NASA renamed Astrobotic's Griffin-1 lander Moon Base 2 and Intuitive Machines' lunar lander Moon Base 3.

NASA set the upper limit on the rover mass at one metric ton for the Blue Moon Mark 1 delivery missions.

Blue Origin has no other operational pad for New Glenn.

Astrolab's rover for NASA is Crewed Lunar Vehicle 1, or CLV-1, based on the FLEX rover concept and scaled down to meet NASA's revised requirements.

NASA previously said Artemis 3 was once planned to be the first crewed landing attempt of the Artemis program.

Blue Origin was preparing a New Glenn return-to-flight mission after an April upper stage malfunction.

NASA plans to announce the Artemis 3 crew at an event at the Johnson Space Center on June 9.

FAA cleared New Glenn to return to flight on May 22, 2026.

JPL's MoonFall spacecraft is designed to hop across the lunar surface and serve as scouts.

Tobias Niederwieser is an assistant research professor at BioServe Space Technologies at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Business Finland approved a $33 million grant to Iceye for expanded radar satellite production and research and development into optical and RF monitoring.

Iceye Oy is a radar satellite constellation builder and operator.

The European Union could clarify the application of NIS2 to spacecraft as well as to ground-based service delivery.

The UNCOPUOS Long-Term Sustainability Guidelines, the ESA Zero Debris Charter, and the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee mitigation guidelines form a body of space debris best practice.

The UK Space Agency could require redundant command authentication and incident reporting in satellite licensing conditions.

Active debris removal has demonstrated key rendezvous, capture, and proximity operations in precursor missions.

The Viasat KA-SAT incident in February 2022 demonstrated that the ground segment of a satellite system can be attacked at scale.

CNES could require redundant command authentication and incident reporting in satellite licensing conditions.

A debris object remains under the jurisdiction of its registering state indefinitely.

ESA has updated debris mitigation requirements and the Zero Debris Charter to shorten disposal timelines and improve disposal-capability demonstrations at the licensing stage.

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission tightened its post-mission disposal rule in 2022.

The CZ-12B launched on June 1, 2026.

Satellogic operates the NewSat constellation of small satellites.

A defense customer committed more than $18 million to a one-year contract with Satellogic for persistent, high-frequency Earth observation imagery.

Satellogic will deliver daily monitoring of hundreds of points of interest through its NewSat constellation under the defense contract.

The Satellogic contract expanded from an initial trial period to full production deployment in fewer than six months.

Satellogic is headquartered in Uruguay and has operations in the United States, Israel, and Spain.

Satellogic says the NewSat constellation can collect sub-meter-resolution imagery.

Satellogic’s architecture enables tasking-to-delivery completion in under three hours.

Satellogic is vertically integrated across satellite design, manufacturing, launch, and data delivery.

The European Space Agency approved the HiBiDiS and SOVA-S Scout missions.

The Scout program requires mission development, integration, and launch preparation to be completed within three years.

The Scout program sets a maximum cost of €35 million per mission.

ESA’s Scout mission class is designed to be developed within three years for no more than €35 million.

Globalsat Group specializes in connecting moving assets, remote corridors, and operational control centers with custom hybrid satellite and LTE architectures.

Globalsat Group has executed nearly a decade of large-scale railway modernization projects across Latin America.

Globalsat Group is expanding into the North American rail market.

The Mobile Satellite Users Association gave Globalsat Group the 2025 "Outstanding Leadership in Use of a Mobile Solution" award for its critical mobility applications.

Canada projects $180 billion in direct defence procurement over the next decade.

Ontario’s strategy explicitly includes space systems, including low Earth orbit satellites, as part of its defence advantage.

Ontario’s defence sector accounts for 35% of Canada’s national defence activity by employment.

Maritime Launch Services received a $20 million upfront payment on March 31.

The NordSpace-funded program will integrate artificial intelligence into the advanced manufacturing of space propulsion systems.

Ontario’s defence strategy highlights cybersecurity as a core focus area, particularly in the Ottawa tech hub.

Ontario launched its first Ontario Defence Industrial Strategy at CANSEC 2026.

The CSMC-Telesat agreement will integrate the Lightspeed low Earth orbit network with CSMC’s planned Arctic microreactors.

Canada’s Canadian Company Boost credits companies that perform at least 70% of their work domestically as if they had achieved 100%.

A Canadian aerospace consortium led by NordSpace received $3.2 million from NGen.

ATHORA is designed to fuse datasets across space, cyber, and terrestrial networks.

Ontario plans to use its $500 million Critical Minerals Processing Fund to secure upstream aerospace supply chains.