Beyond Reach Labs has paid pilots underway.

Beyond Reach Labs raised a $10 million seed round led by Interlagos.

TerraForge Capital, Off-Piste Capital, Y Combinator, and Augur VC participated in Beyond Reach Labs’ $10 million seed round.

Beyond Reach Labs was founded in 2023 to commercialize technology rooted in a NASA grant for large-scale space structures.

Beyond Reach Labs plans to produce more than 10 units a day at its Brooklyn facility by the end of 2027.

Beyond Reach Labs opened a new 16,000-square-foot facility in Brooklyn, New York.

Beyond Reach Labs has a patented solar array deployer that can stretch 100 meters long and fit inside a typical launch fairing.

Beyond Reach Labs aims to have its solar array system flight-qualified by the end of the year.

Beyond Reach Labs has signed $342.6 million in letters of intent with future customers.

The data and sample mining stream allows researchers to request up to $75,000 over one year to analyze existing space-related databases or biological samples.

The Canadian Space Agency launched the Health and Life Sciences Data and Sample Mining or Research Models program to fund studies of the physical and psychological risks of human spaceflight.

The Canadian Space Agency set Jan. 25, 2027 as the application deadline for the Health and Life Sciences Data and Sample Mining or Research Models program.

The program will award grants to Canadian researchers studying how extended exposure to weightlessness and space radiation affects living systems.

Not-for-profit applicants must operate in Canada, include research in their institutional mandate, and have a standing Research Ethics Board or Animal Care Committee.

The principal investigator for a program project must hold a traditionally recognized academic position.

Funded studies under the program must serve as direct precursors for future Canadian investigations on the International Space Station or other orbital platforms.

Post-doctoral fellows and individuals paid through another researcher’s grant are excluded from serving as principal investigator on a program project.

Eligibility for the program is restricted to Canadian post-secondary institutions and domestic not-for-profit organizations.

Teodoro Valente led the Italian Space Agency (ASI) for the previous three years.

Teodoro Valente led the Italian Space Agency for the last three years before his death.

Teodoro Valente was the president of the Italian Space Agency (ASI).

Michelangelo Moles holds a master’s degree in Corporate Communication and Media.

Teodoro Valente was the president of the Italian Space Agency (Agenzia Spaziale Italiana).

Falcon 9 first stage B1069 has had its gridfins and landing legs removed.

Falcon 9 first stage B1069 is rolling out to Space Launch Complex 40 for the MRV-1 launch scheduled no earlier than July 21 at 21:15 UTC.

Falcon 9 first stage B1069 will fly its 32nd and final launch on the MRV-1 mission.

Michelangelo Moles holds a master's degree in Corporate Communication and Media.

Teodoro Valente was President of the Italian Space Agency.

LightPort is intended to support a future wireless lunar power grid.

Firefly Aerospace delivered the LightPort payload for the Blue Ghost mission.

Volta Space Technologies developed LightPort.

LightPort will be hosted on top of Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander on the far side of the Moon.

Firefly Aerospace received the last of six payloads planned for the Riders 2 the Dark mission.

LightPort is a power receiver designed to demonstrate wireless energy reception in a lunar environment.

Firefly Aerospace will integrate the Riders 2 the Dark payloads in a clean room before the next phase of the Blue Ghost mission.

One of CIRA’s Farnborough International Airshow 2026 exhibits is the Body Flap, one of the two control surfaces of ESA’s reusable Space Rider spacecraft.

One of CIRA’s Farnborough International Airshow 2026 exhibits is a model of a stratospheric platform designed to operate in the stratosphere in persistence and proximity conditions.

Space Rider is an ESA reusable spaceplane with Thales Alenia Space as prime contractor.

One of CIRA’s Farnborough International Airshow 2026 exhibits is the OMOP monolithic combustion chamber for space engines, developed within the HYPROB program and manufactured with additive manufacturing techniques.

CIRA President Tommaso Edoardo Frosini recently joined the board of directors of AIAD, the Italian federation for aerospace, defense, and security companies.

HYPROB is CIRA’s new experimental facility for testing engines, combustion chambers, and next-generation propulsion components.

HYPROB is intended to strengthen Italy’s national capabilities in space propulsion.

The Centro Italiano Ricerche Aerospaziali (CIRA) will bring three technological applications to the Farnborough International Airshow 2026.

INAF operates Italy’s national LOFAR computing infrastructure, which is distributed across Bologna, Trieste, and Catania and supported by high-performance computing systems.

INAF is contributing to the development of LOFAR 2.0 and to the management of Italy’s data-processing infrastructure for radio astronomy.

New LOFAR stations are planned for Medicina by 2026 and for Noto in 2029.

LOFAR became a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) in 2023.

KMI plans additional REACCH tests beyond the space station.

REACCH uses tentacle-like arms with gecko-inspired adhesive pads to capture debris.

KMI plans to deploy REACCH on operational life-extension and debris-removal missions.