The Phoenix NexGen User Experience Framework is a core feature of the merged company’s integrated portfolio and utilizes artificial intelligence to enhance human-machine teaming in high-consequence mission environments.

The merged company’s capabilities include advanced signals engineering and signal collection in contested environments.

Bluestone Investment Partners provided backing for the merged Qualis–InTrack–Tektonux company.

InTrack Radar Technologies contributes expertise in ground-based radar and electro-optical sensors to the merged company.

The merged company combines high-performance hardware with AI-enabled software to streamline the sensor-to-shooter continuum for national security missions.

Tektonux contributes advanced command-and-control software to the merged company.

The merger aligns the new company with Department of Defense trends toward operationalizing Proliferated Low Earth Orbit and enhancing electromagnetic spectrum operations.

The merged company provides data intended for ballistic missile early warning and space surveillance systems.

The merged company aims to deliver agile and resilient systems for the U.S. Space Force, the Missile Defense Agency, and NASA.

The merged company positions itself to pivot faster and produce specialized defense hardware and software at the speed of modern innovation.

Space Cloud will include a sovereign cloud for national security data and a commercial cloud for Earth observation data and commercial edge computing.

Google Cloud will contribute technical know-how for building the Space Cloud modeled after terrestrial data centers.

ReOrbit is a Helsinki-based satellite manufacturer.

ReOrbit plans to encrypt Space Cloud data on the satellites using quantum key distribution.

The ReOrbit release did not include a target date for Space Cloud launch or operationality.

Space Cloud is designed to use optical signals to link a network of data-processing satellites with localized AI compute to create an orbital data center.

Markus Hongisto is Google Cloud’s Finland country manager.

Space Cloud will be divided into two separate networks for public and private customers.

ReOrbit is planning a satellite network called Space Cloud in collaboration with Google Cloud.

ReOrbit plans to release full technical details and a project roadmap for Space Cloud at Google Cloud’s Next conference in Las Vegas in April.

There were 54 merger and acquisition transactions closed in the space sector in 2025 with another 16 pending.

The full 12th edition Space Economy Report is available for sale on the Novaspace website.

Novaspace reports that space-enabled services, including Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT), continue to occupy a significant share of economic value.

Novaspace identifies defence and sovereignty as dominant market drivers in 2025.

Novaspace distinguishes between the core space market, which includes infrastructure activities like manufacturing and launch, and the broader ecosystem of space-enabled services.

SpaceX submitted a request to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to license an orbital data center consisting of 1 million satellites.

Novaspace released the 12th edition of its Space Economy Report covering the global space economy.

Investors in 2025 favored late-stage space companies with established revenue models and lower risk profiles.

Novaspace projects the global space economy will breach US$1 trillion by 2034.

Novaspace projects the core space market will reach US$323 billion by 2034.

Novaspace reports that hardware standardization is contributing to a shift in value toward software-defined capabilities that increase space asset flexibility and resilience.

Government space spending reached US$138 billion in 2025, driven primarily by security, sovereignty, and exploration programs.

Novaspace projects a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12% for the space market over the stated period.

Private investment in the space sector totalled US$9 billion in 2025, representing the strongest annual increase since the peak of 2021.

The global space economy reached US$626.4 billion in 2025.

Space companies pursued vertical integration and portfolio rationalization in response to increased competition in 2025.

Jan Clarence Dee is Novaspace Senior Space Consultant.

The core space market was valued at US$236 billion in 2025.

Novaspace characterizes a qualitative industry shift in 2025 as the 'softwarization' of space infrastructure, with value creation moving toward software-defined capabilities.

Vantor will use its precision alignment technology to ensure accurate merging of multiple sensor datasets for pixel-level change detection.

The Vantor contract was awarded under NGA’s Luno B program.

Under the Luno B contract, Vantor will provide the U.S. intelligence community with data about shifts to roads, vegetation, and buildings and broader impacts caused by manmade or natural disasters.

Ariane 64 and United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rockets both completed recent launches.

Vantor won a $5.3 million contract from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to help the government combine data sources for accurately tracking changes to Earth’s landscape.

Deep Space Energy is developing a nuclear power solution intended to help lunar missions survive the lunar night, which lasts 14 Earth days.

The previous five private astronaut missions to the ISS were flown by Axiom.

Vast and Axiom are each building private space stations intended to vie to replace the International Space Station.

Vantor will combine its own 30-centimeter high-resolution electro-optical imagery with third-party sensors to provide a more complete global picture.

Deep Space Energy, a Latvian nuclear power startup, received €980,000 to develop a European space nuclear power solution for lunar missions.

Combining multiple data sources provides a comprehensive picture that the government can use to respond to regional conflicts or humanitarian disasters.