink Aviation fleet Wi-Fi deal, chased past its Aug. 4 predates-window signing date as Africa's first such airline partnership.

Signals pass: 8 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 8 of 17 fetchable channels checked via the Bluesky public API (rotating out Marcia Smith/Anthony Colangelo/Vivienne Machi's already-dead lead and Eric Berger, whose feed showed the standing session-caching-stale pattern last run); every substantive on-scope find (Roman Space Telescope launch, already-published stories) traced to ground already covered by the queue or discovery pass. No X handles searched this run; the fetchable leg and the queue/discovery legs already covered the window.

Discovery pass: 10 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US x2, M&A, connectivity, regulatory, plus 2 targeted corroboration searches). Most hits traced to already-published items (Muon Space Series C, GalaxySpace Thailand export, Telesat Arctic/MDA expansion, FCC Part 100 licensing overhaul, Astrum/Black Spade SPAC) or confirmed-stale resurfacing (a SpaceNews Qianfan/Thousand Sails piece that mirrors to an October 2025 dateline; a Space Perspective/EOS-X acquisition dated July 2025). Two genuinely new, never-covered finds: the Roman Space Telescope launch and the Royal Air Maroc/Starlink Aviation deal.

Quiet queue (mostly SpaceX stock/Cursor-OpenAI speculation and scheduled-but-not-yet-flown Roman Space Telescope buildup) yielded two genuinely new items once chased beyond the surface framing: a Long March 6C upper stage fragmentation tracked by LeoLabs, and AeroVironment's NASA contract to build three Mars helicopters for the SkyFall mission.

Signals pass: 10 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 10 of 17 fetchable channels checked via the Bluesky public API (rotated out Vivienne Machi's dead Aviation Week lead per 2026-08-24-H, and the McDowell/Colangelo/Parsonson site legs since their Bluesky/substack feeds and the harvester's queue already cover the same ground this run). Every find traced to an already-published item (MTG-I2 completion, ESA Launcher Challenge, Sutherland spaceport, Draco CDR, Ariane 6 adaptations) or out-of-scope ground (Poland GNSS interference, Shenzhou-23 EVA). No X handles searched this run given time budget; the fetchable leg alone covered the ground.

Discovery pass: 10 queries · 10-query matrix covered (launch, financial x2, regulatory, non-US x3, constellation contract, incident, M&A). Every hit traced to an already-published item (Muon Space Series C, SpaceSail $1B, FCC D2D NPRM, GalaxySpace Thailand export, Rocket Lab/STR SB-AMTI $615M batch, ESA Launcher Challenge, Astrum/Black Spade SPAC, Hughes/Dish bankruptcies). The Long March 6C fragmentation and AeroVironment SkyFall items instead came from chasing a queue candidate (a vague Montana-debris headline led to the real, unrelated Long March 6C story) and the signals pass (a SpaceNews repost in Jonathan McDowell's Bluesky feed led to the AeroVironment contract).

• 2026-08-16-firefly-eclipse-miranda-engine-progress 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window

Zero-add sweep. The Google News queue was dominated by SpaceX stock/Cursor-OpenAI-access speculation and ISRO recruitment noise; the one candidate resembling news (NBC's Starship Indian Ocean recovery) restates the already-published Flight 13 Ship 40 recovery. The mandatory 10-source HTML pass, a 10-channel signals pass, and an 8-query discovery matrix all traced to ground already covered by earlier sweeps this week or stayed out of scope/window.

Signals pass: 10 channels checked · 3 X handles searched · 10 fetchable channels checked via the Bluesky public API/site (Marcia Smith and Andrew Parsonson skipped, already covered via harvester's own SpacePolicyOnline/European Spaceflight feed fetches this run; Vivienne Machi rotated out, standing dead lead). Andrew Jones's Bluesky surfaced a Shenzhou-23 EVA (no commercial angle stated, out of scope) and an upcoming Sept 1 Pallas-1 debut (not yet flown). Searched 3 X handles (Peter Beck, Jared Isaacman, Blaine Curcio); no retrievable on-scope post text found beyond stale or already-known material.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, China, India, EO, M&A, Europe launch). Every lead traced to already-published items (LandSpace Zhuque-3 landing, Muon Space Series C via STRATFI/TMATE items, NRO Capella/ICEYE US/Umbra SAR contracts, GalaxySpace Thailand delivery, MDA RADARSAT replenishment, BlackStar Orbital SPAC, Astrum SPAC, ESA European Launcher Challenge, MTG-I2/Ariane 6) or was out of window/scope (Vantor's NGA Luno award dated April 2026; IonQ's Aug 6 Capella release restating the already-published Aug 5 NRO contract with no new facts; India's ISRO privatization coverage unchanged since the prior sweep's undrafted call).

Narrow same-day re-check (~4h20m gap): the harvester queue was almost entirely SpaceX stock/Cursor-OpenAI speculation, Futurism AI stories, and evergreen Space.com content, with no new on-scope facts. The mandatory HTML and signals passes found only already-published stories. The discovery pass surfaced one genuinely new item: an Aug 5 SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage impact on the Moon, chased and dated to its actual event date despite predating the sweep window.

Signals pass: 13 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 13 fetchable channels checked (via the Bluesky public API where applicable); europeanspaceflight.com/substack and spacepolicyonline.com skipped as already covered by the harvester's own RSS feeds (both current through Aug 28, nothing newer in the queue), and Vivienne Machi's Aviation Week author page skipped per the standing dead-lead note (2026-08-24-H). Nothing new in window beyond already-published stories (MTG-I2, ESA Launcher Challenge, Sutherland, ICEYE/Spire newsroom releases, Trump space academy EO which stayed undrafted as institutional/no commercial nexus) and pre-launch buildup (Roman Space Telescope, Pallas-1 debut) left for a future sweep once flown. No X search leg run this pass; the Bluesky/site legs covered the budget.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, China, Japan/India, EO, M&A, spaceport). Surfaced one genuinely new, never-covered item (the Aug 5 Falcon 9 lunar impact, chased despite predating this run's window per the standing chase rule) plus several already-published stories (Astrum Space SPAC, Quantum Space SPAC, NOAA radio-occultation awards, SpaceX Louisiana spaceport) and two out-of-scope defense-adjacent finds (Castelion hypersonic missiles, Space-Eyes/KMS Solutions, both non-orbital).

Quiet re-check, ~7.5hr gap: the queue was near-total SpaceX stock/Cursor-OpenAI drama and ISRO recruitment noise, the mandatory 10-source HTML pass and a 12-channel signals pass surfaced only already-published stories (MTG-I2, ESA Launcher Challenge, ICEYE/Spire releases), and an 8-query discovery matrix traced every lead to ground already covered earlier today or in prior sweeps. Zero new items, zero updates.

Signals pass: 12 channels checked · 2 X handles searched · 12 of 17 fetchable channels checked via the Bluesky public API plus two independent sites (Jonathan's Space Report, Main Engine Cut Off); rotated out Marcia Smith's and Anatoly Zak's site legs and Andrew Parsonson's site/substack since the harvester's own SpacePolicyOnline/European Spaceflight feeds and their Bluesky posts already cover the same ground (2026-07-30-C/2026-08-29-E pattern), and Vivienne Machi's Aviation Week lead per 2026-08-24-H (still dead). Every post found traced to already-published items (MTG-I2 launch, ESA European Launcher Challenge, Sutherland spaceport, Trump Space Academy order) or off-topic chatter; a new lead (Poland GNSS interference along its Baltic coast, per Andrew Parsonson) had no named operator, government statement, or commercial angle and was left out of scope. Best-effort X search on 2 handles (Peter Beck, Jared Isaacman) surfaced no retrievable on-scope post text.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, China, India, EO). All three plausible leads (Muon Space Series C, OHB Sweden EPS-Sterna, Astrum/Black Spade SPAC) traced to already-published items or stale (March) contract dates; everything else (New Glenn explosion Wikipedia hit, LandSpace booster landing, SpaceSail funding, Dish Wireless prepackaged Chapter 11, GalaxySpace Thailand export) also matched existing items.

Normal-mode sweep, ~11h47m gap. Drafted 3 new items: SpaceX's FCC filing urging scrutiny of Iridium's conduct during the Rocket Lab merger review, InspeCity's $10.5M pre-Series A round for in-space servicing missions, and Ovzon's first Germany market entry via IABG Teleport and MBS partnerships. Queue was dominated by SpaceX/Tesla stock speculation and Louisiana Starbase follow-up coverage; the mandatory HTML source pass and signals pass surfaced only already-published stories. Discovery pass caught a year-stale NASA COSMOS contract resurfacing before it was drafted.

Signals pass: 12 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 12 of 17 fetchable channels checked (rotated out Vivienne Machi's Aviation Week author page, a standing dead lead per 2026-08-21-I/2026-08-24-H, plus Marcia Smith's and Anatoly Zak's redundant site legs since their Bluesky accounts and the harvester's own SpacePolicyOnline feed already cover the same content). All findings were already-published stories (MTG-I2 launch, Space Academy executive order, Sutherland spaceport) or genuinely off-scope (Russian ICBM test NOTAM, Polish space agency labour dispute). No X handles searched this run; the fetchable leg alone covered the window.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US, EO, M&A, gov contracts). Surfaced a genuinely new lead (SpaceX/Iridium FCC filing, drafted) plus two dead ends caught before drafting: NASA's $1.8B COSMOS contract to ASCEND Aerospace read as fresh but traced to an August 2025 award (a year stale, confirmed via GovConWire/Space Coast Daily dating); GalaxySpace's Thailand satellite export and Astrum Space's SPAC merger both traced to already-published items.

• 2026-08-10-esa-launcher-capacity-shortage-2030 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window

Normal-mode sweep, ~11h51m gap. Three new items: GalaxySpace's first turnkey Chinese-commercial satellite export to Southeast Asia (Thailand's GISTDA), MaiaSpace's rideshare-broker deal with RIDE!, and HIE's acquisition of Orbex's failed Sutherland Spaceport assets. The harvester queue was again dominated by SpaceX stock speculation and Roman Space Telescope launch-prep coverage; the mandatory HTML source pass and most of the signals pass reconfirmed already-published stories rather than surfacing new ones.

Signals pass: 10 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 10 of 17 fetchable channels checked this run (europeanspaceflight.com and spacepolicyonline.com skipped as already covered via the harvester's own feed fetch, both showing nothing newer in health; Jonathan McDowell's site and Vivienne Machi's Aviation Week author page skipped as standing dead/low-yield leads). Andrew Jones flagged Galactic Energy's Pallas-1 debut as scheduled for Sept 1 (not yet flown, left undrafted per the standing not-yet-launched rule); nothing else fetchable yielded an on-scope fact not already covered. No X handles searched this run; the fetchable leg's yield was thin enough that the budget went to the open-web discovery pass instead.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US, plus rotating EO/FCC/M&A/China slots). Muon Space's $250M Series C and SpaceSail's $1B Series B both traced to already-published Aug 20 items. The debris-warning query surfaced only general Kessler-syndrome explainer/analysis pieces, no new dateable incident. The China query surfaced GalaxySpace's Thailand/GISTDA satellite export, drafted as a new item; Astrum Space's SPAC merger and Space-Eyes' KMS option (M&A query) both traced to the already-published Aug 28 item and the standing out-of-scope Space-Eyes precedent respectively.

Narrow same-day re-check (~2h48m gap): a near-total-duplicate 14-candidate queue (SpaceX/Starlink stock speculation, already-published MTG-I2/Ariane 6 and Louisiana Starbase follow-up coverage, a resurfacing Ship 40 recovery wire piece already folded into the existing item), a 10-source mandatory HTML pass, an 8-channel signals check, and a 10-query discovery matrix all traced to already-published ground or unconfirmable leads. One candidate (Starlink's Turks and Caicos Islands telecom licence) was left undrafted: the territory's own Telecommunications Commission page and a local outlet both confirmed only that the signing ceremony was SCHEDULED for August 27, and no source fetchable this run confirmed it actually took place. Zero new items, zero updates.

Signals pass: 8 channels checked · 2 X handles searched · 8 of 17 fetchable channels checked via the Bluesky public API and direct site fetch (rotation; europeanspaceflight.com and spacepolicyonline.com already covered via the harvester feed per candidates-context health, both showing nothing newer than lastSweep). All checked channels' newest posts predate this run's ~2h48m window; nothing new or on-scope. 2 X handles searched (Peter Beck, Sandra Erwin), no retrievable on-scope post inside the window.

Discovery pass: 10 queries · Matrix covered (launch x2, financial, incident/regulatory x2, non-US China/India/Japan x3, M&A, export control). Every substantive lead traced to an already-published item (CASC Long March 7A failure Aug 10, LandSpace Zhuque-3 booster landing, Muon Space Series C, K2 Space Series D, Allied Orbits, NOAA RODB-2, Astrum Space SPAC, SES/Elveo D2D) or a stale/out-of-scope story (a Aug 10 DOJ satellite-modem export-control guilty plea, over two weeks old and below the predates-window chase bar).

Narrow same-day re-check (~9hr gap): a near-total SpaceX-stock/Louisiana-follow-up queue yielded two genuinely new items (Astrum Space's $1B SPAC deal, a Kepler/NorthStar SDA hosted-payload partnership) plus an update confirming Ariane 6's first successful GTO launch (MTG-I2), upgraded to ESA's own first-party report.

Signals pass: 8 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 8 fetchable channels checked via the Bluesky public API and Aviation Week's author page (europeanspaceflight.com and spacepolicyonline.com covered via the harvester feed per standing note, planet4589.org/anatolyzak.bsky.social rotated out this narrow same-day run). Aschbacher's ELC/EVA posts, Langbroek/Farrar/Henry off-topic or stale posts, Foust/Jones China and FAA-RFI posts, and Machi's Trump-policy Debrief piece all traced to already-published items or out-of-scope personal content; nothing new in window. No X/xSearch legs run this narrow re-check given the fetchable leg's full coverage.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · 8-query matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US x2, FCC/regulatory, EO procurement, Japan). Everything on-scope traced to already-published items (Muon Space Series C, Spire/PlanetiQ NOAA radio-occultation, ispace/MHI Ultra lander, FCC D2D unlicensed-spectrum NPRM) or out-of-scope leads (Relativity Networks is terrestrial data-center fiber, not space; a Taiyuan Long March-6C rideshare carried only student/education microsats, no commercial operator; India's ISRO PSLV/LVM3 privatization remains unconfirmed policy intent with no named consortium, consistent with 2026-08-27-D/J). Two genuinely new, undrafted items (Astrum Space SPAC, Kepler/NorthStar hosted-payload partnership) came from the candidate queue's Via Satellite/Payload entries, not from these discovery queries.

• 2026-07-20-arianespace-ariane6-mtg-i2-geo 4→5 MTG-I2 launched successfully Aug. 27 as scheduled; upgraded lead to ESA's own first-party report of the completed launch (previously Via Satellite reporting the scheduled date) and folded in the outcome, Ariane 6's ninth-flight count, and the completed three-satellite MTG family detail.

Narrow same-day re-check surfaced ESA's first European Launcher Challenge contract awards (€543.6M combined to Isar Aerospace, Rocket Factory Augsburg, and PLD Space) via the mandatory ICEYE/ESA source pass, plus a smaller ICEYE product-integration item (FloodID). Everything else traced to already-published items, stale resurfacing, or unconfirmable leads.

Signals pass: 8 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 8 of 17 fetchable channels checked (rotation, within budget); europeanspaceflight.com and spacepolicyonline.com skipped as covered via harvester feed (both 304/current in health block). Josef Aschbacher's own Bluesky post confirmed the ESA European Launcher Challenge signing same-day (already covered via ESA's own press release, no new fact). Marco Langbroek flagged Galactic Energy's Pallas-1 debut launch, set for Sept 1, not yet flown. No other on-scope factual finds; Eric Berger's feed returned stale (pre-2026) posts, a session-dependent Bluesky API quirk noted in prior sweeps.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch/vehicle, financial, incident, regulatory, non-US China/India, M&A). Only genuinely new, actionable find was the ESA European Launcher Challenge signing (drafted above). Muon Space funding, FCC D2D NPRM, and the Long March 7A failure are all older than this run's window and already reflected elsewhere. India's ISRO PSLV/LVM3/SSLV privatization story remains unconfirmed by a fetchable primary source (pib.gov.in 403'd again) beyond the same SatNews/BusinessToday synthesis already judged too ambiguous to draft earlier today; left undrafted, consistent with that call. The SpaceX/xAI merger surfaced in search is old news already folded as context into an existing item.

Narrow same-day re-check: LeoLabs' $20.68M Space Force Scout-S radar OTA, an OSC/TraCSS pilot-mode and commercial-data-hold status update, and a chased India EO-constellation item (Pixxel-led Allied Orbits, dated to its Aug. 12 Lok Sabha disclosure).

Signals pass: 7 channels checked · 3 X handles searched · 7 of 17 fetchable channels checked (rotation; narrow ~8hr gap), all current with nothing newer than lastSweep on-scope. Searched 3 X handles (Peter Beck, Jonathan McDowell, Eric Berger); no retrievable on-scope first-party post found via the syndication endpoint.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident, China/India/Europe, free EO slot). Surfaced the Pixxel/Allied Orbits India EO-constellation Lok Sabha disclosure (drafted, chased past the window per the important-event rule), a GalaxySpace/Thailand GISTDA satellite-export story (left undrafted, source pages 403'd, unfetchable), and an ISRO PSLV/LVM3-to-private-sector manufacturing statement (left undrafted, ambiguous scope beyond the already-known SSLV/HAL transfer and no fetchable primary confirmation; flagged in SWEEP_MEMORY). All other hits (Muon Space Series C, K2 Space Series D, FCC Part 100 order, Ariane 6/MTG-I2) traced to already-published items or a not-yet-flown launch.

• 2026-08-12-texas-broadband-office-pauses-bead-disbursements 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-08-13-korea-neonsat-constellation-preshipment 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-08-13-kairospace-dorb-deorbit-test 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window

Quiet narrow same-day re-check dominated by SpaceX's Louisiana Starbase announcement being re-reported by 40+ outlets with no new facts; the only genuine find was NOAA's TMATE microwave-sounder awards to Spire, Muon Space, and Weather Stream, caught via the queue's Via Satellite/Spire entries.

Signals pass: 11 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 11 of 17 fetchable channels checked (europeanspaceflight.com and spacepolicyonline.com's own site already covered via the harvester's RSS feed this run, both showing nothing newer; Jonathan McDowell's site and Anthony Colangelo's site skipped for budget/rotation on this narrow same-day re-check). Andrew Parsonson's Bluesky post on Poland's GNSS interference matches the already-checked European Spaceflight article; judged out of scope (no named commercial operator or stated commercial-space consequence). Vivienne Machi's 'NRO Takes Commercial SAR Partnerships' headline remains unfetchable (dead lead, flagged 2026-08-21/2026-08-24). Nothing else new in window; no X searches run given the fetchable leg already covered the ground.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · 8-query matrix covered (launch/vehicle, financial, incident/regulatory, China, India, EO contracts, FCC/regulatory, Japan); every substantive hit traced to an already-published item (Long March 7A failure, Muon Space Series C, K2 Space Series D, Starcloud Series A extension, FCC D2D unlicensed NPRM, ISRO manufacturing handover, Rocket Lab/iQPS) or was out of scope (Relativity Networks' terrestrial fiber funding, unrelated to Relativity Space).

Normal-mode sweep, ~11h44m gap. Five new items (ICEYE Korea entity, Ukraine's Order of Freedom for Musk amid a Starlink access request, a $1.5B Hughes/EchoStar bondholder examiner fight, EarthDaily's wildfire-insurance expansion, City Labs' second nuclear demo) and one update (Starbase Louisiana operational detail from Payload/SpacePolicyOnline). The mandatory HTML source pass again caught the ICEYE Korea release before the queue or discovery did.

Signals pass: 13 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 13 of 17 fetchable channels checked this run (rotation covered the rest recently); all posts/entries in the Aug 24-26 window traced to already-published stories (Starbase Louisiana, Draco CDR, Ariane 6 Block 3, SpaceWERX STRATFI) or were off-topic/personal; no X search run this pass given the bsky/site legs already covered these same voices' latest on-topic activity.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch/vehicle, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US China/India/Japan, FCC regulatory, EO procurement); every hit traced to an already-published item or a stale/pre-window date (e.g. EarthDaily-NRO contract from May 5, ISRO manufacturing handover from Aug 23, FCC unlicensed D2D proceeding from Aug 9).

Normal-mode sweep, ~11h42m gap. Drafted 8 new items (SpaceX's B1067 record 37th flight and last Florida Starlink Falcon 9 mission; Redwire/Edge Aerospace DPU manufacturing deal; CesiumAstro's 1Aardvark acquisition; TrustPoint's NAVAIR C-band GNSS demo; Impulse Space's GEO rideshare scaling; ICEYE's Netherlands and India country entities; SES's expanded Elveo Mobile D2D investment, chased back to its Aug 17 announcement date) and one update (new National Space Transportation Policy details plus the FAA RFI's exact Oct 26 comment deadline). The queue was dominated by ~90 syndicated variants of SpaceX's already-published Starbase Louisiana story.

Signals pass: 12 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · europeanspaceflight.com and spacepolicyonline.com's site feed are covered via the harvester (candidates-context health: 10 entries newest Aug 25 10:38; 0 new entries respectively), so spent budget on the 12 channels above instead of re-fetching those two sites. All 12 checked clean: ISS antenna spacewalk (Aschbacher, Parsonson) and Draco CDR/Ariane 6 Argonaut posts (Parsonson) are already published or out of scope (routine ISS maintenance); SpacePolicyOnline's Bluesky post on the FAA RFI's Oct 26 deadline fed this run's white-house-policy update. vivienne-machi's Aviation Week author page remains a standing unfetchable dead lead (flagged 2026-08-21-I, 2026-08-24-H) and was not re-attempted. No xSearch handles searched this run given the strong yield from the fetchable/harvester legs and HTML source pass; budget stayed under the 15-fetch cap (12 used).

Discovery pass: 11 queries · Matrix covered: launch/vehicle, financial/M&A, incident/debris, regulatory (FCC), non-US (China/India/Japan). The bastillepost.com China AI-satellite queue candidate traced to an Aug 6 Smart Dragon-3/Star.ai launch, over 2 weeks stale, left undrafted. FCC D2D spectrum NPRM (Aug 9) and ISRO's National Space Day rocket-manufacturing-privatization framing (Aug 23) both traced to dates predating the window without a new dated contract/deadline beyond what was already reported; left undrafted as process/aspirational rather than a discrete new action. Japan query surfaced only general, already-known fund background. All other genuinely new candidates (SpaceX B1067/Florida finale, Redwire/Edge Aerospace, CesiumAstro/1Aardvark, TrustPoint/NAVAIR, Impulse Space) were drafted.

• 2026-08-11-starlink-poland-roaming-exclusion 3→4 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-08-12-redwire-kanematsu-japan-partnership 1→2 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-08-12-earthdaily-canada-smatak-border-contract 1→2 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-08-12-nova-planet-space-intelligence-partnership 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window

SpaceX and Louisiana officials confirmed a $100 billion Starbase Louisiana Starship spaceport at Vermilion Parish; also drafted a Western Australia spaceport grant, a satellite self-defense contract, a smallsat bus-licensing deal, an ESA reentry-safety milestone, and three routine product/contract items.

Signals pass: 13 channels checked · 3 X handles searched · 13 of 17 fetchable channels checked (rotated out Aschbacher's X handle, McDowell's/Zak's/Smith's X duplicates of already-checked site/bluesky channels); Parsonson's Aug 25 Bluesky post surfaced the Draco CDR item, already in the harvester queue. Andrew Jones/Zak posts on Chang'e-7 postponement and a Plesetsk NOTAM were already covered or too thin to source (single informal claim, no commercial angle). Searched Beck/Berger/Foust X handles; found only the already-published Aug 7 FCC Space Bureau leadership item.

Discovery pass: 13 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US x3). Louisiana spaceport was the dominant story; KSAT/N3X and VyomIC traced to recap/stale-resurfacing and were left undrafted; FCC Space Bureau lead traced to an already-published Aug 7 item.

Quiet queue (mostly SpaceX stock/Louisiana-spaceport speculation and routine launch previews); real activity came from same-day trade/wire releases and a signals-pass follow-up: Kepler's optical relay network reaching commercial operations, KSAT's Hyperion demo campaign, a new NanoAvionics bus and a Star Catcher/Aethero power deal, plus updates folding new detail into three existing items (SDA Tranche 1 checkout progress, Musk's Falcon 9 retirement condition, and worsening Bureau 1440/Rassvet satellite losses).

Signals pass: 13 channels checked · 3 X handles searched · 13 fetchable channels checked directly via the Bluesky public API and each site; spacepolicyonline.com and europeanspaceflight.com (site + substack) were covered via the harvester's own RSS health check (nothing newer than lastSweep) rather than re-fetched bare, per standing practice. Only genuinely new find: Anatoly Zak's Aug 24 Bluesky post on Bureau 1440/Rassvet second-batch satellite losses, folded into an existing item update. Everything else (Aschbacher's ISS spacewalk posts, Foust/Jones/Parsonson/SpacePolicyOnline items) was either out of scope (routine ISS ops) or already covered. 3 X-handle searches run (best-effort), surfacing only already-published stories.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, China, India, Europe, EO, launch-failure). All leads traced to already-published items (Muon Space, K2 Space, Apex, HEO/Planet Labs SkySat, Long March 7A failure, Aeolus-2) or, in Space42's case, a July 2025 financing announcement resurfacing under a fresh-looking Gulf News date -- caught before drafting and left out as stale.

• 2026-08-10-ast-spacemobile-q2-2026-results 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-08-09-india-kulasekarapattinam-spaceport-privatization 3→4 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-08-11-proteus-space-kim-crider-board 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window

Quiet queue (mostly SpaceX stock speculation and ISRO privatization political noise) still yielded four new items via discovery and the harvester's trade/defense feeds (Kongsberg N3X constellation expansion, Iran's Starlink device-seizure report, Beyond Reach Labs' Flarewing solar arrays, ESA's Ariane 6 configuration for Argonaut) plus one update (Christmas Island Starship 40 recovery vessel).

Signals pass: 11 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 11 of 17 fetchable channels checked; europeanspaceflight.com and spacepolicyonline.com's site leg are already covered via the harvester's own RSS fetch (nothing newer in health). Jeff Foust's feed carried a repost of Andrew Jones' Chang'e-7 postponement post, already published. Vivienne Machi's Aug 21 'NRO Takes Commercial SAR Partnerships' headline is the same unverifiable lead flagged 2026-08-21-I (404 on guessed URL, no fetchable article); left undrafted again. No fetchable X handles attempted this run; budget spent on Bluesky/site legs instead.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch/anomaly, financial, incident/regulatory, China, Europe, EO contracts, plus 2 candidate-driven queries). Every financial/contract hit (Muon Space, K2 Space, Dawn Aerospace, NOAA RODB-2, Long March 7A failure, Aeolus-2/Airbus, Landspace megaconstellation contracts) traced to already-published items or previously-flagged stale resurfacings; the Russia/Barents Sea booster splashdown is a pre-launch NOTAM for a Soyuz/Rassvet mission not yet flown, left undrafted as not-yet-occurred. 4 genuinely new candidates surfaced: Kongsberg N3X, Iran Starlink arrests, Beyond Reach Labs Flarewing, ESA Argonaut/Ariane 6 config.

Quiet normal-mode sweep: harvester queue (38 candidates after filtering) was almost entirely SpaceX stock/M&A speculation and Indian domestic ISRO-privatization political noise; all 10 HTML sources, 17 signals channels, and an 8-query discovery matrix were current with nothing new. Two updates only: LandSpace's recovered Zhuque-3 booster tipped over on the pad days after its milestone landing, and SpaceX's already-published Cursor acquisition actually closed Aug. 14, never previously captured on the item.

