Blue Canyon Technologies is the dominant domestic supplier of reaction wheels and star trackers for small satellite programs.

Blue Canyon Technologies is the anchor supplier for reaction wheels and star trackers in the U.S. small satellite market.

Blue Canyon Technologies' thermal vacuum test chamber capacity puts an estimated ceiling of 400 to 500 units annually on combined attitude determination and control system production throughput.

Blue Canyon Technologies' product lines include reaction wheels with sub-0.1 Newton-meter-second storage capacity and star trackers with sub-arcsecond pointing knowledge.

EU Space ISAC is becoming an autonomous legal entity.

Responsibility for the EU Space ISAC program is being progressively transferred to industry representatives.

Clémence Poirier is a senior cyberdefense researcher at the Center for Security Studies of ETH Zurich.

S. Goinère is the deputy commander of the French Space Command.

The EU Space ISAC roadmap 2026-2027 prioritizes information sharing on vulnerabilities, coordinated incident response, and shared capabilities to address emerging threats.

The EU Space ISAC declaration calls for closer cooperation between industry and European institutions.

The French Space Command views threats to space capabilities as an operational reality that makes space sovereignty, technological resilience, and protection of orbital assets strategic priorities for national security.

EU Space ISAC presented a 2026-2027 roadmap at its general assembly in Prague.

CZ-10B is vertical at Pad 2 of Wenchang Commercial Launch Center.

The Euclid Wide Survey will eventually cover more than one-third of the sky.

SEBIT’s first test flight is planned for the second half of this year.

SEBIT includes an integrated telemetry system intended to transmit and analyse vehicle position and payload status data in real time during flight.

ALADA is tasked with supporting commercial use of Brazilian space centres and coordinating business development and cooperation initiatives between government and domestic and international space companies.

INNOSPACE’s launch vehicle lineup includes SEBIT, BLACK BIRD, and the HANBIT series of satellite launch vehicles.

SEBIT is powered by a three-ton-class hybrid rocket engine.

ALADA is a Brazilian government-owned aerospace project company established by the Brazilian government in June 2025.

INNOSPACE has signed a launch site agreement with ALADA to conduct the first test flight of its SEBIT suborbital rocket at the Alcântara Space Center in Brazil.

SEBIT is designed as a suborbital platform for payload testing, technology verification, and research missions.

SEBIT is intended to validate flight performance, operational readiness, and mission reliability while generating flight data to refine the vehicle and its service model.

The IRIDE operational phase began at 00:01 CEST on 1 July with the first operational tasking.

IRIDE’s remaining four planned constellations include a third multispectral constellation, two synthetic aperture radar constellations, and one hyperspectral constellation.

The IRIDE system is transferring progressively from the European Space Agency to ASI, which owns the national infrastructure.

The IRIDE marketplace is currently open only to eligible Italian government users.

The Italian government appointed ESA to implement the IRIDE programme under an agreement signed in December 2021.

IRIDE identifies civil protection, security and defence, and public administration as eligible user categories.

ASI has begun deploying the multispectral HEO and Eaglet II constellations.

Italy’s IRIDE Earth observation service went live on 1 July.

The first IRIDE operational tasking included the acquisition of the programme’s first operational images.

Fifteen HEO satellites have been launched across three missions.

IRIDE’s remaining four planned constellations have not yet had any satellites launched.

The public IRIDE marketplace pages indicate that only the HEO multispectral constellation is operational.

Sixteen Eaglet II satellites have been placed in orbit across two additional missions.

The €1.1 billion IRIDE initiative will comprise 68 satellites across six constellations when fully deployed.

IRIDE provides initial access to imagery and analytics from one of its planned six satellite constellations for government users.

One additional batch of satellites remains to be launched for each of the HEO and Eaglet II constellations.

SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation will participate as a collaborating organization on the Mitsubishi Electric payload project.

Mitsubishi Electric expects market analysis from SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation to feed directly into payload design.

Mitsubishi Electric received a government-backed subsidy to develop a full digital communications payload for future geostationary satellites.

Mitsubishi Electric is drawing on experience from JAXA’s Engineering Test Satellite-9 for the new payload architecture.

The Mitsubishi Electric payload will rely on high-performance application-specific integrated circuits to handle the required processing volume while remaining small and low-power enough for commercial geostationary satellites.

The Mitsubishi Electric concept uses a direct radiating array antenna that can see virtually the entire Earth-facing hemisphere from geostationary orbit.

The Space Strategy Fund finances development and demonstration of internationally competitive communications payload technologies by private companies and universities.

Mitsubishi Electric plans to build a full digital payload that can change its communications functions after launch through software updates.

The subsidy falls under the second phase of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Space Strategy Fund.

The payload is expected to steer radio beams in arbitrary directions and reshape coverage footprints through digital beam forming without mechanical movement.

The Mitsubishi Electric payload will use a digital payload processor to perform signal processing and enable in-orbit reconfiguration of communications control functions.