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PLD Space, an international space transportation company, has announced a major thirty-five million euro investment to develop and deploy its orbital launch complex at the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, […]
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Business Finland, the public innovation agency of Finland, has officially approved a €28.3 million continuation grant for ICEYE, a global leader in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite technology. This grant […]
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In the commercial space industry, there is a thriving ecosystem of companies that buy future payload capacity on rockets specifically to resell it on the open market. These companies are […]
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Blue Origin experienced a massive failure last night when its heavy-lift New Glenn rocket exploded during a routine engine test in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Video footage of the incident showed […]
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Chris Forrester — It might be some time yet for the dust to settle and would-be buyers to emerge over Europe’s plans to sell off some key satellite frequencies over […]
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The low Earth orbit Starlink network allows frontline soldiers to maintain encrypted group chats, fly reconnaissance and strike drones, and securely upload real-time images of potential targets to coordinate precise […]
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Stefano Antonetti at D-Orbit told the conference Europe has ships but no ports. The metaphor surfaced in five other Day 3 venues — Jarvis at Kepler, Mignolo at ESA, Willems at ST Engineering iDirect, Angellotti at EUSPA, Alam on the resilience panel. The category shifted from satellite to infrastructure layer.
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"Dual-use" was supposed to unlock procurement. On Day 3 of SmallSat Europe 2026 it got taken apart by the operators it was meant to help — Alam (Luxembourg), Gleason (Aerospace Corporation), Villemos (Leanspace), and Black (RAND Europe) — arguing the label routes funding and strips legal sanctuary at the same time.
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Day 1 of SmallSat Europe 2026 left the sovereignty debate where European procurement had left it: four definitions chasing one budget line. Day 3 produced three working answers — Spain's capability-ownership stack, Poland's portfolio diversification, and the on-orbit servicing panel's commercial veto.
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Atos, a global provider of digital transformation and managed services, has been selected by satellite communications company Viasat to deploy a multi-year program aimed at modernizing its digital workplace infrastructure […]
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