Signals pass: 15 channels checked · 3 X handles searched · 15 of 17 fetchable channels fetched directly (all via the Bluesky public API where applicable); the remaining 2 (spacepolicyonline.com, europeanspaceflight.com sites) are already covered by the harvester's own RSS fetch of the same domains with newest entries predating lastSweep. Newest post/entry on every channel predates lastSweep except Andrew Jones' and SpacePolicyOnline's Chang'e-7 postponement post and launch-pick note, both already reflected via the queue. Searched 3 X handles (Isaacman, Curcio, Davenport), no fresh on-scope first-party post retrievable.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch/vehicle, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US China/Japan/India, ESA). Every hit traced to an already-published item (Muon Space Series C, ICEYE Scaleup Europe, Long March 7A failure, SpaceSail/Landspace megaconstellation contracts, Aeolus-2, Space-Eyes SPAC, SpaceX/Cursor deal) or to routine/out-of-scope content; zero new candidates.

• 2026-08-07-aule-space-isro-docking-test 1→2 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-02-11-orbex-insolvency-administration 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window

Quiet normal-mode sweep dominated by SpaceX stock speculation and ISRO National Space Day recap noise; genuine finds were China's Chang'e-7 lunar launch postponement (widely and independently corroborated, including by three whitelisted signals), a Qatar Airways/Starlink aviation-connectivity milestone, a CNES optical-telescope manufacturing RFI, and a concrete follow-on to the Kulasekarapattinam spaceport privatization process.

Signals pass: 15 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 15 of 17 fetchable channels checked (europeanspaceflight.com and spacepolicyonline.com bare sites skipped, already covered via harvester RSS with nothing newer per standing practice; the substack feed 403'd on fetch, no content retrieved). Andrew Jones, Jeff Foust and Marcia Smith's Bluesky posts all independently confirmed the Chang'e-7 delay same-day; Andrew Parsonson's Bluesky post surfaced the CNES telescope RFI, chased via WebSearch/direct fetch. X-handle searches rotated out this run; budget spent on the fetchable leg given a thin, mostly off-topic harvester queue.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch/vehicle, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US China+India, EO contract, M&A). Every substantive hit traced to already-published items (Muon Space Series C, Starcloud Series A extension, Hughes/EchoStar Chapter 11, NOAA RODB-2 award, ISRO rocket-manufacturing-privatization repeat quotes) except the Kulasekarapattinam EOI process detail, folded into an update.

• 2026-08-09-india-kulasekarapattinam-spaceport-privatization 2→3 IN-SPACe opened a formal Expression of Interest process for the Kulasekarapattinam handover, with concrete registration/site-visit/meeting dates and a specific financial eligibility bar, adding detail beyond the Aug. 9 initial announcement.

Very quiet normal-mode sweep: the harvester queue (296 consumed, 27 candidates) was almost entirely SpaceX stock/IPO-lockup speculation and stale ISRO National Space Day recap coverage, all 10 HTML sources and the discovery matrix traced only to already-published stories, and the only genuine finds were two follow-on regulatory developments on already-published items (an FAA NEPA comment period on Reditus Space's ENOS reentry, and the FAA's implementing RFIs on spaceport siting/priority airspace under the Aug 20 space transportation policy).

Signals pass: 15 channels checked · 2 X handles searched · 15 of 17 fetchable channels checked directly (via the Bluesky public API for bluesky accounts); europeanspaceflight.com and spacepolicyonline.com's bare sites skipped as already covered by the harvester's own feed health (newest entries Aug 22 09:21 and Aug 21 03:12 respectively, both stale relative to lastSweep). Parsonson's substack 403'd. All fetchable-channel finds within the window traced to already-published items (space transportation policy, STRATFI, HEO/Planet, Portal Space Systems, Progress/Samara strike coverage) except the FAA-RFI detail folded into the space-policy update. Eric Berger's feed returned only stale April-May 2025 posts, a new flakiness shape. Searched 2 X handles (Peter Beck, Jared Isaacman); nothing draftable.

Discovery pass: 10 queries · Matrix fully covered (launch, financial, incident/debris, China, India, Europe, EO contract, regulatory, bankruptcy, Japan). Every substantive hit traced to an already-published item (K2 Space Series D, Muon Space Series C, NOAA/Spire/PlanetiQ RODB-2, IRIS2/Aerospacelab/Indra, FCC D2D NPRM, Capella/NRO RCA, H3/Michibiki-7, Rocket Lab/iQPS, Hughes bankruptcy) or a stale/out-of-scope resurfacing (Landspace megaconstellation contracts traced to a January-sourced story; India 'ISRO exits rocket manufacturing' traced to the year-old Sept 2025 HAL/SSLV tech transfer; a Starlink-Zimbabwe 'largest ISP' claim with no new POTRAZ figures beyond the already-reported Q1 2026 data; a DLR RLV C5 concept-rocket piece tracing to a May 2025 paper).

Quiet sweep: the harvester queue was almost entirely SpaceX stock/IPO-stake speculation and a recycled ISRO privatization story. One genuinely new item shipped (CNES/Kayrros's FireWatch wildfire-detection platform), and two discovery/signals-pass finds turned out to duplicate items an earlier sweep today had already published (Muon Space's Series C, SpaceWERX's STRATFI awards); redirected their new corroborating sources into updates instead.

Signals pass: 11 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · europeanspaceflight.com covered via the harvester's own RSS pass (newest 2026-08-22T09:21:26Z, the CNES telescope RFI story, left undrafted as a pre-award RFI). Fetched 10 of 17 fetchable channels directly via the public Bluesky getAuthorFeed API and Vivienne Machi's Aviation Week author page (which surfaced the corroboration for the already-published SpaceWERX STRATFI item); rotated out Jonathan McDowell, Anthony Colangelo/mainenginecutoff.com, Marcia Smith's own site (used her Bluesky leg instead), and Anatoly Zak (both legs) for budget, consistent with weekly-rotation coverage. No X-search legs attempted this pass; no on-scope factual post found on the fetched Bluesky feeds beyond what discovery/HTML passes already surfaced or what was already published (Aschbacher/Berger/Farrar/Henry topped out on personal or stale posts; Langbroek was largely off-topic; Foust/Jones/Parsonson/SpacePolicyOnline's newest posts were all already-known stories).

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, China, India, EO contract, FCC, Japan/Europe). The financial query surfaced Muon Space's $250M Series C, which turned out to already be published from an earlier sweep today; redirected the new corroborating sources into an updates[] attach instead. CNES/Kayrros's FireWatch wildfire platform was genuinely new (found via the CNES html-source fetch, corroborated via search) and shipped as a new item. The recurring 'ISRO will not make launch vehicles' story (India query) traced to Pawan Goenka's Aug 22 remarks at a Business Today summit, a general policy restatement of the already-known SSLV/HAL transfer with no new named contract or vendor, left undrafted per the standing process-not-yet-fact pattern (2026-08-21-G). All other query hits were already-published stories or off-topic.

• 2026-08-20-spacewerx-stratfi-2026-awards 2→3 Discovery-pass find (via the signals-pass Aviation Week author-page leg) duplicated an already-published item from an earlier sweep today, which had shipped single-sourced (Payload only, crawl found_none, SNR 2). This pass found a genuine second, independent source: Aviation Week's own author-listing page carries the matching headline and figure ($562.5 million, 11 companies), confirming pickup beyond Payload's original report.

Quiet-ish normal sweep (~11h50m gap): 2 new items from the harvester queue (Starcloud's $250M Series A extension at a $2.3B valuation; Novaspace's 6,500-EO-satellite-by-2035 forecast). Direct-fetch HTML sources, the signals pass, and an 8-query discovery matrix surfaced only already-published stories or below-bar process items.

Signals pass: 15 channels checked · 2 X handles searched · 15 of 17 fetchable channels checked (russianspaceweb.com and spacepolicyonline.com own sites rotated out in favor of their Bluesky mirrors, both already checked). Nothing newer than lastSweep beyond already-published stories: ESA's Ariane 6 Block 3 cancellation (Parsonson, Aug 20) is already on the site; Aviation Week's NRO commercial-SAR piece (Aug 21) is a trend recap, not a new award, matching 2026-08-21-I's finding. 2 X handles searched (Beck, Bruno), no on-scope first-party post retrievable via the syndication endpoint.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/debris, China, India, FCC regulatory, EO contract, Japan). Every surfaced candidate (K2 Space Series D, Muon Space Series C, Portal Space Systems Falcon 9 buy, LandSpace Zhuque-3 recovery, IRIS2 SpaceRISE agreement, Rocket Lab Germany subsidiary) was already published; Relativity Networks' funding round is out of scope (terrestrial hollow-core fiber for data centers, no space application, name collision with Relativity Space).

• 2026-08-07-fcc-space-bureau-chief-transition 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window

Quiet ~12hr sweep: the harvester queue was almost entirely SpaceX stock/IPO-comparison noise, NOAA fisheries notices, and eclipse/ISS livestream content with zero genuine drafts from the queue itself. Two new items shipped from the HTML/discovery passes (Letara's pre-Series A hybrid-engine round, SpaceWERX's 2026 STRATFI awards) plus one update (LandSpace's stated Zhuque-3 booster reflight timeline).

Signals pass: 13 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 13 of 17 fetchable channels checked (rotated out Jonathan McDowell's/Colangelo's less time-sensitive legs partially, all others hit budget cleanly); nothing new in window except Aschbacher's Sophie Adenot 2nd-spacewalk post (ISS ops, no commercial angle, out of scope) and SpacePolicyOnline's White House space transportation policy post (already published under an existing id). Vivienne Machi's Aug 21 'NRO Takes Commercial SAR Partnerships To New Operational Level' headline could not be fetched (guessed URL 404'd, no working link found) and reads like a fresh write-up of the already-published Aug 5 NRO/Capella/ICEYE/Umbra RCA contracts, so left undrafted. No X-handle searches run this pass; budget spent on the fetchable leg.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, China, India, EO, connectivity, Europe). Most hits were already-published stories (K2 Space Series D, Muon Space Series C, IRIS2/Hispasat ground segment, Rocket Lab Germany, Long March-7A failure) or out-of-scope (Castelion hypersonic missiles, Relativity Networks fiber-optic tech, ASI leadership change with no stated commercial consequence). Two genuinely new items surfaced and drafted (Letara funding, SpaceWERX STRATFI). Also checked and left out: Taiwan NCSIST's Aug 19 first-test self-destruct of a satellite-launch-vehicle prototype (suborbital per its own 100,000-ft/20nm-radius danger zone notice, so out of scope under the orbital-only launch-vehicle rule, plus a state defense institute rather than a commercial launch provider); an India Today headline claiming ISRO will build no more launch vehicles at all (could not be fetched directly, redirect resolution failed, and the specific facts it likely restates -- LVM3 tech transfer, PSLV privatization -- are already published under other ids); and an FT-sourced Trump/Starlink-for-Ukraine-strikes story (left out as conflict/operational-use analysis, not a commercial-service-change or sanctions fact).

Chased three never-covered predates-window contracts flagged open in prior sweeps (SpaceX's $2.29B SDN Backbone and $4.16B SB-AMTI Golden Dome awards from May, and Amazon's $11.6B Globalstar acquisition from April), plus today's White House national space transportation policy and ESA's confirmed Ariane 6 Block 3 cancellation.

Signals pass: 12 channels checked · 2 X handles searched · 12 of 17 fetchable channels checked directly (europeanspaceflight.com and spacepolicyonline.com main sites skipped as already covered via the harvester's own RSS health check, both showing nothing newer than lastSweep). Marcia Smith's Bluesky flagged the same space transportation policy story and the already-published OSC Mission Authorization Pilot Program item; Vivienne Machi's author page surfaced two NRO commercial-SAR/RF stories that both traced to already-published items. All other checked channels were stale (nothing newer than lastSweep). 2 X searches run (Foust/Jones and SpacePolicyOnline re: the space policy story), no additional on-scope first-party post found beyond what the fetchable legs already surfaced.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulation, non-US x2, plus rotating slots). Surfaced the space transportation policy story (drafted), the Ariane 6 Block 3 cancellation (drafted), and confirmed the SpaceX/AST/Grain Management spectrum story (a competitive bidding process with a September preliminary-offer deadline, no closed transaction) and the Louisiana spaceport story (a scheduled Aug 25 announcement, not yet occurred) are both process-not-yet-fact and left undrafted. China/India/Japan queries surfaced only already-published or upcoming-not-yet-flown items. The debris/incident query surfaced only general environment reporting, no dateable new incident.

• 2026-08-06-blackstar-orbital-spac 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-08-06-rfa-saxavord-launch-hold 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-08-06-gilat-ai-interference-detection-demo 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window

Normal-mode sweep (~11h45m gap): 8 new items covering a Rocket Lab/iQPS launch, two funding rounds (Muon Space, SpaceSail), an optical-downlink partnership, an on-orbit services contract, a new US regulatory pilot program, a launch-procurement deal, and a structural-composites product line. No updates or holds.

Signals pass: 13 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 13 of 17 fetchable channels checked this run (rotation continues; skipped Marcia Smith's site duplicate, Anatoly Zak's bluesky duplicate, and 2 of Andrew Parsonson's 3 entries). Jeff Foust's feed and Marcia Smith's feed both carried the Katalyst/Swift reboost-abandonment story and the Firefly/Zeno Power CLPS payload, both already published in prior sweeps; Andrew Jones's feed corroborated the already-published Zhuque-3 Y2 landing and flagged the not-yet-launched Chang'e-7 Long March 5 rollout. No new on-scope factual claims found beyond what the queue and discovery pass already surfaced. aviationweek.com/author/vivienne-machi returned HTTP 403 on fetch (still counted as checked, no content retrieved). No X handles searched this run given full budget spent on fetchable channels and discovery/corroboration.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch/vehicle via queue+signals, financial, incident, China, India, Europe, regulatory, EO). Surfaced K2 Space's $500M Series D (already published), NOAA's Spire/PlanetiQ RODB-2 award (already published), and India's Allied Orbits constellation approval (already flagged stale in SWEEP_MEMORY, dated a year earlier than it reads). No incident/debris event found for the window; no new candidates from the China/India/Europe legs beyond stories already triaged from the queue.

Quiet sweep dominated by SpaceX stock/IPO and Starship-crater noise in the harvester queue; the five new items and one update all came from the trade-press legs and JAXA's own release. JAXA set an October 20 launch date for MMX; Starlink reapplied for India's Gen 2 D2D constellation approval after a prior rejection; Eartheye/IN2, Speedcast/TGS, and Stoke Space's Nova progress each published as notable partnership/launch items; and NASA/Katalyst's Swift reboost mission was patched with its final called-off outcome.

Signals pass: 13 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 13 of 17 fetchable channels checked (rotated out spacepolicyonline.com's own bot-gated site and europeanspaceflight.com/substack, both redundant with their Bluesky legs already checked, plus jonathan-mcdowell's site was checked via JSR issue 858). Marcia Smith's Bluesky confirmed the Katalyst/Swift cancellation (used in the update above); Andrew Parsonson's Bluesky confirmed the ATMOS Phoenix 3 story (left undrafted as a process-not-fact design study, per standing precedent). All other channels were stale or out of window; no X-handle searches were run this pass given the fetchable leg's yield and budget already used on the Bluesky API checks.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, regulatory, China, India, EO contract, human spaceflight, M&A/bankruptcy). Surfaced K2 Space's $500M round (already published), a Landspace Guowang/Qianfan launch-contract story that traced to January 2026 reporting resurfacing (left undrafted as stale), Hughes/EchoStar's Chapter 11 (already published), and the Globalstar/Amazon merger's HSR clearance (routine process step, left below the inclusion bar).

• 2026-06-25-maiaspace-arianegroup-keeps-operating 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-08-05-redwire-q2-2026-earnings 1→2 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-08-05-satellogic-q2-2026-earnings 3→4 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-08-05-cnes-astre-2028-hotfire-target 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window

Quiet sweep off a ~12hr gap: harvester queue was almost entirely SpaceX moon-crater/stock noise. Drafted Firefly's Zeno Power lunar-night RHU payload deal, a Moog METEORITE bus product update, and NCSIST's failed debut launch-vehicle test (Taiwan), plus an update attaching Ukraine's General Staff's on-the-record detail on the Progress/Samara strike facility damage.

Signals pass: 13 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 13 of 17 fetchable channels checked (rotated out europeanspaceflight.com site and russianspaceweb.com site legs, redundant with their Bluesky/substack checked this run). Aschbacher's own post on Sophie Adenot's ISS spacewalk and Andrew Jones's Zhuque-3/Chang'e-7 posts were on-scope but either lacked a commercial angle (spacewalk) or were already published/not yet a dated launch event (Chang'e-7 rollout); Zak's RKTs Progress damage-detail post was chased and folded into an existing item's update. No X-handle searches run this pass; budget spent on the fetchable leg and the Firefly/Moog/NCSIST corroboration crawls.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch/vehicle, financial, regulatory, India, China, incident/debris, EO contract, Europe). Surfaced the NCSIST Taiwan launch-vehicle failure (drafted) and the already-published LandSpace Zhuque-3 landing and Long March-7A failure stories; a 'Russian space activity' NOTAM/USAF-Antarctica-flight story traced to a Russian missile-launch warning with no satellite/debris or commercial angle and was left out of scope, and an Allied Orbits/IN-SPACe India EO-constellation hit turned out to date to August 2025, over a year stale, and was discarded.

LandSpace landed Zhuque-3's booster on its second flight, China's first orbital-booster recovery by a private company; also new: Viasat/Rocket Lab's PTS-G GEO satellite bus deal and a $30M Seraphim follow-on investment in Hubble Network, plus four updates including Rocket Lab's Photon SDN test plan and Starship Ship 40 reaching Christmas Island.

Signals pass: 13 channels checked · 3 X handles searched · 13 of 17 fetchable channels checked (rotated out mainenginecutoff.com and the SpacePolicyOnline/europeanspaceflight.substack.com legs for budget, both redundant with a fetched leg for the same person this run). Andrew Jones's Bluesky feed independently confirmed the Zhuque-3 landing via LandSpace's own statement, reinforcing the queue finding. Everything else checked was either already published (HawkEye/NRO, Anduril, Rocket Lab Germany, Starlink Poland roaming reversal, SES/Elveo) or off-scope (ESA astronaut/agency-personnel posts, Ukraine strike commentary already excluded per standing precedent). 3 X-handle searches for fresher LandSpace/Rocket Lab posts surfaced nothing with retrievable exact text newer than the fetchable-channel finds.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/debris, non-US rotation across India/Europe/Japan, M&A). Beyond confirming the Zhuque-3 landing, surfaced only already-published or stale stories: SpaceX/Cursor merger (already known), Airbus ESA Aeolus-2 contract (July, not chased this run), NASA-ISRO Moon Base collaboration talk (no contract, below inclusion bar), and an unconfirmed TIANHUI 5A/5B near-miss with no fetchable primary source.

• 2026-08-05-neuraspace-15-6m-funding 3→4 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-08-05-espi-orbital-compute-gap-commentary 3→4 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-08-05-nro-capella-iceye-umbra-radar-contracts 3→4 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-08-05-liveeo-dlr-vision-foundation-grant 1→2 persistence: survived uncontested past the window

Quiet sweep: harvester queue was almost entirely SpaceX stock/IPO-lockup speculation and off-topic Futurism/BBC content. Two genuine new items came from the trade/wire legs: HawkEye 360's first operational NRO commercial-RF contract, and Intuitive Machines' NASA JPL EAGLE-VSWIR Earth-science spacecraft contract. Several plausible leads (Eoptic DeepScan, BlackSky CTO interview, ISRO GISAT-1A schedule, Antrix commentary, unattributed Progress-strike imagery detail, VinSpace/Starlink Vietnam recirculation, All Points NASA SPOC recap) were checked and left out as already-published rehashes, unattributed, or below the inclusion bar.

Signals pass: 16 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 16 of 17 fetchable channels checked (europeanspaceflight.substack.com/feed rotated out; bare site + Parsonson's Bluesky already covered him). bsky.app profile pages rendered no post content again this session; used the public getAuthorFeed API as the working rendering. Aschbacher, Langbroek, Farrar, Berger, Foust, SpacePolicyOnline, Andrew Jones and Parsonson all topped out before lastSweep (05:29 UTC); Zak's newest post (16:38 UTC) was a subscription/donation plug, not a factual claim. Aviation Week's author page confirmed the Aug 17 HawkEye 360/NRO headline+date, independently corroborated via Defense Daily and Electronics Weekly. No X searches run this pass; budget spent on the mandatory fetchable leg.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US China/India/Japan/Europe, EO). Every candidate surfaced (K2 Space Series D, ESA EPS-Sterna, NASA CSDA On-Ramp 2, SES/Elveo D2D investment) traced to already-published items; nothing new.

Quiet, thorough sweep: 3 genuinely new items (Firefly's NASA payload-processing on-ramp, HEO/Planet Labs' non-Earth-imaging SkySat deal, and a chased Aug 7 EU sanctions action on a Roscosmos radar-satellite subsidiary's leadership) plus one enrichment patch adding return-to-flight context to the Aug 16 GuoWang launch item. The harvester queue was almost entirely SpaceX stock/IPO speculation and off-topic lifestyle content; all HTML sources, signals channels, and discovery queries were checked with nothing else new in window.

Signals pass: 15 channels checked · 6 X handles searched · 17 fetchable channels this run; rotated out Jonathan McDowell's site (JSR bulletin, low daily-update likelihood) and Vivienne Machi's Aviation Week author page (budget of 15) to stay in budget. Josef Aschbacher's feed carried only a condolence post on Marius-Ioan Piso's death (personnel obituary, no commercial-space fact, excluded) and Sophie Adenot spacewalk promotion (routine, already covered by mainstream queue). Marco Langbroek's feed had a Dutch-language TV appearance on Starlink reentry effects with no discrete new claim. All other bluesky legs were stale (no posts in window), continuing the standing per-account flakiness pattern. europeanspaceflight.substack.com/feed 403'd again. Searched 6 X handles (Peter Beck, Blaine Curcio, Sandra Erwin, Joey Roulette, Max Haot, Joe Morrison) via WebSearch; no exact post text was retrievable for any, so nothing drafted from the xSearch leg this run.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch/vehicle, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US via European-contract query, plus 4 rotating slots). All 6 candidates surfaced (VinSpace/SpaceX, K2 Space Series D, Rocket Lab/MDA/Globalstar launch, Spire/PlanetiQ NOAA RODB-2, EU IRIS2 rollout, ISRO GISAT-1A/Devas court items) were already published under existing ids; none were new.

• 2026-08-16-guowang-24th-group-hainan 3→4 Added Space.com's confirmed 24-satellite count and the return-to-flight context (first launch since the Aug 10 Long March-7A failure), which the original CGTN/Xinhua sources did not state.
• 2026-08-04-etl-systems-acquires-amphinicy 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window

Quiet ~12hr gap sweep: harvester queue was almost entirely SpaceX stock/shareholder-disclosure noise; four new items came from the trade-press legs sitting in the queue (L3Harris's for-cause CEO ouster, ULA's permanent CEO appointment, a Chinese launch of a UAE Earth-observation satellite, SEOPS's second Waymaker rideshare mission) plus one update attaching SES's own release to the existing Elveo Mobile merger item.

Signals pass: 13 channels checked · 2 X handles searched · All 10 fetchable bluesky accounts checked via the public API (bsky.app pages render no content); Jonathan McDowell's site, Main Engine Cut Off, and Vivienne Machi's author page fetched directly. Andrew Parsonson's substack RSS 403'd (his bluesky and europeanspaceflight.com, already covered by the harvester feed with nothing newer, stand in). Marcia Smith's bare site (spacepolicyonline.com) also already covered by the harvester feed. Only genuinely new find: the ULA/SEOPS items already in the queue, confirmed via Jeff Foust's feed; everything else was stale or already published. 2 X handles spot-checked (Tory Bruno, Jared Isaacman), nothing new.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, regulatory, non-US x2, ESA, bankruptcy, incident/debris); every surfaced story traced to an already-published item (Long March 7A failure, FCC D2D vote, Hughes Chapter 11, Aeolus-2/MAGPIE ESA contracts) or a documented stale-resurfacing trap (India EO-PPP 'Allied Orbits' 2025 story). No new candidates.

• 2026-08-14-lynk-omnispace-elveo-mobile-merger 4→5 SES's own Aug. 17 release details an expanded strategic investment and multi-orbit collaboration with Elveo beyond the bare equity stake already reported in the item; used as a first-party source upgrade (SES's registry-recorded website ses.com covers this release) since SES is a named party to the underlying transaction, not just an outlet reporting on it.

Normal-mode sweep (~11h49m gap): the harvester queue was almost entirely SpaceX stock-disclosure and Starlink lifestyle noise, and all 10 HTML sources, 17 signals channels, and an 8-query discovery matrix surfaced nothing else new in window. Shipped one item: Lynk and Omnispace's completed merger into direct-to-device operator Elveo Mobile.

Signals pass: 17 channels checked · 4 X handles searched · All 17 fetchable channels checked (site/substack legs plus the public getAuthorFeed API for 9 Bluesky accounts); nothing new inside the sweep window beyond stories already on-site (RussianSpaceWeb's Soyuz/Progress strike coverage, SpacePolicyOnline's weekly digest, europeanspaceflight.com's Avio/Gravitilab posts). europeanspaceflight.substack.com/feed 403'd, covered via the bare site instead. Searched 4 X handles (Beck, Curcio, Morrison, Haot) via WebSearch; none surfaced a retrievable first-party post via the syndication endpoint for anything new.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch/vehicle, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US x2, plus 2 rotating slots). Every lead chased traced to an already-published or genuinely stale story: the Aug 10 Long March 7A failure and the Aug 10 Rocket Lab GHOST/Germany announcements are already on-site; the India Allied Orbits EO-PPP hit is the standing year-old stale trap (2026-08-13-A/E/G); LandSpace's Zhuque-3 second landing attempt, despite several Aug 10-12 preview articles, is confirmed by Wikipedia's own launch table as not yet flown (still 'Planned'), so left undrafted rather than risk a wrong outcome claim; the SpaceNews 'satellite operators emphasize launch deals' piece is a Q2-earnings trend recap with no new dated fact.

• 2026-08-02-hughes-network-systems-chapter11 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-08-03-xona-fcc-spectrum-approval 3→4 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-08-03-arianegroup-maiaspace-future-decision 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window

Normal-mode sweep (~11h50m gap): 3 new items (Firefly's Miranda engine qualification milestone, Airtel/Starlink's first commercial D2D launch in Africa, a routine GuoWang batch launch) and 1 update broadening Firefly's DIU deorbit-design contract into the full 3-company DIU/SDA deorbit-as-a-service award. Harvester queue was almost entirely SpaceX stock/IPO chatter and off-topic Futurism content; every genuine candidate came from the HTML source list, the discovery pass, or the signals pass finding nothing new.

Signals pass: 17 channels checked · 6 X handles searched · All 17 fetchable channels checked (europeanspaceflight.substack.com/feed 403'd, europeanspaceflight.com's bare site covered the same author instead); every Bluesky feed topped out days-to-weeks stale (a documented per-session flakiness pattern), nothing newer than lastSweep found on any channel. X search on 6 handles (Beck, Bruno, Isaacman, Haot, Tilley, Curcio) via WebSearch surfaced no on-scope post with retrievable exact text newer than lastSweep.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch/vehicle, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US China/India/Japan/Europe rotation, M&A). Surfaced 3 genuinely new candidates (Airtel/Starlink DRC, the broadened Firefly/D-Orbit/Katalyst deorbit award, Long March-12 24th GuoWang group); everything else traced to already-published items (LVM3-M5 reentry, SES IRIS2 MEO, Falcon 9 Globalstar/cadence-record doubleheader) or unresolved future events (Isar Spectrum 2nd flight, LandSpace ZQ-3, Galactic Energy Pallas-1, all not yet flown).

Chased two genuinely new stories outside the harvester queue (which was again dominated by SpaceX stock/IPO speculation and Bluesky bot noise): Ukraine's missile strike on Russia's sole Soyuz-2 rocket plant in Samara, and SpaceX's record-setting 38.5-minute Falcon 9 doubleheader with a 650th booster landing. All 10 direct HTML sources and 15 of 17 signals channels were otherwise quiet; an 8-query discovery matrix found nothing else new.

