Arianespace is planning on a Vega launch on April 28, five months after mission VV17 failed due to an assembly error.

The U.S. Government Accountability Office expects to rule by Aug. 4 on a pair of protests filed over NASA’s $2.9 billion award to SpaceX for a human lunar lander flight demonstration.

A United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket lifted off from Vandenberg AFB in California on April 26 to put a classified payload into orbit for the National Reconnaissance Office.

Arianespace launched the latest batch of 36 OneWeb satellites into low Earth orbit on April 25.

Satellite manufacturer Airbus Defense and Space has committed to one launch and an undisclosed number of optional launches with Isar Aerospace’s Spectrum micro-launcher.

Space situational awareness startup LeoLabs has declared its fourth space radar site fully operational in Costa Rica.

UK startup Satellite Vu has raised £3.6 million ($5 million) in seed funding to begin building a thermal-imaging satellite constellation that will be able to measure the energy efficiency of any building in the world from low Earth orbit.

Spire Global is to build a second smallsat to monitor microdebris in low Earth orbit with funding from Austrian new-space investor Findus Venture.