The Claude demonstration for mapping a Perseverance path occurred in December.

NASA requested acceleration approaches from both Blue Origin and SpaceX for speeding up lunar landings as part of Human Landing System contract oversight.

After thermal vacuum testing expected to take at least a few weeks, Endurance will ship back to Florida for launch on a New Glenn rocket bound for the Moon’s south polar region.

Dave Limp is the chief executive officer of Blue Origin.

On January 22, 2026 Blue Origin conducted the NS-38 New Shepard suborbital launch from its Launch Site One in West Texas.

The first Blue Moon Mark 1 lander, nicknamed Endurance, was transported by truck from a factory near the Kennedy Space Center to Port Canaveral and loaded onto a ship for transport to Houston.

Virgin Galactic scheduled Delta-class spaceplane test flights to begin in the third quarter of 2026 with research flights in the fourth quarter and private astronaut flights possibly not beginning until 2027.

SpaceX filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission for a constellation of up to one million satellites intended to serve as orbital data centers for artificial intelligence.

Phil Joyce is senior vice president for New Shepard at Blue Origin.

Phil Joyce outlined plans to increase New Shepard flight cadence from less than once per month to approximately weekly by adding more vehicles, including modified versions to support higher flight rates, and by considering additional launch sites beyond West Texas.

The NS-38 mission was the tenth New Shepard flight in less than 12 months for the program.

Both Blue Origin and SpaceX submitted acceleration approaches to NASA for potential faster lunar landing options.

Chinese companies AZSpace and CAS Space displayed New Shepard-like suborbital vehicle models at the International Astronautical Congress in Sydney that included design elements resembling New Shepard and Falcon 9.

Jared Isaacman identified increasing flight rates of New Glenn and Starship as key for both companies because both plan to use in-space propellant transfer for their landers.

Virgin Galactic retired its SpaceShipTwo vehicle VSS Unity in June 2024 to focus resources on the Delta-class suborbital spaceplanes.

Moments after NS-38, Laura Stiles stepped out of the capsule and expressed strong emotional reaction to the flight.

InterstellOr is developing a New Shepard-like suborbital vehicle with aerodynamic fins on the capsule and a booster with landing legs similar to Falcon 9.

InterstellOr sold a ticket to Chinese actor Johnny Huang Jingyu and reportedly has more than 20 confirmed customers.

Blue Origin indicated that some employees working on New Shepard will move to Blue Moon and related lunar programs, particularly engineers and technicians.

Some Blue Origin employees who had been on the New Shepard program posted on social media seeking opportunities inside and outside the company after the flight pause.

Laura Stiles is a Blue Origin employee who serves as director of New Shepard launch operations.

Jared Isaacman became NASA administrator in December 2025 and committed the agency to enabling acceleration plans submitted by both HLS providers.

Endurance will undergo testing in a thermal vacuum chamber at NASA’s Johnson Space Center that was originally used for the Apollo program and later used for the James Webb Space Telescope.

On January 30, 2026 Blue Origin halted New Shepard flights for at least two years to shift resources toward development of the company’s human lunar capabilities.

One of six named customers for NS-38 fell ill and was replaced two days before the flight by Laura Stiles.

Blue Origin announced plans for a broadband constellation called TeraWave to serve enterprise customers in the month prior to the article.

NeuSAR-2 is a constellation consisting of four high-resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar satellites.

Singapore is positioning itself as a regional space hub focused on high-value, specialized missions that integrate advanced sensors with autonomous intelligence.

Low Jin Phang is the Chief Operating Officer for Defence & Public Security at ST Engineering.

NEBULA will test gigabit-per-second data transfer capabilities for inter-satellite links, unlike traditional radio-frequency links.

ST Engineering announced an expansion of its space programme that introduces three major satellite initiatives called NEBULA, NeuSAR-2, and POLARIS.

NEBULA is scheduled for delivery in the second half of 2026.

ST Engineering has commenced research and development on POLARIS, a new optical imaging satellite.

The NeuSAR-2 constellation will be fully deployed by 2030.

NEBULA is Singapore’s first pathfinder demonstrator for advanced inter-satellite laser communications.

POLARIS will be able to identify and report critical changes such as maritime anomalies and wildfire ignition instantly from orbit rather than waiting for raw data downlinks to ground processing.

ST Engineering’s three satellite initiatives are intended to bolster Singapore’s sovereign capabilities in high-speed communications and Earth observation.

POLARIS is being designed with onboard AI processing (Edge AI) to perform real-time Earth observation data processing on the satellite.

The Mitsubishi Electric LEO Demo Mission is planned for 2029.

Peter Krauss is the CEO of Terran Orbital.

The satellite for the Mitsubishi Electric LEO Demo Mission will be equipped with a Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) and Optical Terminal payload.

The launch date for the Mitsubishi Electric LEO Demo Mission is tentatively set for 2029.

The satellite bus delivery for the project is scheduled for 2027.

The project has an 18-month delivery timeline measured from the Authorization to Proceed Agreement.

Terran Orbital developed the Nebula satellite platform.

The Mitsubishi Electric LEO Demo Mission will feature the Nebula platform developed by Terran Orbital.

The QKD and Optical Terminal payload for the mission will be provided by a Japanese team including the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Mitsubishi Electric, and other Japanese partners.

The Mitsubishi Electric LEO Demo Mission is a collaboration between Terran Orbital, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, and Mitsubishi Electric US.

Program 770’s MULTIGROUP series was being replaced in the late 1960s by a new low-altitude SIGINT series named STRAWMAN equipped with multiple antennas.

The satellite launched on March 21, 1971 was named JUMPSEAT.