Main Topics
Orbital Data Centers
Nvidia announced their new Vera Rubin chipset, upgrades to Thor and Orin chips to optimize inference per watt, and partnerships with Aetherflux, Axiom Space, Kepler Communications, Planet Labs, Sophia Space and Starcloud. [source]
Starcloud filed to launch 88,000 satellites for their orbital data centers. [source]
Blue Origin filed Project Sunrise to launch 51,600 orbital data centers. [source]
Earth Applications
Lynk Global has filed with the FCC for an experimental license to begin technical validation of a multi-orbit relay architecture. [source]
Officina Stellare has signed a €1.84M contract with the Barcelona-based Institute of Photonic Sciences to design and build an optical ground station for future laser and quantum-encrypted space-to-Earth communications. [source]
Raytheon’s contract to build protected satcom terminals contract was raised by $2B. [source]
ESA awarded OHB Sweden a contract to build 20 small satellites for the EUMETSAT Polar System – Sterna. AAC Omnisys will provide the mission’s microwave radiometers. [source]
Defence Investment Agency awarded MDA Space a $32M contract to build and operate three ground-based optical observatories for the Surveillance of Space 2 project. [source]
GomSpace announced its selection as a key industrial partner in a €15.7M research contract awarded by the European Defence Agency under the VLEO-DEF consortium, which aims to develop Europe’s first dedicated military satellite concept for Very Low Earth Orbit. [source]
Satellogic unveiled their Merlin constellation for daily monitoring at 1 meter resolution. [source]
Rockets
Under the Launch the North program, Reaction Dynamics was awarded an initial $8.3M tranche under Phase 1 of the Responsive Light-Lift stream, supporting the company’s development roadmap for a maiden orbital launch in 2028. [source]
Rocket Lab won a $190M contract for 20 new HASTE launches for the Department of War to accelerate hypersonics testing. [source]
USSF awarded $446.8M to Kratos for MEO missile tracking ground segment. [source]
ISAR won a contract to launch Astroscale’s ELSA-M. [source]
The launch of GPS-III SV-10 was shifted from ULA to Space-X due to the ongoing Vulcan investigation. [source]
Rocket Lab launched the eighth Strix satellite for Synspective. [source]
Business Moves
MDA Space listed on the NYSE after making a total of 9,836,065 Common Shares available at US$30.50 raising $300M in its IPO. [source]
ReOrbit sold two Silta small GEO satellites to Space Leasing International for €150M. [source].
York Space announced the finalization of a $187M contract for a 20+ commercial constellation based on their M-class bus. [source]
Satellite manufacturer Apex won a contract from NEC to provide a spacecraft bus for a technology demonstration mission. [source]
Tech Advances
Portal Space Systems partners with Paladin Space to provide debris-removal-as-a-service. [source]
Frontier Space was awarded funding from the UK Space Agency for project BRIDGE to develop biopharma with The Exploration Company. [source]
Transastra announced their plan to bring an asteroid to Earth for mining research. [source]
