MDA Space acquired Colorado-based Blue Canyon Technologies from RTX Corporation in an all-cash deal valued at US$620 million.

Rocket Factory 1 houses design, engineering, manufacturing, and mission control capabilities under one roof.

The Blue Canyon Technologies acquisition gives MDA Space in-house vertical integration for precision guidance, navigation, and control systems.

Ariane 6 successfully launched 36 satellites for Amazon’s low-Earth orbit constellation using four upgraded P160C solid-propellant boosters.

The NorthStar Earth & Space contract integrates NorthStar’s sensor network with 3 Canadian Space Division to enhance detection, tracking, and prediction of orbital threats.

The Pentagon’s $1.2 billion loan package is intended to build domestic separation and metallization facilities for the U.S. rare earth element supply chain.

DARPA issued a Request for Information seeking industry input on ways to rapidly restore critical satellite capabilities after an attack.

NordSpace and Reaction Dynamics are targeting orbital launches by 2028.

Rocket Factory 1 is designed to support production of NordSpace’s light- and medium-lift orbital launch vehicles, including the Tundra and Tundra+ lines.

The 49North contract expands on a prior $74.4 million package for the MQ-9B SkyGuardian program’s ground control stations and software.

MDA Space CEO Mike Greenley urged the government to mandate domestic procurement and classify space as dual-use critical infrastructure.

Mike Greenley said losing access to space-based systems like GPS could cost the Canadian economy $1 billion a day.

The Blue Canyon Technologies acquisition adds US$3.5 billion to MDA Space’s total pipeline.

Rocket Factory 1 represents a tenfold expansion of NordSpace’s headquarters.

BRO-22 was the first payload slot secured by a foreign private company on Japan’s H3 rocket.

MDA Space can more rapidly configure its Aurora and Midnight satellite platforms for specific military missions after acquiring Blue Canyon Technologies.

49North, a wholly owned subsidiary of MDA Space, secured a $3.7 million contract from General Atomics Aeronautical Systems to build a secure data-sharing system for Canada’s MQ-9B SkyGuardian military drones.

NorthStar Earth & Space is preparing to go public on the New York Stock Exchange through a $300 million merger with Viking Acquisition Corp.

French maritime surveillance startup Unseenlabs launched its BRO-22 satellite aboard Japan’s heavy-lift H3 launch vehicle.

Blue Canyon Technologies has an active pipeline of modular spacecraft component manufacturing, and 75 percent of its revenue is tied directly to the defence sector.

iSpace shipped a Hyperbola-3 mock-up stage to a recovery barge for a landing test.

ESA has opened an investigation into the anomaly that interrupted the Space Rider test sequence.

The Space Rider test vehicle was returned to the ground undamaged after the incident.

Space Rider is designed to return to Earth and land on a runway using a parachute braking system and a paraglider.

The Space Rider test campaign uses the Polígono Interforze del Salto di Quirra in Sardinia, Italy.

Space Rider's first flight remains scheduled for the first quarter of 2028.

The final Space Rider test campaign is scheduled for October and will be the program's last major demonstration before flight.

Space Rider will launch on a Vega-C rocket from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana.

ESA has delayed the Space Rider drop test until October because of an anomaly in a prior test campaign and limited test-site availability.

The unavailability of the test range is the main reason Space Rider testing cannot resume before October.

ESA completed two earlier Space Rider drop-test campaigns in August 2024 and June 2025 using a 3,000-kilogram mass simulator.

The next Space Rider test phase will use the Descent and Landing Test Model, a full-scale mock-up of the reentry module.

A test campaign that ended on 8 May included a captive ascent phase in which a CH-47 Chinook helicopter lifted a full-scale reentry module model.

Space Rider's first landing is formally planned for Santa Maria Island in the Azores, Portugal.

Space Rider is designed for missions of up to three months in low Earth orbit.

The winning satellite names were Nereida17, Lince, Orbiterra, Convive, Nerpio, Albor, Ecocentinela, and Castellví.

The Atlantic Constellation is a Spain-Portugal program developed jointly with Portugal to strengthen European Earth observation capabilities.

The eight newly named satellites make up the Spanish half of the Atlantic Constellation.

The Atlantic Constellation is designed to improve emergency response capabilities.

The Atlantic Constellation is intended to complement Copernicus by increasing revisit frequency to 2 or 3 hours.

The Atlantic Constellation has completed the Critical Design Review and is moving toward the construction phase.

The Spanish Space Agency leads the Atlantic Constellation in collaboration with the European Space Agency.

The Atlantic Constellation will provide data for flood, wildfire, drought, and heat wave prevention.

The Atlantic Constellation has a budget of 30 million euros.

The Avio order for ASTER 30 covers a four-year production period.

The Avio order for ASTER 30 is worth more than 35 million euros.

Avio signed a production order with MBDA in France for solid rocket motors and aerodynamic surfaces for the ASTER 30 system.

Avio specializes in solid-fuel propulsion for strategic defense applications.

The SAMP/T NG system uses missiles from the ASTER family.

Two astronauts will conduct a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Tuesday, June 30, to replace a wrist joint on the station’s Canadarm2 robotic arm.