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On August 20, 2026, satellite communications industry experts Dubi Lever and Juan Deaton highlighted how recent kinetic and electronic attacks against military and commercial teleports are forcing a structural shift […]
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On August 19, 2026, Davis, California-based high-power amplifier manufacturer Elve announced that its 100 W millimeter-wave (mmWave) Space Traveling Wave Tube Amplifier (TWTA) platform achieved Technology Readiness Level 8 (TRL-8) […]
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The Golden Dome interceptor layer has twelve companies competing against a 2028 clock and a fiscal 2027 request that Congress has not funded. Phil Carrai, whose Kratos division holds an agreement worth up to $446.8 million for ground management and integration on the Space Force's medium orbit missile warning and tracking architecture, moderates the industrial capacity panel at the MilSat Symposium.
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Motion and fluid control systems manufacturer Moog Inc. announced a new High Delta-V configuration for its flight-proven METEORITE satellite bus platform. The platform variant provides increased thrust and expanded propellant […]
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On August 18, 2026, Australian space situational awareness vendor HEO announced a strategic partnership with Earth observation operator Planet Labs PBC to integrate Planet’s SkySat constellation into HEO’s Non-Earth Imaging […]
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On August 19, 2026, Firefly Aerospace announced an agreement with radioisotope power developer Zeno Power to integrate a radioisotope heating unit (RHU) aboard an upcoming Blue Ghost lunar lander mission. […]
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On August 13, 2026, space infrastructure provider Intuitive Machines disclosed during its second-quarter 2026 financial report that it secured a commercial contract valued at over $600 million to build three […]
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On August 19, 2026, ThinKom Solutions Inc. announced that the U.S. Army’s Portfolio Acquisition Executive Fires (PAE Fires), operating through Program Manager for Advanced Counter-Unmanned Aircraft System Effects (PM ACE), […]
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Targeting the vendor lock-in and closed ecosystem limitations of proprietary mega-constellations like SpaceX’s Starlink, Lithuanian optical communications developer Astrolight is scaling an open-standard, interoperable laser communication architecture across space, ground, […]
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On August 17, 2026, Viasat Inc. announced it selected Rocket Lab Corporation to manufacture a small geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO) satellite bus for the U.S. Space Force (USSF) Space Systems […]
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