CyberCUBE is part of the ESA Cybersecurity Operations Centre’s Cyber Evolutions programme and is supported by the ESA Security Office.

Alén Space, part of GMV since 2023, built the CubeSat 3U used as CyberCUBE’s flight segment.

GMV coordinated CyberCUBE from initial design through early orbital operations and transfer of control to ESA.

GMV leads the CyberCUBE mission as a Spanish multinational technology company.

CyberCUBE operations are managed from ESA’s European Space Security and Education Centre in Redu, Belgium.

CyberCUBE’s platform includes reprogrammable onboard processing capabilities and a payload designed for cybersecurity monitoring.

CyberCUBE will test new onboard cybersecurity capabilities and collect information to improve system resilience.

CyberCUBE will validate the CSOC’s capabilities for analyzing data from space assets.

Microchip Technology funded its own research and development work for the processor.

The new NASA system-on-a-chip integrates a central processor, auxiliary processing units, memory, networking systems, and input/output interfaces in a compact, energy-efficient architecture.

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is using high-fidelity landing scenarios derived from real NASA missions to simulate real-time processing of navigation and descent sensor data.

NASA plans to certify the new processor for spaceflight before integrating it into future operational platforms.

NASA, Game Changing Development, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory defined the mission requirements and coordinated the processor development cycle.

NASA’s new High Performance Spaceflight Computing processor has reached performance up to 500 times higher than the radiation-hardened processors currently used in space missions in preliminary tests.

NASA is testing a new processor developed under the High Performance Spaceflight Computing program.

Microchip Technology expects the processor architecture developed for space missions to be adapted later for aerospace and automotive applications.

The new NASA processor is designed to increase spacecraft computing power without compromising reliability in orbital and deep-space environments.

The new NASA processor is intended to support more autonomous spacecraft, faster scientific data processing, and future human missions to the Moon and Mars.

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is validating NASA’s new processor through radiation, thermal, shock, and functional testing.

Jim Butler is the project manager at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for the processor testing campaign.

Microchip Technology developed the processor under a 2022 partnership with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Eugene Schwanbeck is the NASA Game Changing Development program manager at the Langley Research Center.

Blue Origin is now working on design and major repairs before systems integration and final launch preparations.

A pad-side anomaly during a hotfire test in late May occurred at Launch Complex 36 in Florida and delayed New Glenn’s return to flight.

Blue Origin continues to build New Glenn vehicles at its manufacturing facilities while pad reconstruction continues.

Under Blue Origin’s revised launch operations concept, a crane raises New Glenn into vertical position, places it on a refurbished launch table, and connects umbilicals from the main tower.

Blue Origin plans to return its New Glenn heavy-lift rocket to flight by the end of 2026.

Blue Origin’s revised launch operations concept uses existing facilities to mate New Glenn horizontally before rolling the vehicle to the pad on a transporter.

The May 28 incident destroyed the lightning protection tower, the transporter-erector, and associated hydraulic hardware at Launch Complex 36.

Blue Origin has completed site securing, recovery, cleanup, pad cleanup, and debris removal as the first two phases of its five-phase recovery plan.

Early analysis of the anomaly points to the aft section of New Glenn’s first stage.

Under Blue Origin’s revised launch operations concept, payloads are transported to the pad base and lifted onto the stacked launch vehicle before launch.

Blue Origin’s tank farm, integration facility, vehicle access tower, and water tower at Launch Complex 36 remained in good condition after the May 28 incident.

Blue Origin relocated the test article nicknamed Never Tell Me the Odds and three GS2 stages from the integration facility during recovery.

Blue Origin is rebuilding its launch operations around a horizontal and vertical hybrid integration concept rather than restoring Launch Complex 36 to its previous configuration.

Blue Origin’s new launch operations concept is intended to be a common approach for multiple pads supporting New Glenn’s nine-engine first stage and four-engine upper stage.

SpaceX's Gen3 expansion is separate from the Starmind orbital data-center project.

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. filed a comprehensive application with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission on July 6, 2026 seeking authorization to deploy up to 100,000 third-generation satellites.

SpaceX's 100,000-satellite Gen3 application exceeds the Federal Communications Commission's prior approval of a second batch of 7,500 second-generation spacecraft that capped the active Gen2 fleet at 15,000.

SpaceX will need to satisfy orbital safety conditions, demonstrate active debris-mitigation capabilities, and coordinate with the National Science Foundation to limit radio and optical interference with ground-based astronomical observations.

The Gen3 hardware upgrades are intended to increase a single satellite's uplink capacity to between 160 and 200 gigabits per second.

The Gen3 spacecraft will use phased-array beamforming systems, electronic beam-steering antennas, and high-speed optical inter-satellite laser links.

Each proposed Gen3 spacecraft will have a dry mass of approximately 2,000 kilograms.

SpaceX has requested permission to use W-band and D-band frequencies between 92 GHz and 275 GHz in addition to its Ku-, Ka-, V-, and E-band licenses.

SpaceX is moving toward closing its pending $60 billion all-stock acquisition of coding-assistant developer Anysphere.

The Gen3 hardware upgrades are intended to increase a single satellite's maximum downlink throughput to 1 terabit per second.

SpaceX's Gen3 constellation is designed to build a low-latency, high-capacity global communications infrastructure optimized for internet backhaul traffic.

SpaceX plans to place the Gen3 constellation in two very low Earth orbit shells at altitudes between 323 and 327.5 kilometers and between 473 and 477.5 kilometers.

The Starmind orbital data-center project includes plans for up to 1 million dedicated compute satellites mass-produced at SpaceX's Texas manufacturing facility.

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