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09 Apr 2026
[edit]- PLD Space secures $35 million European Investment Bank loan for MIURA 5 launcher
- China conducts pair of Long March launches for Thousand Sails and Guowang megaconstellations
- Portal Space Systems raises $50 million to accelerate spacecraft development
- Space Force taps 14 firms for $1.8 billion GEO surveillance program
- Albedo prepares second VLEO mission for 2027 launch
- Lockheed Martin wins $105 million contract for GPS ground control system as OCX winds down
- Vantor to expand imaging satellite fleet, adding smallsats to increase revisit rates
- Apex to develop larger satellites for missile defense, space-based computing
- Improved thresholds and SSA accuracy can reduce most satellite collision risk
- The gravity of their experience hasn’t quite set in for the Artemis II astronauts