Solar Cycle 25 is at or near its peak during the industry pivot toward sustained lunar operations.

Merek Chertkow is the CEO of The Radiation Team.

The industry is building distributed, commercial-grade hardware intended to improve resilience for national defense architectures.

Victoria Coleman is affiliated with the Berkeley Space Center.

$175 billion is earmarked for missile defense over the next three years.

The traditional defense acquisition cycle often takes ten years to deliver a satellite.

The Berkeley Space Center is a $2 billion collaboration between UC Berkeley and NASA Ames.

Dara Panahy is a partner at Milbank.

Victoria Coleman’s career spans the U.S. Air Force, DARPA, and Intel.

The Space Development Agency pioneered a commercial, rapidly deployable approach to building space architectures.

Software-defined satellite architectures enable on-orbit capability updates, real-time vulnerability patches, and AI-driven decision-making at the edge.

The Pentagon’s Golden Dome missile defense architecture is a proposed distributed missile defense system.

The Esrange expansion is intended to provide integrated acceptance testing capabilities to match an increased launch cadence for Isar Aerospace.

Isar Aerospace and SSC Space are partnering to expand testing capacity at the Esrange Space Center.

Isar Aerospace’s new production facility near Munich is nearing completion with interior fit-out works underway.

The expanded Esrange site is intended to allow Isar Aerospace to test and qualify more engines and stages than before.

The new Esrange facility will enable fully integrated stage acceptance testing for Isar Aerospace.

The purpose-built acceptance test facility at Esrange will be capable of testing more than 30 engines per month.

Can Araz is Spectrum vice president at Isar Aerospace.

Mats Tyni is Director Business Development and Customer Operations at SSC Space.

Isar Aerospace is pursuing vertical integration across design, manufacturing, testing, and operations for its launch vehicles.

Isar Aerospace’s test sites at Esrange are fully tailored to the company’s own requirements.

Isar Aerospace is building a second test facility at Esrange to support development and production ramp-up of the Spectrum launch vehicle.

The Series A funding round for Constellr was led by Alpine Space Ventures and Lakestar.

Constellr is a Munich-based Earth observation data provider founded in 2020.

Constellr’s planned sub-5-metre platforms represent an improvement from its current 30 m native resolution.

Constellr provides thermal Earth observation data through its HiVE microsatellite constellation.

Constellr CEO Dr. Max Gulde advocates that thermal intelligence provides the earliest and most reliable signal of operational change, including detecting rocket and airbase activity and identifying active reactors and hidden industrial operations.

Constellr plans to offer sovereign intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance services to governments, military customers, and security agencies.

After securing its Series A funding, Constellr is focusing on defence applications.

Rheinmetall and ICEYE received a €1.7 billion award in December 2025 for space-based reconnaissance using their synthetic aperture radar satellite constellation.

Constellr currently operates two satellites, SkyBee-1 and SkyBee-2.

Constellr has raised a total of €75 million to date.

SkyBee-1 and SkyBee-2 were launched aboard SpaceX Falcon 9 Transporter missions in January and June 2025, respectively.

Constellr closed a €37 million Series A funding round on 10 February.

Germany’s armed forces have committed to investing €35 billion in space-related defence projects by 2030.

Constellr will use its Series A funding to advance its system to defence-grade status and develop next-generation platforms with sub-5-metre resolution.

Giacomo Cao, President of DASS, views the agreement as demonstrating DASS’s international credibility and visibility.

Giacomo Cao expects the agreement to create synergies with the University of Adelaide’s Centre for Space Resources on the Small mission to Mars program and to build on the Space manufacturing in-situ project to develop Italian capabilities for interplanetary missions and in-situ resource utilization on Mars.

The collaboration aims to integrate academic and industrial expertise in key areas of the space economy.

The collaboration between DASS and the University of Adelaide reinforces DASS’s positioning in the international space research community and contributes to developing strategic competencies on space resources with potential impacts on planetary exploration and terrestrial applications.

Distretto AeroSpaziale della Sardegna (DASS) signed a five-year collaboration agreement with the University of Adelaide’s Centre for Space Resources – Andy Thomas.

The agreement aims to strengthen international cooperation in research and development of technologies for long-term planetary exploration with short-term terrestrial applications.

The agreement establishes a structured framework of collaboration between DASS and the University of Adelaide for a five-year period.

The Centre for Space Resources – Andy Thomas aggregates the University of Adelaide’s expertise in mining, manufacturing, and engineering.

The Centre for Space Resources – Andy Thomas directs its activities to address long-term planetary exploration challenges while providing short-term applications for Earth.

The five-year agreement between DASS and the University of Adelaide focuses on space resources.

The agreement positions the collaboration as a continuity with DASS’s existing activities on in-situ technologies.

The U.S. Department of Defense is purchasing space-domain awareness data from commercial companies.

TRL11 is deploying on-orbit video sensors to enable visual attribution of debris-causing events.