Luxembourg used its national telecommunications provider to develop and launch GovSat, which provides military communications services to NATO and the European Union.

Poland turned its €40 million ESA contribution into more than €320 million in contracts for Polish companies within a few years.

The Korea AeroSpace Administration is pursuing a lunar landing by 2032 and a Mars mission by 2045.

Poland reached a deal in 2025 to build a new ESA Technology Centre on its soil.

The Korea AeroSpace Administration had 293 staff members and a $725 million budget for 2025.

Poland became a full member of the European Space Agency in 2012 and established the Polish Space Agency in 2014.

Mihail Istvanovics Várdai has a Space Policy Expert degree from the National University of Public Service.

The Korea AeroSpace Administration was established in May 2024.

South Korea’s seventh Nuri rocket launch will be purely commercial.

Hungary dissolved its Space Office in 2014 and split space responsibilities between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Economy.

AST SpaceMobile says the communications arrays on BlueBird satellites 8, 9, and 10 are the largest commercial communications arrays ever deployed in low Earth orbit.

Each of the three BlueBird satellites carries a commercial communications array measuring approximately 2,400 square feet.

AST SpaceMobile’s next-generation stackable satellite architecture uses advanced composite carbon structures to support efficient multi-satellite launches and accelerated constellation deployment.

AST SpaceMobile operates more than 500,000 square feet of manufacturing and operations facilities globally.

AST SpaceMobile’s stated goal is to provide voice, data, and video broadband service via satellite directly to everyday devices without specialized terminals or additional hardware.

The new BlueBird satellites are expected to deliver nearly double the peak data speeds of AST SpaceMobile’s initial Block 1 BlueBird satellites.

AST SpaceMobile employs more than 2,250 people.

AST SpaceMobile’s strategic partners include AT&T, Verizon, Vodafone, Rakuten, Google, Bell, Telus, stc Group, and American Tower.

AST SpaceMobile’s initial Block 1 BlueBird satellites recorded peak download speeds of 98.9 Mbps directly to standard, unmodified smartphones.

BlueBird satellites 8, 9, and 10 are built on AST SpaceMobile’s next-generation stackable satellite architecture.

AST SpaceMobile’s June 17 launch will lift off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, with a launch window opening at 2:39 a.m. EDT and additional opportunities until 4:15 a.m.

AST SpaceMobile expects to host an in-person investor launch event at Cape Canaveral for a future mission carrying BlueBird satellites 11 through 13.

AST SpaceMobile has scheduled a Falcon 9 launch for June 17 to carry BlueBird satellites 8, 9, and 10 to low Earth orbit.

AST SpaceMobile’s service does not require a specialized terminal.

AST SpaceMobile holds service agreements with nearly 60 mobile network operators representing more than 3 billion combined subscribers.

AST SpaceMobile has designed and built approximately 95% of its technology in-house.

AST SpaceMobile’s multi-provider launch strategy is intended to give the company flexibility as it builds global coverage.

T-Minus Engineering’s Barracuda sounding rocket is approximately four metres tall and can carry payloads of up to 40 kilograms to altitudes of around 120 kilometres.

A single-stage Barracuda sounding rocket launched from Spaceport Nova Scotia on 10 June at 14:51 CET suffered an anomaly late in its flight.

After the November 2025 launch, Maritime Launch Services described Barracuda as capable of carrying payloads of up to 40 kilograms to an altitude of 120 kilometres.

T-Minus Engineering’s Barracuda sounding rocket is approximately four metres tall and can carry payloads of up to 40 kilograms.

T-Minus Engineering co-founder Roel Eerkens linked the flight to the company’s development of its rocket and to access for research institutions and defence organizations to near-space environments.

Maritime Launch Services operates Spaceport Nova Scotia commercially.

After the 10 June flight, Maritime Launch Services described Barracuda as capable of carrying payloads of up to 40 kilograms to approximately 80 kilometres, rather than 120 kilometres.

The anomaly on the 10 June Barracuda flight caused teams to stand down from a second planned flight.

The 10 June flight was intended to help Maritime Launch Services refine launch procedures and safety and security systems at Spaceport Nova Scotia.

Maritime Launch Services said the 10 June rocket operated nominally during the powered phase of flight before experiencing an anomaly late in the boost phase.

T-Minus Engineering develops and operates suborbital rockets for microgravity research and hypersonic experimentation.

The anomaly on the 10 June T-Minus Engineering rocket flight caused a second planned flight to be stood down.

Maritime Launch Services operates Spaceport Nova Scotia and used the 10 June Barracuda flight to refine launch procedures and safety and security systems ahead of full-scale operations.

A November 2025 Barracuda launch from Spaceport Nova Scotia was the second consecutive underperforming Barracuda launch from the site.

After the 10 June flight, Maritime Launch Services described Barracuda as capable of carrying the same payload mass to approximately 80 kilometres.

Maritime Launch Services CEO Stephen Matier said the T-Minus Engineering team had hoped the Barracuda would reach the Kármán line at 100 kilometres altitude during the November 2025 launch.

The Barracuda sounding rocket can reach altitudes of around 120 kilometres.

T-Minus Engineering launched a single-stage sounding rocket from Spaceport Nova Scotia on 10 June at 14:51 CET.

JAXA set the launch of the QZS-7 "Michibiki 7" navigation satellite on H3 rocket No. 9 for August 7, 2026, with a planned launch window of 4:30 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. Japan Standard Time.

The QZS-7 "Michibiki 7" navigation satellite is bound for an almost-geostationary orbit.

The LINK spacecraft is being prepared for transport to Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands for a late-June launch.

NASA awarded Katalyst Space Technologies a $30 million contract last September to execute an emergency orbital intervention.

NASA models projected a 50 percent chance of Swift’s uncontrolled reentry by mid-2026 and a 90 percent chance by the end of 2026.