PROMISE is designed to survive the two-week lunar night and explore permanently shadowed craters for signs of water ice.

Each CLPS delivery will carry a stereo camera array, a laser location marker, and a radiation monitor.

The new NASA contracts are worth nearly US$600 million and will support four robotic lunar landings for the Moon Base program.

Astrobotic received $297.9 million for two CLPS deliveries.

NASA selected Astrobotic, Firefly Aerospace, and Intuitive Machines to carry science equipment to the Moon in late 2028.

Firefly Aerospace received $144.2 million for one CLPS flight.

Intuitive Machines received $148.3 million for one CLPS mission.

Northrop Grumman's Stargazer airplane is carrying the Pegasus rocket and Katalyst's LINK spacecraft.

II-VI Incorporated, now Coherent Corp., Lumentum Holdings, and a handful of vertically integrated European suppliers represent the realistic qualified vendor list for space-grade laser sources.

The Aerospace Industries Association and PricewaterhouseCoopers co-authored a 2025 supply chain study that identified optical intersatellite links as one of nine highly specialized components facing a serious lack of production capacity.

B Capital led Observable Space’s $90 million Series A, and Shield Capital and Cerberus Ventures co-led the round.

Rocket Lab Corporation completed its Mynaric acquisition in May 2026.

Fiber-coupled laser diodes operating in the 1,550-nanometer wavelength band are the dominant laser source technology for space optical communications terminals.

Observable Space closed a $90 million Series A in late May 2026 to boost production of laser and optical hardware.

Observable Space’s bill of materials includes rad-hard electronics with 52-week documented lead times and space-qualified optical modulators with limited domestic production.

Space-grade laser sources require radiation tolerance, thermal cycling qualification, and outgassing compliance that commercial telecom variants do not.

Observable Space also builds laser-based ranging and proximity sensors for space domain awareness applications.

Observable Space builds free-space optical terminals for satellite-to-satellite and satellite-to-ground communications.

Blue Origin will repair and modify the LC-36A lightning tower to accommodate its new vertical ConOps.

Blue Origin is taking down the lightning tower at LC-36A in segments.

ICEYE won Iberdrola’s PERSEO New-Tech Challenge with a multi-hazard solution selected from more than 40 proposals across ten countries.

ICEYE will support Iberdrola in tracking wildfire spread and assessing structural wind damage in the hours immediately after weather events.

ICEYE’s Hurricane Rapid Impact solution will deliver damage heatmaps within 24 hours of a hurricane making landfall.

ICEYE will work with Iberdrola under a 12-month pilot program that initially covers Spain’s electricity distribution network.

Iberdrola operates nearly 870,000 miles of electricity transmission and distribution lines across the United States, the United Kingdom, Brazil, and Spain.

Iberdrola serves more than 100 million customers globally.

ICEYE’s Hurricane Rapid Impact solution will be deployed for Iberdrola assets in the United States and Australia.

ICEYE’s Flood Rapid Impact and Flood Insights deliver continuous updates on flood extent and water depth at the individual asset level.

ICEYE’s Flood Solutions Suite is operational from day one in the Iberdrola pilot.

ICEYE’s Flood Early Warning capability provides predictive data for network managers before disasters strike.

ICEYE’s SAR satellites can capture high-resolution imagery through heavy smoke and storm clouds.

Satellogic’s Persistent Global Intelligence platform combines a high-resolution satellite constellation, native processing capabilities, onboard artificial intelligence functions, and interoperable analytical tools developed by partners.

Satellogic’s Merlin constellation is scheduled to begin its first launch in October.

SpaceKnow CEO Jerry Javornicky is the co-founder of SpaceKnow.

SpaceKnow has developed analytical tools for more than a decade to turn satellite data into decision-ready answers.

Satellogic CEO Emiliano Kargieman is the co-founder of Satellogic.

Satellogic Inc. and SpaceKnow have formed a strategic collaboration to provide global Earth observation services for commercial and government customers.

Satellogic and SpaceKnow are jointly developing new products and pursuing common customers.

The Satellogic and SpaceKnow integration is intended to support continuous monitoring of critical infrastructure, industrial facilities, and remote areas through automatic change detection and anomaly identification.

The partnership strengthens Satellogic’s Persistent Global Intelligence ecosystem by adding SpaceKnow’s artificial intelligence and machine learning analytics tools to Satellogic’s satellite constellation.

The project Potenziamento Rete Spazio Attivo is funded under PR Lazio FESR 2021-2027, Specific Objective 1.3.

SSC will task True Anomaly and Rocket Lab with additional missions over the coming weeks and months.

The VICTUS HAZE mission was designed to simulate the conditions of tracking an adversarial spacecraft.

True Anomaly found Rocket Lab’s Puma spacecraft in orbit within hours of Rocket Lab’s launch.

The VICTUS HAZE mission restricted direct communication between True Anomaly and Rocket Lab to a trusted communications path.

True Anomaly delivered the imagery in 61 hours.

True Anomaly’s spacecraft approached and circled Puma, imaged and characterized the spacecraft, and delivered the imagery and data to the military.

True Anomaly completed the first VICTUS HAZE mission by finding, approaching, and imaging a Rocket Lab spacecraft.

Upcoming VICTUS HAZE missions are expected to include increasing complexity and speed.

SSC ordered True Anomaly to deliver imagery within 72 hours of receiving the order.