Deutsche Bank believes that it does not significantly affect AST's prospects if some launches slip into later quarters.

Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin announced its TeraWave mega-constellation.

The US government has awarded Golden Dome contracts to AST.

Elon Musk's SpaceX operates the Starlink system.

CENF states that the fiercest space race is about enabling mobile access to services like TikTok and Netflix worldwide.

Four investment banks, including Bank of America and Goldman Sachs, are considering a SpaceX IPO this year.

AST SpaceMobile is already publicly quoted and undergoing due diligence for potential growth.

The TeraWave system will consist of 5,408 optically interconnected satellites.

TeraWave is designed to deliver symmetrical data speeds of up to 6 terabits per second (Tbps).

TeraWave offers data capacity 6,000 times greater than Amazon Leo's targeted 1 Gbps downlink speeds.

Blue Origin announced the development of TeraWave, a multi-orbit satellite communications network, on January 21, 2026.

Blue Origin will use its heavy-lift New Glenn vehicle for TeraWave satellite launches.

The network will initially limit its user base to approximately 100,000 high-capacity customers to maintain performance without congestion.

Deployment of the first TeraWave satellites is scheduled to begin in the fourth quarter of 2027.

The New Glenn vehicle features a 7-meter fairing capable of housing larger satellite batches than current standards.

The TeraWave system targets data centers, enterprise cloud providers, and government agencies.

TeraWave is the first major constellation project under Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp.

TeraWave positions itself as an enterprise-grade service, differentiating it from Amazon Leo, which focuses on residential broadband.

Work has begun on modifications for Pad 1.

SpaceX is completing the build of Pad 1.

It is unclear which specific test the CZ-10 plans to perform, whether VTVL or Max-Q abort.

The CZ-10 test flight is scheduled to conduct on 11 February 2026.

The pair of asteroids has the shortest revolution period ever recorded among asteroids in the solar system at just 115 days.

Observations from ground-based telescopes and the recent discovery of 2025 GN1 in April 2025 have facilitated this theoretical study.

Asteroids 2021 PH27 and 2025 GN1 belong to the Atira group, which orbits entirely within Earth's orbit.

Simulations by researchers indicate that small fragments, generated from the original asteroid's fragmentation, may still be in orbit around the Sun.

This is the first study to directly link the pair of asteroids to Venusian meteors.

The next favorable date to observe the brightest meteors from these fragments in Venus' atmosphere is July 5, 2026.

A study led by the National Institute of Astrophysics (INAF) suggests that a pair of asteroids could be the source of a meteor shower in Venus' atmosphere.

Fireball observations in Venus' atmosphere are complex, and only the brightest meteors would be visible from Earth.

The asteroids 2021 PH27 and 2025 GN1 complete their orbits around the Sun in just under four months.

The original asteroid maintained an extremely low perihelion, less than 15 million kilometers from the Sun, which may have caused its fragmentation.

Numerous small fragments of approximately one millimeter in size were likely dispersed into space during the breakup of the asteroid.

A direct observation from orbit around Venus using a spacecraft would increase the chances of detection.

The orbital path of the pair 2021 PH27-2025 GN1 comes within 2 million kilometers of Venus' orbit, allowing fragments to potentially intercept Venus' atmosphere.

The YORP effect may have gradually increased the rotation speed of the asteroid, leading to its breakup into fragments.

Scientists estimate that the fragmentation of the original asteroid occurred between 17,000 and 21,000 years ago.

The study involves international collaboration, including the ESA's NEO Coordination Centre, the Universities of Alicante and Barcelona, and NSF NOIRLab in Hilo, Hawaii.

The destruction of the original asteroid was not caused by tidal forces from Venus or solar tidal actions.

The Arianespace contract was transferred to Avio following the handover of responsibility for the operation of the Vega C rocket.

Rocket Factory Augsburg has been selected to launch four institutionally contracted missions aboard its RFA One rocket.

The first mission will carry a technology demonstrator satellite called Lurbat, which includes a variety of technology demonstrations.

In early 2024, ESA and the European Union pre-selected Arianespace, Isar Aerospace, PLD Space, Orbex, and Rocket Factory Augsburg to form the initiative’s pool of launch service providers.

Rocket Factory Augsburg is contracted to launch two payloads of up to 150 kilograms, selected by the German government, across two flights.

The Flight Ticket Initiative is a programme run jointly by the European Space Agency and the European Union providing subsidised launch opportunities for European companies and organisations on small launch vehicles.

The first two missions were awarded under the German Aerospace Center’s Microlauncher Competition, funded through ESA’s Boost! Programme.

Under the Flight Ticket Initiative, contracts are valued at up to €5 million.

The second mission involves a pair of CubeSats built by Indra Space, which will carry five experiments selected by the European Commission through its Horizon Europe IOD/IOV initiative.

On 22 January, ESA announced that Rocket Factory Augsburg had been awarded a Flight Ticket Initiative contract for launch services for two missions comprising a total of three satellites.

Rocket Factory Augsburg has been awarded launch service contracts for two missions under the Flight Ticket Initiative.