Mission Deployments & Manifests
The Artemis Campaign: A Brief Cislunar History
WASHINGTON, D.C. — As of January 18, 2026, the Artemis program stands as the most complex multi-national space exploration initiative in human history. Formally established in 2017 via Space Policy Directive 1, Artemis was designed not merely to replicate the ...
As SpaceX Targets 50,000 Starlink Satellites, China Files for 200,000-Unit Mega-Constellation
This development validates the ongoing "Surge" strategy from Chinese space authorities ...
SpaceX ‘Twilight’ Mission Deploys 22 Exolaunch Payloads, Including Kepler and HawkEye 360 Assets
VANDENBERG SFB, Calif. — On Sunday, January 11, 2026, SpaceX successfully launched the "Twilight" rideshare mission, delivering a diverse manifest of commercial and government payloads to a dawn-dusk Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO). The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Space Launch ...
Blue Origin Developing “Orbital Data Center”
Capabilities to Challenge Terrestrial & OrbitalCloud Markets Blue Origin appears to be pivoting toward high-margin downstream services, with new recruitment activity indicating the development of an "Orbital Data Center." According to job listings spotted by iTnews, the Jeff Bezos-owned space ...
Project Kuiper is now known as Amazon LEO
Amazon LEO is a simple nod to the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellation that powers the network. Seven years ago, Amazon set out to design the most advanced satellite communications network ever built. The company’s vision was simple: There ...
Exolaunch to deploy 13 satellites on the Bandwagon-4 Mission
Exolaunch will deploy 13 satellites for global customers on the upcoming SpaceX Bandwagon-4 mission—the flight is scheduled to lift off no earlier than November 2025 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Base, Florida, aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. Following a remarkable ...
ESA and Avio sign contract for a reuseable upper stage demonstration mission
The contract was signed by the European Space Agency’s Director of Space Transportation Toni Tolker-Nielsen and Avio’s Chief Commercial Officer and Launch Services Director Marino Fragnito, at the International Aeronautical Congress in Sydney, Australia. The European Space Agency and Avio ...
Globalstar secures early government wins
Globalstar (NASDAQ: GSAT) has gained significant momentum in the government market through multiple recent contract awards and strategic partnerships. Leveraging the company's Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellation, licensed spectrum assets, and advanced networking technologies, Globalstar is delivering mission-critical communications ...
Astrobotics’ LunaGrid-Lite completes CDR and the flight model is now underway
Astrobotic Technology has announced that its planned lunar power demonstration mission, LunaGrid-Lite, has reached another major development milestone and is nearing flight readiness. LunaGrid-Lite deploys an ultralight cable across a mobility test lab at Astrobotic as engineers monitor its progress ...
SEOPS integrates EPIC Athena on the upcoming TRACERS mission with SpaceX
SEOPS Space is providing the capacity, mission management and integration services for EPIC Athena, a 110 kg pathfinder spacecraft funded by NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the Department of Defense’s U.S. Space Force (USSF)’s Space Systems ...
Network Innovations U.S. Government announces joint multi-orbit RF sensing deployment with INTEGRASYS + AvL Technologies
Network Innovations U.S. Government (NIUSG), a subsidiary of Network Innovations, has announced that the company has completed the deployment of a Multi-Orbit RF Sensing platform in partnership with INTEGRASYS and AvL Technologies. This supports ongoing collaboration with the three companies ...
RTX provides Blue Canyon satellite to shape future space missions
Blue Canyon Technologies, RTX’s (NYSE: RTX) launched a CubeSat in support of ARCSTONE, a NASA mission to measure lunar spectral reflectance, or the way sunlight is reflected back from the Moon's surface at different wavelengths of light—the ARCSTONE mission will ...
Anywaves reports the successful deployment of a commercial reflectarray in orbit
Anywaves has marked a significant milestone by becoming the first commercial equipment provider to deploy a Reflectarray in orbit—this achievement follows the company’ earlier selection by CNES to demonstrate the technological feasibility of this type of antenna that is tailored ...
Earth-Moon space now occupied by a three satellite Chinese constellation
Screnshot China has successfully established the world's first three-satellite constellation based on the Distant Retrograde Orbit (DRO) in the Earth-moon region of space, laying a foundation for the exploration and utilization of space, and for future crewed deep-space exploration. Image ...
Dawn Aerospace to provide Reditus Space satellite propulsion for satellite-based on-orbit manufacturing
Dawn Aerospace has signed a new partnership with Reditus Space Inc, marking it Dawn’s first venture supporting on-orbit manufacturing applications in space. Image credit: Reditus Space Reditus Space is a company focused on developing reusable satellites for zero-gravity manufacturing, particularly ...
Esper + Loft team up for next-generation hyperspectral imagery
Esper is collaborating with Loft Orbital (Loft) for the flight of the first, Four Leaf Clover (FLC) hyperspectral sensors on upcoming Loft satellites — the FLC constellation will support critical monitoring applications worldwide. Under this agreement, Loft will integrate and ...
L3Harris completes CDR for SDA satellite radios
L3Harris Technologies has reached a major milestone in the company's mission to provide the Space Development Agency (SDA) with space-based capabilities that enhance U.S. national security. The company conducted a Critical Design Review for 45 mission payload (MPL) radios and ...
USSF’s Space Systems Command’s Tetra-1 satellite is mission complete
After helping more than 250 U.S. Space Force Guardians and operators experiment and train with various tactics, techniques, and procedures in geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO), the Tetra-1 satellite has completed its mission and transitioned for residual operations. Screenshot Since launching ...
AST SpaceMobile completes the unfolding of their 1st Five commercial satellites in LEO
AST SpaceMobile BlueBirds 1-5 unfolded, U.S. coverage with 5600+ cells. AST SpaceMobile, Inc. (“AST SpaceMobile”) (NASDAQ: ASTS) has reported the successful unfolding of its first five commercial satellites, BlueBirds 1-5. With this significant post-launch technical activity now complete, ahead of ...
KMI + ExoSat announce strategic partnership for active debris removal solutions
Kall Morris Inc (KMI) and ExoSat in early September announced a strategic partnership to advance space debris removal operations. This collaboration combines KMI's Removal As A Service Laelaps spacecraft equipped with its REACCH system and ExoSat's Debris-Fed Spacecraft (DeFeS). The ...




















