Launch Orders
Japan’s H3 gains launch order for Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt (EMA) mission
SpaceX is awarded US Space Force launch orders worth US$733.5 million for seven launches for SDA and two for NRO
Firefly Alpha gets multi-launch contract for True Anomaly Jackal satellites on US Space Force Victus Haze
Courtesy: Farah Ghouri using ChatGPT
Spacecraft orders and intent
Boeing subsidiary Millennium Space gets US$386 million order for six more missile tracking sats in MEO
US Space Force gives Northrop Grumman US$1.8 billion contract extension for two more Next-Gen OPIRS sats
D-Orbit gets US$131 million ESA contract for spacecraft servicing craft
Argotec gets given optical sat IRIDE order while Thales Alenia Space gets six radarsats
Spire to build Persistence cubesat with AI manouevre tech
ESA to fund Kepler Communications’ HydRON ring constellation for optical data relay
Impulse Space gets US Space Force order to carry space surveillance payloads on orbital transfer vehicles
GomSpace to supply bus for UK University mission Jovian-1
Other future spacecraft to note
UK’s Amber-2 Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) Satellite gets CDR go-ahead
Inversion gets launch and re-entry licence from FAA for its Ray reusable cargo spacecraft
China plans to launch two more quantum technology comsats in 2025
Work begins on ESA Ramses asteroid mission but full order not made yet
AstroLab to fly FLIP technology test lunar rover in 2025
China’s future planetary missions are itemised
Sources include Cision, BBC, CNBC, msn.com, NASA, Orbitaltoday, Payload, phys.org, Politico, scmp.com and SpaceNews with links provided to each story.
