sweep log · 2026-07

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.