NASA will support Aeolus science instrument operations for at least one Martian year, or roughly 687 Earth days.

NASA and Relativity Space will send the NASA-built Aeolus atmospheric instrument suite to Mars under a public-private partnership announced on June 17, 2026.

NASA’s Aeolus agreement is its first six-year reimbursable Space Act Agreement.

The Aeolus suite is designed to provide the first integrated, daily, global view of the Martian atmosphere.

GATS developed the Doppler Wind and Temperature Sounder (DWTS-Ozone) in collaboration with NASA.

The Aeolus suite includes the Doppler Wind and Temperature Sounder (DWTS-Ozone), the Thermal Limb Sounder (TLS), the Surface Radiometric Sensor Package (SuRSeP), and the Wide-Field Context Camera (WFCC).

Relativity Space will supply the spacecraft, launch vehicle, and cruise operations for the Aeolus mission.

The Surface Radiometric Sensor Package will measure surface energy balance, dust, and cloud properties.

Researchers at NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley will design, build, and integrate the Aeolus payload.

Xiomas Technologies developed the Thermal Limb Sounder (TLS) with NASA.

Relativity Space will manage spacecraft development and mission operations for Aeolus.

The Aeolus mission is scheduled to launch in 2028.

NASA will provide the Aeolus payload, which contains four instruments designed to measure Martian winds, temperatures, dust, and clouds.

Xiomas Technologies collaborated on development of the Thermal Limb Sounder.

The Aeolus arrangement is NASA's first six-year reimbursable Space Act Agreement.

NASA will develop the data-processing pipeline for Aeolus data products.

The Protected Tactical SATCOM program is intended to provide U.S. tactical forces with secure communications services through Ka-band links.

The Enhanced PTS-P system is designed to support protected tactical communications.

Northrop Grumman’s Enhanced PTS-P system will be based on the commercial GEOStar-3 geostationary satellite bus.

Northrop Grumman won a $398 million contract to develop a prototype of the Protected Tactical SATCOM-Prototype (PTS-P) system for the Space Systems Command of the U.S. Space Force.

The Enhanced PTS-P architecture will use advanced digital processing and antenna configurations to increase resilience against interference.

Northrop Grumman designed the PTS-P platform to be modular and upgradable over time without major redesign work.

The launch hazard areas for Rocket Lab’s LC-1 mission appeared late on June 18, 2026.

Rocket Lab was preparing for a launch from LC-1 toward sun-synchronous orbit within a 09:15 to 11:00 UTC window on June 19, 2026.

ZQ-3 Y2 is vertical at JSLC.

Space Norway's Emergency Preparedness service embeds a software-driven satellite link directly into an organization's existing routing racks.

Space Norway is the primary owner and operator of communications satellites in Scandinavia.

Space Norway keeps dedicated orbital bandwidth permanently reserved for contracted Emergency Preparedness clients.

Space Norway is coordinating with telecom authorities in Sweden, Finland, and Denmark to expand the Emergency Preparedness service into those countries over the coming months.

Space Norway has rolled out its Emergency Preparedness satellite communications service.

The Emergency Preparedness system automatically reroutes mission-critical data packets to orbit when a fiber connection drops or suffers severe packet loss.

The Emergency Preparedness architecture combines low-Earth orbit broadband with geostationary payloads to avoid dependence on a single orbital altitude or proprietary constellation.

Space Norway's Emergency Preparedness service provides backup communications for onshore businesses, public utilities, and government entities during failures of terrestrial fiber or cellular systems.

Client teams using Space Norway's Emergency Preparedness service undergo operational training and routine network failover drills after hardware installation.

Space Norway monitors Emergency Preparedness backup links around the clock through its centralized Network Operations Centre.

The TrueAnomaly Jackal spacecraft did not launch on Firefly Alpha.

TrueAnomaly launched a Jackal spacecraft on the CAS500-2 rideshare mission.

Rocket Lab's VICTUS HAZE was intended to rendezvous with a TrueAnomaly Jackal spacecraft.

The TrueAnomaly Jackal spacecraft passed over New Zealand at about 10:30 UTC.

Rocket Lab prepared a launch from LC-1 toward a sun-synchronous orbit with a window between 09:15 and 11:00 UTC.

START is scheduled to launch in early 2028 as a rideshare payload on a Zhuque-3 rocket.

Tsinghua University students are building the $2.8 million START smallsat mission to study asteroid Apophis.

START will use electric propulsion for orbit raising to a 31,600 km orbit.

START will make a flyby of asteroid Apophis during the peak tidal-stress window at about 8.74 km/s.

Salesforce plans to expand its workforce in Italy with specialists in data science, artificial intelligence, and engineering.

Salesforce Italia plans to invest $1 billion in Italy over the next five years.

Salesforce plans to open a new office in Milan to support its expansion in Italy.

Salesforce is a signatory of the Rome Call for AI Ethics.

Salesforce Italia plans to create the Enterprise Architecture Academy for companies and public administrations.

The mission requires approval from the Multilateral Crew Operations Panel and from NASA, ESA, Roscosmos, JAXA, and CSA as the five ISS partners.