CGSTL demonstrated intentional imaging of other spacecraft using unmodified hardware in October 2025.

Hongqing Technology completed its Pre-B funding round on July 2 and raised 1.3 billion yuan.

Hongqing Technology and CGSTL are both satellite manufacturing entities in China’s space sector.

CGSTL launched the first set of satellites with that hardware in April on a dedicated Kinetica-1 mission.

Hongqing Technology hosted delegations from the Communist Party of China at its Xiong’an New Area satellite production facility during its latest funding round.

CGSTL is developing upgraded sensors for Earth imaging at greater centimeter-level resolution.

Hongqing Technology completed a Pre-B funding round on July 2 and raised 1.3 billion yuan.

Changguang Satellite Technology Co Ltd received about 5 billion yuan in fresh equity financing from several investors on July 4.

Changguang Satellite Technology mentioned manufacturing capacity to produce 200 satellites per year.

Changguang Satellite Technology Co Ltd (CGSTL) received about 5 billion yuan in fresh equity financing on July 4 from China Orient Asset Management, Shenzhen Capital Group, Chengtong Fund, Changfa Group, Lushi Investment, and Haitong Innovation.

CGSTL received 100 million yuan in additional capital from one of its existing investors in late June.

The delegations that visited Hongqing Technology’s Xiong’an New Area facility included officials from Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei province, and Wang Xiaohong of the Communist Party’s Secretariat.

Hongqing Technology is an affiliated company of LandSpace.

Hongqing Technology plans to expand production of its flat-packed, direct-to-cell-capable satellites to more than 100 per year.

Changguang Satellite Technology received an additional 100 million yuan from one of its existing investors in late June.

Hongqing Technology develops satellite research and development, manufacturing, integration and testing, mass production and delivery, and constellation deployment services.

The municipal government of Changchun invested 500 million yuan in CGSTL in April as part of the same funding round.

Changguang Satellite Technology’s Jilin-1 Earth imaging constellation has had 161 satellites launched, with the latest launch on June 15.

The Jilin-1 Earth imaging constellation has had 161 satellites launched.

Hongqing Technology is expanding production of its flat-packed, direct-to-cell-capable satellites to more than 100 per year.

Hongqing Technology develops one-stop satellite constellation ecosystem solutions for China’s satellite internet sector.

Hongqing Technology hosted delegations from the Communist Party of China at its satellite production facility in Xiong’an New Area.

Hongqing Technology’s total amount raised reached 2.5 billion yuan after the Pre-B round.

CGSTL will use the financing to improve the technical remote sensing capabilities and applications of its Jilin-1 Earth imaging constellation.

Changguang Satellite Technology is expected to pursue 300 operational satellites in orbit.

The delegations at Hongqing Technology’s Xiong’an New Area facility included officials from Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei province, and Wang Xiaohong of the Communist Party of China Secretariat.

The municipal government of Changchun invested 500 million yuan in Changguang Satellite Technology in April as part of the financing process.

Hongqing Technology focuses on the satellite internet sector and provides satellite constellation ecosystem solutions in China.

NASA and the USGS describe the ER-2 data set as the largest airborne surface-mineralogy archive produced in a single joint campaign.

The US Geological Survey (USGS) leads GEMx within the Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (Earth MRI).

NASA-USGS Geologic Earth Mapping Experiment (GEMx) uses the AVIRIS sensor to identify potential critical mineral sources in the United States.

AVIRIS was developed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

The AVIRIS family of sensors has also been used on missions to the Moon, Mars, and other rocky bodies in the Solar System.

EchoStar finalized a $17 billion transaction with SpaceX in late 2025.

EchoStar canceled its plans to construct an independent low Earth orbit direct-to-device network after the SpaceX agreement.

EchoStar Chairman Charlie Ergen assumed Akhavan’s former responsibilities as the principal chief executive of the Hughes business block.

EchoStar Capital will be dissolved and folded back into EchoStar’s Corporate Development division under Executive Vice President Tom Cullen.

EchoStar’s commercial data agreement allows Boost Mobile users to use SpaceX’s satellite direct-to-cell infrastructure.

EchoStar Corporation corporate president and chief executive officer Hamid Akhavan stepped down from his leadership roles across EchoStar and Hughes Satellite Systems effective immediately on July 6, 2026.

Citibank initiated equity coverage on EchoStar with a buy rating after the filing.

Hamid Akhavan will remain with EchoStar in a transitional consulting capacity through December 31, 2026.

EchoStar finalized a $23 billion spectrum license transfer to AT&T in late 2025.

Citibank set a long-term target price of $126 per share for EchoStar.

EchoStar established EchoStar Capital in November 2025 to oversee mergers, acquisitions, and reinvestment strategies derived from $42.6 billion in block spectrum divestitures.

EchoStar Capital was initially headed by Hamid Akhavan.

The SpaceX agreement transferred EchoStar’s AWS-4 and H-block mobile-satellite service allocations to support Starlink Direct to Cell.

EchoStar’s wireless and satellite broadcast arms, including Dish DBS and Dish Wireless, filed prepackaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy petitions in July 2026.

Hera is scheduled to rendezvous with the Didymos–Dimorphos asteroid system in autumn 2026.

ESA completed a software update on the Hera spacecraft while it was about 140 million kilometres from Earth.

The Hera mission software update enables autonomous navigation, scientific instrument control, and proximity operations around the asteroids.