Isar Aerospace reported that Spectrum is sold out through 2028 and is planning three to four Spectrum flights in the coming year with a long-term production goal of up to 40 rockets per year.

Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) is based in Augsburg, Germany and is developing the RFA ONE small launch vehicle.

Stefan Brieschenk is chief operating officer of Rocket Factory Augsburg.

Isar Aerospace marketed the second Spectrum mission as a test flight focused on collecting flight-data through max-Q, stage separation, and second-stage insertion into orbit.

Eutelsat signed a multi-launch agreement with MaiaSpace to deploy some of Eutelsat’s 440 OneWeb replenishment satellites built by Airbus Defence and Space, with launches possibly beginning as soon as 2027.

European Space Agency member states committed more than €900 million at the ministerial conference in Bremen, Germany to support the European Launcher Challenge.

The paper describing the Chinese Moon–Earth time coordination methodology is open access.

The Moon–Earth time coordination software from Chinese researchers is publicly available on GitHub.

The China Manned Space Agency outlined a plan to complete testing of several crewed lunar mission elements in 2025.

China progressed in 2025 on multiple elements to support a human lunar landing by 2030, including successful tests of a launchpad escape system, lander propulsion, and a rocket booster core stage.

The Moon–Earth time coordination project is funded by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the National Natural Science Foundation of China.

Chinese teams achieved the first-ever daytime Earth–Moon laser distance measurements using a retroreflector on a lunar orbiter.

China demonstrated automated navigation at the Moon in 2025.

China is advancing plans for a lunar communications and navigation network to support increased lunar activity and Moonbase plans.

China will progress work on lunar spacesuits called Wangyu.

Chinese researchers released a software package to coordinate Moon and Earth times for multiple lunar missions.

Project activities coincided with the efeméride of December 6 during the schools’ reflection on what a constitution represents.

The Proyecto de Constitución Escolar Lunar originated at CEIP Nuestra Señora del Carmen in Torre de la Reina, Sevilla.

The Constitución Escolar Lunar received adhesions from different countries through a campaign hosted on the school’s website.

Scientific figures Sara García Alonso and Pedro Duque were listed as referents supporting the project's activities.

Students from the project conversed with astronaut Nick Hague on the International Space Station via the ARISS contact.

An international selection enabled the project team to contact the International Space Station through the ARISS program.

The project incorporated principles from the United Nations Agenda 2030 into the foundational principles of the Constitución Escolar Lunar.

Project-derived activities led the team to the European Space Agency (ESA) in Germany with backing from the Agencia Espacial Española.

A later educational expedition to the United States included six children and four adults representing Andalusian and Spanish education.

Multiple cohorts of students participated in creating the Constitución Escolar Lunar by defining rights, duties, and values for a future lunar community.

The project was initiated two years prior to the date of the document’s publication.

The Constitution Escolar Lunar text addresses real challenges of living in space such as radiation, microgravity, lack of oxygen, and absence of natural light.

The Constitución Escolar Lunar was translated into several languages and transcribed into braille to reinforce its inclusive and global character.

Eduardo García Llama, engineer chief of flight controllers for the Artemis II mission, was a NASA member who participated in the 2023 Houston meeting about the project.

Legal, scientific, and educational specialists collaborated on the Constitución Escolar Lunar to align the document with existing international space law texts.

The project has required sponsorships, external supports, and visibility campaigns to fund and organize the international educational trips.

Carlos García Galán, a Spanish engineer and deputy director of the Gateway program, mediated an invitation for the project team to visit NASA.

The Proyecto de Constitución Escolar Lunar continued in 2023 at CEIP San Ignacio del Viar in Alcalá del Río where students began developing the document.

The Constitución Escolar Lunar promotes values including physical and mental health, play, access to wellbeing, and healthy nutrition for future space habitats.

The Unión de Radioaficionados de Sevilla provided the technological support that enabled the ARISS contact between the students and Nick Hague.

The Proyecto de Constitución Escolar Lunar was presented in 2023 to members of NASA during an educational trip to Houston.

Launches from the California west coast, including the SLC-4E pad, support missions to polar and sun-synchronous orbits typically used for observation and reconnaissance satellites.

Falcon 9 regularly operates from the California pad for missions for the NRO, NASA, and commercial satellite customers.

The 600-mission total comprises flights from different configurations of the Falcon family with Falcon 9 as the principal active launch vehicle.

With the NROL-105 flight SpaceX reached 600 total missions for the Falcon family.

On 17 January 2026 a Falcon 9 rocket launched the NROL-105 mission to orbit from Space Launch Complex 4E in California.

Operational scaling of the Falcon family has contributed to reduced costs of access to orbit and increased launch availability for institutional and commercial customers.

SpaceX posted on X that Falcon 9 launched NROL-105 and that the flight completed the company’s 600th overall Falcon mission.

Falcon 9 has become one of the reference launch vehicles for U.S. civil and military institutions.

SpaceX did not disclose technical details about the NROL-105 payload, orbit, or specific objectives in line with the typically classified nature of NRO missions.

NROL-105 is a mission commissioned by the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).

Airbus UpNext SpaceRAN aims to provide more resilient and secure communications for military and government sectors to support improved situational awareness and accelerate real-time decision-making.

Airbus UpNext expects the SpaceRAN demonstrator to show its first results by 2028.

The SpaceRAN demonstrator was developed as part of Air!5G, a project supported by the French government through the France 2030 investment plan under the Future Networks strategy.