Odysseus Space has built a team with over 100 years of combined experience in lasers, optics, and space systems.

The SmallSat Europe panel includes Cailabs CEO Jean-François Morizur, SES Space & Defense’s Philippe Glaesener, and Thierry Draus.

Odysseus Space was founded in 2019.

Odysseus Space plans its first commercial space-to-ground mission for late 2026.

Odysseus Space’s flagship product, Cyclops, is a laser communication terminal designed to deliver up to 10 Gbps and 1 terabyte per day through a network of optical ground stations.

Cyclops is approaching its first in-orbit validation through a LEO-to-ground link demonstration with Berlin-based Reflex Aerospace.

Dr. Jordan Vannitsen is the co-founder and CEO of Odysseus Space.

Lockheed Martin acquired Terran Orbital in 2024.

Dr. Marco Villa is the CEO of Canopy Aerospace and Defense.

Dr. Marco Villa became a partner in Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems in 2013.

Dr. Marco Villa founded Tyvak International in Turin in 2015.

As SpaceX Mission Director for Dragon, Dr. Marco Villa oversaw the first commercial spacecraft to reach the International Space Station.

Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems went public on the New York Stock Exchange in 2021 under the name Terran Orbital.

Dr. Marco Villa graduated from the Polytechnic University of Milan and earned a doctorate in aerospace engineering from the University of Kansas.

Dr. Marco Villa joined SpaceX in 2007.

Canopy Aerospace and Defense specializes in insulation, absorption, and signal reduction for naval, air, and space platforms.

Canopy Aerospace and Defense is a Dallas-based advanced materials company formed in September 2025 by Trive Capital from Hera Technologies, MSM Industries, and a Canopy R&D center of excellence in Littleton, Colorado.

Open Cosmos started as a platform-as-a-service satellite builder in Harwell.

Open Cosmos is a subcontractor and platform provider on the £5.15 million Orpheus mission for the UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory.

The Spanish Atlantic Constellation is the largest Earth observation constellation ever contracted in Spain.

Open Cosmos kicked off the first rideshare mission for the European Commission’s In-Orbit Demonstration and Validation program in August 2025.

Open Cosmos is bidding to build Europe’s sovereign telecom constellation.

Open Cosmos has teams across the UK, Spain, Portugal, and Greece.

Open Cosmos won a 2026 contract to build the Spanish Atlantic Constellation for the Spanish Space Agency and ESA.

Open Cosmos is raising approximately $200 million to build a Ka-band telecommunications constellation.

Open Cosmos completed the MANTIS mission in October 2025.

Open Cosmos contracted to manufacture Europe’s first open 6G research lab in low Earth orbit for i2CAT.

Open Cosmos is a UK-headquartered company that designs, builds, and operates satellite missions as an end-to-end service.

Open Cosmos is partnering with Astroscale on the Orpheus mission to enhance space situational awareness.

Open Cosmos closed more than €170 million in contracts in the previous year.

Jordi Barrera Ars has more than a decade of hands-on experience in mechanical, structural, propulsion, thermal, and systems engineering for smallsats.

Jordi Barrera Ars is the CTO of Open Cosmos.

Rocket Lab holds $1.3 billion in SDA contracts for 36 satellites across the Tranche 2 Transport Layer and Tranche 3 Tracking Layer.

Rocket Lab acquired Mynaric in April for $155 million.

More than 90 percent of Mynaric’s backlog is funded by U.S. Department of Defense contracts.

Lubos Fedora holds a Master of Engineering in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Manchester.

Mynaric supplies optical communication terminals to Northrop Grumman and York Space Systems for SDA programs.

Mynaric’s laser terminals for the U.S. military’s next-generation satellite constellation are built in Munich.

Lubos Fedora previously worked at Honeywell Aerospace and Airinmar in the United Kingdom.

Mynaric secured an ESA HydRON Element 3 contract in March 2026 for the High Throughput Optical Network’s user segment.

Mynaric supplies laser links for Rocket Lab’s SDA satellites.

German FDI approval for Rocket Lab’s acquisition of Mynaric was granted in March 2026.

Mynaric’s CONDOR Mk3 optical communication terminals are part of the U.S. Space Development Agency’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture.

Lubos Fedora is Mynaric’s Senior Sales and Business Development Manager for commercial customers and programs across EMEA and APAC.

Soyuz MS-29 has arrived at Baikonur.

Soyuz MS-29 is scheduled for launch in the summer of 2026.

Soyuz MS-29 will next be transported to a vacuum chamber for leak checks.

Soyuz MS-29 is scheduled to launch on July 14 with two Roscosmos cosmonauts and one NASA astronaut to the ISS.

Workers at Baikonur have conducted checks on Soyuz MS-29, including tests of the solar panel deployment mechanisms.

Soyuz MS-29 has completed radio equipment testing in an anechoic chamber.