Satellite and Launch Orders – October 2025

Satellite Orders:

Apex plans to build and launch a Project Shadow interceptor demo mission in June 2026, and the satellite manufacturer is self-funding the whole thing

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Quantum Space’s Ranger Prime mission is aiming to launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base by June 2026

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Launch Orders

Japanese company Synspective placed an order for 10 extra Electron launches from Rocket Lab – each launch will carry one StriX radar imaging satellite.          

Rocket Lab also won a new launch order from JAXA to carry the agency’s demo satellite RAISE-4 and eight CubeSats on Electron rockets.

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Shield Space has ordered the first launches of its Orbital Sentinel spacecraft from launch startup –and fellow British company - Astron Systems. The launches are targeting 2029.

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K2 Space Corporation has ordered a launch for three of its satellites on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in 2027

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SpaceX was awarded five mission contracts worth a total of $714 million while ULA won the remaining two, worth $428 million, by the Space Systems Command

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Others

Californian startup, Exlabs, secured a US$1.9million contract from the US Space Force to advance the development of SERVSAM- its reconfigurable spacecraft platform/bus

Momentus won two new NASA contracts for a tech demo on its Vigoride spacecraft: the first is a US$2.5 million order by NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center and the second is a US$5.1 million contract by the agency’s Flight Opportunities program. The in-space transportation company also agreed to host Swiss startup DPhi Space’s Clustergate-2 payload on Vigoride 7 in early 2026

California based Inversion Space, revealed its flagship re-entry vehicle: Arc which, it hopes, will enable a space-based delivery system that will transport military cargo from space to anywhere on Earth in less than an hour.

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