More than 400 organizations receive dedicated services through EUSPA’s SST portal.

Rodrigo da Costa is the executive director of EUSPA.

EUSPA serves as the single entry point for European Union SST services.

The EU SST Partnership will sign subsequent European Union-funded grant agreements to support its activities through 2028.

EUSPA provides satellite collision avoidance, uncontrolled reentry risk prediction, and orbital fragmentation event analysis services.

EUSPA’s service portal protects more than 600 satellites from collision risk.

An amendment to the implementation agreement between the EU SST Partnership and EUSPA entered into force on 14 April 2026.

The EU SST Partnership was established in 2022 by 15 member states: Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Spain, France, Italy, Latvia, the Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Finland, and Sweden.

The EU SST Partnership has expanded to include Belgium, Bulgaria, Lithuania, and Luxembourg.

Maia is a two-stage rocket whose first and second stages are powered by Prometheus methalox engines developed by ArianeGroup under a European Space Agency contract for the Themis demonstrator.

MaiaSpace is examining a configuration that would double the performance of all variants of its Maia rocket.

MaiaSpace views Maia as a precursor to a future family of reusable launch vehicles.

The proposed Maia upgrade would not increase the average cost per launch.

The proposed Maia upgrade would add a fourth Prometheus rocket engine to the rocket’s first stage.

With a fourth Prometheus engine on its first stage, Maia could deliver up to 8 tonnes to low Earth orbit.

MaiaSpace is working toward an early 2027 debut of Maia.

MaiaSpace currently focuses on delivering Maia in its current configuration.

Maia currently can deliver 500 kilograms to low Earth orbit when its first stage is recovered.

ArianeGroup has said one goal of the Prometheus programme is to build future liquid propellant engines with a unit cost of about 1 million euros.

The 2028 CLPS sensor arrays will measure volatile compounds, quantify subsurface water-ice deposits, and track engine plume-surface interactions.

NASA shifted approximately $20 billion in resources away from the lunar-orbital Gateway station to prioritize the Moon Base II surface infrastructure campaign.

NASA awarded three Commercial Lunar Payload Services contracts totaling nearly $590 million to Astrobotic Technology, Firefly Aerospace, and Intuitive Machines on June 30, 2026.

The Artemis IV surface expedition is intended to begin recurring annual astronaut stays on the lunar surface.

The 2028 CLPS missions are focused on resource prospecting and environmental characterization near permanently shadowed lunar craters.

The NASA CLPS contracts fund uncrewed logistics flights scheduled to deliver science instruments, autonomous rovers, and infrastructure hardware to the lunar surface in 2028.

Data from the 2028 commercial lunar deliveries will go to the Artemis program office to finalize structural requirements for the crewed Artemis IV surface expedition.

Astrobotic will use its Griffin heavy-class lander platform to carry up to 650 kilograms of cargo.

Firefly Aerospace will use an Elytra orbital transfer vehicle as a space tug for its Blue Ghost Mission 2 architecture to insert the lander stack into low lunar orbit.

Intuitive Machines will deploy a derivative of its Nova lander line for the 2028 CLPS missions.

NASA took 21 months to classify the Starliner CFT mission as a Type A mishap.

The OIG issued six recommendations to NASA on Starliner program management, payments, flight scheduling, crew simulation data, mishap reporting, and workforce assessments.

The Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel criticized NASA’s mishap reporting requirements as ambiguous for events that occur during testing.

NASA and Boeing determined that testing at the White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico could not fully replicate in-space conditions for Starliner.

NASA’s Commercial Crew Program audit released on June 30 found that Boeing’s Starliner capsule will not achieve human-rating certification until 2027 at the earliest.

Boeing’s Commercial Crew contract was initially awarded at $4.2 billion in 2014.

NASA has spent approximately $8.7 billion in Commercial Crew Program contract awards and an additional $1.1 billion in related program funding.

Boeing’s next flight, Starliner-1, will carry cargo rather than crew.

NASA has spent $17 million to accelerate SpaceX flights originally planned for Starliner.

The 2025 modification cut Boeing’s ordered Starliner flights from six to four.

As of March 2026, the helium leaks and propulsion system failures affecting Starliner remain unresolved.

SpaceX has completed 12 crewed missions to the International Space Station since 2020.

NASA’s Commercial Crew Program has insufficient contracted flights to fully crew the International Space Station through its planned 2030 decommission.

The audit questioned $127.9 million in payments to Boeing for a Starliner-3 mission that is unlikely to fly.

A 2025 modification reduced Boeing’s Commercial Crew contract to $3.7 billion and removed two post-certification missions.

Boeing’s Starliner capsule and Atlas V launch vehicle remain uncertified after three flight tests over six years of accumulated delays.

Five of seven thrusters in one Starliner service module doghouse failed due to overheating during the CFT mission.

Boeing announced more than 30 different target launch dates for the Starliner CFT mission over five years.

The Starliner CFT mission stretched to 286 days after multiple technical failures during flight and docking.

NASA has invested more than $9.8 billion in the Commercial Crew Program since 2014.

A 2022 modification added eight additional post-certification missions to SpaceX’s Commercial Crew contract.