RTX reported $88.6 billion in sales in 2025, a 10% increase compared with 2024.

RTX projected sales of between $92 billion and $93 billion for 2026.

Vake Powered By KSAT combines KSAT’s satellite antenna network and maritime expertise with VAKE’s AI-powered analytics and visualization.

Vake Powered By KSAT monitors areas and vessels of interest using multiple data sources.

KSAT develops a dark vessel detection service.

KSAT acquired VAKE in 2024.

Karstein Ringjord is director of Maritime Situational Awareness for KSAT.

The Vake Powered By KSAT platform is designed to make space-powered maritime situational awareness easier to access, integrate, and use.

KSAT launched the vessel detection platform Vake Powered By KSAT on January 27.

Vake Powered By KSAT enables users to task new satellite collection.

VAKE developed AI-powered analytics and intuitive user interfaces in collaboration with European coast guards and navies.

Northwood Space raised $30 million in a Series A round less than a year before its Series B funding.

Northwood Space plans to produce over a dozen Portal arrays per month by the end of the year.

Bridgit Mendler is the CEO of Northwood Space.

Northwood Space employs a multi-orbit approach covering low Earth orbit (LEO), medium Earth orbit (MEO), and geostationary orbit (GEO).

Northwood Space provided communication links within three months of receiving the U.S. Space Force contract and worked with the USSF Program Executive Office for Battle Management, Command, Control, Communications, and Space Intelligence (BMC3I).

Bulent Altan is a founding partner of Alpine Space Ventures.

Northwood Space raised $100 million in a Series B funding round.

Northwood Space is targeting deployment of over 82 beams across 18 global ground sites by the end of the year.

Northwood Space received a $49.8 million award from the U.S. Space Force to support the Satellite Control Network (SCN).

Northwood Space has deployed a multi-beam phased array system called Portal.

Alpine Space Ventures, Founders Fund, Stepstone, Balerion, Fulcrum, Pax, and 137 Ventures participated in Northwood Space’s Series B round.

Washington Harbour Partners co-led Northwood Space’s Series B round alongside existing investor Andreessen Horowitz.

One Northwood Space Portal site was installed in 12 hours and began communicating with satellites the next day.

Northwood Space has developed a proprietary technology stack that includes narrowband and wideband modem products and a networking backbone.

Northwood Space has operational Portal units deployed on two continents.

Northwood Space is developing vertically integrated, end-to-end satellite ground infrastructure designed for rapid deployment.

Voyager Technologies will provide mission integration, payload configuration support, and end-to-end guidance to ensure safe operations aboard the International Space Station for the Space LiinTech payload.

The Space LiinTech payload will evaluate how microgravity influences the formation, morphology, and quality of protein crystals.

The Space LiinTech mission will verify the functional stability and reliability of the company’s new research module from launch to return.

Microgravity changes crystallization, growth dynamics, and material properties at a fundamental level.

Space LiinTech, a Korea-based company, awarded a contract to Voyager Technologies to manifest a new payload to the International Space Station for microgravity-enabled drug discovery.

Voyager Technologies offers one-stop mission management and access-to-orbit services to help customers move from concept to spaceflight with speed, reliability, and scale.

The Space LiinTech mission will test an AI-driven automation and monitoring system for improving crystal formulations in space.

Space LiinTech plans to expand continuous space-based medicine research with Voyager Technologies over time.

Matt Magaña is president for Space, Defense & National Security at Voyager Technologies.

Space LiinTech’s new ISS mission expands the company’s ongoing work in protein crystallization for therapeutic development.

BlueBird 7 features a communications array of nearly 2,400 square feet, the largest commercial communications array in low Earth orbit.

AST SpaceMobile employs a workforce of nearly 1,800 people.

AST SpaceMobile scheduled the BlueBird 7 launch for late February from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Blue Origin’s New Glenn.

BlueBird 7 is identical to BlueBird 6 and is the second satellite in AST SpaceMobile’s next-generation campaign.

BlueBird 7’s size and design are supported by more than 3,800 patent and patent-pending claims.

AST SpaceMobile plans a multi-launcher campaign averaging one orbital launch every one to two months during 2026.

AST SpaceMobile is 95% vertically integrated with all major manufacturing processes under U.S. control in Texas.

AST SpaceMobile is on track to launch 45–60 satellites by the end of 2026.

AST SpaceMobile’s mission is to enable 4G and 5G space-based cellular broadband for billions of people globally without requiring any changes to mobile devices.

Future New Glenn missions are expected to deliver up to eight next-generation BlueBirds per flight using its seven-meter fairing.

AST SpaceMobile operates nearly 500,000 square feet of manufacturing and operations facilities.

The BlueBird 7 mission represents AST SpaceMobile’s first launch with New Glenn, with the seven-meter fairing enabling up to eight Block 2 BlueBirds per mission.

New Glenn’s seven-meter fairing enables twice the payload volume of five-meter class commercial launch systems.