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On August 14, 2026, Norges Bank Investment Management, manager of Norway’s Sovereign Wealth Fund, disclosed an expanded equity position in direct-to-device (D2D) satellite communications operator AST SpaceMobile, Inc. Second-quarter institutional […]
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On August 15, 2026, SpaceX completed two orbital Falcon 9 launches within 38 minutes from operational pads on opposite coasts of the United States. The high-cadence launch doubleheader deployed the […]
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On August 14, 2026, space consulting and market intelligence firm Novaspace published its latest In-Orbit Services Markets report, forecasting that emerging in-orbit satellite services will generate approximately $3 billion (€2.59 […]
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On August 10, 2026, a Japanese H-3 launch vehicle lifted off from the Tanegashima Space Center carrying Japan’s Quasi-Zenith Satellite 7 (QZS-7) spacecraft, which hosts an optical Space Domain Awareness […]
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On August 15, 2026, VinSpace, the space technology arm of Vietnamese conglomerate Vingroup, signed a launch services agreement with SpaceX to deploy its initial batch of commercial nanosatellites into Low […]
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DarkSky International—acting alongside the American Bird Conservancy, Environment America, and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER)—filed a formal Application for Review demanding that the full Federal Communications Commission (FCC) reverse […]
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Joseph Yaffe is Chief Operating Officer and Chief Legal Officer of Cowboy Space Corporation, which has filed to fly up to 20,000 orbital data center satellites. He joins the orbital data center panel on the opening day of Satellite Innovation at Silicon Valley Space Week.
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Robert Cardillo ran the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency from 2014 to 2019 and now chairs Planet Labs' federal arm. He joins a panel on how commercial satellite imagery is reaching military decisions, on the final day of the MilSat Symposium at Silicon Valley Space Week.
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On August 13, 2026, commercial lunar intelligence provider Lunar Station Corp announced the integration of NASA environmental datasets and software models into its MoonStation analytical platform. By converting public orbital […]
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On August 13, 2026, Los Angeles-based space systems developer Fortastra Corporation announced the appointment of Dr. Scott Klempner as Director of Product, National Security. Klempner, a 20-year veteran of the […]
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