Construction Orders
Courtesy: Farah Ghouri using ChatGPT
As a follow-on to its Droid-01 testbed mission, Turion Space secured a US$32.6 million contract from the US military for three more space surveillance satellites
Eutelsat ordered 100 partially upgraded OneWeb satellites from Airbus DS to start replenishing its constellation
Firefly Aerospace nabbed a NASA contract worth US$179.9 million for the Blue Ghost 3 lander to touch down on Gruithuisen Domes on the Moon’s near side in 2028
K2 Space received partial funding to launch the ‘Gravitas’ mission to test its new ‘Mega Class’ bus
Loft orbital will build four YAM satellites to carry Esper Satellites Four Leaf Clover optical payloads
European Investment Bank lent Sateliot €30 million to complete and launch 16 more sats to its IoT comsat constellation
Launch orders:
Atmos Space Cargo and Space Cargo Unlimited booked the first of seven Bentobox/Phoenix microgravity mission on SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare
Vega E upgrades were agreed as a Vega C launch was ordered for the FORUM mission
Lockheed Martin booked Tactical Satellite (TacSat) on Firefly Alpha launch
Sources include Cision, BBC, CNBC, msn.com, NASA, Orbitaltoday, Payload, phys.org, Politico, scmp.com and SpaceNews with links provided to each story.
