Satellite and Launch Orders – April 2025

by | May 2, 2025 | Launches, Satellites, Seradata News

The following construction and launch orders for the space industry were announced in April 2025:

Construction Orders:

Astranis received a US$115 million GEO comsat order for Taiwan’s Chunghwa Telecom

China revealed solar system exploration launch plans

Boeing readies its Q4S quantum demo satellite for 2026 launch plus a ground twin

Chang’e 8 lunar lander to carry three rovers for partners plus other international payloads

Date set for Astroscale APS-R to refuel Space Force’s Tetra-5 sat in GEO

Konsberg NanoAvionics won Meridian Space constellation contract

Blue Skies Space – which plans to launch satellites Mauve and Twinkle later this year – is planning a constellation to look for ancient signal

Firefly Aerospace to demo Elytra Dawn spacecraft to US military in 2027 as US DoD books its launch as part of Sinequone project

NanoAvionics won order for first batch of SpinLaunch constellation

Launch Orders:

Three winners for National Security Space Launch (NSSL) Phase 3 Lane 2 launch procurement: SpaceX, ULA and Blue Origin

Radian hopes to fly its re-entry capsule on a hypersonic test flight in 2026

Other

Portal Space raised US$17.5 million funds as it plans for the first launch of its ‘solar thermal propulsion’ Supernova bus spacecraft in 2026

Military suborbital cargo delivery test flight for Astra Rocket 4

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

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