August 5, 2025

Satellite and Launch Orders - July 2025

Here are the latest launch and spacecraft orders which were announced or became revealed in July 2025:

Boeing won a US$2.8 billion contract to build the first two key nuclear defence communications satellites under Evolved Strategic Satellite (ESS) programmeGovsat-2 GEO comsat order to Thales Alenia Space was formally announcedSpaceWorks Red 24 re-entry capsule received an Astral Materials’ manufacturing mission for 2026Hubble Network plans 60 satellite constellation portion of Bluetooth Low Energy tracking networkRocket Propulsion Systems (RPS) earned a military construction order to build an orbital transfer vehicle (OTV) around its Centurion engineBlue Origin's Blue Ring GEO spacecraft will carry Scout Space Sensor sensor in spring 2026NanoAvionics to build reconnaissance radar satellite for EuropeExotopic's GMSS spacecraft will carry refuelling test for Orbit Fab and a Lodestar SSA payload

NASA's ESCAPADE mission to Mars will launch on a New Glenn rocketExoLaunch is developing delivery spacecraft for both large and small satellites - these are EXOtube, CarboNIX NEO and Quadro VersaExolaunch will launch 10 Strix SAR Satellites developed by Synspective, with the first launch scheduled for 2027EarthDaily obtained a US$60 million loan to, finally, launch its imaging constellation