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Further Out

77 announced milestones without a set target date yet. Each links to the company's page, with the full description and source.

  1. After Flight 14Demonstrate Starship ship catch, a long-duration orbit, and orbital propellant transferSpaceX
  2. Date not announcedPublish Constellation Park construction start and occupancyBlue Origin
  3. OngoingResolve the ULA ownership question amid renewed sale talksUnited Launch Alliance
  4. Date not announcedCertify Vulcan for Starliner human spaceflightUnited Launch Alliance
  5. Date not announcedULA or Amazon posts an official Vulcan Leo 1 / LV-01 dateUnited Launch Alliance
  6. Date not announcedObtain FAA vehicle operator license for Terran R at SLC-16Relativity Space
  7. Date not announcedComplete a Terran R stage hot-fire at NASA StennisRelativity Space
  8. TBDList on Shanghai STAR Market (IPO)Space Pioneer
  9. Date not announcedGulf South SMR-300 evaluation with Entergy and Hyundai E&CHoltec International
  10. Date not announcedRetrieve Palisades tipped fuel assemblyHoltec International
  11. Date not announcedFile a successor HNUC registration if Holtec returns to public marketsHoltec International
  12. TBDFinalize $4.5B KC-46A tanker sale to QatarBoeing
  13. Date not announcedFly uncrewed Starliner-1 to the ISSBoeing
  14. Next 12 monthsScale Index data collection and $1B data-compute spendFigure AI
  15. Date not announcedPublish the revised AQ26002 Special Order deadline and any public Tesla sworn answersTesla
  16. TBDComplete the staggered Western commercial launch (Asia, North America)Unitree Robotics
  17. Date not announcedClose Geely 30% NIO Power transactionNIO
  18. Date not announcedDisclose NIO China cash for 10% of Zhejiang Haohan Energy and which charging assets Haohan will buyNIO
  19. No public date setOpen public robotaxi service in PittsburghWaymo
  20. Date not announcedConfirm J208 Portland KPDX Electric Skies demo actually flewJoby Aviation
  21. UnspecifiedFinalize expanded EXIM Bank financing to double manufacturing capacityBeta Technologies
  22. Date not announcedComplete the Jefferies review of strategic alternativesVertical Aerospace
  23. Date not announcedComplete Flight 14 V3 checkout and begin serving customersStarlink
  24. Date not announcedObtain FCC consent to transfer Grain's 800 MHz licenses to Starlink MobileStarlink
  25. Coming monthsOpen the AT&T Business managed Leo offerAmazon Leo
  26. UnspecifiedEvaluate vertical integration into launch capacityAST SpaceMobile
  27. UnspecifiedClose Ligado L-band spectrum transaction pending FCC approvalAST SpaceMobile
  28. Date not postedLaunch BlueBird 14, 15 and 16AST SpaceMobile
  29. Date not announcedResubmit mCOMBRIAX (mRNA-1083) US applicationModerna
  30. Date not announcedResume most-capable-model training after DNS-control validationOpenAI
  31. Date not announcedConfirm GSA OneGov ChatGPT MAS go-live and first ordersOpenAI
  32. Date not announcedFlorida Highlands County rules on ChatGPT/minors temporary injunctionOpenAI
  33. Date not announcedConfirm GPT-6 Intelligent UI reached Free and GoOpenAI
  34. OngoingStand up an in-house chip design teamAnthropic
  35. OngoingResolve the Pentagon standoff and lead on AI safety/policyAnthropic
  36. OngoingDefend against the Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell copyright suitAnthropic
  37. No public dateOpen Gemini 4 Argon to paid API and Google AI UltraGoogle DeepMind
  38. Date not announcedConvert the ESA letter of intent into a production space-AI contractMistral AI
  39. No date announcedLaunch DeepSeek-V4.1-ProDeepSeek
  40. UndatedShip GLM-6.0, the named Full Self-Training flagshipZhipu AI (Z.ai)
  41. UndatedShip GLM-6.0 Full Self-Training flagshipZhipu AI (Z.ai)
  42. FY2028SBMC Phase 2 prototype testing and Army downselectAnduril Industries
  43. UnspecifiedJapan evaluates Lattice for Self-Defense Force command and controlAnduril Industries
  44. Early FY2027Field Pulsar-L counter-drone jammers on Marine Corps ACVsAnduril Industries
  45. UnspecifiedFinalize the $1.98B Kuwait counter-drone Foreign Military SaleAnduril Industries
  46. UnspecifiedDHS counter-UAS Track 1 re-evaluation decisionAnduril Industries
  47. UnspecifiedAdvance the Boeing-Anduril IFPC Increment 2 interceptor through design and demonstrationAnduril Industries
  48. UnspecifiedWin a Polish order for Fury or Thunder alongside Barracuda productionAnduril Industries
  49. UnspecifiedI Corps receives NGC2 data-layer fielding after the 5 Oct base awardAnduril Industries
  50. OngoingDefend government/defense AI turf against Google's Fairwind pushPalantir Technologies
  51. FY2027Congress to fund $2.3B FY2027 Maven / Joint Fires Network expansionPalantir Technologies
  52. UnspecifiedJapan evaluates Maven Smart System for Self-Defense Force command and controlPalantir Technologies
  53. UnspecifiedBring Nebius compute inside the Palantir perimeterPalantir Technologies
  54. UnspecifiedSecure irrevocable zero-data-retention from Anthropic before hosting its modelsPalantir Technologies
  55. Date not announcedDeliver first Marauder MUSVs to the NavySaronic
  56. UnspecifiedDeliver X-BAT under the Navy's RIMES prototype awardShield AI
  57. UnspecifiedScale Hivemind's orbital autonomy demonstrations toward a real constellationShield AI
  58. FY2027Convert the Fujitsu Japan MOU into a binding support frameworkGeneral Atomics Aeronautical Systems
  59. Company bidCompete for NASA Moon Base work through the Lunar Programs divisionVast
  60. Date not announcedNASA posts the final CLDC RFP and Vast ships Haven-1 to ArmstrongVast
  61. OngoingResolve the US Commerce Department's EUV-to-China shipment inquiry - as the Dutch government's own new DUV servicing curbs take effectASML
  62. FY2028Nikon and Canon test ASML's edges: an ArF price war and a nanoimprint memory pushASML
  63. UnconfirmedConfirm the reported Perplexity investment at a $30B+ valuationNvidia
  64. UndisclosedAdvance the Ya'an lithium-salt plant past first EIA disclosureCATL
  65. UndisclosedPilot DHL Green Freight Corridors in EuropeCATL
  66. UndisclosedDisclose site and start date for the Egypt BME plantCATL
  67. UnspecifiedStart mass production of the aviation battery systemCATL
  68. FY2028 or laterLaunch ELSA-M and prove commercial end-of-life deorbitingAstroscale
  69. UndatedQualify the Space Inventor LEO servicing interface for a customer-bus demoAstroscale
  70. Not disclosedSanofi to start human studies of HXN-1002 and HXN-1003Earendil Labs
  71. Not disclosedClose Genentech collaboration and name oncology target combinationsEarendil Labs
  72. FY2027Print about $115 billion of AI semiconductor revenue in FY2027Broadcom
  73. FY2027Start deploying the Singapore fab for XPU substratesBroadcom
  74. UndatedDecide Solidigm capital plan, including any listingSK hynix
  75. Qwen 4 in trainingTrain Qwen 4 and scale later models toward 5 to 10 trillion parametersQwen
  76. Date not announcedPublish a priced Hong Kong listing documentAgiBot
  77. UnannouncedIntroduce additional macOS Full Disk Access controlsApple Inc.

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