The Global Space Conference On Climate Change (GLOC) 2023 kickstarted today with three important plenary sessions. The overarching theme of the sessions revolved around the necessary steps to take to convert the enthusiasm around addressing climate change with space technology to actionable solutions to prevent and mitigate climate disasters.

Raytheon Technologies' Collins Aerospace business has announced its plan to bring unlimited data to the customers of Vista, a private aviation group. Using Collins' LuxStream, which runs exclusively on the SES's high-throughput satellite (HTS) network, Vista customers can now enjoy fast, reliable, unlimited internet access for the duration of their flights.

L3Harris Technologies has received an Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) contract to provide technology, including modeling and simulation studies, that will help characterize and predict human mobility. As a result, L3Harris will support the Hidden Activity Signal and Trajectory Anomaly Characterization (HAYSTAC) program by laying the groundwork for generating and analyzing human activities that produce data captured by GPS, Bluetooth, and other systems. The goal of modeling and simulation research is to help transform future autonomous systems.

ICEYE has announced a new imaging mode known as Dwell to enable its synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites to remain focused on a specific point on the ground for an extended collection time. This unique long-duration imaging mode allows ICEYE satellites to capture significantly more information about the imaging target, creating a powerful new capability for imagery users.

Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) has signed a ten-year contract with the low Earth orbit satellite communications company OneWeb to build and manage a new OneWeb Satellite Network Portal (SNP) in Yellowknife, NW, Canada. This new SNP will deliver increased bandwidth, performance, and resiliency to all OneWeb services active today across Northern Canada.

Inmarsat has announced that SWISSto12 will develop its new eighth-generation of spacecraft. The three I-8 satellites will provide additional network resilience, securing the future of Inmarsat’s global L-band safety services.

Axiom Mission 2 (Ax-2) has successfully launched four private astronauts from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to the International Space Station (ISS). The Ax-2 crew is now in orbit following a 5:37 p.m. EDT liftoff. The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is now anticipated to dock to the space-facing port of the ISS Harmony module. around 9:16 a.m. (EDT) on Monday, May 22.

The President of the United States and the Prime Minister of Australia have reached an agreement-in-principle on Technology Safeguards. The White House disclosed this partnership through a press release on both Nation's Joint Leaders’ Statement.

NASA has selected Blue Origin to develop a human landing system for the agency’s Artemis V mission to the Moon. Through Artemis, NASA will explore more of the Moon than ever before, uncovering more scientific discoveries and preparing for future astronaut missions to Mars.

Terran Orbital Corporation and W. P. Carey have broke ground on a 94,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art satellite manufacturing facility at 4 Goodyear in Irvine, California. In partnership with Terran Orbital, W. P. Carey will redevelop one of its outdated office properties into a new Class A industrial facility. As a result, it will serve as Terran Orbital’s fifth production facility. Demolition of the existing building commenced in February 2023, and the project will tentatively end in January 2024.