Signals pass: 15 channels checked · 3 X handles searched · 15 of 17 fetchable channels checked (rotated out mainenginecutoff.com and aviationweek.com/author/vivienne-machi for budget); Anatoly Zak's and SpacePolicyOnline's posts independently flagged the Progress/Samara strike, used as corroboration context (not scored, since the site/Kyiv Independent/Euromaidan Press pages carry the citable text). Jeff Foust's feed surfaced the CLPS task-order story (below inclusion bar, process not fact). europeanspaceflight.substack.com 403'd; the bare site was current. 3 X handles searched (ChinaSpaceGuy, planet4589, Tory Bruno); no new on-scope first-party post found beyond already-published stories.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, China, India, plus 3 rotating slots). Surfaced one already-published dedup (IN-SPACe/Kulasekarapattinam spaceport privatization, techtimes.com 403'd, no new fetchable corroboration found) and one below-inclusion-bar item (Senate passage of the Space Commerce Advisory Committee Act, an institutional committee-creation bill with no stated commercial-market consequence, same shape as the standing NDAA-passage exclusion). All other hits traced to already-published stories (K2 Space funding, FCC licensing overhaul, NASA CSDA On-Ramp 2, Long March 7A failure).

• 2026-08-01-k2-space-space-force-laser-comms 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-07-31-blue-origin-regal-cargo-contract-expansion 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window

Normal-mode sweep, ~11h47m gap. Two new items: a Ninth Circuit ruling reviving Devas Multimedia's $562.5 million (now $2bn+) arbitration award against ISRO's Antrix, and a chased Skyroot/HEX20 three-launch Vikram agreement from August 7 that no prior sweep had drafted. The harvester queue was almost entirely SpaceX stock/Cursor-acquisition speculation; the Ukraine strike on Russia's Progress Rocket Space Center (tied by non-whitelisted social posts to the Rassvet constellation) was left undrafted as conflict analysis with no operator or government statement of commercial-space consequence.

Signals pass: 16 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 16 of 17 fetchable channels checked (europeanspaceflight.substack.com rotated out as redundant with the bare site leg, which was checked). Nothing new past lastSweep beyond the Ukraine strike on Progress Rocket Space Center (Zak, Langbroek both posted/reposted it) and an ExoMars leg-deployment test video (Aug 6, predates window, routine hardware test not a dated program milestone) -- both left undrafted. No X-handle searches run this pass; the fetchable leg alone covered the budget.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch/vehicle, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US x2, EO contract). Surfaced the Skyroot/HEX20 deal (drafted) and confirmed K2 Space, Apex Space, Hughes/EchoStar Chapter 11, and Blackstar Orbital's SPAC deal are all already published; the India EO-PPP/Allied Orbits 'approval' hit is the same year-old August 2025 story recirculating (2026-08-13-A/E precedent).

Quiet ~11h47m gap with the harvester queue almost entirely SpaceX 13F/stock-disclosure noise; genuine finds came from direct ISRO fetches (an SSLV first-stage booster upgrade test and the LVM3-M5 upper stage's debris-compliant reentry), the signals pass (Aviation Week surfaced Anduril's first satellite on orbit), the discovery pass (ESA's Aschbacher on a looming European launcher shortage), and one update (SpaceNews added the QZSS-HP hosted-payload detail to the already-published QZS-7 launch item).

Signals pass: 12 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 12 of 17 fetchable channels checked (rotated to skip Marcia Smith's site/bluesky and Anatoly Zak's bluesky, already covered via the site leg). Aviation Week's Vivienne Machi feed surfaced the Anduril-26 item drafted above; everything else found was already published (Rocket Lab Germany, IRIS2, Space Force SDN awards, Gravitilab liquidation judged out of scope per 2026-08-14-B, ASI board/Cospito still an open scope question in held.json). X handles not searched this run given the strength of the fetchable leg's yield; budget better spent verifying the ISRO/ESA/Anduril finds.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US x2, EO, bankruptcy/M&A, Europe). Surfaced 5 candidates: Hughes Network Systems Chapter 11, K2 Space Series D, BlackStar Orbital SPAC, and Space Force SDN awards were all already published; ESA/Aschbacher's launcher-shortage remarks (drafted above) was the one genuine gap, chased to its actual Aug 10 interview date.

Normal sweep, ~11h47m gap: 4 new items (Intuitive Machines GEO satellite contract, Spire/PlanetiQ NOAA radio-occultation awards, Blue Origin's second Cape Canaveral pad plan, Bulgaria/EnduroSat space-defense hub MOU chased to its actual Aug 6 signing date) plus 2 corroboration-only attaches to same-day items from the prior sweep. Harvester queue was again dominated by SpaceX stock/Cursor-acquisition chatter and India moon-base diplomacy noise with zero drafts from the queue itself; every new item came from the trade-press legs.

Signals pass: 7 channels checked · 3 X handles searched · 7 fetchable channels checked (rotation; europeanspaceflight.substack.com 403'd, fell back to the bare site which had nothing past what the candidate queue already surfaced); Langbroek's feed returned off-topic Dutch political content, no space posts. Searched 3 X handles (Beck, Erwin, Curcio), no on-scope first-party post text retrievable via syndication this run.

Discovery pass: 6 queries · Matrix covered (launch/vehicle, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US/China, plus M&A and EO rotating slots); all leads found (Long March 7A failure, K2 Space Series D, Orbex insolvency) were already published items, nothing new surfaced.

Quiet normal-mode sweep (~11h47m gap): the harvester queue was dominated by SpaceX stock/IPO speculation and off-topic culture content. Drafted 3 new items from direct trade coverage (CesiumAstro/Jariet acquisition, a $60M Space Force multi-vendor satellite network test award, and a Firefly DIU Elytra deorbit design contract) and updated the Starlink/Poland roaming item to reflect SpaceX's reversal.

Signals pass: 15 channels checked · 4 X handles searched · 15 of 17 fetchable channels checked (rotated to skip Marcia Smith's and Andrew Parsonson's duplicate site legs, covered via their bluesky/substack legs instead); europeanspaceflight.com substack RSS 403'd. Only genuinely new, on-window post found was Andrew Parsonson's bluesky note on Gravitilab's UK liquidation, judged out of scope (suborbital-only vehicle builder). Vivienne Machi's Aug 13 Aviation Week pieces (Rocket Lab defense footprint, Astranis Perceptor) were already covered by existing items. Searched 4 X handles (Peter Beck, Jared Isaacman, Sandra Erwin, Josef Aschbacher); no new on-scope first-party posts retrievable beyond what the queue and trade press already surfaced.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US x3, EO). Every candidate surfaced (Long March 7A failure, K2 Space and Apex funding rounds, Allied Orbits India EO-PPP, FCC D2D NPRM) was already published or a confirmed stale resurfacing per prior sweeps; nothing new found.

• 2026-08-11-starlink-poland-roaming-exclusion 2→3 SpaceX reversed the roaming exclusion after Polish government pressure; updated headline and copy to reflect the resolution and attached two new corroborating sources.

Normal-mode sweep, ~11h49m gap. 8 new items: Telesat's shaky H1 2026 results, Astranis's Perceptor GEO surveillance product, Space Kinetic's $50M Space Force award (its largest to date), Paragon's layoffs after NASA's Gateway cancellation, Korea's NEONSAT constellation clearing pre-shipment review, UAE's Altair-1 shipping for launch, a Korean deorbit-device test, and Starlink's regulated market entry in Vietnam. No updates or holds this run.

Signals pass: 15 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 15 of 17 fetchable channels checked (rotated out europeanspaceflight.com substack, redundant with its site leg). Only new on-topic find was Andrew Parsonson's post on Gravitilab's liquidation, which is out of scope (suborbital vehicle builder). All other posts were off-topic (eclipse photography, personal replies) or predate lastSweep. xSearch handles not searched this run given the strength of the fetchable-channel and discovery-pass results; budget not exhausted.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch/vehicle, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US rotating China/Japan/India). Surfaced K2 Space funding, Long March 7A failure, BlackSky contract, VinSpace deal, and the India Allied Orbits EO-PPP story, all already known to MCC or (Allied Orbits) confirmed stale year-old news per this morning's sweep note; also surfaced the Korea NEONSAT, Vietnam Starlink, and Astranis items drafted above, first found via the harvester queue and confirmed here.

Quiet normal-mode sweep: harvester queue was almost entirely SpaceX stock/IPO-lockup chatter and solar-eclipse coverage. All 14 HTML-only sources (Planet, ICEYE, BlackSky, Airbus, Spire, Isar Aerospace, Gunter's, EUSPA, CASC, CNES, Kuiper, SES, Telesat, Sierra Space) were checked directly and had nothing newer than lastSweep. Three genuinely new items drafted: an Impulse Space Space Force contract expansion, Synspective's new Munich EMEA office, and Texas pausing BEAD broadband disbursements amid Starlink-favoritism allegations. Two stale-resurfacing traps caught and discarded (a year-old SpaceSail launch-contract story and a year-old India EO-constellation award both misread as today's news).

Signals pass: 14 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 13 of 17 fetchable channels checked directly (europeanspaceflight.substack.com 403'd, used the bare site instead); rotated out Anatoly Zak (site+bluesky) and the Marcia Smith bluesky leg (checked her site instead) to stay near budget. Nothing new in window beyond items already covered by prior sweeps or already excluded (Space Command capability wishlist, Blue Origin dual-pad follow-up with no extractable new facts). No X handles searched this run; the fetchable leg alone covered the budget.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch/vehicle, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US China/Japan/Europe, bankruptcy, FCC/NOAA). Most hits were already-published stories (K2 Space funding/contract, Long March 7A failure, Rocket Lab/iQPS, QZS-7, Aeolus-2, Hughes Chapter 11); one hit (SpaceSail/Qianfan launch-provider awards) traced to a stale August 2025 story misdated by search snippets and was discarded. No new drafts came from this pass; both India EO-constellation queue hits also traced to a stale August 2025 IN-SPACe award being restated in Parliament today, not a new event.

Normal-mode sweep, ~11h53m gap. Nine new items: an Optus/Northrop Grumman satellite-servicing milestone, a Marlink acquisition, a Space42/Leonardo DRS UAE MoU, a Redwire/Kanematsu Japan partnership, a China iSpace funding tranche, the Golden Dome commercial-engagement hub, an EarthDaily Canadian border-monitoring contract, Rocket Lab's new German subsidiary, and a Nova Systems/Planet Australian defense partnership. Harvester queue was dominated by SpaceX stock/IPO chatter and a large NASA-ISRO Moon Base Google News wave (treated as a near-duplicate of the still-open Serbia Artemis Accords scope question already in held.json, no new hold filed); all fresh items came from direct trade-press and press-release legs plus targeted searches.

Signals pass: 8 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 8 of 17 fetchable channels checked (rotated; europeanspaceflight.com and its Bluesky/substack legs skipped since its Rocket Lab Germany post is already the lead source drafted this run). Nothing newer than lastSweep beyond stories already captured via the harvester queue or already-published items. No X/Twitter searches run this pass; budget spent on the fetchable leg and the direct-fetch/discovery passes instead.

Discovery pass: 10 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial/M&A, incident/regulatory, non-US via China queries, plus targeted queries chasing specific queue candidates). All 9 stories chased were genuinely new and are drafted above; the incident/failure query only resurfaced the already-published Aug 10 Long March 7A failure (confirmed via a Daily Mail Bluesky post recirculating old footage, not a new event).

Quiet ~11h45m normal-mode sweep: harvester queue was dominated by NASA-ISRO Moon Base wire coverage and SpaceX stock/IPO chatter. Three genuinely new items: Firefly's Lockheed Martin launch extension through 2031, Starlink's undisclosed exclusion of Poland from its Europe roaming zone, and a chased Aug 7 SES IRIS2 MEO capital commitment (€1.35B) that no prior sweep had drafted.

Signals pass: 13 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 13 of 17 fetchable channels checked via the Bluesky public API and direct site fetches; europeanspaceflight.com and spacepolicyonline.com sites were skipped as already covered by the harvester's own feed fetch (both showing newest entries before lastSweep, per health block). All channels checked showed nothing newer than the 2026-08-11T17:33 lastSweep cutoff. X search leg not run this pass; the fetchable leg alone covered the budget and found nothing new.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident, China, India, EO, regulatory, failure). Surfaced the SES IRIS2 MEO commitment (chased, predates window) and the India-US CSJWG/NASA-ISRO Moon Base invitation (institutional diplomatic story, no stated commercial angle -- skipped as a near-duplicate of the still-open Serbia Artemis Accords scope question already in held.json, per standing practice against filing duplicate hold entries for the same recurring shape). Everything else traced to already-published items or below-inclusion-bar process-not-yet-fact stories (Golden Dome FY2027 funding uncertainty, Space Superiority Readiness Act introduction, Norway wealth fund's passive SpaceX stake disclosure, SpaceX's FCC ex parte spectrum letter).

• 2026-07-28-skywave-iridium-sbd-iot-partnership 3→4 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-07-27-esa-lunar-link-repurpose-tender 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window

Eight new items: a routine Starlink batch launch, Vietnam's VinSpace booking its first satellite launch on SpaceX, three defense-adjacent contracts (Firefly/SciTec radar, Voyager space-to-space comms, BlackSky imagery), two ex-Space-Force board appointments (Lunar Outpost, Proteus Space), and Rocket Lab flagging a possible Neutron slip to 2027. Discovery and signals passes were otherwise quiet; a follow-up to the still-open ASI board-dissolution scope question was queued.

Signals pass: 14 channels checked · 2 X handles searched · 14 of 17 fetchable channels checked via the Bluesky AppView API where applicable (rotated out Marcia Smith's and Anatoly Zak's site legs in favor of their bluesky accounts, already covered; Andrew Parsonson's substack RSS 403'd so his bluesky and site legs were used instead). Andrew Parsonson's bluesky surfaced the Mario Cospito ASI-commissioner appointment (folded into a held-queue update, see held[]). Josef Aschbacher posted about ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot's Aug 18 first spacewalk, a future date with no stated commercial angle, left undrafted. Everything else quiet since lastSweep. Searched 2 X handles (Peter Beck, Tory Bruno); nothing beyond already-known/already-published stories.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered: launch/vehicle, financial (funding + bankruptcy), incident/regulatory, non-US rotating China/Europe/India-Japan. Every hit was already published (K2 Space's $500M Series D, MDA/Telesat's Lightspeed expansion, BlackStar Orbital's SPAC merger, Hughes Network Systems' Chapter 11, Rocket Lab's AMTI award), the same Aug 10 Long March 7A failure already covered as 2026-08-10-casc-long-march-7a-failure, or out of scope (NASA's invitation to ISRO to join its Moon Base programme: pure government-to-government Artemis Accords cooperation from the India-US Civil Space Joint Working Group, Aug 5-6, with no commercial contractor, lander, or contract named in any version checked -- discarded per the standing institutional-disclosure precedent, same shape as the Gaganyaan/NASA-STRIDE/Aeolus-2 exclusions). All eight new items this sweep came from the harvester queue and the signals pass instead.

Quiet ~11h44m gap: drafted a JAXA H3/QZS-7 navigation-satellite launch, two Rocket Lab items (a new GHOST containerized launch system and Kepler's first dedicated Neutron booking), AST SpaceMobile's Q2 earnings (wider loss tied to the BlueBird 7 write-off), a chased India Kulasekarapattinam spaceport privatization story, and a chased Senate passage of the Space Commerce Advisory Committee Act; also attached new engine-investigation detail to the Long March 7A failure item. Harvester queue was almost entirely SpaceX stock/IPO speculation and off-topic Bluesky/BBC noise.

Signals pass: 13 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 13 of 17 fetchable channels checked (rotated out Anatoly Zak's and Andrew Parsonson's site legs, already covered via their bluesky channels, plus SpacePolicyOnline's own site since its RSS feed was already in this run's harvester queue). Marcia Smith's bluesky surfaced a genuine new item (Senate passage of the Space Commerce Advisory Committee Act, drafted). Anatoly Zak posted about Roskosmos/Vostochny (institutional, no commercial angle, discarded). Everything else was off-topic or predates lastSweep. No X search performed this run given the strong fetchable-channel yield and time budget already spent on corroboration.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, China, India/Europe, M&A/bankruptcy, EO contracts, Japan). Every lead surfaced (K2 Space funding, Hughes Chapter 11, Orbex, Space-Eyes SPAC) was already published or already judged out of scope in a prior sweep; nothing new came from this pass itself. This run's new items came from the harvester queue and the signals pass instead.

• 2026-07-27-sphinx-defense-ess-contract 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window

A Chinese Long March 7A failure destroyed the ChinaSat-4B satellite; also chased a never-covered Orbex insolvency from February, an Astrolight/ATMOS laser-link MOU, and Planet's first African national data program with Rwanda, plus follow-on financial and technical detail attached to the RFA, IRIS2, and MDA Canadarm3 items.

Signals pass: 11 channels checked · 2 X handles searched · 11 of 17 fetchable channels checked this run (rotated out Jonathan McDowell's and Anthony Colangelo's sites); Andrew Jones's and SpaceNews's Bluesky posts on the Long March 7A failure used as additional corroboration. Josef Aschbacher's only new post was a Proba-3 outreach item, not a discrete new event. Searched Blaine Curcio/Scott Tilley X handles for Long March 7A commentary, found none beyond already-fetched trade coverage.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, regulatory, non-US x2, science-adjacent, M&A/bankruptcy). K2 Space funding, ISRO items, and EO contract hits were already known/out of window; LandSpace ZhuQue-3 recovery attempt and Chang'e-7 prep are future/not-yet-occurred, left for a later sweep. The bankruptcy query surfaced the never-covered Orbex insolvency (chased, dated to its Feb 11 2026 event date) plus the already-published Hughes Chapter 11.

Quiet ~11h50m gap: harvester queue was almost entirely SpaceX stock/IPO speculation and Bluesky noise (51 in-window candidates, one genuine lead). Drafted two new items (an MDA Space/Mitsubishi Electric Japan milsatcom subcontract chased from outside the window, and a small Aule Space docking-tech demo) and one update (fresh Katalyst/Swift recovery detail). All 14 direct-fetch HTML sources and 14 signals channels were quiet.

Signals pass: 14 channels checked · 2 X handles searched · 14 of 17 fetchable channels checked (all distinct personIds covered); europeanspaceflight.substack.com/feed 403'd again (standing intermittent block). Nothing on-scope newer than lastSweep beyond items already in the queue; Andrew Parsonson's one post after lastSweep was his own uncertainty about an unconfirmed Ariane 6 Bloc 3 cancellation report, not a stated fact, so left unpublished. Searched 2 X handles (Beck, Isaacman), no on-scope first-party post retrievable beyond general rhetoric already covered.

Discovery pass: 7 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, China, India, M&A, Europe/Japan). Space-Eyes' $638M SPAC merger surfaced but judged out of scope (a counter-drone/geospatial-analytics company, not a satellite operator or space-industry-primary business). MDA Space's June 25 Mitsubishi Electric subcontract was a genuine, never-covered gap and was chased and drafted per the predates-window convention. K2 Space and Apex Space funding rounds, Quantum Space and NorthStar SPAC mergers all confirmed already published under existing ids.

• 2026-07-26-exploration-company-funding-talks 1→2 persistence: survived uncontested past the window

Quiet ~11h48m sweep: all 14 direct HTML sources, 13 signals channels, and an 8-query discovery matrix turned up nothing new that wasn't already published or unfetchable; one existing item (Kreios Space VLEO demo) picked up a mainstream corroboration source.

Signals pass: 13 channels checked · 3 X handles searched · 13 of 17 fetchable channels checked this run (Marcia Smith and Anatoly Zak covered via their site leg rather than duplicating with their bluesky leg; Andrew Parsonson covered via his site since his substack RSS 403'd); all quiet, nothing posted after lastSweep (2026-08-09 05:28 UTC). europeanspaceflight.com's newest post (Aug 8, IRIS2) is already published. Searched 3 X handles (Jared Isaacman, Peter Beck, Blaine Curcio); no exact post text retrievable via the syndication endpoint or search snippets, nothing usable.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US/China, EO, launch-failure, D2D, ISRO). K2 Space's $500M round and SpaceX's Starlink Mobile plan both traced to already-published items. A genuinely new IN-SPACe/Kulasekarapattinam private-sector launch-complex handover story (~Rs 986 crore) could not be drafted: its only coverage traces to economictimes.indiatimes.com and business-standard.com, both of which returned fetch errors/403s on every attempt (direct URL and via search-found mirrors); no independently fetchable outlet carrying the story was found. Left undrafted per the hard rule against citing unfetched sources, not held (a sourcing-access problem, not a scope or schema question).

• 2026-08-04-kreios-space-nanoavionics-vleo-demo 3→4 Space.com's Aug 9 writeup independently covers the same Aug 4 Kreios/NanoAvionics VLEO propulsion demo announcement already led by SpaceNews (trade) and corroborated by Payload (trade); this is a mainstream outlet picking up the story beyond the lead, adding on-record quotes from Kreios CEO Adrian Senar and Kongsberg NanoAvionics CEO Atle Woello not present in the existing sources.

Quiet ~15h51m sweep: all 14 direct-fetch HTML sources and 15 of 17 signals channels showed nothing new since the prior sweep. Drafted two items from the harvester queue and discovery pass: the Canadian Space Agency/MDA Space Canadarm3 program-continuation story and a routine noise-tier Starlink batch launch.

Signals pass: 15 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 15 of 17 fetchable channels checked via the Bluesky public API and direct site fetches (rotated out Jonathan McDowell's site and Vivienne Machi's Aviation Week author page this run); the only in-window fetchable-channel find was Jeff Foust's repost of the SpaceNews Northrop/CSA Gateway story, drafted above. Anatoly Zak's Plesetsk launch-warning post and Andrew Parsonson's IRIS2/europeanspaceflight.com post both predate lastSweep (17:26 UTC). europeanspaceflight.substack.com 403'd again, consistent with the standing intermittent-block pattern. xSearch not run this pass; budget spent entirely on the mandatory fetchable leg.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered. Every other lead traced to an already-published story (K2 Space Series D, FCC D2D NPRM, Hughes Chapter 11, Telesat/MDA Lightspeed expansion, Rocket Lab SB-AMTI and iQPS launch). One genuinely new candidate, CAS Space's Aug 2 non-binding launch-services intention contract with Xingji Datachain for a 2H-2027 Kinetica-2 flight, was judged too thin (no stated value, letter-of-intent only, 6 days predating this run's window) to chase under the predates-window exception.

• 2026-07-23-whipsmart-ventures-founded 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-07-24-latconnect-60-ai-swirsat 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window

A quiet ~11h48m gap: one new item (an FCC Space Bureau leadership transition) and one update patching the Starship Flight 13 item with Ship 40's ocean-recovery difficulties. The harvester queue was again dominated by SpaceX stock/IPO clickbait and ISRO recruitment-ad syndication; nothing else in the direct-fetch, signals, or discovery legs cleared scope beyond stories already published by the prior same-day sweeps.

Signals pass: 13 channels checked · 3 X handles searched · 13 of 17 fetchable channels checked (rotation skipped mainenginecutoff.com, planet4589.org/JSR, and the europeanspaceflight substack feed this run). Jeff Foust's bluesky post on the FCC Space Bureau leadership change and Andrew Parsonson's bluesky post on IRIS2 (already published) were the only substantive in-window finds; the FCC find was chased via the open web and drafted as a new item. Searched 3 X handles (Peter Beck, Tory Bruno, Jared Isaacman); no on-scope first-party post retrievable beyond already-known stories.

Discovery pass: 9 queries · Matrix covered (launch/vehicle, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US rotation across China/India/Japan/Europe, human spaceflight). Surfaced the Starship Ship 40 recovery-difficulty update (drafted), one already-published IRIS2 story (Europe query), and one out-of-scope ISRO J&K parliamentary-reply retrospective (no discrete new commercial fact, discarded).

A quiet ~11h42m gap: most of the harvester queue was SpaceX stock/IPO chatter, and the HTML source list and signals pass mostly surfaced stories already published by the prior two sweeps (BlackSky/Redwire/IRIS2/Rocket Lab-iQPS). One genuinely new item published: the FCC's Aug 6 unanimous vote to open ~200 MHz of unlicensed spectrum for direct-to-device satellite service. One item held for Florian: ASI's board dissolving itself to trigger an extraordinary-commissioner appointment after its president's death, a genuine scope question with no stated commercial angle.

Signals pass: 15 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 15 of 17 fetchable channels checked (rotated out europeanspaceflight.substack.com and the spacepolicyonline bluesky leg since their site legs were already covered this run). European Spaceflight/Andrew Parsonson surfaced the ASI board-resignation story (held, scope question); Jeff Foust's feed confirmed FCC Schwarz's departure and other already-published stories; everything else was either off-topic (Langbroek's astrophotography, Zak's Elektro-L5 note) or predates the window. No X handles searched this run (budget spent on the fetchable leg and an extensive discovery/corroboration pass instead).

Discovery pass: 10 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US China/India, plus rotating slots). Surfaced the FCC D2D NPRM (drafted), the already-published Hughes Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and the already-published IRIS2 expansion (Aerospacelab's role in it was already named in that item's why_it_matters; the Aviation24 source itself 403'd so no new attach was made). Everything else (K2 Space funding, NASA CSDA EO contracts, China launch cadence, ISRO) matched already-published items or forward-scheduled/non-events.

The EU Commission and SpaceRISE signed a deal expanding IRIS2 to 348 satellites at EUR15.6 billion; SpaceX committed exclusively to Nvidia for its Starmind AI1 orbital compute satellites on its first public earnings call; Eutelsat's FY2025-26 results showed OneWeb LEO revenue up 69.5%. Also updated Katalyst's LINK spacecraft recovery progress and the FCC's Part 15 direct-to-device vote outcome.

Signals pass: 16 channels checked · 6 X handles searched · 16 of 17 fetchable channels checked (Jeff Foust's Bluesky skipped, already checked earlier the same day per the prior sweep); found Andrew Parsonson's ASI board-resignation post (held, see held[]) and SpacePolicyOnline's Schiess Senate-confirmation post (left undrafted, no stated commercial-space angle beyond what SpaceNews already covers). spacepolicyonline.com's own site hit a bot-verification wall this run. Searched 6 of 31 X handles (Beck, Bruno, Haot, Erwin, Curcio, Roulette); no retrievable on-scope post text found via search for any.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch/vehicle, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US China+India, plus FCC/CLD rotation slots). Most hits were already-published stories (Telesat/MDA Lightspeed expansion, K2 Space Series D, FCC licensing overhaul, NASA CLD Phase 2); the FCC D2D vote outcome (update) and the SpaceX/Nvidia Starmind earnings disclosure (new item) were genuinely new and drafted.

Narrow same-day re-check (~4.5hr gap): the harvester queue and all 14 unfiltered HTML sources carried nothing newer than the prior sweep, dominated by SpaceX stock/moon-impact churn. Chased and published one genuinely new, never-covered story the queue missed when it happened: SpaceX quietly halting new Falcon 9 rideshare bookings past late 2028 (first confirmed late June, still developing via a fresh Aug 6 Canada-market follow-up). A signals-pass find on Rocket Lab's $266 million Kodiak, Alaska Space Force contract turned out to already be published (2026-07-21-rocket-lab-haste-alaska-contract); attached a newly found local Alaska source to that existing item instead.

Signals pass: 12 channels checked · 2 X handles searched · 12 of 17 fetchable channels checked this run (rotated out: Jonathan McDowell's JSR site, Marcia Smith's and Anatoly Zak's own sites, Andrew Parsonson's site/substack, already covered via their Bluesky channels this run); every post found predates lastSweep (2026-08-07T00:51:25Z) or restates already-published items (Redwire Starfall, Rocket Lab iQPS-8, NASA-Roscosmos seat barter, Blue Origin valve cause). Vivienne Machi's Aviation Week author page surfaced the Jul 27 Rocket Lab Kodiak contract and Jul 30 SpaceX $1.6B sensing-satellite award, both already in scope; the Kodiak contract was chased and drafted as a new item since it was never covered, the sensing-satellite award was confirmed already published (2026-07-29-spacex-space-force-1-6b-falcon9-launches). 2 X searches run (Peter Beck, Sandra Erwin) via WebSearch, no exact-text-retrievable post found newer than the window.

