Mynaric (NASDAQ: MYNA) (FRA: M0YN), a leading provider of industrialized, cost-effective and scalable laser communications products, today announced that it has been selected by the Space Development Agency (SDA) to contribute to an optical ground terminal demonstration.

Sidus Space (NASDAQ: SIDU) (the “Company” or “Sidus”), a satellite manufacturing and space services company, announces its strategic acquisition of Exo-Space, a cutting-edge California-based firm specializing in Edge Artificial Intelligence (AI) software and hardware for space applications.

Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES), an EchoStar company (Nasdaq: SATS), today announced that it has been awarded a five-year, Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the U.S. Space Force for proliferated Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite-based services.

Axiom Space announced that it secured $350 million in its Series-C round of growth funding, lifting the total funds raised to over $505 million from investors and achieving more than $2.2 billion in customer contracts.

The Space Development Agency (SDA) awarded Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) a firm-fixed price agreement valued at approximately $816 million to build 36 Tranche 2 Transport Layer (T2TL) Beta satellites.

Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) has been selected by the Space Development Agency (SDA) to design and build 36 data transport satellites, the first space vehicles in the latest generation of its low-Earth orbit Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA).

Sierra Space, a leading pureplay commercial space company building the first end-to-end business and technology platform in space, announced today its strategic partnership with Redwire Corporation (NYSE: RDW), a leader in space infrastructure for the next-generation space economy.

Satellogic Inc. (NASDAQ: SATL), a leader in sub-meter resolution Earth Observation data (“EO”) collection, announced today that it has signed an agreement with Quant Data & Analytics (“Quant”), a leading Saudi provider of Data & AI Products and Enterprise Solutions focused on the real estate and retail sectors.

Astroscale UK, in partnership with Astroscale Japan, Orbit Fab, and CGI, is pleased to announce the award of a Phase 1 UK Space Agency International Bilateral Fund grant.

Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the Company”), a global leader in launch services and space systems, announced it has signed a deal to launch an Earth observation satellite on Electron for the Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space, Inc. (iQPS), a Japan-based Earth imaging company.

Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL), a leading provider of daily data and insights about Earth, today announced it has won a new contract with a Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Asia for its global daily monitoring solution.

Viasat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT), a global communications company, today announced Malaysia Airlines, the national carrier of Malaysia, has selected the company to outfit the airline’s new Boeing 737-8 fleet with its leading wireless In-Flight Entertainment (IFE) system.

OneWeb, the global low Earth orbit (LEO) communications network announced that representatives of international humanitarian organisations took part in a successful demonstration of low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellite capabilities last month at the headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva, Switzerland.

SpeQtral, a leading quantum communication technology company, has chosen Kongsberg NanoAvionics (NanoAvionics) as the satellite bus provider for its upcoming SpeQtral-1 mission. The second partner in this mission is Mbryonics, producing the satellite’s optical terminal.

Satcom Direct Avionics, the Canadian division of Satcom Direct (SD), has won a competitive bid to deliver multi-band aeronautical connectivity services for Shared Services Canada (SSC) and its clients for a period of up to seven years.

The Mil-Aero 6 GHz Link Pair supplied to a new ViaLite customer in Japan meets the telecommunications manufacturer’s requirement for market leading C-band RF over fiber operation, as well as covering other popular Satcom bands from 10 MHz through to 6 GHz.