Europe’s space industry sales increased 23% in 2025.

FireSat aims to provide wildfire updates every 20 minutes.

FireSat partners include Earth Fire Alliance, Muon Space, Moore Foundation, Bezos Earth Fund, and SpaceX.

SpaceX launched the three new FireSat satellites.

FireSat expanded its constellation by launching three new satellites.

The first FireSat satellite has been operating for about one year.

The structural DRAM shortage is expected to permanently shift the economics of ground-segment network equipment.

Micron is expanding a factory in Taiwan that will not produce new chips until at least the end of 2027.

High-Bandwidth Memory configurations require substantially more silicon wafer area and more complex cleanroom packaging than DDR4.

CCG Consulting released a market assessment that says the global Dynamic Random-Access Memory supply shortage will last far beyond initial industry projections.

Samsung is building a new factory in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, that will not be completed until sometime in 2028.

SK Hynix, Samsung Electronics, and Micron Technology have locked in all of their available manufacturing capacity through advanced pre-sale agreements stretching into late 2027.

Micron is building a new mega-factory in Onondaga, New York, to manufacture DRAM that will not benefit the supply chain until sometime in 2028.

SK Hynix is investing $13 billion in a new factory in Cheongiu, South Korea, that will be completed at the end of 2027.

Modern enterprise telecommunications systems, including consumer Wi-Fi routers, cable modems, and optical ground segment electronics for fiber-optic and wireless satellite gateways, rely on DDR4 memory.

The consolidated manufacturing base is expected to maintain elevated baseline profit targets for conventional memory lines.

High-Bandwidth Memory chips stack multiple layers of modified memory dies vertically via through-silicon vias.

SK Hynix, Samsung Electronics, and Micron Technology have historically managed more than 90 percent of the worldwide supply of Dynamic Random-Access Memory.

Orienspace has moved pre-flight work into a dedicated facility to speed up Gravity-1 preparation processes.

Orienspace Co-Founder and Vice President Peng Haomin said the third Gravity-1 launch vehicle will fly no earlier than mid-July.

Orienspace is using a launch vessel shared with a few other users for Gravity-1 operations at the Haiyang Oriental Spaceport in Shandong province.

Gravity-1’s third launch will be Orienspace’s first normal commercial operation mission.

Orienspace is preparing the third Gravity-1 mission for a constellation delivery of thirty 100-kilogram satellites for an unspecified customer.

Orienspace hopes to conduct two more Gravity-1 launches in 2025 if a launch vessel is available.

Orienspace has a backlog of hundreds of satellites for Gravity-1 launches.

Orienspace is targeting a quarterly Gravity-1 launch cadence in the coming years.

Orienspace’s Gravity-1 performed its second flight in October 2024.

Orienspace Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer Bu Xiangwei is pushing a safety drive for the company’s launch efforts.

Canada Rocket Company has designed two launch vehicles, the R-1 responsive light-lift vehicle and the reusable medium-lift R-2 vehicle.

Canada Rocket Company closed a $6.2 million seed round.

Canada Rocket Company uses methalox propellants in its launch vehicle engines.

David Tenny is Canada Rocket Company’s CTO and co-founder, and he spent nearly ten years at SpaceX working on the Merlin engine for Falcon 9.

NordSpace is producing the Tundra+ and Tempest medium-lift rockets.

Canada Rocket Company plans a medium-lift-capable test site for rocket engines above 1 MN and for some airframe tests.

Canada Rocket Company opened its initial engine test facility in Etobicoke.

Canada Rocket Company’s R-2 is intended to be its first commercial launcher.

Canada Rocket Company has raised $22.5 million in less than six months from incorporation, including $21 million from Canadian sources.

Canada Rocket Company has begun turbomachinery design and has started manufacturing test articles using preliminary turbopump designs.

Canada Rocket Company will hold its first component test later this month.

Canada Rocket Company has completed the initial designs, engineering, and permitting for its medium-lift-capable test site.

Canada Rocket Company was selected for Canada’s Launch the North IDEaS Challenge alongside Reaction Dynamics and NordSpace.

Hugh Kolias founded Canada Rocket Company after previously building the rental property management platform Yuhu, which HappyCo acquired in 2022.

Canada Rocket Company is in partnership discussions for launch services and does not plan to build its own launch facility.

Canada Rocket Company has hired 22 people, predominantly engineers with more than seven years of launch industry experience.

Canada Rocket Company is on track for an end-of-year hot-fire test of its gas generator.

Canada Rocket Company incorporated in November 2025 and exited stealth in January.

Mina Mitry, the co-founder and CEO of Kepler Communications, serves as an advisor to Canada Rocket Company.

Canada Rocket Company has completed vehicle sizing for its launcher.

Eugenio Di Sciascio said that Puglia’s aerospace exports grew 343% in the first quarter of 2026 year over year to more than 141.9 million euros.

The participating companies are developing technologies aimed at greater orbital infrastructure autonomy, operational resilience, system scalability, and reduced dependence on terrestrial infrastructure.