Discovery pass: 10 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, China, India, Europe, EO, M&A) plus 2 targeted follow-ups on the two chased stories. Everything else traced to already-published items (K2 Space Series D, NASA CSDA On-Ramp 2 $476M, SpaceX/Tesla Terafab chip plant, SpaceX moon-impact coverage already ruled out of scope 2026-08-05) or was judged out of scope this run (Space-Eyes $638M SPAC merger: a counter-drone/geospatial-analytics software company that consumes satellite data rather than a space operator, closer to a defense-AI company than a new-space actor).

A quiet queue dominated by SpaceX stock/IPO-lockup churn and moon-crash reaction pieces yielded one routine launch; the real finds came from the signals pass, direct source fetches, and discovery: a BlackStar Orbital SPAC merger, Redwire/SpaceMD's dedicated Starfall booking, OrienSpace's pre-IPO funding round, NASA/Northrop Grumman's Gateway-hardware repurposing for Moon Base demos, BlackSky's Q2 earnings, SpaceX/Tesla's Terafab chip-plant investment, a SaxaVord launch-window cancellation, and two satcom product demos.

Signals pass: 15 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 15 of 17 fetchable channels checked (rotated out Josef Aschbacher bluesky and Vivienne Machi site to stay within the 15-fetch budget); europeanspaceflight.substack.com 403'd as usual. All substantive finds (Redwire/SpaceMD Starfall, Rocket Lab iQPS-8, NASA/Roscosmos seat barter, New Glenn valve cause, MaiaSpace, CNES ASTRE) were either already published by the prior same-day sweep or drafted this run from the underlying trade sources rather than the signal post itself. No X searches run this pass; budget spent on the fetchable leg.

Discovery pass: 13 queries · Matrix covered (launch/vehicle, financial, incident/debris/regulatory, non-US rotation across China/Japan/India/Europe). 8 genuinely new candidates drafted this sweep; the debris, FCC, India, and general EO-contract queries surfaced only already-published stories (Neuraspace funding, Telespazio/Canary Islands, Telesat Arctic) or no dated on-scope event.

• 2026-07-23-frequency-electronics-proliferated-satellite-contracts 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-07-23-intellian-c100m-gmdss-iridium 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window

Quiet narrow re-check, ~3h51m gap. Harvester queue (27 candidates) was entirely SpaceX stock/moon-crash speculation, eclipse content, and routine ISRO flood-map filler, none on-scope. All 14 HTML-only sources and 15 of 17 signals channels checked directly; every substantive find traced to an already-published item. Zero items published this sweep.

Signals pass: 15 channels checked · 3 X handles searched · 15 of 17 fetchable channels checked directly (rotated out mainenginecutoff.com and the Vivienne Machi Aviation Week author page, both due next sweep); every substantive find this pass traced to an already-published item (New Glenn BE-4 valve root cause, CNES 2028 hot-fire target, NASA/Roscosmos seat-barter continuation, TsNIIMash fire, GuoWang 23rd group, ICEYE EQT fund) or, for the Parsonson ArianeGroup/Blue Origin EUR42M piece, remained substack-paywalled (403) with no public mirror, so still undraftable. 3 X handles targeted-searched (Blaine Curcio, Scott Tilley, Peter Beck); no retrievable verbatim post text surfaced anything new.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch/vehicle, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US x2, EO, regulatory, M&A). Every surfaced story (K2 Space Series D, K2 Space Space Force laser-comms contract, Quantum Space SPAC, Space-Eyes/McKinley SPAC) is already published or already ruled out of scope; nothing new survived cross-check against existing[].

A quiet news queue dominated by SpaceX stock and moon-crash speculation; the real activity came from the signals pass and direct earnings/investigation follow-ups: Blue Origin named a BE-4 valve as the New Glenn explosion's cause, a fire hit Roscosmos's ISS mission-control facility, and Redwire, Satellogic and Viasat all reported Q2/Q1 results. Chased a previously uncovered MaiaSpace negative-equity filing and CNES's new reusable-engine test target, plus attached fresh corroboration to two existing items.

Signals pass: 17 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · All 17 fetchable channels checked this run (Jonathan McDowell's planet4589.org site read via its landing page; europeanspaceflight.substack.com content matched by the same author's site/bluesky posts). Found: Marcia Smith's bluesky flagged the same New Glenn valve root-cause and the Blue Origin CEO's own X post (folded into the SpaceNews-led item); Anatoly Zak's bluesky ("More from Russia's Korolov") independently flagged the TsNIIMash fire; Andrew Parsonson's site and bluesky were the lead/only source for the CNES ASTRE item and also covered MaiaSpace's negative-equity filing (chased as its own item) and an ArianeGroup/Blue Origin supplier relationship (left undrafted, subscriber-only substack piece with no fetchable public detail beyond the teaser). No X handles searched this run given the strong fetchable-channel yield; budget not otherwise needed.

Discovery pass: 14 queries · Matrix covered (launch/vehicle: Blue Origin valve, CNES; financial: Satellogic, Redwire, Viasat, Spire; incident/regulatory: Jitendra Singh/ISRO LEO-collision statement, TsNIIMash fire; non-US: India Gaganyaan/ISRO, Europe CNES/MaiaSpace). Spire's Q2 results are not out until August 12 (its Aug 5 SEC 8-K was only a call-scheduling notice, not results; left undrafted). ISRO's Gaganyaan 'second air drop test' resolved to a stale April 10, 2026 ISRO release resurfacing under a fresh Google News timestamp; discarded as stale. Jitendra Singh's Lok Sabha LEO-collision-risk reply and the related 29-manoeuvres figure name no commercial operator and were judged below the scope bar (a government congestion disclosure, not a discrete incident or a regulatory action). The EU/Copernicus Southeast Asia grant is government-to-government EO capacity-building with no stated commercial-operator angle, following the NATO HALO/IRIDE precedent for institutional programs without one; left undrafted.

• 2026-08-05-nro-capella-iceye-umbra-radar-contracts 2→3 Via Satellite's own write-up independently confirms the same NRO Commercial Radar Capabilities awards to Capella, ICEYE US and Umbra, with additional detail (the study contracts' modeling/simulation/on-orbit-assessment phases, NRO's statement on remaining committed to a competitive marketplace) not in the SpaceNews lead; attaching as corroboration.
• 2026-07-20-house-intel-committee-eo-imagery-bill 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window

Quiet ~7.5-hour re-check. NRO awarded Capella, ICEYE and Umbra new Commercial Radar Capabilities contracts; LiveEO secured a DLR feasibility-study grant for a multimodal EO foundation model; the STAR.VISION Lampung-1/Samarkand-2028 launch item picked up Xinhua's technical specs under the satellites' separate 'Oriental Smart Eye' branding. Everything else in the queue and an 8-query discovery matrix traced to already-published stories or stories already judged out of scope.

Signals pass: 13 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 13 fetchable channels checked (9 Bluesky accounts via the public API, planet4589.org, mainenginecutoff.com, aviationweek.com/vivienne-machi); europeanspaceflight.com and spacepolicyonline.com are already walked by the harvester's own feed health this run (nothing newer than lastSweep on either). Nothing new found beyond already-published stories (Ariane 6/MaiaSpace financial filings, SpaceX Q2 earnings, the Falcon 9 Moon impact already judged out of scope). xAttempted 0: budget spent on the mandatory fetchable leg and the discovery matrix instead of the best-effort X leg.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, India, Europe, EO contract, M&A, Japan). Every hit traced to an already-published item (K2 Space, Apex Space, ESA Aeolus-2, ispace-Europe MAGPIE, NASA CSDA additions, Skyroot Vikram-1, Telesat/MDA Arctic Lightspeed) or an already-excluded story (the Space-Eyes SPAC name-collision, JAXA's postponed QZS-7 launch).

A quiet ~3h46m sweep: AST SpaceMobile's routine BlueBird 11-13 launch, a Neuraspace funding round, a routine GuoWang batch, an ESPI commentary item on Europe's orbital-compute gap, and an update attaching EQT's Scaleup Europe Fund to ICEYE's already-published Series F round.

Signals pass: 12 channels checked · 2 X handles searched · 12 of 17 fetchable channels checked (rotation skipped Vivienne Machi's author page and the site/substack duplicate URLs for people already checked via Bluesky); nothing new in the ~3h46m window beyond items already drafted or already published (Langbroek's posts were failed attempts to observe the SpaceX Moon impact, no new fact). Searched 2 X handles (planet4589, Peter Beck/@RocketLab); found only trade-press-reported commentary, no retrievable first-party post text meeting the bar.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch/vehicle, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US/India, plus rotating FCC/NASA/China/EO slots). Surfaced the GuoWang batch (drafted) and the ICEYE/EQT update (drafted); the SpaceX lunar upper-stage impact story was extensively covered but judged out of scope (a defunct, already-attributed upper stage impacting the Moon on a known trajectory is not an orbital-safety incident with any liability, deorbit-compliance, or commercial angle, closer to astronomy-interest coverage); K2 Space funding, Telesat Arctic contract, and Zhuque-3 Flight 2 (NET August 31, not yet flown) were all already published or already held.

A SpaceX Q2 earnings call surfaced two chases (a firm $2.3B Telesat Arctic contract replacing July's agreement in principle, and an on-record confirmation of the Starlink Mobile terrestrial network plan) plus a never-covered May 12 FCC approval of SpaceX's EchoStar spectrum purchase. New items: a $10.75M optical-MEO connectivity startup, a Spire/NOAA contract extension, a $397M Rocket Lab Space Force AMTI award, and a Chinese-built sovereign EO satellite launch for Indonesia and Uzbekistan.

Signals pass: 13 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 13 of 17 fetchable channels checked directly (Bluesky via the public API, plus Jonathan's Space Report, Main Engine Cut Off, and Vivienne Machi's Aviation Week author page); europeanspaceflight.com and spacepolicyonline.com's site legs were skipped as already covered by the harvester's own RSS fetch of those domains this run (matching health block timestamps). Marcia Smith's Bluesky surfaced a SpaceX/Cybertrucks Crew-13 item already published by an earlier sweep today; Vivienne Machi's newest piece (military launch-site shortage) was general commentary with no stated contract or decision, left below the inclusion bar. No X search was run this pass; budget was spent on the mandatory fetchable-channel leg and the discovery matrix instead.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, China, India, Europe, EO, Japan). Nearly every hit traced to an already-published item (K2 Space, Apex Space, ispace-Europe MAGPIE, Satellogic, NASA CSDA On-Ramp 2, Rocket Lab/JAXA) or a stale resurfacing; the one new lead (CAS Space's high-orbit launch letter of intent with Interstellar Data Chain, signed Aug 2) is an intent-stage contract with no stated value, left for a future sweep given this run's remaining budget went to the SpaceX-EchoStar FCC approval chase and the SB-AMTI contract.

• 2026-07-15-zenno-astronautics-us-redomicile 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-07-21-space-foundation-686b-space-economy 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window

Narrow same-day re-check (~7.5h gap): one new major item (Telesat/MDA's C$2.3-2.7 billion Canadian Arctic Lightspeed expansion), two same-day corroboration attaches (Xona FCC approval, Kreios VLEO demo, both bumped via a second trade source), and one explainer patch (Bureau 1440's second Rassvet batch showing partial orbit-raising per an update to RussianSpaceWeb's own tracking).

Signals pass: 9 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 9 of 17 fetchable channels checked this narrow same-day run (Isar/Colangelo/McDowell/Vivienne Machi channels rotated out). Anatoly Zak's RussianSpaceWeb update on the Bureau 1440 second Rassvet batch's partial orbit-raising was the one genuinely new factual find, used to patch the existing 2026-07-19 item; Andrew Parsonson's MaiaSpace and EuroSuit posts and Jeff Foust's Starfall/Crew Dragon reposts were all already-published or already-seen stories. No X search run this pass; the fetchable leg alone surfaced enough to work.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch/vehicle, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US China, launch failure, non-US Japan/India, plus two free-slot follow-ups on candidates already surfaced by the queue). The MDA/Telesat and Xona/Kreios corroboration all traced back to these searches; the ISRO NVS-03/GISAT-1A government-approval delay (institutional, no named commercial contractor or effect stated) and the pre-launch China Star Vision/Dingo Sat Australia constellation mentions did not clear the scope or dedup bar and were left undrafted.

• 2026-08-03-xona-fcc-spectrum-approval 2→3 Payload's own Aug 4 write-up of the same FCC full-constellation broadcast authorization (Xona CEO Brian Manning quoted, additional technical detail: 350+ tracked transmission passes, spoofing-protection specs) is a distinct trade outlet independently confirming the same event the SpaceNews item already covers; attaching as corroboration rather than opening a new item since it's the same FCC grant, announced the same day (Monday Aug 3) per Payload.
• 2026-08-04-kreios-space-nanoavionics-vleo-demo 2→3 Payload's own Aug 4 write-up of the same Kreios/Kongsberg NanoAvionics VLEO demo announcement (CEO Adrián Senar quoted, added mission detail: 300-350km deployment altitude, 6-10 month data-gathering window) is a distinct trade outlet independently covering the same announcement the SpaceNews item already covers; attaching as corroboration.

A quiet ~4-hour re-check: L3Harris closed its previously announced $845 million sale of its space propulsion unit to AE Industrial, relaunching it as Rocketdyne; SpacePolicyOnline surfaced NASA's switch to Tesla Cybertrucks as Crew-13 pad-rescue vehicles; and the discovery pass chased Apex's never-covered June 5 funding round that took its valuation to $2.3 billion.

Signals pass: 14 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 14 of 17 fetchable channels checked directly (via the Bluesky public API for bluesky-type entries); spacepolicyonline.com and europeanspaceflight.com (Andrew Parsonson's site) were not re-fetched separately since the harvester's own RSS health check already showed nothing newer than lastSweep on those domains this run. Marcia Smith's site turned up the Cybertruck/MRAP item (drafted above) via her Bluesky post pointing at it. No X search run this pass; budget spent on the fetchable leg instead.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial x2, incident/regulatory, China, India, Europe, EO contract, launch failure). Surfaced Apex's never-covered June 5 $200M round (drafted above, chased under the predates-window rule for major-impact events) and a stale, already-debunked 'Zhuque-2E third failure' hit that traced to an August 2025 event on direct fetch, not 2026. Everything else traced to already-published items (Aeolus-2/Airbus, NASA CSDA On-Ramp 2, K2 Space) or the standing institutional-exclusion precedent (KBR/USGS legacy EROS contract).

Quiet ~11h46m sweep on the unfiltered full source list. All 14 fetch-list.ts HTML sources and 13 of 17 signals channels were current with nothing newer than lastSweep; the harvester queue was almost entirely SpaceX earnings/stock-price and Starship lunar-impact chatter. Two genuinely new items shipped from the trade-press legs of the queue: Kreios Space's VLEO propulsion demo partnership with NanoAvionics, and ETL Systems' acquisition of ground-segment software firm Amphinicy Technologies. An 8-query discovery matrix and a full signals pass surfaced nothing else on-scope and new.

Signals pass: 13 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 13 of 17 fetchable channels checked (europeanspaceflight.com and spacepolicyonline.com covered via the harvester's own feed fetch, both showed nothing newer than lastSweep). Only genuinely new find was Vivienne Machi's Aug 4 Aviation Week piece on Western military launch-site capacity, which is paywalled beyond a one-line summary with no verifiable dated fact; left undrafted. No X handle searches run this pass; the fetchable Bluesky/site legs covered the budget.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch/vehicle, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US rotation via Chinese-language and India queries, EO contract, M&A). Every hit traced to an already-published item (K2 Space Series D, Xona FCC approval, Space-Eyes SPAC already excluded as a counter-drone company, Hughes Chapter 11) or routine launch-schedule chatter; nothing new surfaced beyond the two queue-sourced items drafted this run.

• 2026-07-21-oris-laser-power-beaming-funding 3→4 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-07-20-thinkom-gt2517-o3b-mpower-certification 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-07-21-ihi-kuva-space-hyperfield2-mou 3→4 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-07-21-uk-florida-aerospace-innovation-fund 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window

Normal-mode sweep, ~6h40m gap: 5 new items (Xona FCC spectrum grant, ArianeGroup/MaiaSpace going-concern decision, SpaceX's Louisiana spaceport site, a BeiDou in-orbit upgrade, and NASA's Super Heavy V3 wind tunnel test campaign) plus 2 updates attaching corroboration and new granular facts to existing Hughes bankruptcy and True Anomaly VICTUS HAZE items. Heavy candidate volume was dominated by SpaceX earnings-preview/stock-speculation churn ahead of its first public quarterly report and by already-published stories (Rocket Lab's $266M Space Force deal, Blue Origin's REGAL mod, SpainSat NG III); a Russian anti-Starlink jamming-system claim was discarded as unattributable battlefield OSINT.

Signals pass: 12 channels checked · 2 X handles searched · 13 of 17 fetchable channels checked (13/15 budget; rotated out Parsonson's bluesky/substack duplicates of his already-fetched site, and Zak's redundant second channel), all clean: nothing newer than lastSweep except a Jeff Foust repost of the already-published SpainSat SpaceNews story and a Marco Langbroek NOTAM about a Pacific missile test (out of scope). europeanspaceflight.com/substack was fetched directly earlier in the run for the MaiaSpace item; its substack RSS mirror 403'd this attempt. Searched 2 X handles (Foust/Erwin, Beck), no new retrievable on-scope post beyond already-known stories.

Discovery pass: 10 queries · Matrix covered: launch/vehicle (Louisiana spaceport, NASA wind tunnel), financial (MaiaSpace loss, funding-round sweep), incident/regulatory (Russia anti-Starlink EW, ruled out of scope), non-US (China BeiDou, India ISRO). Rocket Lab's $266M Space Force contract and Blue Origin's $11.7M REGAL mod both confirmed already published (2026-07-21 and 2026-07-31); Russia's anti-Starlink EW system has no on-the-record government statement (sourced to unnamed 'Russian and Ukrainian accounts' per Ynetnews/TechRadar), discarded as battlefield OSINT out of scope.

Narrow same-day re-check (~5h gap): Hughes Network Systems, EchoStar's satellite broadband unit, filed Chapter 11 (seismic), and ICEYE named a UAE country CEO (noise, following the Germany/Portugal pattern). Signals, HTML sources and an 8-query discovery matrix surfaced nothing else on-scope.

Signals pass: 12 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 12 of 13 unique fetchable people checked (bsky.app JS shells worked around via public.api.bsky.app; europeanspaceflight.substack.com/feed 403'd, rotate next run); nothing posted inside the ~5h window since lastSweep across any channel. No X search run this pass (short same-day gap, fetchable leg already exhausted the useful budget).

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Full matrix covered (launch/vehicle, financial, incident/debris/regulatory, non-US, EO contracts, M&A); every lead traced to an already-published item (K2 Space Series D, FCC licensing overhaul, NRO EO awards) or a stale/misdated result (LandSpace Zhuque-2E failure was Aug 2025 not 2026; Orbex insolvency was Feb 2026). The Hughes and ICEYE items came from the candidate queue and direct source fetch, not this pass.

Quiet sweep, ~11h47m gap. Harvester queue (44 candidates after collapse) was almost entirely SpaceX earnings-week stock speculation and off-topic Bluesky noise; a Louisiana SpaceX spaceport lead is still in negotiation (process not yet fact), a Russian EW-vs-Starlink story is stale conflict rhetoric with no operator statement, and a Bluesky "Dingo Sat Constellation" post repeats a previously-debunked fabrication. All 14 unfiltered HTML sources and 15 of 17 signals channels were current with nothing newer than lastSweep. The 8-query discovery matrix surfaced one genuine gap: NorthStar Earth & Space's $300 million SPAC merger, announced April 17 and never published under any name, chased per the predates-window ruling.

Signals pass: 15 channels checked · 2 X handles searched · 15 of 17 fetchable channels checked directly (spacepolicyonline.com and europeanspaceflight.com sites skipped as already covered via the harvester's own RSS fetch of those domains, both quiet); europeanspaceflight.substack.com 403'd (standing Cloudflare block). All channels quiet or already-published. 2 X handles searched (Peter Beck/Tory Bruno, Felix Schlang/Tim Dodd), nothing new on-scope retrievable.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · 8-query matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/debris, China-language, FCC regulatory, India, EO contract, M&A). One genuine gap surfaced: NorthStar Earth & Space's April 17 SPAC merger with Viking Acquisition Corp. I, never covered under any name, chased and drafted per the standing predates-window ruling. Other hits (Space-Eyes SPAC, KinetX/Intuitive Machines, Quantum Space SPAC) were already excluded, already stale, or already published.

• 2026-07-14-uk-space-agency-adr-contract-delay 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window

A quiet sweep: a small Blue Origin Air Force logistics-study contract expansion, a routine but widely observed Starlink reentry over the Netherlands (chased from a signals-pass find, dated to its actual July 24 event), and an update patching RFA ONE's SaxaVord launch window with news of a pre-flight testing issue that has put the August 10 window in doubt.

Signals pass: 14 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 14 of 17 fetchable channels checked (europeanspaceflight.com/substack skipped: covered via the harvester's own RSS feed of the same domain, nothing newer than lastSweep per candidates-context health). Marco Langbroek's Bluesky surfaced the only genuinely new find (a July 24 Starlink-1541 reentry over the Netherlands, chased via Dutch press); everything else traced to already-published items or below-the-bar process-not-fact stories (Starliner flight date, PROMISE rover cost dispute, DOT environmental waiver rule already covered).

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch/vehicle, financial, incident/debris, non-US x2, FCC regulatory, EO contract, M&A). Every substantive hit (Quantum Space SPAC, Xingchen Daohe SSA funding, Sateliot Series C, Space-Eyes SPAC, SpaceX $1.6B Space Force order, NITE-STAR $981M contract) traced to an already-published item, an out-of-scope company (Space-Eyes is counter-drone, no orbital product), or an unclosed 'seeking funding' round already excluded in prior sweeps (Sateliot); only the Blue Origin REGAL and RFA ONE leads (found via the queue/SpaceNews and signals legs, not this pass) were new.

Narrow ~3.5hr re-check against the full unfiltered source list: 14 HTML sources current with nothing published since the prior sweep, 13 of 17 signals channels checked with nothing new, and an 8-query discovery matrix surfaced only already-covered stories or off-topic financial speculation. Zero items shipped.

Signals pass: 13 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 13 of 17 fetchable channels checked (rotated out vivienne-machi's site and Andrew Parsonson's substack, redundant with his site feed per 2026-07-07-B); newest post across all of them (Jeff Foust, 2026-08-01T16:33 UTC) predates this run's 05:33 UTC lastSweep, so nothing new in window. xSearch leg skipped this narrow run for budget; no on-scope claim depended on it.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US, EO/procurement, human-spaceflight). Every lead traced to a story already published (SpaceX Starfall capsule rewrite, ISRO Gaganyaan air-drop test/TIFR MoU both dated before the 05:33 UTC window and routine/no commercial angle), a launch that has not yet occurred (Starlink 17-53, delayed to Aug 4 per Spaceflight Now, contradicting a Bluesky bot's premature 'launched' post), or off-topic SpaceX/Tesla stock speculation. Zero net-new candidates.

Deep sweep (7-day queue after quiet prior runs) surfaced EchoStar's $20.25B AT&T spectrum-sale closing, a $22.9M Space Force laser-comms award to K2 Space, and Germany's defence minister floating a dedicated Bundeswehr launch site; the Starship Flight 13 item was updated with SpaceX's plan to attempt the first-ever tower catch of a Starship upper stage on Flight 14. Most of the 7-day queue (Swift reboost, MaiaSpace, Fortastra/Hadrian, All Points Vandenberg, Rocket Lab Alaska, ispace/MHI, LatConnect SWIRSAT, SpaceX $1.6B launch orders, FCC Upper C-band) traced to stories already published in prior sweeps.

Signals pass: 2 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · Andrew Parsonson (europeanspaceflight.com) and Marcia Smith (spacepolicyonline.com) are covered via the harvester's own discovery feeds for the same domains, per 2026-07-30-C; nothing newer shown there than already reviewed. Remaining fetchable channels (Aschbacher, McDowell, Langbroek, Henry, Farrar, Colangelo, Berger, Foust, Zak, A. Jones) not individually re-fetched this run given deep-mode budget spent on the 14-source HTML list and 8-query discovery matrix; Vivienne Machi's Aviation Week coverage was used directly for the Germany launch-facility item's corroboration. Whitelisted YouTube channel entries (Felix Schlang, Scott Manley, Tim Dodd, Marcus House) arrived via the candidate queue and were reviewed: all were post-Flight-13 reaction/analysis content already reflected in the Starship Flight 13 item update or below the substantive-take bar (Scott Manley's lightning explainer, Tim Dodd's footage clips), none warranted a standalone commentary item. xSearch not run this pass; budget spent on the HTML source list and discovery matrix instead.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, China, India, Europe, M&A, EO/constellation); every surfaced lead traced to stories already published (EchoStar/AT&T context, FCC Upper C-band, Airbus Aeolus-2, Space-Eyes SPAC, EarthDaily NRO, OHB Sweden EPS-Sterna) or to pre-window background (Orbex insolvency, general 2026 funding-trend roundups). New items this sweep came from the candidate queue and the direct HTML source list, not this pass.

Normal-mode sweep, ~8h13m gap. The harvester queue was 95%+ SpaceX/Tesla stock speculation and off-topic Bluesky/Futurism noise. The one substantive find, CASC's TJS-27A/27B classified-satellite launch, turned out to already be published under a different id from an earlier sweep today; patched it with SpaceNews's TJS-27 identification and an attributed analyst ELINT assessment rather than drafting a duplicate. Signals and discovery passes surfaced nothing else new: a Zelensky request for broader Starlink strike access and a NASA PROMISE lunar-rover cost dispute were both left undrafted (conflict-operational-use territory with no confirmed outcome, and no stated commercial contractor angle, respectively).

Signals pass: 12 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 12 fetchable channels checked (9 via the Bluesky public API, plus Main Engine Cut Off, Aviation Week/Machi, and Jonathan's Space Report sites); europeanspaceflight.com and spacepolicyonline.com skipped as already covered via the harvester's own feed fetch (200/304 in health, nothing new). Every post/article traced to an already-published item, was stale, or lacked a commercial angle (Jeff Foust's 'repurposed Mars rover' post is a NASA-only PROMISE cost dispute with no contractor named). No X handles searched this run; budget went to the fetchable leg and the discovery matrix given a near-total-noise harvester queue.

Discovery pass: 7 queries · Matrix covered (launch/vehicle, financial, incident/regulatory, China, Europe/ESA, plus a regulatory follow-up); every substantive hit traced to an already-published item (MAGPIE, Aeolus-2, FCC licensing overhaul, FCC Gen2 Starlink from January) or a predicted-not-confirmed forecast (a discarded Falcon 9 stage's lunar impact, not yet an incident).

Narrow same-day re-check (~3.5hr gap since the 05:27 UTC sweep) across the full unfiltered source list: harvester queue (near-saturated with SpaceX stock/IPO speculation and launch-bot spam), 13 HTML sources, 14 signals channels, and a 10-query discovery matrix all traced back to stories already published earlier today or before the window. Zero items added, updated, or held.

Signals pass: 14 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 14 fetchable channels checked via the Bluesky public API and direct site fetch; all posts/articles predate this run's ~3.5hr window (lastSweep 05:27 UTC), nothing new. Marco Langbroek posted Starlink-reentry opinion commentary in-window but it is generic musing with no new dated fact or news hook, not drafted. andrew-parsonson (site/substack) and marcia-smith (site) skipped as separately fetchable since their domains are already-covered sources.json discovery feeds (European Spaceflight, SpacePolicyOnline) whose harvester health showed nothing newer than lastSweep. No candidate required X verification this run, so no X handles were searched.

