Continental

Continental AG is a major automotive manufacturer that also produces components and solutions relevant to the space industry. They provide a range of products and solutions for the aerospace industry, including fuel tanks and hoses, conveyor belts, and other components used in aircraft and airport infrastructure. Continental serves customers such as aircraft manufacturers and airport operators.

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The Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD) is the precursor to the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).

GeneralValue 2.0Dec 28, 2025Dal 1955 a oggi: NORAD continua a monitorare Babbo Natale

The project will provide secure satellite communications capabilities crucial for the RCAF's continental defence mandate.

CapabilityValue 2.0Dec 9, 2025DIA selects Telesat and MDA for Enhanced Satellite Communications Project – Polar strategic partnership

The GOE-DEEP project is funded by the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program and a consortium of national science agencies, totaling $3.1 million.

FinancialGeneralValue 4.0Nov 23, 2025Drilling deep to study the oxygenation of Earth

Viasat will also provide ISP backhaul to support significantly higher bandwidth for users across facilities inside the continental U.S. and outside the continental U.S.

CapabilityGeneralValue 3.0Nov 19, 2025Viasat secures renewal contract with NEXCOM for managed connectivity services worldwide

Urso emphasized the importance of constructive dialogue with ESA, the European Commission, and continental partners.

GeneralValue 1.4Nov 10, 2025L’Italia verso la Ministeriale ESA 2025: cooperazione e visione comune

Kepler Communications will demonstrate real-time data sharing and connectivity for Continental Defence, including the Canadian Arctic.

PlanCapabilityValue 3.5Oct 23, 2025Kepler receives $500K SpaceLEO contract from DRDC

The contract is for demonstrating real-time data sharing and connectivity for Continental Defence, including the Canadian Arctic.

RelationshipsCapabilityValue 4.0Oct 22, 2025Kepler awarded contract to support Canadian Arctic Defence

Egypt inaugurated the African Space Agency to promote continental coordination in space policy and data governance.

LegalGeneralValue 1.8Oct 20, 2025Middle East Space Roundup: 13 to 19 October 2025

The agreement between AST SpaceMobile and Verizon is focused on delivering space-based cellular broadband coverage across the continental United States.

RelationshipsCapabilityValue 4.0Oct 10, 2025AST SpaceMobile and Verizon Partner to Deliver Space-Based Cellular Service Across the U.S.

The partnership with Verizon aims to deliver space-based cellular broadband coverage across the continental United States.

RelationshipsValue 4.0Oct 9, 2025AST SpaceMobile’s agreement with Verizon will enable customers Direct-to-Cellular access

Startical's global coverage removes the limitations of current transoceanic flights, allowing aircraft to operate over oceans and isolated regions with the same efficiency as in continental airspace.

CapabilityGeneralValue 2.0Sep 9, 2025Startical logra la primera transmisión de datos via satélite desde un avión a un centro de control aéreo

The H-6N requires a long-range standoff strike munition to target locations as far as Hawaii and the continental United States.

