Satellite and launch orders in January 2025

Construction Orders

STAR.VISION Aerospace links with universities to build two 5 kg lunar mini-robots to launch with Chang'e 8 in 2028Thales Alenia Space won an ESA development deal for the Venus EnVision mission and, separately, it secured a US$900 million contract from ESA for the (LDE) of Argonaut cargo landerPlanet struck a US$230 million deal to reserve imaging capacity on Pelican Earth observation sats[caption id="attachment_121645" align="alignleft" width="428"]

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Launch orders

Rocket Lab Electron rocket to carry eight OroraTech fire-watching sats in next few months

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