Discovery pass: 10 queries · Matrix covered (launch/vehicle, financial x2, incident, non-US x2, regulatory, human-spaceflight, EO, M&A). Every substantive-looking hit traced to a story already published (SpaceX $1.6B Space Force order, Satellogic $12M sovereign deal predates window at Apr 30, Astroscale/NSIL PSLV deal dates to Sep 2025, MinoSpace Sichuan contract dates to May 2025) or predates this run's window. One genuinely new, widely-reported story was found and deliberately left unpublished: a spent Falcon 9 upper stage (from the Jan 2025 Blue Ghost/Hakuto-R mission) is predicted to impact the Moon on August 5, 2026, per CGTN, Space.com-adjacent outlets, and the amateur-tracking site projectpluto.com. This is a forecast of a not-yet-occurred event, not a confirmed incident (same standard as the 2026-07-31-E KeepTrack conjunction case); worth chasing again after Aug 5 once the impact is confirmed and, ideally, imaged.

A quiet harvester queue (dominated by SpaceX stock/IPO speculation and launch-bot noise) yielded one routine Starlink batch launch from the queue itself. The discovery pass surfaced a genuine gap: Hisdesat's SpainSat NG II secure-comms satellite was destroyed by a debris strike in January and never covered, which directly explains why Hisdesat signed a new SpainSat NG III contract with Airbus and Thales Alenia Space today. Both are published dated to their actual event dates.

Signals pass: 15 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · All 15 mandatory fetchable channels checked (europeanspaceflight.com site/substack skipped: already covered live via the harvester's own RSS feed, which showed nothing newer than lastSweep, per standing practice). Nothing new in-window survived cross-check against existing[]: Marcia Smith's Mars-rover-to-Moon and Katalyst/Starliner posts restate already-published or process-not-yet-fact stories; Vivienne Machi's three recent bylines (NITE-STAR, SpaceX $1.6B, Rocket Lab HASTE) are all already published. No X searches run this pass; the fetchable leg covered the matrix.

Discovery pass: 10 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, China, India/Japan/Europe, EO contracts, M&A, anomaly) plus two targeted headline-quote searches for the SpainSat NG III corroboration crawl. Surfaced the two SpainSat items drafted this run (chased per the standing predates-window ruling: the Jan. 2026 SpainSat NG II debris loss was never covered and is major-tier). Everything else traced to already-published items (K2 Space $500M, Golden Dome $1.75B, ispace-Europe MAGPIE, NASA CSDA) or was out of scope (Space-Eyes SPAC merger is a counter-drone/AI defense company, not an orbital space company, despite the name) or stale/process-not-yet-fact (ISRO NavIC degraded-constellation feature restates a March 2026 clock failure with no new fact or commercial angle; Venezuela/CONATEL-SpaceX meeting is a first working session with no agreement or timeline disclosed).

• 2026-07-07-martin-materials-pentagon-coverglass-award 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window

A near-total-duplicate harvester queue (SpaceX stock/Tesla-merger speculation and ISRO recruitment noise) yielded one new item, Space Force's $981 million NITE-STAR training-range contract vehicle spanning 15 companies, plus two update patches: a new K2 Space contract-value fact from Via Satellite's catch-up coverage, and a Katalyst Swift LINK recovery-progress update (spin rate halved, rendezvous now targeted for end of August).

Signals pass: 13 channels checked · 2 X handles searched · 13 of 17 fetchable channels checked this run (europeanspaceflight.com and spacepolicyonline.com's own sites skipped as already covered by the harvester's own RSS fetch of the same domains, per 2026-07-30-C; the Parsonson substack skipped as the known Cloudflare-gated duplicate of his site feed). All finds traced to stories already published (SpaceX $1.6B, Rocket Lab HASTE Alaska, True Anomaly VICTUS HAZE, Katalyst LINK recovery progress -- used as an update) except the Jeff Foust/SpacePolicyOnline Katalyst LINK post, which supplied this run's update. Two X handles searched (Tory Bruno, Peter Beck), nothing new.

Discovery pass: 7 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, China, Europe, FCC, India). One genuinely new lead (OHB PRISMA Italian EO contract) traced to an event already published under a different id (2026-07-29-prisma-second-generation-contract); everything else resolved to already-published stories or stale resurfacing (Starfish Space Series B was April 2026, not this window).

Narrow same-day re-check (~4hr gap): 2 new SNR-5 first-party items (a JAXA Hayabusa2 Torifune flyby record plus first-ever laser ranging, and Synspective's Kumamoto-earthquake SAR response), 1 notable SES/LATAM multi-orbit connectivity contract, and a Federal Register source upgrade on the existing FCC Upper C-band item. Everything else across the harvester queue, HTML sources, signals pass, and 8-query discovery matrix traced to stories already published earlier today or in prior sweeps.

Signals pass: 10 channels checked · 3 X handles searched · europeanspaceflight.com and spacepolicyonline.com skipped as separately-fetched channels since the harvester's own feed already showed newer entries (2026-07-30/07-31) in this run's health block. 10 fetchable channels checked: Aschbacher (Copernicus wildfire posts, stale, July 27), Langbroek/Farrar/Henry/Berger/Jones (all off-topic or stale, pre-window), Foust (posts trace to already-published stories: DOT/FAA waiver, Rocket Lab/iQPS, orbital-data-center petition), McDowell/MainEngineCutOff (stale, no update since June/July 1-2), Vivienne Machi (3 Aviation Week pieces, all already-published SpaceX $1.6B, Rocket Lab HASTE, True Anomaly VICTUS HAZE stories). 3 X handles searched (Peter Beck, Sandra Erwin, Blaine Curcio); no on-scope first-party post text retrievable via syndication endpoint.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch/vehicle, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US rotating China+India, EO contract, regulatory). Every surfaced lead traced to items already published: K2 Space $500M (2026-07-30), Rocket Lab HASTE/VICTUS HAZE (already covered), a predicted (not confirmed) Starlink-5262/MONOLITH conjunction alert with no follow-up reporting of an actual incident, and a stale Roman Space Telescope schedule reconfirmation (original acceleration announced early June, no new fact in today's coverage). No new candidates.

• 2026-07-22-fcc-upper-c-band-auction 4→5 Upgraded the lead to the Federal Register's official Report and Order text (FCC 26-46), published July 31 with the docket numbers and Sept 29, 2026 effective date not stated in the original trade coverage; the .gov filing is an official-record source for the same order already covered.

Quiet narrow re-check (~12hr gap since the last sweep). The harvester queue was 95%+ SpaceX/Tesla merger-speculation stock noise and ISRO exam/recruitment/interview noise; the 11 remaining HTML sources, 15 signals channels, and an 8-query discovery matrix all traced to stories already published earlier today or before the window. One free corroboration attach (Ars Technica, True Anomaly VICTUS HAZE item) was the only change this run.

Signals pass: 15 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 15 of 17 fetchable channels checked this run (europeanspaceflight.com and its Bluesky/substack variants skipped: already covered by the harvester's own RSS fetch of europeanspaceflight.com per standing 2026-07-30-C note, nothing newer in health block). Every hit traced to an already-published item (iQPS/Rocket Lab, Themis wet dress rehearsal, MaiaSpace suborbital-skip, True Anomaly VICTUS HAZE, DOT/FAA environmental waiver, SpaceX $1.6B Space Force order) or predates the window (Aschbacher's Cebreros wildfire posts, Soyuz MS-28 return, Angara/ROS analysis, Farrar's stale Starlink-forecast repost). No X/handle searches run this pass (all fetchable-leg channels covered the ground; budget not needed for the best-effort leg this run).

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Full matrix covered (launch/vehicle, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US rotation across China/India/Europe/Japan, plus connectivity and procurement free slots). Every surfaced lead (K2 Space $500M, Flexell Space $20M, Amazon D2D FCC filing, ispace-Europe MAGPIE contract, Airbus Aeolus-2, NASA CLD draft RFP) traced to an already-published item; nothing new.

• 2026-07-17-jio-inspace-technical-clearance 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-07-17-beyond-reach-labs-seed-funding 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-07-17-cavailloles-ariane6-block-order-commentary 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-07-17-spacex-pentagon-computing-power-talks 1→2 persistence: survived uncontested past the window

5 new items: K2 Space's $500M Series D at a $6.8B valuation, Rocket Lab's third iQPS Electron launch deal, Planet Labs' Scottish government farmland-monitoring contract, ArianeGroup's Themis wet dress rehearsal, and Sophia Space/Caltech's orbital data center patent. No updates. A Bluesky NROL-95 'partial failure' rumor was checked and debunked; several other discovery hits were confirmed as already-published stale resurfacings.

Signals pass: 7 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 7 fetchable channels checked via the Bluesky public API and direct site fetch; nothing new or on-scope beyond stories already covered via the harvester queue (Foust's own post just flagged the already-drafted iQPS story). europeanspaceflight.com and spacepolicyonline.com sites are also standing harvester discovery feeds and showed nothing newer than lastSweep in this run's health block, so were not separately re-fetched. No X searches run this pass; budget spent on the Bluesky/site legs instead.

Discovery pass: 11 queries · Matrix covered (launch/vehicle, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US Japan/Europe/China). K2 Space's $500M round was the one genuinely new discovery-only find. Everything else traced to already-published items: a Bluesky claim of an NROL-95 'partial failure' was searched and found false (multiple sources confirm a clean launch and landing, matching the already-published item); Rocket Lab's $266M Space Force deal, the SpaceX/Blue Origin orbital-data-center FCC filings, the Katalyst/Swift LINK reboost update, and the Fortastra/Hadrian MoU are all stale resurfacings of stories already in items.json.

Two new routine launches (a classified NROL-95 Falcon 9 mission and a Chinese Long March-6 comms-test-satellite launch) plus three source upgrades: ispace's H3 lander deal to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' first-party release, the FAA environmental-waiver rule to its Federal Register publication, and the Tianlian III-01 launch to CASC's own report.

Signals pass: 12 channels checked · 2 X handles searched · 12 fetchable channels checked (via bsky's public author-feed API and direct site fetches); europeanspaceflight.com and spacepolicyonline.com's own sites were skipped as already covered by the harvester's RSS feeds this run (both showed 304 not modified in health), per 2026-07-30-C. Everything found predates window_start (2026-07-28T05:32); nothing new. Searched 2 X handles (Peter Beck, Jared Isaacman); no verbatim-retrievable new post found for either.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US x2, EO, FCC, Japan). Six candidates surfaced were already known or out of window: Aeolus-2 (previously scope-excluded as legacy institutional weather-science procurement, and dated July 2, outside window), FCC Upper C-band/licensing actions (already published), Exploration Company funding talks (already published), Roman Space Telescope launch-date news (traced to a June 2 SpacePolicyOnline article, a stale resurfacing), Japan-Singapore JAXA/NSAS agreement (dated July 9, outside window). The Japan query's ispace/Mitsubishi Heavy Industries lead became this sweep's rescore update on the existing ispace item.

• 2026-07-29-ispace-h3-domestic-launch-2028 2→5 Upgrades the lead from Nikkei (mainstream) to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' own press release confirming the launch-services contract signing, and attaches SpaceNews trade coverage; corrects the found_none corroboration penalty from initial publish now that a direct first-party source and multiple trade outlets exist.
• 2026-07-28-dot-faa-launch-environmental-waiver 4→5 Upgrades the lead to the Federal Register's official publication of the proposed rule (Docket FAA-2026-8614, Notice No. 26-11), fetched via the Federal Register API two days after SpacePolicyOnline and AFP first reported the announcement; adds the exact docket number and the August 31, 2026 comment deadline.
• 2026-07-29-casc-tianlian3-01-launch 4→5 Upgrades the lead to CASC's own report of the Tianlian III-01 launch (first_party; matches the item's exact 7:50 p.m. Beijing time detail), corroborated by the existing Xinhua, CRI and Launch Library sources.

A quiet harvester queue dominated by SpaceX stock and IPO chatter yielded two solid government-procurement stories on close reading (SpaceX's $1.6 billion Space Force launch order and All Points' $250 million Vandenberg processing contract); discovery and the signals pass added MaiaSpace's suborbital-test cancellation and Italy's PRISMA-2 satellite contract, plus two updates attaching fresh reporting to the Katalyst/Swift and True Anomaly/Victus Haze stories.

Signals pass: 12 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 12 of 17 fetchable channels checked this narrow-gap run; rotated out planet4589.org/JSR and aviationweek.com/Machi (low update frequency), and europeanspaceflight.com/spacepolicyonline.com are already covered live via the harvester's own RSS fetch of the same content. europeanspaceflight.substack.com 403'd (standing Cloudflare block). Andrew Parsonson's Bluesky post pointed to his own MaiaSpace suborbital-drop scoop, drafted as a new item. No X/Twitter searches run this pass; budget spent on the fetchable legs given the ~12-hour gap.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, China, India, FCC, EO, Japan/Europe). Surfaced one genuinely new item (Italy's PRISMA Second Generation contract) and corroboration sources for the SpaceX/All Points contracts already in the queue. Golden Dome's $1.75B Sierra Space/L3Harris award, Astroscale Japan's gripping-mechanism contract, and Rocket Lab's JAXA launches all checked out as already-published or stale (dated January/October 2025 or July 13-14 2026, already in the feed).

• 2026-07-16-agnikul-somanath-board-observer 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window

A quiet ~7.5hr full-matrix sweep surfaced five new items (a first-of-generation Chinese data relay launch, a debris-capture tech demo on the ISS, a New Zealand reentry-capsule funding round, an ESA deep-space networking contract, and a satellite-manufacturing MoU) plus one update folding new LatConnect 60 expansion facts into its existing item; the harvester queue was otherwise dominated by SpaceX stock/IPO noise and stale resurfacings.

Signals pass: 14 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 14 of 17 fetchable channels checked this run (rotated out Jonathan's Space Report's X mirror and 3 less-active bluesky legs for budget); nothing new in window beyond stories already covered by the harvester queue or already published. No X handle searches run this pass; the bluesky legs covered the same ground the reliable channels would.

Discovery pass: 9 queries · Matrix covered (launch/vehicle, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US). Surfaced and drafted 5 new items (Tianlian III-01, Kall Morris, Outlier Space, Aalyria/ESA, Fortastra/Hadrian) plus one update (LatConnect 60); other hits (SSA China funding, ispace/H3, FCC Upper C-band and licensing overhaul, Starship anomalies) were already-published stories confirmed as stale resurfacings or duplicates.

Quiet narrow re-check (~4hr gap): the harvester queue was almost entirely SpaceX stock/earnings speculation and ISRO recruitment-notice noise, with two hits (an Amazon D2D FCC-filing Bluesky post and a stale Ariane 6 image caption) both already reflected in published items. One genuine new item shipped from the signals pass: ESA's July 27 tender to repurpose Gateway's Lunar Link module into a standalone lunar comms satellite, with Thales Alenia Space as mandatory subcontractor.

Signals pass: 15 channels checked · 6 X handles searched · 15 of 17 fetchable channels checked (skipped Andrew Parsonson's substack, redundant with his site/RSS which is a mandatory discovery source already walked and Cloudflare-gated per standing precedent). Andrew Parsonson's July 28 Bluesky post flagging his own SpaceNews story on ESA's Lunar Link repurposing tender is the source of this sweep's one new item; everything else checked (Aschbacher wildfire-imagery posts, Zak's routine Soyuz MS-28 ISS return coverage, Farrar's paid-report teaser, Foust's posts on already-published stories) was either routine/out of scope or already covered. Searched 6 X handles (Beck, Bruno, Curcio, Erwin, Roulette, Isaacman); nothing on-scope and new was retrievable beyond what trade press already carries.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, China, India, EO-contract, M&A). Every hit traced to an already-published item (FCC Upper C-band, Rocket Lab/Iridium, Amazon/Globalstar, Airbus-Leonardo-Thales, Qianfan cadence) or a stale resurfacing (a May 2026 Space Force/Viasat/SES PTS-G award, a May 2026 Satellogic defense contract, and a 2023 ESA Aeolus reentry that search results misdated as July 2026, confirmed stale by cross-checking the cited maneuver days against the 2026 calendar).

A quiet ~12-hour gap dominated by SpaceX stock/IPO noise and Starship Flight 13 recap chatter. Five new items shipped: a DOT/FAA proposed rule waiving 13 environmental laws for launch licensing, a Chinese SSA-constellation funding round, ispace's switch to Japan's H3 rocket for its 2028 lunar lander, and two noise-tier product/partnership items (Impulse Space's Electra propulsion system, a Skywave/Iridium IoT partnership). Three updates: Katalyst's Link spacecraft hit attitude control problems during its NASA Swift reboost commissioning (reclassified incident/notable), Eutelsat detailed its Poland IRIS2 MoU, and Rocket Lab's Alaska HASTE contract picked up a fourth trade source.

Signals pass: 14 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · All 14 fetchable channels with a working leg checked (Jonathan McDowell's planet4589.org and Andrew Parsonson's substack skipped: both have repeatedly failed to render in this environment per SWEEP_MEMORY). Genuinely new finds: Jeff Foust/SpacePolicyOnline both surfaced the DOT/FAA environmental-waiver rule (drafted); Andrew Parsonson's Bluesky independently confirmed the ESA Gateway Lunar Link repurposing call already in the harvester queue (left undrafted, reads as an early feasibility study with no stated commercial-vendor solicitation yet); everything else traced to already-published items or the standing process-not-yet-fact exclusion. No X handles searched this run given the strength of the fetchable leg's yield; budget spent on it instead.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/debris, China, FCC regulatory, India, Europe, EO contracts). Two candidates surfaced were genuinely new (Flexell Space Series A, The Exploration Company funding talks) but both were already published under existing ids; everything else traced to already-published stories (FCC Upper C-band, Aeolus-2/Airbus, Golden Dome SDA award, Qianfan/SpaceSail cadence launch).

• 2026-07-14-iridium-pnt-asic-commercial 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-07-02-mitsubishi-electric-infostellar-acquisition 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-07-15-japan-30-launches-kpi 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-06-15-ses-airbus-eagle1-noordwijk-ground-station 3→4 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-07-15-loft-orbital-apex-airbus-bus-order 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-07-15-icarus-robotics-kulr-battery-iss 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window

Narrow same-day re-check (~7h40m gap): the harvester queue was again dominated by SpaceX stock-price/IPO noise and ISRO recruitment-notice false positives, and all 21 fetch-list.ts HTML sources plus 13 of 17 signals channels came back current. Two genuinely new items shipped, both chased past a trade write-up to the government's own record: SpaceX's FCC exemption for Starlink routers from the foreign-router ban, and NASA's selection of Advanced Space for the CAPSTONE 02 cislunar mission.

Signals pass: 13 channels checked · 4 X handles searched · 13 of 17 fetchable channels checked (rotated out spacepolicyonline.com site, still bot-gated per standing precedent, and europeanspaceflight.com site/substack in favor of Parsonson's Bluesky leg). Finds: Aschbacher/Parsonson's Cebreros wildfire posts have no stated commercial consequence (below bar, per standing precedent); Foust's reposts (Amazon D2D filing, Blue Origin/Stennis) and Parsonson's MAGPIE post are all already-published stories; Zak's and SpacePolicyOnline's posts are Soyuz MS-28 ISS crew return, out of scope (non-commercial human spaceflight); Farrar's Starlink forecast post traces to paid research, no new figures retrievable in the post text; Vivienne Machi's July 28 piece is a feature on the already-published Northrop MRV-1/MEP launch. Searched 4 X handles (Tory Bruno, Max Haot, Blaine Curcio, Sandra Erwin); no on-scope first-party post text was retrievable via the syndication endpoint this run.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/debris, China, Japan, Europe, spaceport, India). Two genuinely new candidates surfaced (FCC Starlink router exemption via the harvester queue's Google News leg, chased to the FCC's own public notice; NASA/Advanced Space CAPSTONE 02, chased to NASA's own announcement). Everything else traced to already-published stories (Long March 3B lightning strike/Tianlian II-06, Rocket Lab Alaska HASTE, Isar/Nova Scotia, Amazon Leo D2D FCC filing, ispace-Europe MAGPIE, Aeolus-2) or below-bar process-not-yet-fact items (Germany considering a Bundeswehr launch site, Philippines SONA spaceport recap, ISRO's G20 satellite plan, Stetman's Ukraine constellation, ESA Flight Ticket Initiative awards dated August 2025).

Quiet ~4-hour re-check: the harvester queue was almost entirely SpaceX stock-price noise, SpaceX Starship Flight 13 recaps, and FAA/NOAA fisheries boilerplate; all 21 fetch-list.ts HTML sources and 14 of 17 signals channels were current with nothing newer than lastSweep; an 8-query discovery matrix surfaced only already-published or excluded stories. Two small updates shipped: Telesat's own release upgraded a rounded figure to its exact $189 million incentive payment and added a Nov. 5 filing deadline on the FCC upper C-band item, and European Spaceflight's updated MAGPIE article added an on-record ESA quote explaining the contract's cost overrun. Zero new items.

Signals pass: 14 channels checked · 2 X handles searched · 14 of 17 fetchable channels checked (rotated out europeanspaceflight.substack.com as a known duplicate of the site feed, and spacepolicyonline.com's own site, which remains bot-gated per standing precedent, in favor of Marcia Smith's Bluesky). All clean except Andrew Parsonson's European Spaceflight site, which had updated its already-cited MAGPIE article with a new ESA spokesperson quote (drafted as an update). 2 X handles searched (Peter Beck, Tory Bruno); both surfaced only already-published or stale stock/personnel news, nothing independently verifiable via syndication.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Full matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/debris, China, India, US regulatory, EO contracts, Europe). Every candidate surfaced traced to an already-published MCC item (Long March 10B recovery, LegendSpace angel round, Rocket Lab HASTE contract, NASA CSDA On-Ramp 2, MAGPIE, Aeolus-2 [standing scope exclusion, 2026-07-05-Q]) or a stale/out-of-window event (ISRO's December 2025 BlueBird Block-2 launch).

Narrow same-day re-check (~12hr gap). Three new items: SES Space & Defense's first-party LEO Relay Services deal with Starlab, a $287M Space Force ESS mission-planning software award to Sphinx Defense (found_none, no independent corroboration), and a previously uncovered July 21 MDA Space UK/OHB Argonaut lunar-lander LiDAR sensor selection surfaced via discovery. All other queue and source activity (Amazon Leo D2D filing, C-band incentive payments, Rocket Lab Alaska HASTE deal, ATmoto/Gande debris constellation) was confirmed as already-published stale resurfacing.

Signals pass: 12 channels checked · 3 X handles searched · 12 of 17 fetchable channels checked (europeanspaceflight.substack.com/feed 403'd; rotated remainder is routine ESA/Argonaut/Spaceflight content already known or below the inclusion bar -- Cebreros wildfire recovery, Soyuz MS-28 landing detail, stale Starlink-forecast repost per 2026-07-26-L). Foust's Blue Origin/Stennis and Machi's MRV feature both recap already-published items (2026-07-24 entries). 3 X handles searched (Beck, Bruno, Curcio); no exact post text retrievable this run, nothing usable.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US rotation, EO contracts, Europe). Surfaced one genuinely new, previously uncovered story (MDA Space UK/OHB Argonaut LiDAR sensors, July 21); everything else matched already-published items (Aeolus-2, MAGPIE, Hongqing, FCC licensing overhaul, NASA CSDA On-Ramp 2) or GEO debris academic paper already excluded per 2026-07-27-C.

• 2026-07-14-flexell-space-series-a 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-07-14-uk-space-strategy-preview 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-07-14-correnti-starlink-aviation-price-reckless 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window

Amazon Leo filed with the FCC for a new 5,105-satellite direct-to-device constellation on Globalstar spectrum; Orbes unveiled its Exo-ORB inspection satellite with a Symphony Space LOI; Intel launched its Starfire space-grade AI chip. Updated the FCC Upper C-band item with the newly published SES/Eutelsat incentive payment amounts and the Rocket Lab Alaska HASTE item with fourth-launch-site and timeline detail.

Signals pass: 6 channels checked · 2 X handles searched · 6 fetchable channels checked (Foust, Henry, Farrar, Parsonson, Jones, Langbroek); Foust's posts were the freshest and matched already-drafted stories (Amazon D2D filing, Blue Origin Stennis), Parsonson's newest posts were follow-up color on the already-published ESA/ispace-Europe MAGPIE item, the rest were off-topic or stale. 2 X-handle searches (Peter Beck, Joey Roulette) surfaced only already-published contract/filing coverage, no new verbatim post text retrieved.

Discovery pass: 7 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/debris, China, FCC regulatory, India/Japan, EO contract). Found the FCC Upper C-band incentive payment amounts (used as an update) plus several already-published stories under different framing (SDA/L3Harris/Sierra Space Tranche 3 recap, CAS Space Lijian-1/Kinetica-1 relaunch coverage, a stale Oct-2025 Rocket Lab/JAXA release); no new on-scope items beyond the C-band update.

Genuinely quiet ~5-hour re-check: the harvester queue was almost entirely SpaceX stock/IPO noise and Starship Flight 13 post-flight recap; the two China-debris-constellation queue hits (Xinhua, Unmanned airspace) and the TechRadar Northrop Grumman MRV dual-use piece all traced to already-published items. All 21 fetch-list.ts HTML sources, 15 of 17 signals channels, and an 8-query discovery matrix surfaced nothing new or above the inclusion bar. Zero new items, zero updates, zero held.

Signals pass: 15 channels checked · 2 X handles searched · 15 of 17 fetchable channels checked (rotated out mainenginecutoff.com and Vivienne Machi's Aviation Week author page, both low-cadence legs, per the 15-fetch budget). 2 X-search queries covering Beck/Bruno/Haot and Isaacman surfaced nothing new. Everything found traces to already-published stories (Soyuz MS-28 landing has no commercial angle stated; ESA's Cebreros ground station being cleared to resume service after wildfire threat states no facility damage or commercial consequence, same precedent as 2026-07-25-G; the ispace-Europe MAGPIE follow-up is a minor clarifying quote, not a new fact) or is below the inclusion bar (Langbroek's personal/off-topic posts, Farrar's paywalled forecast post with no stated figures). spacepolicyonline.com's own site fetched cleanly this run (unlike the 2026-07-22-E bot-check failure); europeanspaceflight.substack.com/feed 403'd again, consistent with the standing intermittent block.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch/vehicle, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US via Chinese-language and India queries, plus EO-contract and M&A rotating slots). Every hit traced to already-published items (Rocket Lab/Iridium, The Exploration Company funding talks, FCC licensing overhaul, Golden Dome $1.75B, Quantum Space SPAC, IHI/Kuva MOU) or below the inclusion bar (NASA CSDA On-Ramp 2 adding Kuva US, Inc. on July 1 is a routine vendor-count addition to an already-covered shared-ceiling contract vehicle with no new stated dollar figure specific to Kuva).

Quiet ~12-hour re-check: the harvester queue and all 21 HTML sources were saturated with SpaceX stock/Starship Flight 13 recap noise and already-published stories. One new item shipped: The Exploration Company's reported $300 million funding talks at a $2 billion valuation, per the Financial Times.

Signals pass: 15 channels checked · 3 X handles searched · 15 of 17 fetchable channels checked (rotated out mainenginecutoff.com and the europeanspaceflight substack, chronically Cloudflare-gated per standing note). Nothing newer than lastSweep beyond already-published stories (Starship Flight 13, Soyuz MS-28 landing, ESA/ispace MAGPIE, Poland/IRIS2) or below-inclusion-bar follow-ups (Josef Aschbacher's Cebreros station all-clear, no damage ever stated; Marco Langbroek's personal Starlink-reentry sighting posts; an OSC 'mission authorization next step' post that is a continuation of the already-excluded Space Commerce Certification process). Tim Farrar posted a new Starlink revenue-forecast blog link; left unpublished, an analyst-forecast product announcement with no verifiable topline figure quoted in the post itself. 3 X handles searched (Sandra Erwin, Blaine Curcio, Joe Morrison), no retrievable on-scope post text this run.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/debris, China, India, FCC regulatory, EO contract, failure/anomaly). Surfaced The Exploration Company funding-talks story (drafted). A University of Warwick GEO-debris academic survey (25 untracked objects) was left out as a research paper with no named operator or commercial actor. Everything else traced to already-published items (Flexell Space Series A, Gravity-1 sea launch, FCC licensing overhaul/C-band auction, NASA CSDA On-Ramp 2, SDA Tranche 3 Golden Dome awards).

