The first Long March 12B rocket lifted off at 0840 UTC on June 4, 2026, from the Dongfeng test zone at Jiuquan.

Long March 12B set a new record for the development cycle of a new Chinese launch vehicle.

No recovery test was conducted after the first Long March 12B launch.

The launch carried SpaceSail Group-11.

Zhuque-2E conducted launch testing of a payload adapter for Qianfan satellites less than a month before its scheduled June 9, 2026 launch.

Zhuque-3 Y2 is at Jiuquan ahead of a second first-stage recovery attempt.

Zhuque-2E is scheduled to launch at about 0820 UTC on June 9, 2026.

Roscosmos delivered a Soyuz-2.1b rocket to Baikonur for the Progress MS-36 launch.

Progress MS-36 is scheduled to launch in November on a Soyuz-2.1b rocket.

Progress MS-36 is expected to arrive at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in a few days.

The Progress MS-36 launch is part of a transition from Soyuz-2.1a to Soyuz-2.1b.

Progress MS-36 was sent to the Baikonur Cosmodrome today.

Planet Labs’ core product is data rather than hardware.

Ashley Johnson joined Planet in 2020.

Planet Labs’ satellites cost between $300,000 and $5 million each.

Ashley Johnson helped take Planet public on the NYSE in 2021 via SPAC.

Planet Labs is projecting full-year revenue of $425 million to $441 million.

Planet Labs projects revenue of $102 million to $107 million in Q2.

Planet Labs reported $94.2 million in revenue in the first quarter of FY27, a 42% increase from the same period last year.

SatVu is scaling its thermal intelligence satellite constellation.

NASA selected Voyager Space to support the seventh Private Astronaut Mission to the International Space Station, scheduled for launch in 2028.

Tomorrow.io completed a $175 million financing led by Stonecourt Capital and HarbourVest at a valuation of over $1 billion.

LeoLabs won significant cross-government contracts for its TraCSS orbital traffic coordination platform.

LeoLabs won a U.S. Space Force contract for radar development.

Voyager Space secured a follow-on multi-million-dollar NASA contract under the Expendable Launch Vehicle Integrated Support programme.

SatVu secured £30 million in new funding from the NATO Innovation Fund and British Business Bank.

SES’s inflight connectivity hardware is less than seven centimeters tall.

The new inflight connectivity hardware is designed to link to satellites across different orbits and provide consistent broadband coverage.

Viva’s new inflight connectivity service will be installed on 100 Airbus narrowbody aircraft, including 60 A320s and 40 A321s, over the coming years.

Viva is the first airline based in Mexico to deploy SES’s electronically steered array antenna.

SES has partnered with Viva, Mexico’s ultra low-cost airline, to introduce a multi-orbit satellite inflight connectivity service across Viva’s Airbus fleet.

SES’s inflight connectivity service uses a combination of SES’s geostationary satellite network and Eutelsat’s OneWeb low Earth orbit satellite service.

SES operates Eutelsat’s OneWeb low Earth orbit satellite service through SES as a distribution partner.

Eleven Viva aircraft are already operating with the newly integrated inflight connectivity hardware.

SpaceWorks Enterprises, Inc. is developing atmospheric Re-Entry Devices designed to provide low-cost, autonomous return of payloads from Earth orbit.

The agreement enables SpaceWorks Enterprises, Inc. to advance its portfolio of atmospheric Re-Entry Devices, or RED.

NASA funded the Commercial Orbital System for Microgravity Crystallization demonstration mission in part through a NASA TechLeap Prize and a NASA SBIR Phase III contract.

Southern Launch operates the Koonibba Test Range in partnership with the Koonibba Community Aboriginal Corporation.

The first recovery operation under the Southern Launch agreement will support SpaceWorks Enterprises, Inc.'s Commercial Orbital System for Microgravity Crystallization demonstration mission.

Southern Launch will provide SpaceWorks Enterprises, Inc. with end-to-end range services including regulatory approvals, range operations, airspace and maritime coordination, tracking, and recovery operations.

Southern Launch has signed an agreement with SpaceWorks Enterprises, Inc. to host multiple re-entry missions at the Koonibba Test Range in South Australia.

SpaceX's IPO could raise up to 86.2 billion dollars if the underwriters exercise the additional option in full.

The offering would value SpaceX at about 1,770 billion dollars.

SpaceX's IPO could raise about 75 billion dollars initially.

SpaceX’s activities span launch services, satellite production, telecommunications, government services, security applications, and data management.

SpaceX plans to place more than 555 million shares on the market.

SpaceX plans to set its IPO share price at 135 dollars.

Starlink has become one of the largest satellite connectivity networks and can provide services in remote areas, support critical infrastructure, and maintain links where terrestrial networks are absent or vulnerable.

SpaceX's growth has expanded into launch services, satellite production, telecommunications, government services, security applications, and data management.

SpaceX is the only company born exclusively in the space economy to reach a financial scale comparable to major digital-economy companies.