No Robot Has Captured an Uncontrolled Satellite. The Pentagon Is Buying It Anyway.
DIU and SDA are buying end-of-life disposal as a service. Katalyst's LINK failure and an empty flight record put the real constraint on bus reliability.
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Silicon Valley Space Week Speaker Focus: Dr. Dan Ceperley, LeoLabs
LeoLabs won a $20.68 million prototype agreement in August to demonstrate a variant of Scout-S, the S-band transportable radar it first fielded in the Indo-Pacific in June. Dr. Dan Ceperley, the company's co-founder and chief operating officer, closes the opening day of Satellite Innovation at Silicon Valley Space Week.
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The Labors of Love
Jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows; people who harness themselves to an ox, to a heavy cart, who pull like water buffalo, with massive patience, who […]
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Final Three SES O3b mPOWER Satellites Arrive at Cape Canaveral Ahead of Falcon 9 Launch
On Thursday, September 3, 2026, satellite operator SES announced that the final three O3b mPOWER satellites arrived at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Transported from Boeing Space and Launch facilities in El […]
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Blue Origin Accelerates Engineering Hiring from Amazon Satellite Division to Expand Orbital Operations
On September 3, 2026, reports surfaced detailing a sustained movement of satellite, avionics, and software talent from Amazon’s low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite broadband division (Project Kuiper / Amazon Leo) […]
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SynMax Secures Exclusive Maritime Channel Deal for Satellogic’s Upcoming Merlin Satellite Constellation
On Thursday, September 3, 2026, Houston-based AI analytics company SynMax and Earth observation provider Satellogic Inc. (NASDAQ: SATL) announced an exclusive channel agreement. Under the terms of the deal, all […]
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Türkiye Becomes 71st Signatory of the Artemis Accords
On Monday, August 31, 2026, the Republic of Türkiye officially signed the Artemis Accords during a ceremony held at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., becoming the 71st nation to join […]
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4iG Group and SpaceX Sign Agreements to Deploy Starlink Mobile and Sovereign Satellite Solutions in Europe
On Wednesday, September 2, 2026, Hungarian telecommunications and defense conglomerate 4iG Group signed two commercial and national security agreements with SpaceX. Executed at SpaceX facilities in Texas, the deal establishes […]
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UK Government Commercial Agency Selects Open Cosmos for £8 Billion Defense Communications Framework
On September 2, 2026, the UK Government Commercial Agency (GCA) selected Oxfordshire-based satellite developer Open Cosmos as an officially certified supplier under the TacSys (Tactical Communication System) framework procurement vehicle. […]
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Munich Startup Project-S Emerges from Stealth with Multi-Million-Euro Funding for Orbital Safety Infrastructure
On September 2, 2026, Munich-based space safety technology startup Project-S stepped into public view, announcing multi-million-euro seed funding to deploy an end-to-end orbital intelligence and space traffic management system. The […]
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