• 2026-07-13-china-long-march-10c-commercial-workhorse 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-07-13-china-commercial-rocket-co-recapitalization 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window

Quiet normal-mode sweep (~7.5hr gap): harvester queue was almost entirely SpaceX Starship Flight 13/stock-price noise and an ISRO exam-reform-panel false-positive keyword match. Two genuinely new, never-covered items shipped: ATmoto's first Gande debris-monitoring satellite (China) and JAXA's Epsilon S second-stage engine test recovery (Japan).

Signals pass: 10 channels checked · 3 X handles searched · 10 of 17 fetchable channels checked (rotated out Jonathan McDowell, mainenginecutoff, Vivienne Machi for budget); mostly Soyuz MS-28 landing and Spain/Madrid wildfire ground-station relief posts, both already covered or below the inclusion bar (no stated damage/consequence). Tim Farrar's Starlink 2030 revenue forecast ($48B/46M subs) traced to his own June 2 blog post already picked up by SatNews/Advanced Television in early June, so left undrafted as a stale resurfacing, not new. Searched 3 X handles (Peter Beck, Sandra Erwin, Brian Weeden); no retrievable exact post text this run.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, India/Europe/Japan non-US, EO). Surfaced the JAXA Epsilon S engine test (new) and confirmed the already-published Aeolus-2/NSSL/CSDA stories; nothing else cleared scope or freshness.

Deep sweep (escalated after two consecutive zero-add sweeps, 7-day window). 6 new items: a Lite Coms satcom contract, Lunar Outpost's NVIDIA-chip lunar rover partnership, a new space/deep-tech VC fund (Whipsmart Ventures), LatConnect 60's AI intelligence-fusion product, Arianespace's first Ariane 6 flight to GTO, and a previously-uncovered June 8 Vast/ESA/Czech Republic private astronaut mission agreement. No updates or held items.

Signals pass: 17 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · Deep-mode sweep: all 17 fetchable channels checked, no rotation skips. europeanspaceflight.substack.com/feed 403'd (Cloudflare), consistent with 2026-07-07-B; europeanspaceflight.com's own feed covers the same author's content via the regular harvester source. Nothing new beyond items already published or already excluded this run (UK DSIT/Space Agency reshuffle, Sweden ICEYE/Planet Labs interview update, Madrid DSN wildfire follow-up) was found; no X-handle searches were run this pass given time budget already spent on the deep discovery/candidate sweep, so xAttempted is 0.

Discovery pass: 12 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial/funding+bankruptcy, incident/debris, regulatory/FCC, non-US: Sweden/India/Japan). All candidates surfaced by these open-web queries traced to stories already published (Poland IRIS2, Flexell Space, FCC D2D NPRM, AST SpaceMobile notes) or were judged below the inclusion bar / stale resurfacing (Sweden ICEYE-Planet interview update with no new closed fact; NASA/GAO workforce-reduction report, no direct commercial-supply angle stated). The 6 new items this sweep were found via the harvester candidate queue and direct fetch-list.ts sources, not this discovery matrix.

Genuinely quiet narrow re-check (~12hr gap): the harvester queue was almost entirely Starship Flight 13 follow-up coverage (already fully captured in the existing 2026-07-16 item, updated through its July 24 flight and splashdown) plus SpaceX stock-price noise; all 21 fetch-list.ts HTML sources, 14 of 17 signals channels, and a 10-query discovery/X-search matrix surfaced nothing newer than lastSweep that wasn't already published or below the inclusion bar.

Signals pass: 14 channels checked · 3 X handles searched · 14 of 17 fetchable channels checked (rotated out mainenginecutoff.com, the europeanspaceflight substack -- confirmed Cloudflare-gated per standing note -- and spacepolicyonline.com's own bot-gated site, whose person is already covered via their Bluesky). Marcia Smith's and Josef Aschbacher's Bluesky posts on the Spain/Madrid wildfire ground-station scares state no damage, consistent with the standing below-inclusion-bar call; Andrew Parsonson's newest posts (MAGPIE, ONERA/AMOS, IRIS2, UK ADR delay) are all already published. Caleb Henry's feed surfaced a Starlink financial-forecast post but two fetches of his author feed returned inconsistent content and the exact post text could not be reliably verified this run, so it was left undrafted rather than published on an unconfirmed quote. 3 X handles searched (Peter Beck, Sandra Erwin, Blaine Curcio), no retrievable first-party post text; a Peter Beck search hit was a stale rehash of the already-published June 29 Rocket Lab/Iridium deal.

Discovery pass: 10 queries · Matrix covered (launch/vehicle, financial, incident/debris/regulatory, non-US China+India, plus X-search rotation). Every hit traced to an already-published item (FCC C-band auction, FCC D2D NPRM, CAS Space Kinetica-1, Skyroot Vikram-1) or a stale resurfacing (Rocket Lab/Iridium recapped as if new, March/December 2025 Starlink debris incidents with no new date).

• 2026-07-07-pixxel-temasek-funding-round 1→2 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-07-08-machi-aviation-week-halo-sda-blueprint 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-07-04-spacesail-taiyuan-lm6-launch 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2025-10-23-airbus-leonardo-thales-space-merger 3→4 persistence: survived uncontested past the window

Quiet narrow re-check (~6.5hr gap): the harvester queue was almost entirely Starship Flight 13 recap/stock-price noise and stale Ukraine/Stetman coverage (left undrafted per the standing process-not-fact precedent); all 21 fetch-list sources, 15 of 17 signals channels, and an 8-query discovery matrix surfaced nothing that was not already published or below the inclusion bar. Zero new items, zero updates, zero held.

Signals pass: 15 channels checked · 5 X handles searched · 15 of 17 fetchable channels checked (rotated out europeanspaceflight substack and mainenginecutoff.com, both low-yield/duplicate legs); 5 X handles searched (Beck, Bruno, Isaacman, Haot, Tilley). Everything found traces to the already-published Starship Flight 13 item, the already-published Vast/Stricklan and ESA/ispace MAGPIE items, or is below the inclusion bar (Langbroek's personal Starlink-reentry sighting posts, Josef Aschbacher's Cebreros wildfire relief post with no facility damage stated, Marcia Smith's NASA Madrid DSN wildfire-evacuation posts with no damage or commercial angle stated). spacepolicyonline.com's own site returned only a bot-check page, consistent with 2026-07-22-E.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch/vehicle, financial, incident/debris/regulatory, non-US China+India, regulatory, EO contract, failure/anomaly). All four notable hits trace to already-published items: Jeff Bezos' $2B personal stake in Blue Origin's outside round (Motley Fool's July 25 piece rehashes the already-published July 8-12 $10B/$130B round), CAS Space's July 23 Kinetica-1 rideshare launch (a July 24 Sputnik/Chinese-language write-up of the same already-published launch), the FCC's July 22 licensing overhaul (already published), and the SDA/Sierra Space Golden Dome award (already published). The scheduled iQPS Electron mission is a future launch (NET July 31), not yet an event. Zero new candidates.

Quiet ~5h13m sweep: the harvester queue and every direct-fetch source were dominated by Starship Flight 13 recap coverage (already fully sourced by an earlier sweep today) and off-scope noise. One new item shipped from the discovery pass: NASA and Blue Origin's Stennis B-2 test stand agreement for New Glenn second-stage hot fire testing.

Signals pass: 16 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 16 of 17 fetchable channels checked (rotated out Andrew Parsonson's substack, a documented duplicate of his site feed per SWEEP_MEMORY 2026-07-07-B). Only substantive on-window finds were already-published stories (Starship Flight 13 recap, the ispace/ESA MAGPIE contract) or below the inclusion bar (a routine Starlink reentry sighting, an ESA Sentinel-3C pre-launch logistics repost, a NASA DSN Madrid wildfire evacuation with no stated commercial impact). No X-handle searches run this pass; budget spent on the mandatory fetchable leg and the discovery pass instead.

Discovery pass: 10 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/debris, regulatory, China, India, Japan, EO procurement, M&A, Artemis). Nine of ten queries surfaced only already-published or stale stories; the Artemis query surfaced the one new item this sweep (NASA/Blue Origin Stennis B-2 test stand agreement).

Quiet post-Starship-launch sweep: patched the Starship Flight 13 item with its actual July 24 flight results (first intact ship splashdown, first V3 Starlink deployment, hard booster splashdown) and shipped one new item on Lockheed Martin guaranteeing a $500 million loan to ULA amid the Vulcan grounding. The Galileo satellite-entry-into-service and EU/Copernicus Iran-region stories were checked and left out: no commercial angle and a stale restatement of an already-published story, respectively.

Signals pass: 16 channels checked · 5 X handles searched · 16 fetchable channels checked via the Bluesky public API and site fetches; only new on-scope factual content was Starship Flight 13 coverage (Foust, SpacePolicyOnline), already captured via the trade queue. Marco Langbroek's feed covered a Starlink reentry fireball sighting over the Netherlands, routine and not drafted. 5 X handles searched (Bruno, Beck, Curcio, Morrison, Haot), no retrievable on-scope first-party post found beyond what search summaries already show as stale.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, China, EO, India, regulatory, M&A). Surfaced the Lockheed/ULA financial item (drafted) and a stale 2025 MDA/SatixFy merger-amendment story (discarded, wrong year); Karman Space & Defense's Walker Precision acquisition (July 20, missile-industry supplier, outside this run's window) was not chased.

Deep sweep after the 09:27 UTC zero-new-item run: 4 new items (an ESA/ispace-Europe lunar rover contract, a CAS Space Kinetica-1 launch, a Spire/SATE ESA-backed AI partnership, and an EU Copernicus imagery delay over the Gulf of Oman) plus 1 update adding a lightning-strike detail to the Tianlian II-06 launch item. Two queue/discovery finds (a UK debris-removal contract delay, a Contrivian/Big Network merger) turned out to already be published under different ids and were dropped from the draft.

Signals pass: 17 channels checked · 5 X handles searched · Deep sweep: all 17 fetchable channels checked (10 via Bluesky public API, 6 via direct site fetch, europeanspaceflight.com covered via the harvester's regular feed pass). Andrew Parsonson's Bluesky post on the MAGPIE contract confirmed the item drafted this run; spacepolicyonline.com and europeanspaceflight.substack.com remain bot/Cloudflare-walled (standing pattern). Searched 5 X handles (Beck, Musk, Dodd, Manley, Morrison); no verbatim post text was retrievable via the syndication endpoint this run, so nothing from X was drafted.

Discovery pass: 12 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/debris/regulatory, non-US rotation across China/India/Japan/Europe, plus EO/D2D/human-spaceflight slots). Surfaced the EU/Copernicus Gulf of Oman delay (drafted); the Contrivian/Big Network merger this pass surfaced was already published under 2026-07-21-contrivian-big-network-merger-complete (caught by finalize-sweep, dropped from the draft). A Univity/Telkomsat VLEO study MoU and an Azercosmos startup-incubator demo day were checked and left undrafted as thin, non-binding positioning without stated money or a named commercial outcome. Everything else traced to already-published items (NSSL Lane 1, FCC licensing overhaul, Aeolus-2, Skyroot Vikram-1, Rocket Lab/Iridium, Amazon/Globalstar, NASA CSDA On-Ramp 2, CLD draft RFP).

Same-sweep self-correction: resolved an erroneous dispute flag and rescored 2026-07-23-casc-tianlian2-06-launch, caused by crossfeeding a non-monotonic-counter registry field (last_flight_date).

Signals pass: 0 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · Corrective dispute-resolution follow-up within the same sweep; no new discovery pass.

Discovery pass: 6 queries · Corrective dispute-resolution follow-up; reusing this sweep's already-run discovery matrix, no new queries executed.

• 2026-07-23-casc-tianlian2-06-launch 3→4 Dispute is erroneous, not a genuine editorial conflict: it was auto-generated by crossfeeding last_flight_date, a field not on the code's recognized monotonic-counter list (flights_total, flights_successful, sats_launched_total, launches_total), so the gate treated this item's fresh 2026-07-23 flight date as contradicting the registry's pre-event 2026-06-16 snapshot for Long March-3B rather than recognizing it as superseded-by-date. Both sides describe the same vehicle's most recent flight at different points in time, not a genuine same-metric conflict. Resolving the dispute and rescoring with the identical, unchanged source list.

Same-sweep self-correction: rescored 2026-07-23-casc-tianlian2-06-launch to remove a wrongful crossfeed dispute downgrade on a non-monotonic-counter registry field (last_flight_date).

Signals pass: 0 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · Corrective rescore-only follow-up within the same sweep; no new discovery pass.

Discovery pass: 6 queries · Corrective rescore-only follow-up; reusing this sweep's already-run discovery matrix, no new queries executed.

Narrow ~3h40m re-check on the unfiltered full source list. Harvester queue was almost entirely SpaceX stock/Starship-scrub noise; both new items came from the discovery pass (a chased-old Louisiana Starlink BEAD grant and today's CASC Tianlian II-06 launch), plus one free corroboration attach on the Eutelsat Next item.

Signals pass: 2 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · Narrow ~3h40m re-check: checked the two fetchable site channels directly (europeanspaceflight.com, spacepolicyonline.com), both showing nothing newer than already-published or already-triaged stories; the Bluesky/YouTube/substack fetchable legs and X-search leg were not rotated in this pass given the narrow gap and the harvester queue's own Bluesky-search entries already covering that surface for this window.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, non-US, incident/regulatory) plus targeted follow-ups. Surfaced the Louisiana/Starlink BEAD grant and the CASC Tianlian II-06 launch as genuinely new; also chased and ruled out an Air Force GPS-receiver reorg (no commercial contractor named), NROL-95 (not yet flown), a T-Mobile CEO satellite comment (stale, April earnings call), and a Sateliot funding target (still seeking a lead investor, not a closed round).

Quiet ~11h45m sweep off a saturated Starship-Flight-13/stock-price harvester queue: three new items (a $266 million Rocket Lab HASTE contract from the discovery pass, plus two small trade-press product/contract items) and one free corroboration attach on the Poland IRIS2 item. All 21 HTML sources and 15 of 17 signals channels came back quiet or already covered.

Signals pass: 15 channels checked · 3 X handles searched · 15 of 17 fetchable channels checked (rotation skipped Marcia Smith's and Anatoly Zak's Bluesky legs since their site legs were checked this run); all quiet or already-published, except Jeff Foust's SpaceNews feed which surfaced the Frequency Electronics/Intellian queue stories plus two below-bar items (Airbus 'business is booming' commentary, Artemis 2 pilot's equatorial-landing advocacy, both left undrafted). spacepolicyonline.com hit a bot-check wall; europeanspaceflight.substack.com 403'd, consistent with prior runs. 3 X handles searched (Tory Bruno, Peter Beck, Dan Ceperley), no fresh retrievable first-party post found beyond the already-covered Rocket Lab HASTE contract.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch/vehicle, financial, regulatory/incident, non-US rotation via Chinese-language query, plus rotating slots). Surfaced the Rocket Lab HASTE contract (new, drafted) via a follow-up X-search-triggered query; the FCC debris-disclosure/SSA-sharing detail and MDA/CLS, NASA SunRISE and Vulcan/USSF-87 hits all traced to already-published items or already-scored provisions of the July 22 FCC order. Everything else was stale-resurfacing (old ISRO/DISA-shaped false positives) or below the inclusion bar (Airbus earnings commentary, Whipsmart Ventures fund launch with no stated size, Artemis 2 landing-site advocacy).

• 2026-07-09-exploration-company-tec-federal 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-07-09-rivada-mercantile-space-nepal 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-07-08-brin-indonesia-neo1-satellite 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-07-10-elevationspace-reentry-vehicle-progress 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window

Five new items: a House Intelligence Committee bill to restrict commercial EO imagery sharing, NASA's $2.1B SR-1 Freedom nuclear Mars mission budget, a Spire/SATE ESA-backed AI satellite-health partnership, and two small European in-space-hardware funding rounds (ORiS, deltaVision). Harvester queue was dominated by SpaceX stock/IPO speculation and Starship Flight 13 weather coverage.

Signals pass: 10 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 10 of 17 fetchable channels checked (rotated out Aschbacher, Farrar, Berger, Zak-bluesky, Machi this run). Marcia Smith's feed surfaced the House NDAA passage (authorizes, no appropriation, no named vendor) and a Commerce/OSC certification update, both left undrafted as process-not-yet-fact per standing precedent; the FCC-postponement letter she flagged is already folded into the existing FCC licensing-overhaul item. Parsonson, Jones, Foust, Henry, Langbroek, McDowell, Zak (site), and Colangelo surfaced only already-published or stale stories. X handles not searched this run (fetchable legs were sufficient).

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, China, India, EO contract, spaceport, plus one queue-item verification search). All hits were either already-published (Gravity-1, ICEYE Series F, IRIS2 Poland signing) or stale news predating the window (Apex Space, EarthDaily/BlackSky EO contracts, SaxaVord, the recurring DISA false-positive, Suhora/NSIL). No net-new items came from the open-web searches themselves; this sweep's 5 new items all came from the harvester queue and direct source fetches.

• 2026-07-21-oris-laser-power-beaming-funding 2→3 Free corroboration found this sweep: Tech.eu independently covered the same ORiS pre-seed round with matching figures, a distinct outlet from the SpaceNews lead. The prior crawl's found_none is superseded by an actual second source, not re-litigated.

Quiet narrow re-check (~3h43m gap): harvester queue was entirely off-scope noise (SpaceX stock speculation, FAA airworthiness directives, recruitment notices), all 21 HTML sources and 15 fetchable signals channels were current with nothing newer than lastSweep, 8 X-handle searches surfaced nothing retrievable, and the 8-query discovery pass surfaced only already-published or already-excluded stories. Zero items is the honest outcome.

Signals pass: 15 channels checked · 8 X handles searched · 15 of 17 fetchable channels checked this run (budget rotation skipped europeanspaceflight.substack.com, a documented Cloudflare-gated duplicate of the already-checked europeanspaceflight.com site feed, and aviationweek.com/author/vivienne-machi, lowest-yield channel in recent rotations); nothing new inside the window on any channel -- every on-topic post found (MRV-1 launch, ORiS, deltaVision, Relativity Florida, Poland IRIS2, ONERA/AMOS, Sierra Space/SDA) traces to an already-published item. Searched 8 X handles (Beck, Bruno, Haot, Morrison, Curcio, Sheetz, Roulette, Erwin); no on-scope first-party post retrievable with exact text inside the window.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch/vehicle, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US China/India, EO contract, FCC/constellation). All 6 candidate-shaped hits (Flexell Space $20M, Venus Aerospace $91M, Skyroot Vikram-1 orbit, Sierra Space/SDA $798M, FCC licensing overhaul, SDA/Golden Dome 36-satellite award) trace to already-published items or already-excluded scope calls; none newer than lastSweep.

FCC voted July 22 to adopt its Part 100 satellite licensing overhaul and separately approved a second C-band auction clearing 160 MHz from SES, Eutelsat, and Telesat; drafted the C-band clearing as a new item and patched the existing licensing-overhaul item with the vote outcome. Also drafted ONERA's contract with Belgium's AMOS for the PROVIDENCE space-surveillance telescope and ICEYE's new flood-monitoring partnership with KT SAT in South Korea. Reviewed and left out: a classified Chinese GEO-tracking satellite (no commercial angle, pure SSA analysis), a routine $22M satcom contract (light on detail, below the inclusion bar), an Artemis 2 astronaut's landing-site advocacy (institutional program debate, no commercial hook), routine ISS crew-rotation/EVA ops, and several routine executive hires (Spire CCO, Axiom CFO/CIO).

Signals pass: 7 channels checked · 10 X handles searched · All 17 fetchable channels covered this run: the 7 site/substack channels above fetched directly (europeanspaceflight.com and spacepolicyonline.com's freshness also confirmed via the harvester's own RSS fetch this run), the remaining 10 Bluesky channels via the public getAuthorFeed API. Marcia Smith's Bluesky thread on the MRV-1/GEO-servicing launch confirmed facts already in the published item; Andrew Parsonson's Bluesky and site both surfaced the ONERA/AMOS PROVIDENCE story drafted above. Several accounts (Langbroek, Farrar, Berger, Aschbacher, Henry) returned stale, off-topic, or out-of-window feeds this session, consistent with prior sessions' documented per-account Bluesky API flakiness; Andrew Jones's and Anatoly Zak's feeds were current but surfaced only already-published or pre-event stories (Chang'e-7 NOTAM, Vostochny Soyuz-2 delivery).

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, China, EO, Japan, India). Surfaced the FCC C-band story (drafted above) and two already-covered or too-stale-to-chase stories (SDA Tranche 3 Golden Dome award, already published; Hainan recovery-vessel shipbuilding contract, announced July 11, notable-tier and not seismic so not chased under the predates-window rule). No other new on-scope candidates found.

• 2026-07-09-space-force-procurement-reorganization 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window

Deep sweep (escalated after prior zero-add runs; ~7h55m gap, unfiltered full source list). The harvester queue was almost entirely SpaceX stock/IPO noise and stale reprints; the day's 4 new items and 1 update came from the signals pass (Jeff Foust and Marcia Smith on Bluesky) and direct HTML source checks (Vast's own newsroom), not the queue. Left out on purpose: the UK's DSIT dissolution (no stated commercial-space consequence, UKSA itself declined comment), KBR's Golden Dome business-unit positioning (no contract or dollar figure, just leadership appointments), and a LandSpace Zhuque-3 recovery story (conflicting sources on whether the July flight was the vehicle's first or second orbital attempt; left undrafted rather than risk misdating a seismic 'first flight' claim).

Signals pass: 17 channels checked · 4 X handles searched · Deep-sweep mode: all 17 fetchable channels checked (no rotation skip). Jeff Foust's Bluesky surfaced the Vast and Relativity/Space Florida items drafted this run; Marcia Smith's Bluesky surfaced the FCC-letter update. Marco Langbroek's Vostochny/Soyuz-2 post was speculative ('likely for... satellite-guided drones') and discarded per the conflict-analysis/operational-use exclusion. europeanspaceflight.substack.com/feed 403'd (Cloudflare), consistent with past runs; the site's own WordPress feed covers the same author. 4 X handles searched (Beck, Bruno, Curcio, Morrison); no exact post text was retrievable via the syndication endpoint for any of them, so nothing from the X leg was used.

Discovery pass: 14 queries · Matrix covered: launch/vehicle (Zhuque-3, discarded for unresolved first-vs-second-flight date ambiguity), financial (Space Foundation report, Contrivian merger, Xona/Sceye/Muon funding rounds all found stale), non-US (Chinese-language Zhuque-3 searches, JAXA/ESA/ISRO contract search, no fresh qualifying story), incident/regulatory (debris near-miss search surfaced only a stale July 3 conjunction, FCC letter searches fed the update). 4 new items and 1 update came out of this pass plus the signals pass; several leads (UK DSIT dissolution, KBR Golden Dome positioning, Zhuque-3 land-recovery) were investigated and deliberately left out, see summary.

Narrow same-day re-check (~3h44m gap) following the 05:33 UTC sweep. All 21 fetch-list HTML sources, 13 signals channels, and the harvester queue (dominated by SpaceX stock/IPO clickbait and stale resurfacing) were checked with nothing new inside the window; every genuine hit (MRV-1 servicing launch, Vandenberg relaunch, Vikram-1 congratulations, Poland IRIS2, SES/Eagle-1, Amazon Leo/Herotel) was already published earlier today. The FCC's satellite-licensing overhaul vote is scheduled for later today but had not occurred yet. Zero items shipped.

Signals pass: 13 channels checked · 2 X handles searched · 13 of 17 fetchable channels checked (rotated in Colangelo, McDowell, Parsonson substack per the prior sweep's note; substack still 403s). All content already known: MRV-1/Northrop servicing launch, Poland IRIS2, RFA ONE rollout, UKSA debris-removal delay, Bureau 1440 Rassvet, House HSS&T letter to FCC (all already published or below the bar). Best-effort X searches for Tory Bruno and Max Haot surfaced nothing new and dated.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch/vehicle, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US China/India/Japan rotation, M&A). The FCC's Space Modernization Order and C-band auction vote is scheduled for today (10:30am-12:30pm ET / 14:30-16:30 UTC) but had not occurred as of this sweep (09:17 UTC); left for a future sweep once the outcome is fetchable, per the standing pending-event convention. An Astroscale/NSIL ISSA-J1 PSLV launch-agreement hit and a Quantum Space SPAC hit were both stale resurfacing of already-published or already-known (Sept 2025) stories. A 'SpaceX $60B merger with Cursor' hit traced to unreliable aggregator content, not credible, and was not pursued.

Source-class migration: Launch Library reclassed from computed to aggregator on 5 item sources (Florian, 2026-07-22; CLAUDE.md and the registry path always scored it aggregator). 3 LL2-led launch items rescored 5 to 4 under the direct-source ceiling; items where LL2 corroborates a press lead keep their score. Ledger calibration records untouched.

• 2026-06-19-rocket-lab-victus-haze-launch 5→4 reclassification: Launch Library is an aggregator, not a computed source (Florian, 2026-07-22); the direct-source ceiling applies
• 2026-07-14-spacex-starlink-15-14-vandenberg 5→4 reclassification: Launch Library is an aggregator, not a computed source (Florian, 2026-07-22); the direct-source ceiling applies
• 2026-07-22-orienspace-gravity-1-launch 5→4 reclassification: Launch Library is an aggregator, not a computed source (Florian, 2026-07-22); the direct-source ceiling applies

Normal-mode sweep, ~12hr gap. Updated the Northrop Grumman MRV item to its actual July 21 launch (impact raised to major) and patched the SpaceX Vandenberg abort item with its successful relaunch; attached a second trade source to the Poland IRIS2 item. Published new items on an FCC unlicensed-spectrum D2D proposal, Northrop's added Vulcan GEM 63XL charges, Zenno Astronautics' US redomicile, and Orienspace's Gravity-1 sea launch.

Signals pass: 14 channels checked · 3 X handles searched · 14 of 17 fetchable channels checked; rotated out Anthony Colangelo's site, Jonathan McDowell's site, and Andrew Parsonson's substack this run (site+bluesky covered him instead). spacepolicyonline.com returned a bot-verification page only; her Bluesky feed was clean and surfaced the MRV servicing detail and a House committee FCC letter used/flagged in this draft. Best-effort X searches for Peter Beck, Blaine Curcio, and Sandra Erwin surfaced only already-known coverage, nothing independently retrievable as a new post.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US rotation across China/India/Japan, M&A, FCC). Only the FCC Part 15/D2D proposal was genuinely new; every other hit (Venus Aerospace, MDA/CLS, Rocket Lab/Iridium, MinoSpace/Sichuan, Flexell Space) was already published.

• 2026-07-08-d-orbit-arkedge-launch-contract 3→4 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-07-06-cesiumastro-synchronicity-fcc-filing 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-07-06-ravee-optics-seed-funding 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-06-10-inspace-lvm3-technology-transfer 1→2 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-06-10-satsure-inspace-taf-grant 3→4 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-06-17-bezos-earth-fund-firesat-grant 3→4 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-06-16-kai-remondo-mou 3→4 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-06-15-astrobotic-griffin-unveiling 3→4 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-06-23-spacex-starfall-demo 3→4 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-06-24-spacex-starmind-name 3→4 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-06-26-starlink-us-mobile-plan 3→4 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-06-22-spacesail-fundraising-round 3→4 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-06-30-mda-radarsat-replenishment-contract 3→4 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-06-30-agnikul-iceye-india-sar-mou 1→2 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-07-01-italy-iride-eo-service-online 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window

Quiet normal-mode sweep dominated by SpaceX stock-price and Starship-scrub chatter in the harvester queue; four new items (a German in-space-refueling components funding round, Poland's doubled IRIS2 contribution, a small UK/Space Florida aerospace fund, and Redwire's new Indiana ISS-payload/biotech facility) plus one free corroboration win on this morning's IHI/Kuva Space item, which gained two independent write-ups after its initial found_none crawl.

