08 July 2026 The Romanian subsidiary of the Spanish GMV Group has fully coordinated the first European Space Agency (ESA) mission led by a private Romanian company with the launch of the CyberCUBE satellite on July 7. The satellite launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will test cybersecurity protection methods for European space infrastructure for at least one year. The launch took place from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, and the 3U CubeSat, approximately the size of a shoebox, will operate as an orbital laboratory designed to test cybersecurity technologies before they are integrated into ESA's future operational missions. According to GMV, this is the first time a company from Romania has coordinated an ESA mission from end to end, from design and integration to launch and i