85% of the Spanish fishing fleet, defined as vessels under 18 meters in length, will be required to have satellite connectivity to report their catches electronically.

The new satellite connectivity requirement for vessels under 18 meters will be applied gradually over the next two years.

Telespazio Ibérica aims to increase satellite connectivity for large Spanish fishing vessels over 30 meters in length by 50%, from 291 currently connected to 437 by 2026.

Telespazio Ibérica currently provides satellite connectivity to 8 Spanish Navy ships.

Telespazio Ibérica currently provides satellite connectivity to a fleet of 20 Guardia Civil patrol boats that operate between Europe and North Africa.

The regulatory change is based on European Regulation 2023/2842 and entered into force on 10 January.

Telespazio Ibérica will provide connectivity to large Spanish fishing vessels in collaboration with the satellite operators OneWeb and Starlink.

The new rule will affect 8,021 out of the current total of 9,478 Spanish fishing vessels.

Telespazio Ibérica reinforced its SatCom team during the past year to pursue its maritime connectivity objectives.

The regulation requires skippers to send catch reports using Electronic Activity Declarations (DEA) and to geolocate those reports.

Telespazio Ibérica currently provides satellite connectivity to 10 oceanographic vessels owned by the Spanish government.

Telespazio Ibérica, a company of the Leonardo group, is designing a strategy to provide quality satellite connectivity to the small-vessel segment of the Spanish fishing fleet.

In May 2021 Isar Aerospace was one of two winners of the second round of the Microlauncher Competition and received €11 million in funding.

Andøya Space published a Notice to Mariners on January 13 that revealed 15-minute launch windows available January 20 to January 23 between 21:05 and 21:20 Central European Time.

Isar Aerospace is preparing for the second flight of its two-stage Spectrum rocket.

A Notice to Mariners (Notmar) indicates that the Spectrum launch could occur between January 21 and January 23.

The Spectrum flight named Onward and Upward is scheduled for no earlier than January 21.

The German Aerospace Center (DLR) launched the Microlauncher Competition in May 2020 to advance sovereign launch capabilities with funding provided through the Boost! program of the European Space Agency.

The Onward and Upward flight will be the first Spectrum flight to carry payloads as part of the Microlauncher Competition run by the German Aerospace Center (DLR).

In December 2025 Isar Aerospace completed successful hotfire tests of both stages of the Spectrum rocket for its second flight.

Isar Aerospace launched its first Spectrum rocket in March 2025 from the Andøya spaceport in Norway and the flight failed in under one minute.

Andøya Space published a temporary road closure covering January 12 to January 23 for activities related to the launch from the Andøya launch base.

Development of the Patriot building in Tres Cantos is part of Sener’s investment strategy to support the company’s organic and inorganic growth in projects and personnel.

Aniceto Rosique, Director General of Armament and Material of the Spanish Ministry of Defense, attended the cornerstone ceremony for the Patriot building.

The Zamudio complex is expected to begin its first operations during 2026.

Alejandro Escámez, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Spanish Army, attended the cornerstone ceremony for the Patriot building.

The Patriot building will have an approximate surface area of 4,300 m².

The Patriot building is scheduled to enter operation in 2027.

The Patriot building will house industrial production machinery and equipment, clean rooms, test systems, and engineering offices for the aerospace and defense sector.

The Patriot building will be named after the Patriot program in which Sener participates through agreements with Lockheed Martin and Raytheon to develop missile components.

Amparo Valcarce, Secretary of State for Defense, presided over the cornerstone ceremony for the Patriot building.

The Patriot building will have capacity for 220 professionals.

JD Green, Senior Director for Land Warfare and Air Defense Eucom/Indopac at Raytheon, attended the cornerstone ceremony for the Patriot building.

Andrés Sendagorta, President of Sener, and Jorge Sendagorta, CEO of Sener, attended the cornerstone ceremony for the Patriot building.

Sener placed the cornerstone of the new Patriot building in Tres Cantos, Madrid.

Sener’s team of architects and engineers is designing the Patriot building following the style of the other Tres Cantos complex buildings.

The Patriot building will be a sustainable infrastructure equipped with advanced energy-efficiency systems and aims to obtain LEED Gold certification.

Sener employs more than 4,500 people worldwide.

Sener is constructing a new complex in the Zamudio Technology Park in Bizkaia with a total surface area of 10,000 m².

Brian Kubik, Vice President of the PAC-3 program at Lockheed Martin, attended the cornerstone ceremony for the Patriot building.

Sener maintains production facilities in Bilbao, Madrid (Tres Cantos, Arganda del Rey, and San Sebastián de los Reyes), Barcelona, Santander, Sevilla, and Valencia.

The Patriot building is the tenth building within Sener’s Tres Cantos complex.

The ESA and member-state funding will allow Swissto12 to further develop phased-array antenna technologies for onboard satellite payloads and ground products such as user terminals.

There is an illustration of a Swissto12 HummingSat satellite depicted in geostationary orbit for Inmarsat-8.

The first HummingSat is set to launch in 2027 for customer SES.

Swissto12 is building three HummingSat satellites for Viasat.

HummingSat is being developed by Swissto12 in partnership with the European Space Agency.

The additional ESA funding for HummingSat was provided through the Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems (ARTES) HummingSat Partnership Project within ESA Connectivity and Secure Communications.

The ARTES HummingSat Partnership Project funding was backed at the 2025 Ministerial Conference by pledges from Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Sweden, Norway, and associate member Canada.

Swissto12 secured nearly 100 million euros ($117 million) from private investors in the second half of 2025.