Signals pass: 12 channels checked · 2 X handles searched · 12 of 17 fetchable channels checked (Andrew Parsonson's site/substack/bluesky skipped as redundant: European Spaceflight is already a harvested sources.json feed and carried today's fresh IRIS2/Poland story). Nothing new beyond stories already known or already published today (Aschbacher's posts are all June/early July; Langbroek's Elektrostal repost is the already-excluded battlefield-imagery post; Farrar/Berger feeds are stale (March/June); Zak's posts are the already-published Rassvet batch and unrelated ISS crew ops; McDowell's report tops out July 1; SpacePolicyOnline and Aviation Week headlines are all already-published items). Searched 2 X handles (Peter Beck, Tory Bruno); found only already-known stories (Iridium deal reaction, Bruno's December 2025 Blue Origin hire), nothing new or independently verifiable via syndication.

Discovery pass: 7 queries · Matrix covered (launch/vehicle, financial, incident/regulatory, China, India, plus EO-contract and spaceport-agreement rotating slots). Turned up two items already drafted from the harvester queue (deltaVision, Poland IRIS2) and one stale false positive (INNOSPACE/Atlantic Spaceport Consortium Azores deal, actually from January 2026, resurfacing with no new date signal); everything else was already-published routine SpaceX launch/stock coverage or already-known stories (KBR USGS contract from January 2026, Skyroot Vikram-1 aftermath).

• 2026-07-21-ihi-kuva-space-hyperfield2-mou 2→3 Two additional independent write-ups of the same IHI/Kuva MOU surfaced same-day: International Business Times Japan (mainstream) and SatNews (trade/aggregator), each distinctly framed from SpaceNews's original piece and each carrying facts not in the SpaceNews lead (IBTimes: IHI's own IHI-SAT2 hyperspectral launch and ICEYE SAR satellites; SatNews: the November 2025 evaluation start date and 100-satellite-by-2030 goal). This corrects this morning's honest found_none crawl outcome now that real corroboration exists.

Quiet ~3h45m window: all 21 HTML sources, the harvester queue (mostly SpaceX stock/IPO chatter), and 15 signals channels were checked. Three items shipped: IHI's exploratory MOU with Kuva Space on Japan hyperspectral EO, a rare Falcon 9 post-ignition launch abort at Vandenberg, and Taiwan's Legislative Yuan exempting satellite operators from foreign-ownership caps.

Signals pass: 15 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 15 of 17 fetchable channels checked (rotated out europeanspaceflight.substack.com, redundant with the site leg already checked, and Marcia Smith's Bluesky, redundant with her own site); nothing newer than lastSweep (05:33 UTC) found on any channel. Andrew Parsonson's July 21 post (RFA ONE on the pad ahead of a hot-fire test) and Andrew Jones's post on the Chang'e-7 launch window are pre-launch/pre-event milestones, left for a future sweep once the actual events occur. xSearch leg not run this pass; the fetchable leg's full coverage plus the discovery pass and harvester queue's Bluesky-search entries covered the window.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/debris, non-US/China-language, regulatory, EO/procurement, India, M&A). Every hit beyond the 3 drafted items traced to already-published stories (Flexell Space Series A, MDA/CLS, Rocket Lab/Iridium, Mitsubishi/Infostellar, NASA CSDA On-Ramp 2, Vikram-1, FCC licensing vote) or forward-scheduled/not-yet-occurred events (Northrop Grumman MRV-1 launch, later today; Chang'e-7 window opening in August).

Quiet ~12-hour window: four new items surfaced entirely from the harvester's trade-press feeds and the signals pass, since the candidate queue was almost entirely SpaceX stock/IPO chatter and off-topic Bluesky spam. ORiS raised 5 million euros for satellite laser power-beaming; the UK government opened GBP62 million in satcom and space-innovation funding; ThinKom's GT2517 became the first airborne antenna certified for SES's O3b mPower; and RussianSpaceWeb's own reporting on Bureau 1440's second Rassvet launch (confirmed by TASS) gave the first coverage of Russia's Starlink-alternative constellation on this feed. All 21 fetch-list HTML sources and 9 of 17 signals channels were checked directly with nothing else newer than lastSweep found.

Signals pass: 9 channels checked · 4 X handles searched · 9 of 17 fetchable channels checked (europeanspaceflight.substack.com skipped, Cloudflare-gated and redundant with the site feed per standing note; remaining budget rotation deferred to next sweep). RussianSpaceWeb's own July 20 post on Bureau 1440's second Rassvet batch became this sweep's whitelist-observer item. Bluesky's public API worked cleanly this session for Foust, Langbroek and Henry (contrary to some earlier sessions' staleness); Langbroek's Elektrostal Sentinel-imagery post is battlefield damage analysis with no operator/government statement and was left out per standing precedent. 4 X handles searched best-effort (Beck, Bruno, Erwin, Foust), no independently retrievable on-topic post inside the window.

Discovery pass: 6 queries · Matrix covered (launch/vehicle, financial, incident/regulatory, China, India, EO contract). Surfaced only already-published or already-stale stories: Flexell/Venus Aerospace/Swissto12 funding rounds and the Qianfan/SpaceSail batch launches are already known; a KBR/USGS $350M EROS contract traced to a January 5, 2026 award and government-only IT/analytics scope, outside this window and scope. No qualifying new candidates beyond what the queue and direct-fetch legs already surfaced (ORiS, UK C-LEO funding, ThinKom certification, Bureau 1440 Rassvet).

• 2026-07-07-rocket-lab-cfo-falcon9-rideshare-panic 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-07-07-apolink-relay-satellite-first-contact 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-07-07-orbit-fab-shaper-ceo-funding 3→4 persistence: survived uncontested past the window

Narrow same-day re-check (~7h20m gap) surfaced two new items: a Chinese AI-rocket-engine startup's angel round and a UK Space Agency debris-removal contract delay. Attached a free third corroboration source to the existing NSSL Lane 1 ceiling item. All 21 fetch-list HTML sources and all 17 signals channels were checked directly with nothing else newer than lastSweep; the harvester queue was dominated by SpaceX Starship/Starlink scrub coverage and stock-price commentary.

Signals pass: 17 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · All 17 fetchable channels checked directly (bluesky via public API, sites via direct fetch); europeanspaceflight.substack.com 403'd as usual, covered via the bare site instead. Genuinely new finds: Andrew Parsonson's post breaking the UK ADR delay story (drafted) and a Marco Langbroek Sentinel-imagery post on Ukrainian drone-strike damage near Elektrostal, discarded as conflict/battlefield OSINT with no commercial-space fact stated, not a company or government statement on the record. Andrew Jones's Chang'e-7 NOTAM/rocket-at-pad posts are pre-launch logistics, left for the actual launch. No X searches run this narrow-gap pass; the fetchable leg alone covered the window.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch/vehicle, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US China+India, plus M&A and FCC rotation slots). Surfaced 2 genuinely new items (LegendSpace, UK ADR delay via the signals pass overlap) and re-confirmed the 'DISA awards 16 PLEO contracts' hit as the same recurring 2023 false positive flagged in SWEEP_MEMORY 2026-07-19-D/2026-07-20-D (third occurrence); everything else traced to already-published stories or SpaceX stock/Starship-schedule noise.

Quiet narrow-gap sweep (~4h18m since the prior run). The harvester queue was almost entirely SpaceX stock/IPO clickbait and Starship Flight 13/launch-schedule chatter; all 21 fetch-list HTML sources, 15 signals channels, and an 8-query discovery matrix confirmed nothing new survived verification. Three leads were checked and dropped: a Bluesky claim about an Australian 'Dingo Sat Constellation' does not match anything on the named operator's own site and is unverifiable; a Coal India/NRSC-ISRO satellite-monitoring MoU is a domestic government-to-government arrangement with no commercial constellation operator involved; the Dutch Ministry of Defence's July 2 Space Command establishment (fifth operational domain) names ICEYE only as an existing supplier with no new contract, the same institutional-restructuring shape already sitting unruled in held.json via the NATO HALO and Singapore space agency entries, so a further duplicate hold was skipped per the 2026-07-19-C precedent. Arianespace's July 20 confirmation of an August 27 date for Ariane 6's first geostationary mission (MTG-I2) added only a firm date to a fact ESA's own July 2 press release had already stated (first GEO mission, late August); too thin a development to draft as its own item.

Signals pass: 15 channels checked · 3 X handles searched · 15 of 17 fetchable channels checked (all site/substack channels plus 9 of 10 distinct Bluesky accounts; skipped the europeanspaceflight.substack.com duplicate of the already-checked site feed). All quiet: nothing newer than lastSweep beyond content already known to MCC (Artemis Accords count, Vikram-1, Starship scrub/reschedule, CLPS CP-12) or off-scope (Langbroek's OSINT imagery of a Ukrainian drone strike on a Russian warehouse, discarded as battlefield OSINT). Searched 3 X handles (Foust/Erwin combined query, Beck, Bruno); no on-scope first-party post beyond what trade press already covers.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US/China, EO, Japan/India, ESA). Every hit traced to a story already published (Iridium/Rocket Lab, MDA/CLS, Mitsubishi/Infostellar, Long March 10B recovery) or to stale resurfacing months to a year old with a fresh-looking publish date (Kepler HydRON: actually April 2026; Redwire QKDSat: actually April 2026; ispace/Digantara cislunar MoU: actually September 2025; a DISA/SSC 'Proliferated LEO' contract-award headline that matches the exact 2026-07-19 sweep's documented 2023 false positive, and could not be verified live since ssc.spaceforce.mil 403'd). Zero genuinely new candidates survived verification.

Deep sweep (harvester escalated to a 7-day window after 2 consecutive zero-add sweeps): re-examined all 772 collapsed candidates plus 21 direct HTML sources and all 17 fetchable signals channels. The candidate queue was dominated by SpaceX post-IPO stock-market commentary, an extended ISRO scientist-resignation news cycle, and off-topic Bluesky/Futurism noise. One genuinely new-looking lead, Aviation Week's July 19 piece on Sweden accelerating its ICEYE/Planet Labs military Earth-observation fleet, turned out to be a status feature restating a January 2026 contract and a May 2026 launch already superseded by events, with no new discrete dated fact of its own, so it was left undrafted per the standing evergreen-resurfacing precedent. Sierra Space's $798M Golden Dome release, the OSC mission-authorization testimony, the Chang'e-7 rocket's arrival at Wenchang, a Redwire drone (not space) order, a stale Kineis newsletter, a weak-commercial-angle Netherlands space-agency mandate story, and Mauritius' Artemis Accords signing (same unresolved scope question already sitting in held.json for Serbia, not duplicated) were all reviewed and left out for the reasons logged against each source above. Zero items added, updated, or newly held this run.

Signals pass: 17 channels checked · 3 X handles searched · Deep sweep: all 17 fetchable channels checked (budget lifted, no rotation skips; substack leg 403'd, covered instead via the site and the harvester's RSS feed). Josef Aschbacher's Poland/ESA post and Andrew Jones' Chang'e-7/Wenchang post both matched already-published or already-triaged stories; Marco Langbroek's on-topic posts were his own orbital-imagery analysis of a drone strike (conflict-adjacent, out of scope) plus Starship FT-13 trajectory commentary on an already-published event. Caleb Henry, Tim Farrar, Eric Berger, and Jonathan McDowell's feeds/pages were stale or empty in-window, consistent with prior sweeps' per-account Bluesky API unreliability. Searched 3 X handles (Peter Beck, Sandra Erwin, Michael Sheetz); nothing on-scope and not already known was retrievable.

Discovery pass: 12 queries · Full matrix covered (launch/vehicle, financial, incident/regulatory, China, India, Europe/ESA, Japan, FCC/regulatory, human-spaceflight/Artemis, incident/reentry, IoT constellation, launch anomaly). Every hit traced to an already-published item, an already-held scope question, or a routine/evergreen story below the inclusion bar.

• 2026-07-06-nasa-sba-strategic-capital-partnership 3→4 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-07-02-austria-r-space-aurora-satellite 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-06-30-maiaspace-fourth-engine-upgrade 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-07-01-lunar-forge-regolith-construction 2→3 persistence: survived uncontested past the window

Narrow same-day re-check (~8h12m gap, unfiltered full source list). The harvester queue (60 candidates after collapse) was dominated by SpaceX stock-market clickbait, movie/entertainment content, and off-topic Bluesky spam; genuine space-adjacent hits were either analyst commentary on the already-published Rocket Lab/Iridium deal, evergreen analysis of already-known SpaceX financial activity, or routine India coverage of the already-published Vikram-1 launch. All 21 fetch-list.ts HTML sources and 13 of 17 signals channels were checked directly, with nothing newer than lastSweep (2026-07-19T09:05 UTC) found anywhere. An 8-query discovery pass covering launch, financial, incident/regulatory, China, EO, India, connectivity, and Japan/Europe surfaced no qualifying new candidates. Zero items, zero updates, zero new held entries.

Signals pass: 13 channels checked · 3 X handles searched · 13 of 17 fetchable channels checked (Berger, Zak/X, Parsonson substack, Parsonson/X skipped this pass, all covered via their site/RSS legs or in recent rotation); nothing newer than lastSweep on any of them. Searched 3 X handles (Peter Beck, Jared Isaacman, Sandra Erwin); no on-scope post newer than lastSweep was retrievable via syndication, only older coverage already known to MCC.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, China, EO, India, connectivity, Japan/Europe). Every hit was either already published (Rocket Lab/Iridium, Vikram-1, SDA T1TL-E, Starship Flight 13 abort), an evergreen analysis piece of already-known events (SpaceX AI-compute revenue, SpaceX/Alphabet equity-sales roundup, Falcon 9 2025 cadence recap), a resurfaced old story with no date qualifier (ESA Japan office, Oct 2025; Japan MoD satellite recon plan, Dec 2025), or institutional/personnel news with no stated commercial angle (ISRO exit restrictions, Shankari Murali visit).

Narrow same-day re-check (~3.5hr gap): the harvester queue, all 21 direct-fetch HTML sources, all 13 fetchable signals channels, and an 8-query discovery pass all confirm a genuinely quiet window. Zero new items; every substantive hit traced back to an already-published story.

Signals pass: 13 channels checked · 5 X handles searched · All 13 fetchable channels checked (site/substack legs plus the public Bluesky API for bluesky-only signals, since bsky.app profile pages remain unrenderable via WebFetch this session per standing note); newest posts across the board (Foust's Mauritius Artemis Accords post, Andrew Jones' Ma Xingrui/Chang'e-7 posts) predate lastSweep and are already known. Chenry's API feed again returned a mixed/stale feed of other accounts, not usable. Searched 5 X handles (Beck, Bruno, Haot, Isaacman, Morrison); no exact verbatim post text retrievable this run beyond search snippets, nothing usable.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, China-language, EO procurement, India, Starship). All 6 substantive hits were already known: Chang Guang's 5bn-yuan round matches the existing 2026-07-04 item, NASA's CSDA On-Ramp2 full roster matches the existing 2026-06-23 item, the FCC licensing/spectrum vote matches the existing 2026-07-01 item, Skyroot's Vikram-1 matches the existing 2026-07-18 item, Sierra Space's Golden Dome award matches the existing 2026-07-13 item. Aalyria's $100M Series B (Feb 23, 2026, resurfacing in a funding-roundup search) is a 5-month-old, already-widely-covered story with no new discrete fact, left undrafted per the 2026-07-12-K stale-resurfacing precedent. Starship Flight 13 remains a future, undecided launch attempt (targeting July 20), not yet draftable.

Quiet ~12-hour window. The harvester queue was almost entirely SpaceX stock/IPO commentary and ISRO mass-resignation follow-ups, both out of scope; the one genuine story (Space Force nearly tripling the NSSL Lane 1 launch contract ceiling to $17 billion) came from SpaceNews's same-day writeup of a July 17 notice, confirmed by an independent Defense Daily report. Mauritius's Artemis Accords signing (70th nation) recurred the same unresolved scope question already sitting in held.json for Serbia; not duplicated into the queue pending Florian's ruling.

Signals pass: 10 channels checked · 3 X handles searched · 10 of 17 fetchable channels checked (rotation; the other 7 covered in the prior same-day sweep). Nothing new in window: Jeff Foust/Andrew Jones/SpacePolicyOnline bluesky feeds only reposted already-known stories (Mauritius/Serbia Artemis Accords, Starship scrub, Ma Xingrui, all already published or held); Caleb Henry's and Eric Berger's bluesky feeds returned stale, pre-July content mixed with other accounts' posts, the same tool-level feed issue logged 2026-07-18-A. Searched 3 X handles (Beck, Bruno, Aschbacher), all surfaced only old posts.

Discovery pass: 11 queries · Matrix covered (launch/vehicle, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US/China, M&A, EO contracts). 3 candidates surfaced beyond the queue: the NSSL Lane 1 ceiling increase (published), Ukraine's Stetman/UASAT LEO constellation (evergreen feature restating a March-announced program with no new discrete dated fact, left undrafted), and a Delta/Amazon Leo in-flight Wi-Fi deal (traced to a March 31, 2026 announcement, not a fresh event). A Chinese search for Yuanxin Satellite's reported 15-billion-yuan capital raise resolved to the same round as the already-published 2026-06-22 SpaceSail fundraising item, no new figure.

• 2026-06-30-firefly-ssc-space-esrange-sweden-2028 3→4 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-07-01-fcc-satellite-licensing-overhaul-vote 3→4 persistence: survived uncontested past the window
• 2026-07-02-hongqing-technology-funding-round 3→4 persistence: survived uncontested past the window

Quiet ~8.5 hour narrow re-check. Harvester queue (105 candidates after prefilter) was almost entirely Vikram-1 reaction pieces, SpaceX stock/IPO clickbait, and an ISRO scientist-resignation story with no stated commercial angle. All 21 direct-fetch HTML sources and 15 of 17 signals channels showed nothing newer than the 08:45 UTC sweep. One new item shipped: a small Pentagon Defense Production Act award to a satellite cover-glass supplier, found via the queue's lone genuine SpaceNews hit.

Signals pass: 15 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 15 of 17 fetchable channels checked (europeanspaceflight.substack.com skipped as redundant with the bare site per standing lesson; rotated out this run). Nothing newer than lastSweep beyond already-published stories (Vikram-1 orbit, Starship Flight 13 reschedule to July 20, Draper/ispace CLPS termination) and the already-held Serbia Artemis Accords scope question (Mauritius joining the same day is the same open question, not drafted separately). No X handles searched this run; the fetchable leg covered the window.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, China, EO, India, Europe, incident rotation). Every hit besides the Pentagon coverglass item was already published (Vikram-1, Chang Guang and SpaceSail funding, Airbus/Aeolus-2 already scoped out per 2026-07-05-Q, Starship Flight 13 abort) or below the inclusion bar/stale for this narrow window (Dhruva Space's small ₹60cr round, India's HAPS approval which is atmospheric not orbital, a Kuva US CSDA on-ramp addition from July 1).

Self-correction: rescored 2026-07-18-skyroot-vikram1-orbital-launch to remove an erroneous crossfeed dispute downgrade caused by my own same_metric misjudgment on this sweep's first draft.

Signals pass: 9 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · Same pass already run earlier this sweep (this draft only corrects the prior draft's scoring, no new discovery): 9 of 17 fetchable channels checked, all quiet or already-published beyond confirming the Vikram-1 story. No X searches run this pass.

Discovery pass: 6 queries · Same matrix already run earlier this sweep (this draft only corrects the prior draft's scoring, no new discovery needed); no new candidates beyond the already-drafted Vikram-1 item.

• 2026-07-18-skyroot-vikram1-orbital-launch 3→4 Self-correction, same sweep: the crossfeed block on this item's own creation wrongly attested same_metric:true for vikram-1.flights_total/flights_successful against the registry's pre-launch "0" snapshot (Wikipedia, as_of 2026-07-08). That is a metric mismatch (the registry fact measured the count as of a date before the vehicle had flown, not a competing claim about today's count), not a genuine same-metric contradiction, so the automatic dispute downgrade it triggered was a scoring error, not an editorial one. Rescoring with the identical, unchanged source set and crawl outcome removes that erroneous downgrade. The item's `disputed` flag has no supported un-set path in finalize-sweep and will remain true; flagging for a manual review/code fix (reconcile() has no way to treat a monotonically-increasing vehicle flight-count field as time-superseded rather than contradicted).

Skyroot Aerospace's Vikram-1 reached orbit on its first flight, making it the first privately built rocket to do so from India. A same-day Iraq/Starlink licensing story was held on a genuine sourcing contradiction over whether a license was actually granted.

Signals pass: 9 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 9 of 17 fetchable channels checked (site/substack legs plus 3 bluesky spot-checks); all quiet or already-published beyond confirming the Vikram-1 story (Jeff Foust's own SpaceNews piece). spacepolicyonline.com's site returned a bot-check shell (no parseable content) rather than a genuine quiet result. No X searches run this narrow-gap pass; remaining channels left for rotation on the next sweep.

Discovery pass: 6 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US, Europe, M&A). Only new find was the Vikram-1 launch itself, already surfaced via the harvester queue; everything else returned already-published stories or off-window resurfacing.

Quiet ~9h13m sweep: one NASA CLPS lunar-lander task order termination (Draper/ispace-U.S.) and one propulsion-startup funding round (Venus Aerospace, chased back to its actual July 8 announcement date). Skyroot's Vikram-1 maiden orbital launch was still pre-T-0 at sweep time and will be picked up once it flies.

Signals pass: 15 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 15 of 17 fetchable channels checked (rotated out Marcia Smith's and Andrew Parsonson's own sites, both redundant with the SpacePolicyOnline/European Spaceflight RSS sources the harvester already covers this run); this session's WebFetch renders Bluesky profile pages as bare handles with no post content (confirms 2026-07-17 session-tool-limitation precedent), so no Bluesky posts were retrievable this run despite fetching them. Jonathan McDowell's site (no new JSR issue since Jul 1), Anthony Colangelo's mainenginecutoff.com (nothing since Jul 2), and russianspaceweb.com (no dated new entries) yielded nothing new. Vivienne Machi's Aviation Week author page surfaced the Draper/ispace-U.S. CLPS termination story (used as corroboration) plus SDA/MRV-1 launch-date pieces already covered or not yet flown. europeanspaceflight.substack.com 403'd this session. X handle search skipped this run to prioritize the HTML-source and discovery passes within the session's tool constraints; no X-only claims were used in this sweep's drafts.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch/vehicle, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US rotation China/India/Europe). Surfaced one new candidate not yet in the feed (Venus Aerospace's July 8 Series B, chased and dated to its actual announcement date per the predates-window rule for notable items); everything else found was already covered (Swissto12, NASA CSDA/Kuva, SpaceSail/Qianfan launches, Starship Flight 13 abort) or not yet occurred (MRV-1 launch NET July 21, Vikram-1 T-0 still pending at sweep time).

A quiet ~12.5-hour window dominated by SpaceX Starship-abort stock chatter and ISRO resignation coverage in the harvester queue; six genuinely new items came from Via Satellite, Payload and European Spaceflight (a lunar ground-station MoU, a commercial RF/Lockheed Martin defense downlink demo, a small SpaceWERX AI award, a deployable-solar-array seed round, an Arianespace CEO block-order commentary, and an early-stage WSJ-reported SpaceX/Pentagon compute-talks signal). Attached fresh corroboration to two existing items (NASA/Starlink Artemis III, the Starship Flight 13 abort/reschedule) and held one genuine scope question (a Serbia Artemis Accords signing).

Signals pass: 12 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 12 of 17 fetchable channels checked this run (rotation; Anatoly Zak's two channels and Marcia Smith's bluesky duplicate-covered by her site skipped this pass). Jeff Foust's Bluesky surfaced the Serbia/Artemis Accords story (held, see below); European Spaceflight surfaced the Arianespace/Hartpunkt commentary (drafted). No X handles searched this run; budget spent on the mandatory fetchable leg and the open-web discovery/corroboration passes instead.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch/vehicle, financial, incident/debris, non-US x2, FCC regulatory, M&A, Europe institutional). Only new find was the already-excluded Airbus/ESA Aeolus-2 legacy-institutional contract (2026-07-05-Q precedent, re-confirmed dated July 2, out of window and out of scope); all other hits were already-published items or confirmed stale/duplicate.

A busy ~13.5-hour window: SpaceX's Starship Flight 13 aborted at T-0 on an engine ignition fault; AST SpaceMobile disclosed a year-plus BlueBird slip alongside a $1B note sale and a Rakuten J-LEO joint-venture push; SpaceX resumed SDA Tranche 1 Transport Layer launches at the halfway mark; Reliance Jio's sovereign LEO plan reportedly cleared technical review (unconfirmed); NASA and Roscosmos agreed to extend ISS operations and seat-swaps through 2030; and NASA tapped Starlink laser terminals for Artemis III imagery. A cluster of ISRO mass-resignation stories and one debris-removal research press release were reviewed and left out for lacking a stated commercial-space fact.

Signals pass: 16 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 15 of 17 fetchable channels checked (europeanspaceflight.substack.com skipped as a known Cloudflare-gated duplicate of the bare site per 2026-07-07-B); nothing new in this window beyond stories already surfaced via the harvester queue (SpacePolicyOnline's ISS/seat-swap post, already drafted above). No X handle searches run this pass; budget spent on the queue/discovery legs given the number of substantive candidates already surfaced there.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, China, Japan/Europe, contracts, FCC, M&A). Surfaced mostly already-known/already-published items (Swissto12 Series C already an existing item; Iceye's reported $1.2B Series F figure is a Space Capital aggregate report on an already-published June 9 item, not a new dated event) plus confirmation of the Starship Flight 13 abort already drafted above. No new on-scope candidates beyond what the queue and signals legs already surfaced.

Quiet queue dominated by SpaceX Starship Flight 13 stock/launch chatter and ISRO-exodus coverage (neither on-scope); real news came from the harvester's trade-press feeds. Three new items: a House hearing on Office of Space Commerce's mission-authorization plan and steep TraCSS budget cuts, a DIU solicitation for commercial space-based power beaming, and ESA booking Ariane 6 to launch its Henon deep-space CubeSat. Attached a third independent source to today's earlier SWISSto12 funding item. All 21 fetch-list HTML sources were checked directly and showed nothing newer than lastSweep.

Signals pass: 16 channels checked · 3 X handles searched · 16 of 17 fetchable channels checked (europeanspaceflight.substack.com skipped, redundant Cloudflare-gated mirror of the site already checked). All content predates lastSweep (09:16 UTC) except Andrew Parsonson's Bluesky post on the Henon/Ariane 6 story (already drafted from ESA+European Spaceflight) and Anatoly Zak's bluesky, whose newest item is a one-word off-topic fragment. Vivienne Machi's Aviation Week pieces cover the SDA T1TL launch, still forward-scheduled as of this sweep. 3 X handles searched (jeff_foust, Sandra_I_Erwin, mouthofmorrison); no on-scope post inside the window retrievable via search/syndication beyond already-known stories.

Discovery pass: 6 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial x2, incident, non-US China+India). All hits were already-published or out-of-scope stories (Dish/EchoStar Chapter 11, Venus Aerospace, routine Qianfan batches, small Dhruva Space funding round outside this window); no new candidates beyond those already surfaced by the harvester queue (OSC/TraCSS hearing, DIU power beaming, ESA Henon CubeSat).

Quiet queue dominated by ISRO-exodus and SpaceX-stock clickbait; all 21 HTML sources and 15 signals channels were current with nothing newer than lastSweep. Discovery surfaced three new items: a Swissto12 funding round, Belgium's new Galo military EO constellation, and former ISRO chief Somanath joining Agnikul Cosmos's board. Held a CNSA leadership-purge story as a scope question.

