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The FCC adopted its Part 100 rules in July, ending the surety bond for geostationary operators and putting non-geostationary systems outside processing rounds on the ITU deployment clock. Kathryne Dickerson, the Greenberg Traurig shareholder who wrote her firm's first alerts on the new framework, gives the market brief on what it changes at Silicon Valley Space Week.
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On Sept. 23, 2026, the European Space Agency (ESA) initiated the selection phase for in-orbit demonstration missions supporting the European Union’s planned military Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) satellite network. […]
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On Sept. 23, 2026, speaking at the European Commission’s 2nd Access to Space Conference in Brussels, European Commissioner for Defense and Space Andrius Kubilius stated that European institutional missions will […]
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On Sept. 23, 2026, Chinese commercial launch startup Space Epoch finalized a B++ financing round, bringing its total Series B capital raised over the past six months to more than […]
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On Sept. 23, 2026, a technical report detailing radiation test results for the DMU41 Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) outlined how sensor reset architectures de-risk satellite navigation systems operating in radiation-heavy […]
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On Sept. 23, 2026, satellite communications provider Viasat announced that its subsidiary, Inmarsat Government, Inc., received the Marine Enterprise Commercial Satcom Satellite Services (MECS2) contract from the U.S. Space Force […]
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On Sept. 22, 2026, in-space transportation services provider Impulse Space secured a $28 million contract from the U.S. Space Force to deliver an orbital Space Domain Awareness (SDA) demonstration mission. […]
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On Sept. 24, 2026, aerospace startup Beyond Reach Labs will formally open a 16,000-square-foot manufacturing and testing facility at Brooklyn’s Industry City complex in New York. Founded by SpaceX veterans […]
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On Sept. 23, 2026, SpaceX Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk forecasted that the Starlink low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite network could transport the majority of total global internet traffic within […]
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On Sept. 22, 2026, the Space Development Agency (SDA) issued a formal request for proposals (RFP) valued at $369 million to procure next-generation ground communications infrastructure for its missile warning […]
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