Satellite and launch orders in February 2025
Construction Orders
Pair of Oberon radar satellites for UK military to be built by Airbus DSThales Alenia Space secured lunar Gateway space station airlock module contractDPhi Space Clustergate 1 mission on Transporter 13 to carry Zohar-1 space weather sensor hosted payload for Mission SpaceUS Space Force made US$45.9 million order for unspecified number of small satellites from ApexCanadian Space Agency ordered ten WildFireSat constellation satellites from Spire Global and OroraTech under contract worth US$50.4 millionRedwire received bus order for Tetra-6 refuelling test as a Tetra-5 satellite is repurposed as second sat for Tetra-6 missionIran to launch three new satellites: the Navak-1 comsat, and the remote sensing satellites: the Pars-2 and a modernised version of the Pars-1.Blacksky and Thales Alenia to build Earth Observation sat for India’s NIBE Space as forerunner for constellation.Apple-backed Globalstar to get 50 Aurora-bus satellites built by MDA Space[caption id="attachment_121645" align="alignleft" width="428"]
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Launch orders
Pakistan’s lunar rover (as yet unnamed) to fly on Chinese Chang’e-8 mission to lunar South poleAstrolab FLIP lunar rover to fly on Astrobotic Griffin lunar landerNASA Pandora exoplanet telescope mission to fly on a SpaceX launch – probably on a Falcon 9 Transporter flightUS Space Force Victus Sol mission to fly on Firefly AlphaATMOS Space Cargo’s Phoenix capsule re-entry test gets permission to fly on SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage as part of Bandwagon-3 flightChina to fly two new cargo freighters to Chinese space station on commercial rides: Haolong will be carried on a partially reusable Zhuqhue 3, while Qingzhou will fly on Lijian 2 (Kinetica 2)
Other spacecraft of interest
Orbital Today listed out all the passenger spacecraft, rovers, hoppers and hosted payloads on the IM-2 Athena lunar lander missionPlanet’s US$230 million 10 Pelican imaging spacecraft order revealed SKY Perfect JSAT as a customer
Sources include Cision, BBC, CNBC, msn.com, NASA, Orbitaltoday, Payload, phys.org, Politico, scmp.com and SpaceNews with links provided to each story.