ERNEST is a four-wheeled rover prototype developed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Moonraker would downlink LiDAR data directly to Earth for processing into three-dimensional Digital Elevation Models.

NUVIEW serves as prime contractor and leads an international consortium developing space-based LiDAR for lunar applications.

Blue Canyon Technologies has launched more than 85 spacecraft.

Astrobotic’s Peregrine Mission 1 launched in January 2024 and suffered a propellant leak within hours of separation.

EQT has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Exolaunch through EQT’s X fund.

The Moonraker mission is intended to support landing site identification, hazard assessment, and surface planning for future robotic and human missions.

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has reduced NASA’s mission directorate structure from seven directorates to three.

BAE Systems successfully tested its Endura System-on-Chip space processor.

The Endura architecture enables spacecraft builders to add mission-specific hardware acceleration and adapt payload functions and data processing routines in orbit.

GlobalFoundries fabricates the Endura architecture at its secure commercial facility in Malta, New York.

BAE Systems is offering Endura Software Development Units for active order delivery so prime systems integrators can begin coding and verifying payloads before launch.

The Endura architecture integrates advanced network routing layers, Level 1 and Level 2 internal cache blocks, hardware-isolated secure boot modules, and embedded programmable FPGA blocks.

The Endura SoC uses proprietary Radiation-Hardened 45-nanometer design libraries.

BAE Systems’ Endura processor can survive natural cosmic radiation and severe strategic electronic warfare environments.

BAE Systems is scaling Endura components across high-reliability Class A strategic defense programs and high-volume Class C and D proliferated low-Earth orbit commercial constellations.

The Endura architecture is built on GlobalFoundries’ commercial 45nm silicon-on-insulator platform.

BAE Systems developed the Endura SoC through its Space Systems group in Manassas, Virginia.

Rocket Lab expects to conduct 15 Electron launches for iQPS by 2030.

Rocket Lab's upcoming Electron mission for iQPS will be called "The Grain Goddess Provides".

Rocket Lab is approaching its 100th Electron launch.

The upcoming Electron mission for iQPS will be the eighth in that launch series.

Rocket Lab completed its 91st Electron mission by launching a single satellite for Japanese constellation operator Synspective from Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand.

The Ten Owl Of Ten mission was Rocket Lab's 12th Electron launch of 2026.

Rocket Lab deployed Synspective's latest StriX satellite into a 552 km low Earth orbit for synthetic aperture radar Earth imaging.

Rocket Lab's "Ten Owl Of Ten" mission lifted off at 5:43 a.m. New Zealand time on June 27, 2026.

Rocket Lab has another Electron mission planned from Launch Complex 1 for iQPS.

Li Jiaying holds a PhD in computational and information science-related subjects.

The Shenzhou-23 crew installed the Bénard-Marangoni convection experimental unit in the fluid physics cabinet.

The Shenzhou-23 crew used exercise equipment to counter muscle atrophy during the mission.

The Shenzhou-23 crew replaced experimental samples and maintained the reconfigurable electrodes in the containerless cabinet’s experimental chamber.

Before being selected as a taikonaut, Zhang Zhiyuan served as a pilot in the People’s Liberation Army Air Force and held the rank of colonel.

The liquid-based soft metamaterial reconstruction and measurement experimental module was delivered to the Tiangong Space Station by Tianzhou-10.

The Shenzhou-23 crew used health monitoring systems to collect data for long-term in-orbit health monitoring.

Zhu Yangzhu is on his second spaceflight after serving on Shenzhou-16 for 153 days from May 30, 2023 to October 31, 2023.

Before being selected as a taikonaut, Li Jiaying was a Chief Inspector of the Hong Kong Police Force and held the rank of Superintendent.

Zhang Zhiyuan has been a member of the Communist Party of China since 2011.

Zhang Zhiyuan is flying in space for the first time after being selected as part of China’s third taikonaut group in 2020.

The Shenzhou-23 crew completed installation of the liquid-based soft metamaterial reconstruction and measurement experimental module in the in-orbit maintenance and assembly cabinet.

Before becoming a taikonaut, Zhu Yangzhu worked as an associate professor of aerospace engineering in the People’s Liberation Army and held the rank of colonel.

Zhu Yangzhu has been a member of the Communist Party of China since December 2006.

Zhu Yangzhu was selected as part of China’s third taikonaut group in 2020.

Li Jiaying is flying in space for the first time after being selected as a fourth-batch taikonaut in 2024.

South Africa is the only known nation to support the BRICS space council proposal.

China was represented at the BRICS space meeting by Chief Engineer Li Guoping of the China National Space Administration.

Indonesia contracted a hyperspectral remote sensing satellite from a Chinese commercial space company a few months after the Brazil meeting.

The BRICS remote sensing satellite constellation has been supported since 2015 and has operated for several years.

The BRICS members considered allowing Indonesia and Saudi Arabia to contribute to and access data from the remote sensing satellite constellation.

The BRICS space meeting discussed sustainable use of Earth’s orbits, including missions that do not add debris.

India is the BRICS Chairman for 2026.