Besxar targets customers in artificial intelligence, quantum computing, nuclear technologies, and defense.

Charter Space works with major insurers, financing partners, and investors.

Charter Space offers coverage for space companies on the ground, on-orbit, and beyond.

Besxar and Charter Space have joined the Commercial Space Federation.

Besxar’s Fabships use the ultra-high vacuum of space to produce ultra-pure substrates and precursor materials for semiconductors.

Charter Space offers coverage for space companies on the ground, on orbit, and beyond.

Besxar is developing reusable orbital manufacturing platforms called Fabships.

Besxar’s Fabships are designed to return to Earth after each mission with materials and operational data.

Besxar and Charter Space joined the Commercial Space Federation.

Firefly Aerospace is a US launch-service provider.

SSC Space and Firefly Aerospace have set a 2028 orbital flight from Sweden’s Esrange Space Center.

LINK will attempt to rendezvous with Swift in low Earth orbit and boost the observatory to a higher altitude.

Northrop Grumman’s Pegasus XL rocket will be mated to Stargazer, Northrop Grumman’s L-1011 carrier aircraft, for transport to Kwajalein Atoll in the Republic of the Marshall Islands for the June 30 launch attempt.

NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has been gradually losing altitude because increased atmospheric drag from recent solar storms has slowed its orbit.

Katalyst Space designed, built, and tested LINK in just eight months.

NASA awarded Katalyst Space the contract in September 2025 to design, build, test, and launch a spacecraft capable of meeting, grabbing, and lifting Swift.

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and Pennsylvania State University’s Eberly College of Science in University Park made operational changes to keep Swift at least 185 miles above Earth.

NASA chose a reboost mission for Swift to demonstrate a commercial servicing capability and extend the observatory’s scientific lifetime at lower cost than replacing its instruments.

Katalyst Space LINK is ready to launch no earlier than June 30 on a mission to capture and raise NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory.

Katalyst Space LINK completed integration with Northrop Grumman’s Pegasus XL rocket at NASA Wallops Flight Facility’s Horizontal Integration Facility in Virginia on June 15.

Once on orbit, LINK will rendezvous with Swift over the course of several months and gradually raise its altitude.

Thales Alenia Space is the prime contractor for Es’hail-3 and is responsible for design, production, integration, testing, delivery, ground segment, and associated services.

Es’hail-3 is a software-defined satellite designed to provide broadband connectivity services in Europe, Africa, Central Asia, and the Middle East.

Thales Alenia Space can integrate hosted payloads for both commercial and government needs into its telecommunications satellites.

Es’hail-3 will expand high-speed communication services across four strategic regions.

Es’hail-3 is being developed in collaboration with Türksat.

Es’hail-3 will be shared with Türksat.

Space INSPIRE is a software-defined platform designed to enable in-orbit reconfiguration of satellite capabilities.

Thales Alenia Space and Leonardo form a joint venture that is 67% owned by Thales and 33% owned by Leonardo.

Thales Alenia Space and Es’hailSat signed a contract to build Es’hail-3.

Es’hailSat expects Es’hail-3 / Türksat-Biruni to expand its coverage and capabilities in new strategic markets.

Es’hail-3 / Türksat-Biruni will use Thales Alenia Space’s Space INSPIRE platform.

Thales Alenia Space is developing a fully digitalized telecommunications satellite that can be reprogrammed in orbit.

Es’hailSat expects Es’hail-3 / Türksat-Biruni to strengthen the resilience and independence of Qatar’s communications infrastructure.

The CZ-10B maiden flight and recovery mission will verify catching and landing of the CZ-10A first stage.

NEP UK expanded its use of the Fletcher Tr-ACE automated tracking system to cover high-velocity baseline exchanges and net-side tracking shots on secondary courts.

Radio Wimbledon routes its digital audio feed to an institutional uplink terminal and then to the SiriusXM geostationary satellite constellation.

NEP UK deployed over 100 Sony 3500 UHD camera positions on the 14-acre SW19 campus.

The SiriusXM geostationary satellite constellation provides nationwide satellite radio coverage for sports subscribers traveling throughout the United States and Canada.

The Fletcher Tr-ACE system uses computerized visual tracking algorithms to keep the tennis ball centered in the frame and to control pan, tilt, and zoom functions.

Wimbledon’s distribution framework uses a hybrid network architecture combining localized IP-based routing, transcontinental fiber trunks, and geostationary communication satellite segments.

The next Pegasus-XL launch attempt for the Swift Boost Mission is scheduled for tomorrow at 09:43 UTC.

Katalyst Space Technologies engineered the rescue payload under a compressed $30 million Small Business Innovation Research Phase III contract.

The Pegasus XL mission will drop and ignite at an altitude of 40,000 feet.

NASA ground controllers implemented a drag-minimization profile for Swift on February 11, 2026.

NASA reduced Swift’s average cross-sectional area by approximately 30% by powering down major science instruments and relaxing solar array orientation rules.

The mission’s tentative backup launch window opens no earlier than Wednesday, July 1, 2026.

The drag-minimization profile extended Swift’s point of no return into late October 2026.

The carrier aircraft will carry a three-stage solid-fuel Pegasus XL rocket containing Katalyst Space Technologies’ 425-kilogram LINK robotic servicing vehicle.

The mission will be launched from Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands using a modified Northrop Grumman Stargazer L-1011 carrier aircraft.