Satellite and launch orders in December 2024

Construction Orders

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Courtesy: Farah Ghouri using ChatGPT[/caption]As a follow-on to its Droid-01 testbed mission, Turion Space secured a US$32.6 million contract from the US military for three more space surveillance satellitesEutelsat ordered 100 partially upgraded OneWeb satellites from Airbus DS to start replenishing its constellationFirefly Aerospace nabbed a NASA contract worth US$179.9 million for the Blue Ghost 3 lander to touch down on Gruithuisen Domes on the Moon’s near side in 2028K2 Space received partial funding to launch the 'Gravitas' mission to test its new 'Mega Class' busLoft orbital will build four YAM satellites to carry Esper Satellites Four Leaf Clover optical payloadsEuropean Investment Bank lent Sateliot €30 million to complete and launch 16 more sats to its IoT comsat constellation

Launch orders:

Atmos Space Cargo and Space Cargo Unlimited booked the first of seven Bentobox/Phoenix microgravity mission on SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshareVega E upgrades were agreed as a Vega C launch was ordered for the FORUM missionLockheed Martin booked Tactical Satellite (TacSat) on Firefly Alpha launch

Sources include Cision, BBC, CNBC, msn.com, NASA, Orbitaltoday, Payload, phys.org, Politico, scmp.com and SpaceNews with links provided to each story.