Construction Orders
Pair of Oberon radar satellites for UK military to be built by Airbus DS
Thales Alenia Space secured lunar Gateway space station airlock module contract
DPhi Space Clustergate 1 mission on Transporter 13 to carry Zohar-1 space weather sensor hosted payload for Mission Space
US Space Force made US$45.9 million order for unspecified number of small satellites from Apex
Canadian Space Agency ordered ten WildFireSat constellation satellites from Spire Global and OroraTech under contract worth US$50.4 million
Redwire received bus order for Tetra-6 refuelling test as a Tetra-5 satellite is repurposed as second sat for Tetra-6 mission
Iran to launch three new satellites: the Navak-1 comsat, and the remote sensing satellites: the Pars-2 and a modernised version of the Pars-1.
Blacksky and Thales Alenia to build Earth Observation sat for India’s NIBE Space as forerunner for constellation.
Apple-backed Globalstar to get 50 Aurora-bus satellites built by MDA Space
Courtesy: Farah Ghouri using ChatGPT
Launch orders
Pakistan’s lunar rover (as yet unnamed) to fly on Chinese Chang’e-8 mission to lunar South pole
Astrolab FLIP lunar rover to fly on Astrobotic Griffin lunar lander
NASA Pandora exoplanet telescope mission to fly on a SpaceX launch – probably on a Falcon 9 Transporter flight
US Space Force Victus Sol mission to fly on Firefly Alpha
ATMOS Space Cargo’s Phoenix capsule re-entry test gets permission to fly on SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage as part of Bandwagon-3 flight
China to fly two new cargo freighters to Chinese space station on commercial rides: Haolong will be carried on a partially reusable Zhuqhue 3, while Qingzhou will fly on Lijian 2 (Kinetica 2)
Other spacecraft of interest
Orbital Today listed out all the passenger spacecraft, rovers, hoppers and hosted payloads on the IM-2 Athena lunar lander mission
Planet’s US$230 million 10 Pelican imaging spacecraft order revealed SKY Perfect JSAT as a customer
Sources include Cision, BBC, CNBC, msn.com, NASA, Orbitaltoday, Payload, phys.org, Politico, scmp.com and SpaceNews with links provided to each story.
