Japan J-LEO award (June 30 deadline, tomorrow)

— Still pending. Binary: Rakuten-AST (700 MHz advantage) vs. KDDI-SpaceX. Either outcome is push-grade for different reasons — Rakuten-AST confirms sovereign D2D…

1 in 271 items swept clears the bar·Brief of 28 June 2026, 06:30 UTC

The desk logged this but did not push it. A weak signal sits below the bar for a lead item — it is watched, not yet acted on.