About 70% of the launches from NASA ranges are commercial.

Kennedy Space Center required 1,956 truck trips for 17 launches in 2019 and 8,752 truck trips for 109 launches in 2025.

NASA agreed to determine whether it can charge launchers for common infrastructure.

Kennedy Space Center’s roads and bridges are more than 60 years old and are not in good enough condition to support additional truck trips for launch hardware.

NASA is prohibited from collecting fees from commercial launch users to fund infrastructure updates under its existing rent agreements.

NASA’s construction and maintenance budgets for launch infrastructure have been cut between 11% and 47% over the past five years after adjusting for inflation.

Kennedy Space Center’s aging power, gas, and transportation infrastructure is not adequate to support the growing number of launch operations.

NASA’s launch cadence is projected to rise to 268 launches in 2030 from 109 in 2025.

Canada’s Nuclear Energy Strategy aims to attract private investment and deploy new reactors across the country.

Canada’s Nuclear Energy Strategy includes four pillars: enabling new builds, expanding exports, increasing uranium production, and developing new innovations in fission and fusion.

Canadian Strategic Missions Corporation is working under a Canadian Space Agency contract to study how microreactors could power future lunar infrastructure.

Canada’s Nuclear Energy Strategy aims to double the nuclear workforce by 2050.

Canadian Strategic Missions Corporation secured government funding to develop an unfuelled microreactor prototype at the University of Alberta.

Canada’s Nuclear Energy Strategy aims to develop and demonstrate a Canadian-controlled Generation IV microreactor before 2035.

Canada has launched a Nuclear Energy Strategy to expand its electricity grid and strengthen national security.

Canada’s Nuclear Energy Strategy includes a Nuclear Technology Application Framework for non-power nuclear applications.

The Canadian Strategic Missions Corporation prototype project lets researchers refine the mechanical design of a low-enriched uranium nuclear reactor without handling active radioactive material.

The Government of Canada provided $40 million to the Department of National Defence to study microreactors.

PLD Space is focused on the first test flight of its Miura 5 rocket.

Hilario Albarracín has served on the global board of KPMG and on KPMG's EMA board for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

The Global Space Futures Advisory Council was created by Seraphim Space in April 2026.

Hilario Albarracín worked at KPMG for 30 years and served as CEO from 2013 until becoming president.

PLD Space received 30 million euros in financing from the European Investment Bank.

PLD Space operates technical facilities of more than 188,000 square meters in Elche, Teruel, Kourou, and Duqm.

PLD Space was founded in 2011 by Raúl Torres and Raúl Verdú.

The Global Space Futures Advisory Council includes Anousheh Ansari, Marco Fuchs, and Pascale Ehrenfreund among its members.

Hilario Albarracín was president of KPMG Spain from 2016 to 2021.

PLD Space's preselection for the European Launcher Challenge could generate 169 million euros in revenue.

The European Space Agency preselected PLD Space for the European Launcher Challenge program.

Hilario Albarracín is a board member of Banca March, Celsa Group, and LLYC.

PLD Space plans the first Miura 5 test flight for the second half of 2026.

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and Cofides led PLD Space's 180 million euro financing round.

The CDTI participated again in PLD Space's 180 million euro financing round.

PLD Space closed a 180 million euro financing round in early March of this year.

Nazca Capital, Aciturri, JME Ventures, and Sego Venture have invested in PLD Space.

PLD Space has 450 employees.

PLD Space appointed Hilario Albarracín as an independent member of its board of directors.

Candace Johnson joined PLD Space's governing board shortly before Hilario Albarracín's appointment.

PLD Space has raised more than 350 million euros since its founding in 2011.

Candace Johnson founded Europe Online, the world's first online service based on the internet and a satellite broadband network.

Candace Johnson is a partner and chair of the advisory board at Seraphim Space.

Candace Johnson founded Teleport Europe, the first European cross-border satellite communications company.

Candace Johnson co-founded Société Européenne des Satellites, which is now the world's largest operator of satellite networks.

Candace Johnson chairs the Global Space Futures Advisory Council.

UC Investments, Quantacet, and UCeed participated in Qubic's funding round.

Qubic closed an oversubscribed $2.5 million USD seed round to commercialize its low-noise cryogenic amplifiers.

Two Small Fish Ventures led Qubic's $3.5 million CAD funding round.

Qubic maintains operations in Quebec and research facilities in Waterloo, Ontario.

Qubic is developing low-noise cryogenic amplifiers to address thermal management bottlenecks in quantum computing.

Qubic's radio frequency quantum sensing platform targets military applications including threat detection and covert operations.