New Glenn successfully landed its booster for the first time on its second flight in November 2025.

The Block 2 BlueBird satellite is designed to provide direct-to-cell communications to standard ground smartphones.

Blue Origin and AST SpaceMobile have multiple launch contracts.

K-LEO is a Korean initiative for sovereign defense capabilities and secure communications for national security operations.

Hanwha Ocean has been shortlisted to supply up to 12 submarines to the Royal Canadian Navy under the Canadian Patrol Submarine Project alongside Germany’s ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems.

Jae-il Son is the president and CEO of Hanwha Systems.

Hanwha Systems will seek to apply Telesat Lightspeed services to various platforms within its weapon systems to pursue business opportunities in the global defense market.

In November 2025 the Canadian government reached a collaborative agreement with South Korea’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) related to next-generation commercial space systems.

Hanwha Systems and MDA Space will collaborate on development of the K-LEO constellation and will assess how MDA’s Aurora software-defined architecture can support Hanwha.

Mike Greenly is the CEO of MDA Space.

Hanwha Systems intends to include significant, multi-year Telesat Lightspeed services as a key part of its bid for the Canadian Patrol Submarine Project.

Telesat and MDA Space entered separate memoranda of understanding with Hanwha Systems to explore collaboration on Korea’s K-LEO sovereign Low-Earth Orbit defense constellation.

Telesat plans to work with Hanwha Systems on defense user terminals that are compatible with K-LEO and Telesat Lightspeed.

MDA Aurora is a software-defined satellite architecture described as secure and dual-use for delivering flexibility, performance, and resilience for national defence networks.

Telesat and Hanwha Systems will cooperate on the Canadian Patrol Submarine Project (CPSP).

The US Space Force must address satellite refueling as a key area for future operations.

NASA plans a crewed lunar landing mission in mid-2027.

The small size of the US Space Force has limited its ability to consider its role in future lunar and nearby operations.

The U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. intelligence community are focusing on developing domain awareness and navigation capabilities for the cislunar region between geosynchronous orbit and the lunar surface.

NASA plans several lunar orbital missions in the interim period before its mid-2027 crewed lunar landing mission.

The United States Space Force is distilling its future operational needs and determining what platforms, support structures, and workforce will be necessary to maintain U.S. space superiority through 2040.

General Shawn Bratton called for the US Space Force to expand its cislunar planning and for companies supporting NASA and conducting commercial lunar efforts to consider how the Department of Defense could leverage their work.

General Shawn Bratton spoke at an event on January 21 at the Bloomberg Center of Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC.

The USSF Oracle program, led by the Air Force Research Laboratory, plans to launch several space-domain-awareness satellites in the coming years.

One upcoming NASA lunar orbital mission is scheduled to send four astronauts on a 10-day flight around the Moon.

The US Space Force must address the implications of space personnel, known as guardians, operating in orbit.

General Shawn Bratton is the deputy chief of operations of the US Space Force.

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is working with the US Space Force and NASA to create the mapping infrastructure needed for a GPS-like navigation capability to support lunar navigation.

A US Space Force strategic document addressing future operational needs and force structure is expected to be published in 2026.

The Canadian Space Agency and the German Space Agency are among the volunteers tracking Artemis II.

The four astronauts assigned to Artemis II entered quarantine on January 23 to reduce their exposure to pathogens.

NASA aims to verify cryogenic fueling and de-fueling operations and launch countdown procedures with the crew’s SLS rocket by February 2.

The number of volunteers selected to track Artemis II increased from 10 volunteers who tracked Artemis I.

The Artemis II Orion spacecraft will carry several commemorative mementos.

NASA targets a Q1 launch for the Artemis II mission to fly humans around the Moon and back.

NASA will evaluate the tracking data shared by Artemis II volunteers against canonical data to validate their abilities for potential use in future missions.

The crew quarantine period for Artemis II typically starts 14 days before launch.

Intuitive Machines is among the volunteers tracking Artemis II and hopes to build its own lunar communications network.

The Artemis II tracking volunteers comprise space agencies, companies, universities, communities, and individuals.

NASA selected 34 volunteers from across 14 countries to track the Artemis II Orion spacecraft’s signals during the mission.

Concerns about two-way biological contamination between Earth and space objects during the Apollo missions led to the birth of planetary protection as a field and set of norms.

The Canadian Commercial Corporation and the Government of Korea through the Defense Acquisition Program Administration signed a Letter of Intent on November 10, 2025 to facilitate bilateral cooperation.

Son Jae-il is Chief Executive Officer of Hanwha Systems.

Hanwha intends to include significant, multi-year Telesat Lightspeed services as a key strategic aspect of its bid for the Canadian Patrol Submarine Project in its Industrial and Economic Benefits to Canada Proposal Annex.

Hanwha Systems Co, Ltd signed two Memoranda of Understanding with MDA Space and with Telesat related to South Korea’s K-LEO constellation.

The MOU between Telesat and Hanwha centres on defence user terminals that are compatible with the South Korean K-LEO and Telesat Lightspeed constellations.

MDA Space describes the K-LEO constellation as a South Korean flagship national initiative designed to strengthen Korea’s sovereign defence capabilities and ensure secure, resilient communications and data services for national security operations.

Hanwha Systems is pursuing a multi-billion-dollar submarine contract as a primary objective of the South Korean delegation’s visit.

Hanwha will seek to apply Telesat Lightspeed services to various platforms within its weapon systems to explore business collaboration opportunities in the global defense market.

South Korea allocated 320 billion won (CAD $304 million) last year towards developing technologies related to the K-LEO constellation.