Apex Space announced a $200 million Series C in April 2025.

Apex Space hired Michael Kopet as chief financial officer.

Apex Space is pursuing Project Shadow separately in parallel with its Golden Dome work.

Michael Kopet was previously vice president of finance at Axon.

Apex Space plans to reach 100% vertical integration as it scales up and needs higher-volume parts.

The CZ-8A will replace the CZ-8 in the future.

Production of the CZ-8 has stopped.

The flatsat platform is intended to support the design, testing, and validation of secure satellite software and hardware architectures and cyber defense mechanisms.

The challenge focuses on a ground-based satellite platform that integrates critical satellite subsystems for controlled cybersecurity experimentation.

A majority of each applicant's full-time workforce and senior executives must reside in Canada.

Each selected project can receive up to $2 million for a maximum duration of 20 months.

Eligible applicants must be for-profit entities incorporated in Canada with 499 or fewer full-time equivalent employees.

Half or more of each applicant's wages must go to employees working in Canada.

Applicants must conduct their research and development activities in Canada.

The government expects to award two contracts under the challenge.

The Department of National Defence and Innovative Solutions Canada have opened a funding challenge to develop a laboratory-based flatsat platform for cybersecurity experimentation.

Roscosmos will conduct a more extensive repair operation on the Zvezda transfer tunnel on Friday, June 5, 2026.

One of the Zvezda transfer chamber leak sites was sealed with the two-component sealant Germetel-1.

Roscosmos manages the Zvezda transfer tunnel crack issue through operational mitigation measures and periodic partial repairs.

The Zvezda service module transfer tunnel, known as PrK, has had cracks and leaks for some time.

NASA and Roscosmos have been working to determine the root cause of the cracks in the Zvezda service module transfer tunnel.

The second Zvezda transfer chamber leak site is located on the conical portion of the transfer chamber and is being prepared for sealing.

NASA directed all four SpaceX Crew-12 members and NASA astronaut Chris Williams to assume an elevated safety posture in the Dragon spacecraft during the repair.

The Zvezda transfer chamber leaks pose no threat to the safety of the crew or the International Space Station's onboard systems.

Specialists found two air leaks in the Zvezda module of the Russian segment of the International Space Station during pressurization of the module's transfer chamber.

Axiom Space’s new financing round exceeded its previously announced US$350 million target by US$175 million.

Axiom Space closed an oversubscribed financing round totaling more than US$525 million.

Takumi Hashizume is Managing Director and Head of the Space Innovation Office at MUFG Bank, Ltd.

Axiom Space is working to meet milestones for its planned commercial space station and ongoing NASA contract requirements.

MUFG Bank joined Axiom Space’s cap table in the new financing round.

Axiom Space will use the new capital for development of Axiom Station, production of the Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit spacesuit, and more commercial human spaceflight missions.

Andrew Newman is affiliated with Carnegie Science in Pasadena, California.

LandSpace’s image shows the ZQ-2E and ZQ-3 launch vehicles standing vertically at launch pads.

LandSpace has two upcoming launches involving ZQ-2E and ZQ-3.

Long March 8 Y9 launched SpaceSail Group-12 from Hainan at 06:34 UTC on June 5, 2026.

Long March 6A Y25 launched SpaceSail Group-11 from Taiyuan at 11:39 UTC on June 4, 2026.

On June 5, NASA ordered five astronauts on the International Space Station to shelter in the Dragon spacecraft and prepare for a possible emergency evacuation because of an air leak in the Russian segment of the station.

The air leak affected the Zvezda service module of the International Space Station.

Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway, Sophie Adenot, and Andrey Fedyaev are members of SpaceX Crew-12.

Roscosmos decided to carry out a more extensive repair in the area of the cracks in the International Space Station's Russian segment.

NASA later instructed the crew inside Dragon to end the safe-haven procedures and return to normal operations aboard the International Space Station.

Roscosmos has mitigated the Zvezda service module transfer tunnel cracks and leaks through operational measures and periodic partial repairs.

NASA later instructed the crew members inside the Dragon spacecraft to end the safe haven procedures and return to planned operations aboard the International Space Station.

NASA directed all four SpaceX Crew-12 members and NASA astronaut Chris Williams to move into the Dragon spacecraft under the ISS Safe Haven contingency plan.

The Zvezda service module transfer tunnel on the International Space Station, known as PrK, has had cracks and leaks for some time.

Roscosmos planned a more extensive repair operation on the Zvezda service module transfer tunnel for Friday, June 5.

Roscosmos paused the Friday structural repair efforts inside the Zvezda service module transfer tunnel while it assessed more measurements and data.

The Zvezda service module transfer tunnel on the International Space Station has had cracks and leaks for some time.

Roscosmos planned a more extensive repair operation inside the Zvezda service module transfer tunnel on Friday, June 5.

Roscosmos later paused the structural repair efforts inside the Zvezda service module transfer tunnel, and NASA instructed the crew members in Dragon to end safe haven procedures and return to planned operations aboard the International Space Station.