Load Factor

Space

The week to 20 August 2026

Five entries reached Space in the seven days to 20 August 2026, from three sources. The largest group was news items, at three. Five companies were named, five of them in this segment for the first time in this record. The week before carried three, two fewer.

Contract award

1

California Institute Of TechnologyUnclassified

California Institute Of Technology: Federal or defense contract award, $10.4M from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Contract award

USAspending

Product launch

1

LufthansaOperator

Lufthansa’s first Starlink-equipped aircraft enters service

Product launch

FlightGlobal

News item

3

Firefly AerospaceSpace

Trident Solutions has partnered with SciTec to Deliver Advanced Edge Mission Data Processing Capabilities

News item

PR Newswire

MDA SpaceSpace

MDA SPACE SATELLITES FOR GLOBALSTAR SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHED

News item

PR Newswire

Sidus SpaceSpace

SIDUS SPACE REPORTS SECOND QUARTER 2026 FINANCIAL RESULTS

News item

PR Newswire

Where the week came from

three sources supplied the 5 entries. Every row above links the original, and its entry page carries the terms it is quoted under.

SourceEntries
PR Newswire, Aerospace and Defense3
FlightGlobal1
USAspending.gov award data1

How this edition was put together

Every row is an entry in the record, fetched again at its source on the day the record was read and confirmed to carry its excerpt. The groups are the record's own event classes, ordered as a reader of this segment reads them rather than by score alone, and within a group by the record's score and then by date.

The counts on this page are arithmetic over those rows and nothing else. Nothing is added about a company that its own entry does not carry, and the edition is assembled by software, so no line here is an opinion about anyone. What gets in, and what does not is the standard the entries are held to.

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