CapabilityValue 3.0Sep 4, 2025RT by @luritie: 🇨🇳 The combination of the specially-configured aerial-refuelling capable H-6N bomber and the likes of the JL-1 air-launched ballistic missile is understood to be the primary current manifestation of the PLA Air Force's (PLAAF) (re)adoption of a nuclear strike role, a development that offers China a so-called nuclear triad after decades of heavy—in practice near-total—reliance on ground-launched nuclear-armed ballistic missiles. While the PLAAF currently appears to be turning to air-launched ballistic missiles to deliver nuclear warheads, it may come to deploy nuclear-armed air-launched cruise missiles for its future bomber aircraft going forward. The subsonic turbofan-powered H-6N and the underlying turbofan-powered H-6K are the latest Chinese derivatives of the 1950s-origin turbojet-powered Soviet Tupolev Tu-16 bomber aircraft design. While the longevity of the Tu-16 design in Chinese service is often spoken of in the same light as the U.S. Air Force's ongoing use of the 1950s-origin B-52 bomber aircraft design, the Tu-16/H-6 is best characterized as a medium bomber design, while the B-52 is best characterized as a heavy bomber design. The latest B-52H—a highly modified version of airframes that were built through the early 1960s—is likely to have a maximum take-off weight (MTOW) that is over 200% that of the closely related turbofan-powered H-6K and H-6N, the production of which continued into the 2020s. The difference in MTOW between the H-6N and B-52H is broadly comparable to the difference in MTOW between a late model Boeing 737 airliner and a late model Boeing 767 airliner. All things considered, the H-6N design is severely limited in terms of payload-range and range-endurance and cannot be employed in the highly flexible manner that the USAF employed the versatile B-52 design throughout the Cold War and to the present day. Given the prevailing threat environment, China's military-geographical context, and the logistical realities associated with operating the likes of the H-6N and even the American B-52H from China to attack distant targets, the H-6N requires a very long-range standoff strike munition to target Hawaii and the continental United States. The JL-1 appears to be one of at least two air-launched munitions that the H-6N can carry on its single semi-recessed centerline (external) weapons station—the other is a boost-glide vehicle/hypersonic glide vehicle design. There is no public indication of the existence of a nuclear-armed air-launched cruise missile for the H-6N, and the aforementioned considerations indicate why this is likely to be the case. The PLAAF is, however, likely to acquire a nuclear-armed air-launched cruise missile for the reportedly forthcoming H-20 bomber aircraft, which is widely thought to be a flying wing low observable design in the vein of the American B-2 and B-21. Such a bomber aircraft design will be limited to carrying munitions in one or more internal bomb bays. The JL-1 is an extremely large—oversized munition—such an air-launched ballistic missile is an unlikely candidate for carriage by the reportedly forthcoming H-20 bomber. While the air-launched ballistic missiles have certain advantages over air-launched cruise missiles, ballistic missiles employ rockets for propulsion that are inherently inefficient and uneconomical by virtue of carrying the weight and volume of oxidizer necessary for combustion within the missile. A prospective Chinese nuclear-armed air-launched cruise missile design is, in contrast, likely to use an air-breathing propulsion system such as a turbofan engine or a ramjet engine that makes use of atmospheric oxygen as oxidizer. All else being equal, a munition equipped with an air-breathing propulsion system of a given range-payload class is going to be much smaller and lighter—and more suitable for internal carriage—than a munition that is equipped with a non-air-breathing propulsion system, namely a liquid-propellant rocket engine or solid-propellant rocket motor. The PLAAF's future course will, of course, be shaped by the various other considerations at play, above all those concerning the logistical realities of having an H-20 bomber/a future PLAAF bomber design more generally take off from China to target Hawaii and/or the continental United States and the nature of envisaged American air and ballistic missile defence capabilities. It is, therefore, possible that H-20 bombers/a future PLAAF bomber aircraft design, more generally, will be equipped with a smaller and lighter nuclear-armed air-launched ballistic missile design. It is important to note that a subsonic air-launched cruise missile is not the only option available to China. The recent parade was used to unveil the new and previously unseen YJ-19, which is reported to be a sustained supersonic/hypersonic high-altitude anti-ship cruise missile that is equipped with a reported air-breathing scramjet (i.e., supersonic combustion airflow ramjet) engine. While the YJ-19 is reliant on a large and heavy (non-airbreathing) solid-propellant rocket booster as its booster, it amounts to another approach that China can pursue to equip its future bomber aircraft with nuclear-armed air-launched strike munitions that are very different than the likes of the very large and bulky JL-1 air-launched ballistic missile.

The alliance will provide regular commercial launch services and flexible rapid response capabilities from continental Europe.

GeneralValue 1.8Sep 3, 2025Rheinmetall y Andoya Space sellan una alianza para el lanzamiento de satélites civiles y militares

In 2003, CNES studied the 'GMES continental' mission, which proposed global coverage every 3 days.

PlanCapabilityValue 3.0Jul 22, 202520 years of CNES contributions to the Sentinel-2 mission

The Sentinel-2 mission is similar to the 'GMES continental' proposal shared with ESA.

GeneralRelationshipsValue 3.0Jul 22, 202520 years of CNES contributions to the Sentinel-2 mission

Isar Aerospace claims to be the first European commercial space company to launch an orbital rocket from Continental Europe.

GeneralValue 2.0Mar 31, 2025Europe’s launch challenge

CNES aims to facilitate access to space data for monitoring continental surfaces.

GeneralValue 1.8Mar 18, 2025[Blog] CNES renews its contribution to THEIA land data center

The Hydroweb-next platform distributes data related to continental hydrology, including SWOT data.

CapabilityGeneralValue 2.4Mar 18, 2025[Blog] CNES renews its contribution to THEIA land data center

THEIA is an alliance of ten French public bodies aimed at federating public research efforts for monitoring continental surfaces.

GeneralValue 1.8Mar 18, 2025[Blog] CNES renews its contribution to THEIA land data center

AST SpaceMobile needs 45 to 60 satellites to provide continuous coverage of the continental United States.

PlanCapabilityValue 3.0Dec 17, 2024Report: AST SpaceMobile has $519m war chest

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