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On August 31, 2026, the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) within the U.S. Department of Defense awarded an Other Transaction (OT) agreement to ALL.SPACE, a wholly owned subsidiary of York Space […]
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On September 1, 2026, Spanish launch provider PLD Space announced an extension to its Series C financing round, securing an additional €108 million in equity capital. The tranche expands the […]
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Elve said on August 19 that its 100 watt millimeter wave space amplifier had reached TRL-8, in a market where the incumbent describes itself as the only American maker of space-qualified traveling wave tubes. Dr. Diana Gamzina, the company's founder and chief executive, joins the ground bottleneck panel on the opening day of Satellite Innovation at Silicon Valley Space Week.
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On August 31, 2026, space situational awareness (SSA) provider NorthStar Earth & Space was selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) to lead the FALCON initiative, an international industrial and […]
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On August 31, 2026, SpaceX submitted a petition to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) requesting that regulators block or attach strict operational conditions to a proposed satellite deployment by geostationary […]
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On August 31, 2026, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) achieved an orbital milestone by deploying its first geostationary Earth observation imager. The satellite platform provides persistent meteorological imaging and […]
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On August 31, 2026, Teledyne Space Imaging, a business unit of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated, announced that it surpassed 1,000 space-qualified scientific imaging sensors operating in orbit. The milestone was achieved […]
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On August 31, 2026, Dutch shipping operator Royal Wagenborg contracted maritime technology provider De Boer Marine to execute a multiyear, phased deployment of onboard connectivity, IT infrastructure, and cybersecurity systems […]
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On August 30, 2026, NASA initiated launch operations for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, its next flagship astrophysics observatory, featuring primary scientific instrument assemblies engineered and delivered by BAE […]
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For decades the U.S. had one supplier of space-qualified traveling wave tube amplifiers. Elve CEO Diana Gamzina says its TRL-8 qualification makes it two — and the Justice Department spent the first half of 2026 making the same single-source argument about the market next door. Qualification and flight heritage are different things, and the incumbent counts 360 million on-orbit hours.
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