Signals pass: 15 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 15 of 17 fetchable channels checked this run (budget rotation); all posts/articles found predate lastSweep (05:36 UTC) and were already known or out of window. Rotated out: russianspaceweb.com (Anatoly Zak site) and the europeanspaceflight.substack.com mirror, both covered via other legs of this run (Zak's Bluesky, europeanspaceflight.com direct). X handles not searched this run given a fully quiet bluesky/site leg and a narrow window; no on-scope X-only claim was chased.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US China, plus rotating Belgium/CNSA/India/Japan slots). Surfaced 3 genuinely new items (Swissto12, Belgium Galo, Agnikul/Somanath) and one scope-question hold (Ma Xingrui/CNSA); all other hits were already-published stories or forward-scheduled launches not yet flown.

Quiet ~11h44m window: three new items (a $69.2M Space Force AI-training contract for Slingshot Aerospace, Eutelsat's FCC filing for a new 528-satellite Next constellation, and Rocket Lab's Neutron second-stage engine qualification burn) plus one update, attaching three free-corroboration sources to yesterday's Frontier/Indigo Partners Starlink item. The harvester queue was dominated by SpaceX stock/IPO coverage and Starship Flight 13 preflight chatter for a launch that had not yet flown at sweep time.

Signals pass: 15 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 15 of 17 fetchable channels checked this run (budget 15); rotated out europeanspaceflight.substack.com (persistent 403 per standing note) and russianspaceweb.com (Zak's Bluesky already covers his output). All on-scope finds (SES/Eagle-1, EMXYS Don Quijote, Northrop MRV launch date, Ma Xingrui CPC expulsion, Netherlands space agency mandate) were either already published or judged out of scope; no new candidate survived. X leg not run this pass; budget spent on the fetchable leg and the open-web discovery pass instead.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch/vehicle, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US x2, EO contract, space station, FCC). Every candidate surfaced was already published (NASA CSDA, CLD draft RFP, FCC licensing vote, SpaceX Gen3 filing, Skyroot Vikram-1 window) or previously excluded on scope grounds (Venus Aerospace, ISRO Gaganyaan-adjacent stories); zero new items came from this pass. The Eutelsat Next and Rocket Lab Archimedes items were sourced from the harvester queue and signals-adjacent Bluesky mention, not this pass.

Quiet queue dominated by SpaceX stock-price clickbait again; five genuine items surfaced from the harvester queue and direct-fetch legs: a Japanese government launch-cadence policy target, an SES/Airbus Eagle-1 ground-station lease, a Loft Orbital bus order from Airbus and Apex, an Icarus Robotics/KULR ISS-robot battery deal, and Amazon Leo's first African distribution partnership with Herotel in South Africa.

Signals pass: 17 channels checked · 4 X handles searched · All 17 fetchable channels checked; europeanspaceflight.substack.com 403'd as usual (bare site worked). Andrew Parsonson's Bluesky/site posts on SES-Airbus Eagle-1 corroborate a drafted item; Marcia Smith's ispace/Draper CLPS post and Andrew Jones' Chang'e-7 rocket-arrival post were already triaged (held / below inclusion bar) by an earlier sweep today. Searched 4 X handles (Beck, Bruno, Haot, Morrison), no retrievable on-scope first-party post found.

Discovery pass: 7 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial/M&A, incident/regulatory, China-language, EO procurement, M&A, FCC). All hits were already-published stories (MDA/CLS, Rocket Lab/Iridium, Infostellar, FCC July 22 vote) or already-triaged (Kuva US CSDA On-Ramp, a follow-up detail on an already-published item); no new candidates surfaced beyond the harvester queue finds.

A quiet ~3.5-hour re-check: SpaceX shipped a smaller, more power-efficient Starlink V5 terminal, and Mitsubishi Electric's acquisition of ground-station provider Infostellar was chased from a two-week-old announcement the discovery pass surfaced. An ispace-US/Draper CLPS task-order termination was held pending a gate-safe source; a Russian senator's call to destroy the Starlink constellation and a resurfacing Iranian state-media satellite-constellation status update were discarded as conflict rhetoric and stale institutional resurfacing respectively.

Signals pass: 13 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · All 13 fetchable signal people covered (one channel each, prioritizing bluesky/site over duplicate substack/site variants already known-flaky). Genuinely new in-window: Marcia Smith's ispace/Draper CLPS post (held, see above). Everything else was either pre-window (Pangea Propulsion, ESA Warsaw center, Chang'e-7 rocket arrival) and already published or not yet published this run, or forward-scheduled launches (Soyuz MS-29 already flown/out of scope, SDA Tranche 1 T1TL-E and Starship Flight 13 both not yet flown). No X search budget used this run; full fetchable-leg coverage took priority within the time available.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch/vehicle, financial, incident/regulatory, China, India, Europe, EO contract, M&A). The M&A query surfaced Mitsubishi Electric's July 2 Infostellar acquisition (never covered, drafted above, chased per the standing predates-window ruling); it also resurfaced MDA/CLS (already published 2026-07-08) and the Rocket Lab/Iridium and Amazon/Globalstar deals (already published). All other queries returned only already-published or out-of-scope results.

A quiet ~11h40m sweep: three items shipped from the harvester queue and signals pass (a Parsons/NRL ground-systems contract dated to its June 26 DoD announcement, Pangea Propulsion's new Barcelona-area plant, and Iridium's PNT ASIC reaching commercial availability). All 20 direct-fetch HTML sources and 12 of 17 signals channels showed nothing newer than the prior sweep; the harvester queue was again dominated by SpaceX stock/IPO clickbait.

Signals pass: 12 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 12 of 17 fetchable channels checked this run (rotation; Aschbacher, Langbroek, Henry, Farrar, Berger, Foust, Zak, Jones and Parsonson via Bluesky public API, plus Marcia Smith's site, European Spaceflight, and Vivienne Machi's Aviation Week author page); nothing new beyond items already drafted or already published (Soyuz MS-29, Pangea Propulsion, Northrop MRV, NSSL Lane 1, SDA Tranche 3 all cross-checked against existing[]). No X handles searched this narrow-gap run; McDowell's site, Colangelo's site, Marcus House/Tim Dodd/Felix Schlang/Scott Manley YouTube, and mainenginecutoff.com were left for next rotation.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident, China, India, regulatory, EO contract, plus a queue-candidate follow-up). All hits were either already published (Long March 10B recovery, NASA CSDA, IRIDE ESA center) or not yet flown (Long March 8A SatNet LEO Group 06, TBC July 24); no new candidates surfaced beyond the harvester queue's own finds.

Six new items: a Frontier/Indigo Partners Starlink Wi-Fi rollout, an Evercore ISI SpaceX coverage initiation, a UK space strategy preview, a fleet-wide 600th Falcon reflight milestone, Northrop Grumman's MRV servicing-spacecraft launch date, and a private-jet operator CEO's on-the-record pushback on Starlink's aviation price hike. One item held for a scope call on a month-old Iran/Starlink military-target statement resurfacing via stock-market commentary.

Signals pass: 13 channels checked · 2 X handles searched · 13 of 17 fetchable channel URLs fetched this run, covering all 17 people (Marcia Smith, Anatoly Zak, and Andrew Parsonson each checked via their site rather than every duplicate channel). All content predates lastSweep except Vivienne Machi's Aviation Week pieces, which led to the Northrop Grumman MRV item; her NSSL/Impulse Space piece matched an already-published July 8 item. Marco Langbroek's newest post was an on-topic Sentinel-2 wildfire image with no company/event to draft. Best-effort X search: 2 handles searched (Peter Beck, Sandra Erwin), no retrievable exact post text found.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch/vehicle, financial, incident/debris, non-US rotation, EO contracts, regulatory). Every hit was either already-published (China Qianfan/Spacesail cadence, FCC July 22 licensing vote, JAXA RV-X) or predates the sweep window by weeks to months (Innospace/New Glenn/PSLV failures, GEO debris research paper); nothing new and in-window surfaced beyond the candidates already drafted from the queue and signals pass.

A quiet ~3h17m re-check: one new item, the FAA's draft environmental assessment opening public comment on expanded SpaceX Starship Pacific reentry and splashdown zones. All 22 HTML sources, 15 of 17 signals channels, and an 8-query discovery matrix confirmed nothing else on-scope moved since the prior sweep.

Signals pass: 15 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · 15 of 17 fetchable channels checked (within the 15-fetch budget); all newest posts/articles predate lastSweep (05:39 UTC) except one already-covered story (Sierra Space Golden Dome, via Aviation Week) and two candidates checked but not drafted (Aviation Week: Space Force NSSL vendor-pool piece reads as analysis of the already-published July 8 Impulse Space/Lane 1 story, paywalled beyond the lede; Northrop Grumman robotic-servicing launch-date story is a forward-scheduled event, NET July 21, not yet flown). Skipped marcia-smith's site channel (spacepolicyonline.com, redundant with her bluesky) and andrew-parsonson's substack (redundant with his site+bluesky, historically Cloudflare-gated) to stay in budget; rotate them in next run. xSearch not run this pass: the fetchable leg and HTML/discovery passes fully covered the window with no gaps requiring an X search leg.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/debris, China, India/Japan, EO procurement, FCC regulatory, European spaceport). Surfaced the FAA Starship Pacific reentry draft EA (drafted), a stale (July 2025) EuroSpaceport/SpaceForest North Sea item for a suborbital vehicle (out of scope, wrong year), and confirmed the Sierra Space Golden Dome contract is the already-published SDA Tranche 3 item. Everything else was already-known cadence/launch-schedule chatter or off-topic.

Normal-mode sweep, about 10 hours since the last run: seven new items covering an SDA missile-tracking award to L3Harris and Sierra Space, a Korean space-solar Series A, a Senegal/Eutelsat OneWeb teleport upgrade, Poland's new ESA center and funding boost, a NASA launch-vehicle swap to Falcon Heavy, a Starlink Aviation price hike, and one routine Starlink batch launch published at noise under the megaconstellation-cadence rule.

Signals pass: 14 channels checked · 2 X handles searched · 14 of 17 fetchable channels checked (rotated out Andrew Parsonson's substack/site legs and Marcia Smith's bluesky as duplicates of channels already checked). Josef Aschbacher's July 13 Bluesky post corroborates the Poland ESA center item; Vivienne Machi's Aviation Week byline corroborates the already-published NSSL Lane 1 item (no new fact). Searched 2 X handles (Peter Beck, Tory Bruno), no on-scope first-party post retrievable.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, China, India rotation, EO/spaceport/debris free slots); every hit resolved to an already-published item (Isar/Nova Scotia, Starfish Space SDA deorbit, NSSL Lane 1) or a stale resurfacing, none new.

A quiet ~10.5-hour gap dominated by SpaceX stock/IPO clickbait in the harvester queue; six genuinely new items shipped, mostly chased via the discovery pass and free corroboration in the queue's Google News feeds rather than the queue's top stories: Voyager's completed Astrobotic acquisition, Reditus Space's first reentry vehicle, the FAA closing its Starship Flight 12 investigation, China's Long March 10C commercial-workhorse confirmation and a separate Chinese launch-industry recapitalization, and ESA's 2026 Space Economy Report.

Signals pass: 16 channels checked · 2 X handles searched · 16 of 17 fetchable channels checked (Andrew Parsonson's substack skipped per its standing repeated-403 note; his site and Bluesky both checked instead). Marcia Smith's Bluesky post directly named the FAA closing the Starship Flight 12 investigation, corroborating a story already found via the harvester queue. Josef Aschbacher's post on the new ESA/Poland Warsaw centre confirmed that story as institutional with no commercial angle, matching the discard decision. Nothing else fetchable was new and on-scope. Best-effort X search covered 2 handles (Peter Beck, Tory Bruno); both quiet on new on-scope facts this window.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch/vehicle, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US China+ISRO/JAXA/ESA, EO contract, FCC regulatory, M&A). Surfaced a Rocket Lab/Motiv Space Systems acquisition (May 2026, already old and routine-scale, not chased) and a STARLINK-4621 close-conjunction report (July 9, no collision occurred, routine SSA monitoring content, not itemized). No FCC vote yet (scheduled July 22, already tracked by an existing item). No new orbital vehicle first flights found beyond what's already covered.

Narrow 47-minute re-check (all HTML sources, all 17 signals channels, and an 8-query discovery matrix came back quiet) that chased two genuinely uncovered dated science-category events surfaced indirectly: China's Tianwen-2 arriving at asteroid Kamo'oalewa (announced July 6) and ESA's July 2 CubeSat-lander contract with EMXYS for the Ramses mission.

Signals pass: 17 channels checked · 8 X handles searched · All 17 fetchable channels checked (full rotation, none skipped); nothing published after the 07:11 UTC cutoff on any of them. europeanspaceflight.com and its substack mirror both 403'd again (standing intermittent block); Andrew Parsonson's own Bluesky post from July 11 about the ESA/EMXYS Don Quijote contract corroborates this run's chased science item. Searched 8 X handles (Beck, Bruno, Haot, Foust, Erwin, ChinaSpaceGuy, A. Jones, Clark, Berger); no new retrievable on-scope post found.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · 8-query matrix (launch, financial, regulatory, China, India, incident, EO contract, Japan) surfaced only already-known/already-published stories (FCC licensing vote, NASA CSDA on-ramp, JAXA RV-X hop, Long March 10B recovery). No genuinely new in-window candidates from the discovery pass itself; both newItems this run instead came from a Google News queue hit (China's Tianwen-2 mystery-object framing) and a Bluesky roundup post (ESA asteroid-cubesat mention) that led to chasing two never-covered, dated events per the standing 'chase important events predating the window' ruling.

Quiet ~13-hour sweep: harvester queue, all 24 verified/unverified HTML sources, and all 17 signals channels produced nothing new inside the window. Discovery closed one real gap, Voyager Technologies' $300 million agreement to acquire lunar lander Astrobotic (announced June 2, never previously covered), dated on its actual announcement date. European Spaceflight flipped to dead after a third straight 403.

Signals pass: 17 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · All 17 fetchable channels checked (full rotation, no skips). Nothing genuinely new and on-scope inside the ~13h window: Marcia Smith's site and Bluesky each carried her recurring 'What's Happening in Space Policy' weekly calendar/pick-of-the-week post (published just after the cutoff) but it previews upcoming events rather than reporting a discrete new fact, so it was not drafted as commentary. europeanspaceflight.com (site and substack) both 403'd again, third consecutive failure, flipped to dead. X search legs were not run this pass since all 17 fetchable channels and the discovery matrix already returned a clean, fully-covered picture and no candidate needed X verification.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US China/India/Europe/Japan, EO contracts, FCC). Two hits were already-known items (Queensland debris spheres, Reflect Orbital FCC approval, both confirmed already published under existing ids via existing[] cross-check). One genuine gap surfaced: Voyager Technologies' June 2 agreement to acquire Astrobotic, never previously covered, drafted this run per the standing 'chase old important events found via discovery' ruling. NASA CSDA/Kuva US and SpaceX million-satellite orbital-datacenter filings both turned out to be already-published or stale (the latter is a January/February 2026 filing resurfacing in a July 13 Ukrainian-language rewrite with sensational Kardashev-scale framing).

Quiet harvester queue (dominated by SpaceX stock-market clickbait and a forward-scheduled, not-yet-flown Starship Flight 13) and a fully quiet direct-fetch/signals pass, but the discovery pass surfaced three genuine misses: the Airbus/Leonardo/Thales space-merger MOU and OHB's antitrust opposition to it (both standing tasks from 2026-07-08), plus a new Intesa Sanpaolo/EIB/ESA aerospace SME lending facility.

Signals pass: 17 channels checked · 8 X handles searched · All 17 fetchable channels checked; latest post on every feed predates the 2026-07-12T09:19:40Z cutoff (closest was Eric Berger's Starship IFT-13 Bluesky post at 01:14 UTC same day, still before cutoff). europeanspaceflight.com and its substack feed both 403'd (recurring). Searched 8 X handles (Beck, Bruno, McDowell, Curcio, Berger, Foust, Erwin, Jones); no in-window status URL could be verified via the syndication endpoint, so no X findings reported.

Discovery pass: 11 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, China/India/Europe/Japan, human-spaceflight, plus targeted follow-ups). Surfaced and drafted 3 new items: the Airbus/Leonardo/Thales space-merger MOU and OHB's antitrust opposition (both chasing the 2026-07-08-I2 standing task, dated to their actual event dates), and a previously-unfound Intesa Sanpaolo/EIB/ESA aerospace SME lending facility. A SpaceNews piece on a NASA-SpaceX commercial-crew contract extension could not be verified (spacenews.com returned HTTP 429 on every attempt this run) and was left undrafted rather than sourced from a search summary alone. Reflect Orbital FCC approval and Space Force/Impulse Space NSSL Lane 1 items were confirmed already published under existing ids.

Interactive batch (Florian rulings, 2026-07-12): the retroactivity call publishes the July 4 SpaceSail and July 5 Qianfan group-15 launches at noise (resolving the held SpaceSail entry), and the missed EchoStar/Dish prepackaged Chapter 11 publishes as major with the AT&T and SpaceX spectrum-sale context. SpaceNews rate-limited every fetch this session (429s); Via Satellite led instead. One further gap flagged: Japan's reported $922M Rakuten backing (July 2).

Signals pass: 0 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · Interactive backfill run (Florian rulings, 2026-07-12); channel rotation is owned by the scheduled sweeps. Florian asked to whitelist Vivienne Machi; the agent may not write signals.json, so a complete verified entry (author page fetched, active Jul 10) is queued in signals_suggestions.json for his hand-edit.

Discovery pass: 6 queries · Matrix covered. Beyond the items drafted here: Japan's reported $922M backing of Rakuten for a sovereign satellite broadband network (July 2, TechTimes/Payload) is absent from the feed and flagged to Florian for a proper drafting pass; NASA's Crew-13 date move to mid-September (NASA blog, May-dated) is left to the scheduled sweeps. Everything else surfaced was already published or old.

Interactive source upgrade (Florian, 2026-07-12): NATO added as a registry institution profile (anti-spoof pattern, like CSA 2026-07-08), the HALO item's lead upgraded to NATO's own 7 July announcement with the approach-to-space page attached first-party, and the item rescored by the engine. Corrects this run's earlier no-op link note.

Signals pass: 0 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · Interactive follow-up run (Florian, 2026-07-12), third finalize of the session; channel rotation is owned by the twice-daily scheduled sweeps. No whitelist-tier sourcing involved in this source upgrade.

Discovery pass: 6 queries · Matrix covered, fresh rotation from this session's earlier pass. Everything surfaced is already published (Transporter-17, Isar/Maritime Launch Nova Scotia, NASA CSDA on-ramp coverage, Venus Aerospace round) or below the inclusion bar (Paso Robles city-council RFP step toward an FAA spaceport license application). Nothing new drafted.

• 2026-07-07-nato-halo-satellite-constellation 4→5 Lead upgraded to NATO's own 7 July announcement after Florian approved a NATO registry institution profile (2026-07-12), which makes nato.int a first-party domain under anti-spoof; NATO's approach-to-space framing page (updated 8 July, states the HALO launch) attached as an additional first-party reference. This corrects the previous update note in this run's log, which recorded the framing page as linked when that patch had in fact been a no-op (secondary_urls cannot be patched directly; links join via attach).

Interactive follow-up (Florian, 2026-07-12): one commentary item on NATO's HALO initiative from Aviation Week's Vivienne Machi (single paywalled trade outlet, corroboration crawl found nothing, scored accordingly), and NATO's approach-to-space framing page linked to the HALO event item as an unscored reference. Discovery flagged two coverage gaps for Florian: the EchoStar/Dish DBS Chapter 11 and the July 5 Qianfan launch retroactivity case.

Signals pass: 0 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · Interactive follow-up run (Florian, 2026-07-12); channel rotation is owned by the twice-daily scheduled sweeps. Open-web searches for whitelisted-person takes on HALO surfaced none; the commentary source is a named-outlet author (Aviation Week), not whitelist-tier.

Discovery pass: 7 queries · Matrix covered. Surfaced beyond already-published stories: the Machi Debrief (drafted as commentary); EchoStar/Dish DBS Chapter 11 (filed June 30, absent from the feed, flagged to Florian as a coverage gap); a second Qianfan cadence launch (July 5, Hainan, Long March-8A) falling under the same retroactivity question as the held July 4 SpaceSail entry; Starship Booster 20 static fire (a ground test, left to the scheduled sweeps).

Interactive backfill (Florian ruling, 2026-07-12): routine megaconstellation batch launches publish at noise per CLAUDE.md as written; the SWEEP_MEMORY 2026-07-06-I cadence-discard precedent is revoked. Two Falcon 9/Starlink launches the sweeps had silently discarded (B1067's record 36th flight on July 9; B1071's 35th on Starlink 17-48) publish, and the July 4 SpaceSail launch is held pending Florian's retroactivity call.

Signals pass: 0 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · Interactive backfill run (Florian, 2026-07-12) scoped to two already-harvested launch candidates; the signals rotation was not swept (the twice-daily scheduled sweeps cover it) and no whitelist-tier sourcing is involved in these drafts.

Discovery pass: 6 queries · Matrix covered. Surfaced: the two Falcon 9 launches drafted here; the July 4 SpaceSail launch (held, retroactivity decision); Hongqing Technology round, Long March 10B first flight and the SASTIND consortium roster (all already published); the FCC's July 22 licensing-overhaul vote (forward-scheduled, not draftable until it happens per 2026-07-09-G).

Narrow same-day re-check (~14 minutes since the last sweep). The harvester queue held only 2 leftover entries, both out-of-scope investment clickbait about SpaceX/AT&T stock, discarded silently. All 26 HTML-only sources and all 16 fetchable signals channels were checked directly; nothing newer than the sweep cutoff turned up anywhere, and a 10-query discovery pass covering the full matrix surfaced only already-published or not-yet-flown stories. NGA's contract-announcements page has now shown the identical January 2026 entry across five consecutive checks and was flipped from verified to stale. Zero items shipped, a legitimate quiet outcome for this window.

Signals pass: 16 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · All 16 fetchable channels checked; 14 succeeded and none carried a post newer than the 07:13:29Z sweep cutoff (newest was Marcia Smith's Bluesky at 01:14Z the same day, still ~6 hours before cutoff). europeanspaceflight.com and its substack feed both 403'd again (standing Cloudflare block). X handles not searched this run: the mandatory fetchable-channel budget was spent on a genuinely quiet window and nothing in the fetchable leg or the discovery pass pointed at a specific handle worth chasing; rotate X coverage into the next sweep.

Discovery pass: 10 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/regulatory, non-US via native-language China query, EO, connectivity, human spaceflight, M&A, procurement/FCC). Every hit was either already published under an existing id (Long March 10B recovery, Blue Origin funding, Artemis III crew, York/All.Space, Telesat, Space42/Skylo, FCC July 22 vote) or predates the window (a Zhuque-3 maiden flight still ~3 days out, not yet flown). No new candidates surfaced.

Narrow same-day re-check (~42 minutes since the prior sweep). All 26 unfiltered HTML sources, 15 of 16 fetchable signals channels, 3 X handles, and an 8-query discovery pass covering the full matrix turned up nothing on-scope inside the window; every notable hit traced to an already-published item or a previously ruled-out scope question. Zero items shipped, which is the correct outcome for this shape of run.

Signals pass: 15 channels checked · 3 X handles searched · 15 of 16 fetchable channels checked (rotated out europeanspaceflight.com's main site, which 403'd again on the substack mirror too, consistent with the standing failure note); nothing on-scope and inside the window since lastSweep 06:24 UTC. Andrew Parsonson's newest Bluesky post (Jul 11, ESA/EMXYS Apophis lander) is planetary-science with no stated commercial angle, out of scope. Anatoly Zak's newest posts are Soyuz MS-29 crew rollout prep, a government ISS crew rotation with no commercial angle. Marcia Smith's newest post (Starship IFT-13 window) predates lastSweep. 3 X handles searched (Peter Beck, Tory Bruno, Jared Isaacman), no retrievable on-scope post inside the window.

Discovery pass: 8 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial x2, incident/debris, China, India, Europe, EO contracts). Every hit traced to an already-published item (SpaceX IPO fallout family, Aeolus-2, Long March 10B recovery, ICEYE/Isar/Planet Germany, NASA CSDA awards) or predates the window and was already ruled on: EchoStar/DISH DBS Chapter 11 (Jun 30) stays out of scope per the standing 2026-07-05 ruling (legacy pay-TV and terrestrial wireless, no new-space angle); a Forbes piece on SpaceX's post-IPO stock decline (Jul 10, verified via direct fetch) restates figures already covered by the existing Wall Street price-targets commentary item and is routine market commentary, not a new fact with its own date. No genuinely new candidate surfaced.

Deep sweep (7-day window, triggered after consecutive quiet re-checks): 4 new items (JAXA/MHI RV-X reusable-rocket test flight, a reported Pixxel-Temasek funding round, KAI's CAS500-4 sovereign EO satellite, and Cosmoserve's debris-capture demo riding Skyroot's Vikram-1 debut) plus 2 corroboration attaches to existing items. ISRO and NextSpaceflight flipped to dead after a third consecutive documented failure each.

Signals pass: 16 channels checked · 0 X handles searched · Deep mode: all 16/16 fetchable channels checked, no rotation skips. 2 (europeanspaceflight.com and its substack) returned 403, consistent with the standing pattern. Two on-scope posts postdated the cutoff but were not drafted: Marcia Smith's bsky relaying SpaceX's Starship IFT-13 target launch window (the flight has not occurred yet) and Anatoly Zak's bsky noting Soyuz MS-29's rollout to the Baikonur pad (a thin single-fact status update). The X best-effort leg was not run this pass; the expanded deep-mode fetchable-channel checklist took priority within the session.

Discovery pass: 12 queries · Matrix covered (launch, financial, incident/debris, China/India/Japan/Europe rotation, regulatory, M&A, human-spaceflight, plus a rotating slot). The Japan query surfaced the new RV-X item (drafted). Other hits were out-of-window or out-of-scope on inspection: EchoStar/Dish bankruptcy (legacy satellite TV/terrestrial wireless, out of scope per standing precedent), Orbex's insolvency and SpaceX's Akoustis acquisition (both resolved months before this window, stale), Airbus's Aeolus-2 ESA contract (legacy institutional weather-science procurement via a heritage prime, out of scope per standing precedent), and a DLR reusable-rocket concept study (an institutional research paper, no commercial actor, contract, or flight).

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: Eutelsat Group (OneWeb) Press
• dead: ISRO
• dead: NextSpaceflight
• dead: SpaceX
• dead: Synspective
• dead: Umbra
• dead: Xinhua tech/space (EN)
• stale: Airbus Defence and Space
• stale: Arianespace
• stale: AST SpaceMobile News
• stale: Astrocast
• stale: Axiom Space News
• stale: BlackSky IR
• stale: Capella Space
• stale: CASC news (China Aerospace)
• stale: CGSTL / Chang Guang
• stale: FCC IBFS (satellite filings)
• stale: Firefly Aerospace
• stale: Gunter's Space Page
• stale: Isar Aerospace
• stale: ITU Space Network filings (SNL)
• stale: Myriota
• stale: NGA / NRO public announcements
• stale: Pixxel
• stale: Rocket Factory Augsburg
• stale: Satellogic
• stale: SEC EDGAR 8-K feed: ASTS
• stale: SEC EDGAR 8-K feed: BKSY
• stale: SEC EDGAR 8-K feed: GSAT
• stale: SEC EDGAR 8-K feed: IRDM
• stale: SEC EDGAR 8-K feed: LUNR
• stale: SEC EDGAR 8-K feed: RDW
• stale: SEC EDGAR 8-K feed: RKLB
• stale: SEC EDGAR 8-K feed: SATS
• stale: SEC EDGAR 8-K feed: SPIR
• stale: SES Press Releases
• stale: Sierra Space News
• stale: Stoke Space
• stale: ULA
• stale: Unseenlabs
• stale: Vast News

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.