China Lake – October 27, 2026 -- BAE Systems (LON: BA) has completed the first live-fire test of its Adaptable Deck Launcher (ADL), a missile launching system built for U.S. Navy and allied fleets under a U.S. Department of War contract for the NATO Seasparrow Project Office (NSPO).

Centennial, Colorado – October 27, 2026 -- SNC has selected Skyryse as a collaborator to bring flight automation and autonomous capabilities to existing aircraft fleets, starting with defense platforms, using Skyryse's SkyOS flight-control hardware and software.

Tampa – October 27, 2026 -- TheIncLab, the trade name of Mente Systems, Inc., has been selected by the U.S. Army to deliver commercial software for Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) to I Corps. The selection follows a $99 million contract awarded on Sept. 29.

Delray Beach – October 27, 2026 -- The low Earth orbit positioning, navigation and timing (LEO PNT) market will grow from USD 0.17 billion in 2026 to USD 0.95 billion by 2031, a CAGR of 41.3%, according to MarketsandMarkets.

Bremen – October 27, 2026 -- Christa Fuchs, who built a five-employee hydraulics repair shop into a space group with about EUR 1.2 billion in FY2025 revenue, received a special award for lifetime entrepreneurial achievement at the Deutscher Gründerpreis.

The jury cited her contribution to building one of Europe's leading space companies and her influence on the German and European space industry.

Germany – October 27, 2026 -- OHB SE has entered the TecDAX, replacing CANCOM SE, just one month after the space and defense group was added to the SDAX, index provider STOXX announced following its scheduled review on September 3.

Sweden – October 27, 2026 -- OHB Sweden AB, a subsidiary of OHB SE, and Saab have signed a memorandum of understanding to deepen their cooperation on space-based defence and security capabilities. It is one of three space-related MoUs Saab has announced as part of its expanded engagement in the sector.

Rome – October 27, 2026 -- OHB Italia's Eaglet-II constellation reached its planned 24 satellites after the third batch of eight launched at 20:32 CEST from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on SpaceX's Transporter-18 rideshare mission. The launch brings Italy's IRIDE Earth observation programme to 39 satellites in orbit.

Eaglet-II hit full strength less than twelve months after its first satellites launched in 2025. IRIDE now combines the 24 Eaglet-II units with 15 HEO-constellation satellites already in orbit.

Vandenberg Space Force Base, California – October 27, 2026 -- The ATHENE-1 technology demonstrator, a small satellite of nearly 300 kilograms, has launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 and reached low Earth orbit as planned, starting the operational phase of a mission that will host 22 scientific experiments. LuxSpace, a subsidiary of OHB, built the satellite with the Bundeswehr University Munich. It flew on the Transporter-18 mission.

Bremen – October 27, 2026 -- OHB, the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) and the University of Exeter have started a two-year study for the European Space Agency (ESA) to test whether current and future Earth observation systems can detect climate tipping points early.