Jim Hendren is a crew member of New Shepard Mission NS-38.

Tim Drexler is a crew member of New Shepard Mission NS-38.

Jim Hendren is a Master Electrician, General Contractor, and FAA-licensed airline pilot.

Alain Fernandez experienced a diving accident at age 22 and rebuilt his career afterward.

Alain Fernandez is an international real estate developer and investor with a three-decade career.

Andrew Yaffe is a crew member of New Shepard Mission NS-38.

Jim Hendren is a father of four and a grandfather of twelve.

Jim Hendren is a retired U.S. Air Force Colonel and former F-15 fighter pilot.

Jim Hendren served 15 years on the Gravette School Board and served in both chambers of the Arkansas Legislature, including as Senate President Pro Tempore.

Alberto Gutiérrez has visited more than 100 countries across all seven continents.

Jim Hendren founded Hendren Plastics Inc., a global manufacturing company.

Dr. Linda Edwards is a retired board-certified obstetrician/gynecologist with a 40-year medical career.

Orbital Express Launch ApS reported losses of DKK 70,673,917 (€9.46 million) in its year-end 2024 financial statements.

More than 15 Orbital Express Launch ApS employees announced on LinkedIn that they were looking for work on 20 January.

Employees were told that talks between Orbex and The Exploration Company began in December 2025, according to a source who spoke to European Spaceflight.

Orbital Express Launch ApS was fully reliant on funding from its parent company, Orbital Express Launch Ltd., and its auditors warned that its ability to continue operating was subject to material uncertainty regarding future financing.

Orbex approached the UK government for support but those efforts ultimately failed, according to a source who spoke to European Spaceflight.

The €34.9 million committed by ESA Member States is intended to co-finance launch services rather than directly support rocket development activities.

Orbex said in evidence to the Scottish Affairs Committee in March that it would need to raise a further £120 million in private capital to support its four-year plan.

Approximately 90 employees of Orbital Express Launch ApS lost their jobs.

Orbital Express Launch ApS was expected to officially file for bankruptcy on 22 January.

Orbex entered into talks to sell the rest of its operations to European space logistics startup The Exploration Company on 21 January.

Orbex and The Exploration Company signed a Letter of Intent and began negotiations regarding a potential purchase.

An attempt to sell Orbex to a private consortium was unable to raise sufficient capital, according to a source who spoke to European Spaceflight.

ESA Member States committed €34.9 million to Orbex during the agency’s Ministerial Council meeting in November 2025 as part of its European Launcher Challenge, including €8 million from Denmark.

Orbital Express Launch ApS’ facilities officially closed on 20 January.

Orbital Express Launch ApS’ Copenhagen-based business carried out work in propulsion, testing, software, avionics, and business services.

Companies House shows Orbex is overdue in filing its 2024 financial accounts, which were due on 31 December 2025.

Orbex’s Danish subsidiary, Orbital Express Launch ApS, is set to file for bankruptcy.

Orbital Express Launch ApS’ balance sheet as of 31 December 2024 showed negative equity of DKK 55,383,356 (€7.4 million).

Three independent sources confirmed to European Spaceflight that Orbital Express Launch ApS dismissed its entire workforce.

UK-based Orbital Express Launch (Orbex) established its business in Denmark in October 2016.

In January 2025 the UK government invested £20 million in Orbex and Orbex reported its Series D funding totalled £23 million.

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

The TeraWave network will include 128 high-capacity satellites in Medium Earth Orbit.

The MEO layer of TeraWave will occupy five altitude shells between 8,000 and 24,200 kilometers.

Blue Origin designed TeraWave enterprise-grade terminals for rapid global deployment and to interface with existing high-capacity infrastructure to provide route diversity and network redundancy for secure operations.

TeraWave’s MEO spacecraft are equipped with advanced optical terminals capable of providing speeds of up to 6 terabits per second.

TeraWave aims to compete directly with high-end secure government offerings like SpaceX’s Starshield.

Initial pilot services for enterprise and government partners are expected to commence once the first shells of TeraWave’s LEO layer are operational.

Blue Origin intends to use its own heavy-lift rockets for the majority of TeraWave’s constellation deployment as a vertical integration strategy to manage capital costs and meet regulatory deployment milestones.

The LEO segment of TeraWave will operate at altitudes between 520 and 540 kilometers.

TeraWave is positioned as a separate initiative from Amazon’s Project Kuiper and focuses on mission-critical backbone capacity rather than consumer broadband.

Blue Origin is developing TeraWave, a 5,408-satellite communications network.

TeraWave’s LEO spacecraft will use next-generation Q/V-band radio frequency links to deliver per-satellite transfer rates of up to 144 gigabits per second.

TeraWave is a multi-orbit constellation designed to provide high-capacity, resilient connectivity for data centers, cloud providers, and government agencies.

The TeraWave network will include 5,280 satellites in Low Earth Orbit.

Blue Origin appointed former United Launch Alliance CEO Tory Bruno as President of Blue Origin’s National Security Group.

Blue Origin completed the NG-2 mission of the New Glenn launch vehicle in November 2025.

The SDA award is Starfish Space’s second contract with the U.S. Space Force.