In the near term Luna Europa – European Moonport Company will primarily serve to consolidate OHB’s existing Moon-related activities.

As of December 2025, Hungary committed €80 million to ESA’s Moon Exploration element.

As of December 2025, Italy committed €284.20 million to ESA’s Moon Exploration element, the largest element-level commitment to Moon Exploration.

On 4 February OHB unveiled a concept for a central launch and landing base on the lunar surface developed with Munich Airport International.

In late 2025 Thales Alenia Space selected OHB to provide multiple subsystems for the descent element of the European Space Agency’s Argonaut lunar lander.

Luna Europa – European Moonport Company will focus on lunar exploration and the development of infrastructure for a sustained presence on the Moon’s surface.

The lunar launch and landing base project developed with Munich Airport International is presented as a high-level concept represented by a model used for the press event.

The Argonaut lunar lander is designed to ferry a variety of payloads to the lunar surface, and ESA expects to launch the first Argonaut lander in 2031.

Germany contributed €885 million to ESA’s Exploration budget at CM25, the largest single national share, and made that contribution at the programme level rather than earmarked at the element level.

OHB’s contributions to Argonaut and ESPRIT form part of Europe’s barter arrangements with NASA that help secure flight opportunities for European astronauts to a future lunar-orbit outpost.

OHB is a subcontractor on the ESPRIT module, a major ESA contribution to NASA’s lunar Gateway space station.

At ESA’s 2025 Ministerial Council meeting (CM25), Member States committed €2.98 billion to Exploration, €797 million short of the €3.77 billion envelope requested by the agency.

OHB is a subcontractor on several European lunar missions.

The subsidiary Luna Europa – European Moonport Company was founded in May 2025 and lists OHB CEO Marco Fuchs and Sabine von der Recke as its managing directors.

Germany’s programme-level contribution to ESA Exploration provides flexibility to allocate funding across LEO, Moon, Mars, Exploration Science, or ExPeRT once programme priorities and industrial returns become clearer.

Northwood Space is a Los Angeles-based startup co-founded by CEO Bridgit Mendler, CTO Griffin Cleverly, and Head of Software Shaurya Luthra in 2023.

Northwood Space raised a $30 million Series A less than a year before its $100 million Series B.

Northwood Space is currently capable of producing eight Portal ground stations per month.

Founders Fund, Alpine Space Ventures, and Balerion Space Ventures participated in Northwood Space’s $100 million Series B funding round.

Northwood Space closed a $100 million Series B funding round on January 27, 2026.

Washington Harbour Partners led Northwood Space’s $100 million Series B funding round.

The $49.8 million contract tasks Northwood Space with modernizing the U.S. Space Force’s Satellite Control Network under Space Systems Command (SSC).

Northwood Space’s business objective is to eliminate the ground-side bottleneck that limits commercial mega-constellations and national security satellite missions.

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) co-led Northwood Space’s $100 million Series B funding round.

Northwood Space expects its next-generation Portal systems to handle 10 to 12 simultaneous satellite links by the end of 2027, up from a current capacity of eight links.

Northwood Space’s phased-array Portal systems can track satellites across low Earth orbit (LEO), medium Earth orbit (MEO), and geostationary orbit (GEO) simultaneously without mechanical movement.

Northwood Space currently operates Portal sites on two continents.

Northwood Space’s Portal is a vertically integrated phased-array ground station designed to be built and deployed in as little as 12 hours.

Northwood Space positions Portal scalability to support Direct-to-Device services and military transitions to Proliferated LEO (pLEO) architectures.

Northwood Space secured a $49.8 million contract from the U.S. Space Force on January 27, 2026.

The Long March 2F payload capacity is 8,400 kilograms to low Earth orbit with Shenzhou’s abort systems.

The Long March 2F second stage is powered by one YF-24B engine generating 85 tons of thrust and burning dinitrogen tetroxide and unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine.

A Long March 2F/T launch vehicle lifted off from Launch Site 91 at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center between 11:48 am and 12:07 pm China Standard Time (03:45 and 04:07 am UTC) on February 7th.

The February 7th launch was the 630th launch of the Long March launch vehicle series.

Two versions of the Long March 2F are currently active: the 2F/G and the 2F/T.

The Reusable Experimental Spacecraft is planned to return to Earth with a landing at an airfield in Lop Nur, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, in many weeks or months after launch.

The Long March 2F boosters have a diameter of 2.3 meters each.

With the February 7th launch, the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center’s Long March 2F series facilities can shift to solely working on upcoming crewed missions.

The China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology developed the Long March 2F.

The February 7th launch was the 9th Chinese launch in 2026.

The February 7th launch was the 28th launch of the Long March 2F series.

China’s Reusable Experimental Spacecraft previously flew a 276-day mission between August 2022 and May 2023.

China’s Reusable Experimental Spacecraft began its fourth mission on the February 7th launch.

China’s Reusable Experimental Spacecraft previously flew a two-day mission in September 2020.

The Long March 2F first and second stages have a diameter of 3.35 meters.

China’s Reusable Experimental Spacecraft previously flew a 266-day mission from December 2023 to September 2024.

Both launch vehicle assembly building bays at Jiuquan are focused on Shenzhou-23 and Shenzhou-24 preparations.

The Long March 2F/T launch vehicle carried China’s Reusable Experimental Spacecraft into low Earth orbit on February 7th.

The Long March 2F/T launches China’s reusable spaceplane and launched the first two Tiangong space stations.

The Reusable Experimental Spacecraft will perform experiments on items stored onboard and on its own systems while in orbit.