The PocketQube community is set to celebrate a major milestone this year with the 100th PocketQube satellite heading to orbit. Enabled by affordable launch services from Alba Orbital, the PocketQube standard is empowering students, researchers, and startups worldwide to design, build, and fly real satellites, reshaping access to space.

As satellite bus production becomes standardized, the real value in manufacturing is shifting toward high-performance subsystems—propulsion, power, and payload integration. Smaller and mid-tier companies now have the edge in innovation and margins. Discover how subsystem specialization is redefining satellite economics and reshaping industry partnerships.

Intuitive Machines is acquiring Lanteris Space Systems in an $800M deal, creating a next-generation commercial, civil, and national security space prime. With $850M in combined revenue and a $920M backlog, the merger expands Intuitive Machines’ mission from lunar operations to a full-spectrum space infrastructure player across LEO, GEO, Moon, Mars, and beyond.

MDA Space has invested $10 million in Maritime Launch Services, becoming both an equity owner and strategic partner in developing Spaceport Nova Scotia—Canada’s first commercial orbital launch complex. The partnership aims to strengthen Canada’s sovereign space capabilities and create a competitive alternative in the global launch services market.

WISeSat.Space, a subsidiary of WISeKey, has partnered with South Korea’s INNOSPACE to launch its next-generation post-quantum secure satellites. Using INNOSPACE’s HANBIT series rockets, the collaboration aims to accelerate secure, cost-effective satellite deployments and advance global quantum-resistant IoT connectivity.

EnduroSat has raised $104 million in new funding and opened a state-of-the-art Space Center in Sofia to scale satellite production. The expansion enables manufacturing of up to two ESPA-class satellites daily, backed by investors including Google Ventures, Riot Ventures, and Lux Capital, accelerating EnduroSat’s mission to make space data accessible for all.