About 1,000 personnel are flown in from the Baikonur Cosmodrome to support a Soyuz launch at Vostochny.

Russia’s Prosecutor General Office reported that since 2014, 10 billion rubles were stolen or lost in connection with Vostochny, 17,000 legal violations were documented, 140 criminal cases were opened, and 50 people were sentenced under those investigations.

Vostochny’s Soyuz launch complex uses a 1,600-ton mobile service tower to service rockets on the pad.

Vostochny was built on the site of a former intercontinental ballistic missile base that provided existing links to major railways.

GK Launch Services is a Roscosmos subsidiary created to sell and operate commercial launches of Soyuz-2 rockets from Vostochny and other Russian launch sites.

A telecoms contractor working at Vostochny was arrested at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport for allegedly pilfering nearly 26 million rubles.

Amur State University is receiving resources to create a new space faculty as part of the Vostochny project to train cosmodrome personnel.

Over 150 billion rubles had been spent on the Vostochny project since construction began in 2007.

American Airlines customers with an Apple Music subscription can stream more than 50 million songs, playlists, and music videos on domestic flights equipped with Viasat satellite Wi‑Fi beginning 2019-02-01.

American Airlines Group Inc.’s stock joined the S&P 500 index in 2015.

Oneworld alliance members serve more than 1,000 destinations with about 14,250 daily flights to over 150 countries.

American Airlines is adding free live TV on more than 400 domestic aircraft and more than 155 international aircraft, with additional rollouts planned in 2019.

American Airlines and American Eagle operate an average of nearly 6,700 flights per day to nearly 350 destinations in more than 50 countries.

The Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) is implementing changes intended to speed acquisition and modernization and to alter a culture built around stringent reviews and layered approvals.

A nominal Long March 5 return-to-flight would clear the way for a test launch of the Long March 5B, a variant designed to loft 20-metric-ton Chinese Space Station modules into low Earth orbit.

The Long March 11 solid-propellant launcher was scheduled for its first sea launch around 2019-06-01 using a converted vessel for low-inclination launches.

The Long March 5 return-to-flight mission will carry the Shijian-20 communications satellite based on the DFH-5 satellite platform.

China planned to complete the Beidou constellation rival to GPS in 2020.

Joint tests and exercises involving a test model of the rocket and the Chinese Space Station core module were planned at Wenchang at the end of 2019 in preparation for the maiden flight of the Long March 5B.

The DFH-5 satellite platform supports satellites with masses from 6,500 to 9,000 kg.

Chinarocket Co., Ltd. planned to launch the first Smart Dragon-1 (Jie Long-1) solid micro launcher designed to carry up to 150 kg into a 700-kilometer sun-synchronous orbit.

CASC planned to launch 10 additional Beidou positioning, navigation, and timing satellites through seven Long March 3 series launches from Xichang.

The Long March 5 failure in 2017-07-01 delayed the Chang’e-5 lunar sample return mission and the construction of the Chinese Space Station.

A successful Long March 5 launch would enable use of the fourth Long March 5 to launch Chang’e-5 toward the Moon in late 2019.

China planned the second launch for the Hongyan low Earth orbit communications constellation in 2019.

The China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation planned launches of its solid-fuelled Kuaizhou-1A and Kuaizhou-11 rockets in 2019.

The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation planned more than 30 launches in 2019.

CASC’s 2018 launches included the Chang’e-4 lunar far side landing mission, the first Hongyan LEO communications satellite, and 18 Beidou satellites.

The third launch of the Long March 5 was scheduled to take place at Wenchang Satellite Launch Center on Hainan island in 2019-07-01.

Israel Aerospace Industries shipped the SpaceIL lander Beresheet earlier 2019-01 from Israel to Cape Canaveral for final preparations for launch.

Under the teaming agreement, Israel Aerospace Industries will offer a version of the lunar lander it built for SpaceIL for use on ESA missions.

The 2019-01-29 teaming agreement between Israel Aerospace Industries and OHB System was signed during the Ilan Ramon Space Conference in Israel.

A mission using the IAI-built lander would likely launch as a secondary payload on a rocket carrying a communications satellite to geostationary transfer orbit and then gradually extend its orbit until captured by the moon.

ArianeGroup and PTScientists received a contract from ESA on 2019-01-21 to study a proposed lander mission to mine lunar regolith and demonstrate resource extraction viability.

Israel Aerospace Industries signed a teaming agreement with OHB System on 2019-01-29 to offer commercial delivery of payloads to the lunar surface for the European Space Agency.

Lockheed Martin’s space business unit reported $9,800,000,000 in net sales for 2018, a two percent increase over 2017.

A Delta IV Heavy launch was delayed from late 2018 to early 2019, shifting the profit associated with that launch into 2019.

Additional work on NASA’s Orion crewed spacecraft program resulted in an additional $65,000,000 in net sales for Lockheed Martin’s space unit in 2018.

Lockheed Martin’s space business unit had an operating profit of $1,060,000,000 for 2018, an eight percent increase from 2017.

Revenue from Lockheed Martin government satellite programs declined by $25,000,000 in 2018 due to lower volume.

Operating profit increases in Lockheed Martin’s space unit included a $40,000,000 increase from commercial satellites related to a lower amount of charges recorded for performance matters.

A higher number of Delta IV launches in 2018 compared with expectations for 2019 contributed to anticipated lower earnings from ULA.

Lockheed Martin projects its space operating profit to drop to $935,000,000–$965,000,000 in 2019.

Revenue from Lockheed Martin commercial satellite programs dropped by $70,000,000 in 2018 due to lower volume.

Lockheed Martin’s chief financial officer previously projected that ULA-related earnings could be down as much as $150,000,000 in 2019 compared to 2018.

Lockheed Martin reported overall equity earnings for its space division of $210,000,000 in 2018, $5,000,000 more than in 2017.

Growth in Lockheed Martin’s space unit sales in 2018 was primarily due to strategic and missile defense programs increasing revenue by $225,000,000.

Lockheed Martin reported a business segment operating profit of $5,880,000,000 on net sales of $53,700,000,000 for the full 2018 fiscal year.

NASA and other agencies affected by the shutdown were funded only through 2019-02-15 pending a long-term funding deal in Congress.

NASA civil servants were scheduled to receive back pay during the week of 2019-01-29.