iSpace is preparing a Series E funding round targeting 7 billion yuan to improve JD-2 production, Hyperbola-3 launch frequency, and new Wenchang facilities.

The Qinglan drone ship is 42 meters wide and 100 meters long, with a 40-by-60-meter booster landing area.

iSpace launched the Qinglan drone ship in August 2025 to recover Hyperbola-3 first-stage boosters at sea.

The JD-2 engines for Hyperbola-3 were qualified for flight as of April 27.

iSpace’s Sichuan subsidiary received a 100 million yuan capital increase, raising its registered capital from 500 million yuan to 600 million yuan.

Hyperbola-3’s first-stage propellant tanks have been undergoing cryogenic testing since April 2025.

Hyperbola-3’s auxiliary power system was approved for flight in March 2026.

iSpace completed a D++ Series funding round that raised 5.037 billion yuan.

iSpace completed a transporter-erector for Hyperbola-3 at the Wenchang Commercial Space Launch Site by mid-February.

Hyperbola-3’s liquid methane and liquid oxygen tanks will be joined by an intertank section at the launch site because of road transport limitations.

iSpace’s Hyperbola-1 has flown eight times since July 2019 and failed during flight four times.

Hyperbola-3’s 5.2-meter-diameter fairing underwent a separation test in November 2025.

Hyperbola-3’s second stage is 11 meters long and 4.2 meters in diameter.

Hyperbola-3’s first flight plan includes a first-stage booster landing attempt.

Hyperbola-3 uses ten JD-2 liquid methane and liquid oxygen engines, with nine on the first stage and one vacuum-optimized engine on the second stage.

iSpace opened a Hyperbola-3 launch vehicle processing and refurbishment facility at the Wenchang Commercial Space Launch Site in October 2025.

Australia and the United Kingdom are beginning to mandate satellite monitoring for urban construction projects.

UrbanSAR is available globally.

UrbanSAR was tested in Toronto’s Yonge and Eglinton neighbourhood.

UrbanSAR uses Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite data to scan entire neighbourhoods for movement.

UrbanSAR isolates individual buildings in densely packed urban areas to measure how they lean or sink floor by floor.

Ottawa-based CATALYST, formerly PCI Geomatics, launched UrbanSAR, a satellite tool for monitoring ground movement in cities.

UrbanSAR uses radar signals from orbiting satellites to measure millimeter-scale shifts from space.

UrbanSAR detected up to 30 millimeters of movement in the upper floors of newly built towers in Toronto’s Yonge and Eglinton neighbourhood.

Chris Davis is the NSF program director for NOIRLab.

Michael Line is an associate professor at Arizona State University and a coauthor of the WASP-189b study.

The measurement of both magnesium and silicon in WASP-189b's atmosphere was the first of its kind.

Ultra-hot Jupiters can reach temperatures high enough to vaporize rock-forming elements such as magnesium, silicon, and iron.

WASP-189b is an ultra-hot Jupiter exoplanet located about 320 light-years away in the constellation Libra.

WASP-189b has the same magnesium-to-silicon ratio as its host star.

The IGRINS observations of WASP-189b enabled simultaneous measurement of magnesium and silicon in the exoplanet's atmosphere.

The WASP-189b measurements provide the first observational evidence for a widely accepted hypothesis about planet formation.

IGRINS-2 was commissioned as a facility instrument for Gemini North in Hawaii.

IGRINS was an instrument hosted at Gemini South from 2022 to 2023.

An international team of astronomers led by Jorge Antonio Sanchez of Arizona State University observed WASP-189b with the IGRINS infrared spectrograph on Gemini South in Chile.

The agreement includes NASA-developed tools such as advanced modeling systems, flight-planning tools, sensors, and safety solutions for organ transport operations.

The NASA-UNOS project will assess thermal stability and potential transport damage to organs to validate their clinical viability after flight.

The first evaluations will take place at Certain, or City Environment Range Testing for Autonomous Integrated Navigation, which supports beyond-visual-line-of-sight flights without ground observers.

The program will include tests in real operating conditions for drone transport of sensitive biological material.

The NASA-UNOS initiative is formalized through a Space Act agreement.

UNOS is using the initiative as part of its innovation strategy to strengthen the U.S. organ donation and transplant system.

The collaboration will evaluate how drones can complement existing transport systems to reduce delivery times for organs in transit.

NASA has started a collaboration with United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) to study how drones and advanced aviation technologies can improve the speed and reliability of organ transport for transplants.

Loft will lead a consortium with Thales Alenia Space and Tekever France for France’s sovereign space-based radar imaging capability.

Each satellite in the French constellation will integrate optical, thermal infrared, hyperspectral, and radio frequency sensors.

Loft won a multi-year contract worth up to tens of millions of euros from the French Space Agency (CNES) for deployment of an Earth Observation constellation in France.

Magellium Artal Group will develop and operate the sovereign user ground segment for the French constellation.

Earlier this year, Loft won a French government contract to build France’s first sovereign space-based radar imaging capability.

The French constellation is designed to support advanced onboard computing with powerful processors and software applications that process data directly in orbit.

CNES awarded the contract on behalf of France’s Ministries of Defence, Security and the Environment.