AgniKul Cosmos has raised more than $40 million in funding.

Agnibaan is a modular orbital launcher designed for the small-satellite market.

AgniKul Cosmos has reached a valuation of about $500 million.

Agnibaan is a modular orbital launch vehicle designed for the small-satellite market.

ESA is considering 12, 15, and 20 launches per year as part of its launch-cadence planning.

ESA’s Themis program is a reusable first-stage rocket effort intended as Europe’s answer to Falcon and Starship.

SpaceX planned Test Flight #14 to attempt a full orbital injection from its Texas base.

The new P160C solid-propellant boosters on Ariane 6 increase its performance, payload capacity, and competitiveness.

ESA wants to increase the Ariane 6 and Vega-C launch cadence from 7 or 8 launches per year to 15 or more by 2030.

Arianespace is a subsidiary of ArianeGroup.

Ariane 6 debuted in 2024 with two boosters based on the P120C motor.

Ariane 6 flew with four boosters for the first time on its sixth launch in February 2026.

Ariane 6 has launched in three versions in just two years.

ESA plans a first Themis demo flight for this year.

Ariane 6 is Europe’s heavy-lift launcher and a key element of ESA’s efforts to ensure autonomous access to space for Europe’s citizens.

Gwynne Shotwell said SpaceX engineers were building one Starship Super Heavy rocket per month and were working to increase production to two rockets per week.

Arianespace won an 18-launch contract in 2022 to loft Amazon Leo satellites.

Fifteen launches remained on Arianespace’s Amazon Leo contract after the June 17 Ariane 6 mission.

Arianespace has ambitions to raise Ariane 6 launch capacity to 9 to 10 launches annually.

Ariane 6 launched 36 satellites for Amazon’s Leo constellation from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on June 17.

SpaceX planned Starship Test Flight #13 for July.

ArianeGroup is a 50/50 joint venture between Airbus and Safran.

The Bundeswehr is considering SpaceX if ArianeSpace does not have enough capacity for its LEO program.

SpaceX expected Starship to be fully operational in orbit by the end of the year.

Christian Biever was a named participant at ISC 2026 and served as Luxembourg’s ambassador to India.

Aarti Holla-Maini was a named participant at ISC 2026 and served as director of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs.

Dr Pawan Kumar Goenka was a named participant at ISC 2026 and served as chairman of IN-SPACe.

Lt Gen D.S. Rana was a named participant at ISC 2026 and served as commander-in-chief of the Indian Army.

Rocket Lab launched VICTUS HAZE.

The AxEMU is slated for use on Artemis IV.

Axiom Space and Prada have unveiled the inner cooling and ventilation layer of the next-generation lunar spacesuit for NASA astronauts.

The first Condor-Ultra pathfinder delivery is targeted for 2028.

RTX has confirmed that it is working with Rocket Lab as a subcontractor on a Golden Dome prototype effort.

Space Systems Command has awarded 12 Other Transaction Authority agreements worth a combined $3.2 billion for space-based interceptor prototype development under Golden Dome.

The University of Southampton contributes aerospace engineering and atmospheric science research capabilities to AIRS.

The Liquid Cooling and Ventilation Garment is designed to keep astronauts thermally regulated and breathing during spacewalks of up to eight hours on the lunar surface.

AIRS is an industry-academia collaboration led by Astroscale Holdings with Planet Labs and the University of Southampton as founding participants.

National Government Account access is read-only and gives each participating government access to space safety information for all spacecraft affiliated with its nation.

Article 34 of the Council text governs third-country market access under the EU Space Act.

Condor-Ultra has a 20-kilowatt initial power architecture that will scale to 100 kilowatts in future variants.

The Department of Commerce’s Office of Space Commerce has opened National Government Account access for the Traffic Coordination System for Space.

Muon Space says the NVIDIA Space-1 Vera Rubin Module delivers up to 25 times the compute performance of an H-100 GPU for orbital workloads.

Starfish Space has selected Gilmour Space Technologies as the docking partner for the Otter Pup 2 on-orbit demonstration mission.

Planet Labs contributes Earth observation, satellite manufacturing, and operations expertise to AIRS.

The Council text adds a new in-orbit operations obligation requiring operators of maneuverable satellites in orbital shells where EU operators also fly to register those maneuver capabilities with the relevant EU supervisory authority.

The European Council circulated a compromise text of the EU Space Act in May and advanced it toward trilogue negotiations with the European Parliament.

Muon Space has unveiled Condor-Ultra, a Starship-class spacecraft for data-center-class computing.

Otter Pup 2 launched in June 2025 to demonstrate rendezvous, proximity operations, and docking technologies in low Earth orbit.

Condor-Ultra integrates the NVIDIA Space-1 Vera Rubin Module.

Axiom Space holds the NASA contract to develop the AxEMU for the Artemis program.