The University of Salerno is a partner of major EU actors in projects funded by the European Commission and government entities.

Campania accounts for about 18% of Italy’s aerospace sector value added.

The upgraded Vinci engine is being developed under a European Space Agency contract.

ArianeGroup SAS tested a 200-kilonewton version of the Ariane 6 Vinci upper stage engine at DLR’s Lampoldshausen facility in Germany.

The European Space Agency’s 2025 Ministerial Council meeting added funding for Ariane 6 adaptations, but member states contributed only €145.94 million toward a €304.40 million funding envelope.

ArianeGroup SAS received partial support for future launcher preparation programmes, Ariane 6 evolutions, and increased production of P160C boosters.

The Ariane 6 Block 2 configuration includes a more powerful upper stage engine, more powerful P160C solid-fuel boosters, and a lighter upper stage structure.

ArianeGroup modified the Vinci engine’s turbine and nozzle.

The Vinci engine test campaign was due to restart in early 2026.

ArianeGroup conducted the Vinci engine test campaign throughout the year and included a 570-second long-duration test in October.

The upgraded Vinci engine increases thrust by around 11% from 180 kilonewtons.

The adaptation of the Vinci engine was part of a €357.6 million Ariane 6 Product Adaptations Element approved by the European Space Agency Ministerial Council in 2022.

Auxilium Biotechnologies’ AMP-1 system also printed cartilage tissue and more than two dozen nerve-repair implants.

Auxilium Biotechnologies’ AMP-1 system 3D-printed liver tissue and kidney tissue in space for the first time.

Auxilium Biotechnologies’ bioink cartridges can be stored in space for at least six months.

Auxilium Biotechnologies has created multiple types of organ tissues aboard the International Space Station.

Blue Origin is raising up to 10 billion dollars in a private financing round on July 8, 2026.

Blue Origin’s hardware manufacturing facilities in Huntsville, Alabama, and Kent, Washington, remain unaffected and fully funded.

TeraWave is intended to serve secure data center backhaul, large enterprise networks, and sovereign cloud infrastructure.

Blue Origin is funding TeraWave, a planned low- and medium-Earth-orbit communications network with 5,408 satellites scheduled to begin deployment in late 2027.

Blue Origin is a prime contractor for NASA’s human landing system under the Artemis lunar initiative and for Space Systems Command national security launch missions.

Jeff Bezos financed Blue Origin exclusively with personal capital and Amazon equity liquidations for 26 years before the 2026 financing round.

Blue Origin projects a return to active launch operations before the end of 2026.

Blue Origin’s Project Sunrise satellites will be powered entirely by in-orbit solar harvesting arrays.

SpaceX completed a 85.7 billion dollar public market debut in June 2026.

Blue Origin is funding Project Sunrise, a planned constellation of up to 51,600 satellites designed to function as zero-gravity edge-computing data centers running active artificial intelligence workloads.

In May 2026, a New Glenn heavy-lift rocket anomaly during an integrated static-fire hot-fire test at Cape Canaveral damaged the pad’s primary transporter-erector gantry.

The private financing round values Blue Origin at approximately 130 billion dollars pre-money.

NASA awarded Blue Origin a $3.4 billion contract in 2023 to support crewed lunar landings.

Blue Origin is expected to receive $4 billion from other institutional investors in its new funding round.

Coatue Management is expected to contribute $4 billion to Blue Origin’s new funding round.

NASA awarded Blue Origin a $188 million contract in May to launch two rovers to the lunar South Pole by 2028.

Blue Origin is targeting a return to flight of New Glenn before the end of the year.

Blue Origin is working on Orbital Reef with Sierra Space and other partners.

Blue Origin unveiled TeraWave in January as an enterprise satcom network designed to deliver 6-Tbps connectivity through a constellation of more than 5,400 satellites.

Blue Origin reengineered launch infrastructure in Cape Canaveral after New Glenn exploded on the launch pad this spring.

Jeff Bezos is expected to contribute $2 billion to Blue Origin’s new funding round.

Blue Origin’s Blue Ring spacecraft is expected to launch for the first time this year.

Blue Origin paused its space-tourism flights in January to focus on lunar missions.

Blue Origin is seeking to raise $10 billion at a $130 billion valuation.

Bright Ascension appointed John Bone as chief commercial officer.

John Bone will lead Bright Ascension’s commercial strategy and oversee sales and marketing.

John Bone previously held senior commercial leadership roles at Orbex, Rhea Group, Telespazio, and CGI.

Bright Ascension is a Scotland-based spacecraft software company.

Bright Ascension wants to expand its commercial operations and international presence.

John Bone has more than 20 years of experience across the space and software industries.

China Orient Asset Management, Shenzhen Capital Group, Chengtong Fund, Changfa Group, Lushi Investment, and Haitong Innovation participated in Changguang Satellite Technology’s 5 billion yuan financing round.

Changguang Satellite Technology is developing upgraded sensors for Earth imaging at greater centimeter-level resolutions.

CGSTL has mentioned manufacturing capacity to produce 200 satellites per year.

CGSTL is still pursuing 300 operational satellites in orbit.