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On the day the FCC approved Amazon’s Globalstar deal, analyst Tim Farrar told Silicon Valley Space Week that carriers have concluded relatively few people will pay for satellite-to-phone service.
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Greenberg Traurig’s Kathryne Dickerson walked Silicon Valley Space Week through the FCC’s new Part 100 licensing process, as an earlier panel weighed licensing timelines and the next Congress.
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WASHINGTON — The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted during its open meeting on Thursday morning, Oct. 29, to advance proposed rules modernizing regulatory structures for direct-to-device (D2D) satellite connectivity across […]
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KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian tactical radio manufacturer HIMERA and Danish small-satellite developer GomSpace have initiated in-orbit operations of OBRIA NANO, a technology demonstration spacecraft engineered to validate the core architecture […]
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Blue Origin is preparing to resume flight operations of its New Glenn rocket as early as November 2026, significantly accelerating its recovery timeline following ground infrastructure […]
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Sierra Space and Northrop Grumman have refuelable satellites headed to GEO with different interfaces. At MilSat, Sierra’s Erik Daehler gave the Space Force an 18-month clock.
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York, Terran Orbital and CesiumAstro say they scaled production as asked, but stop-start contract funding makes high-rate satellite manufacturing hard to sustain.
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SDA’s Sandhoo and DIU’s Butow told Silicon Valley Space Week that startups need working hardware and a path to revenue. COMSO’s Trimailo described new help getting cleared.
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Terrestar signed an MoU with Equatys founders Space42 and Viasat to link its planned CaStar constellation. Jason Trembley explained why Canada can’t go it alone.
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In an unclassified space security assessment released Monday, Oct. 26, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) published high-resolution orbital imagery detailing China’s secretive Shenlong robotic spaceplane. The image, collected in 2024 […]
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