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SpaceX's revenue rose 92 percent to $7.8 billion in its first quarterly report as a public company, and the stock fell anyway. Alyssa Goessler Goodwin, a Vice President at aerospace and defense investor AE Industrial Partners, joins the panel reading that result on the opening morning of Satellite Innovation at Silicon Valley Space Week.
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The Space Development Agency awarded about $1.75 billion in July for 36 more missile tracking satellites to support Golden Dome, and three days later put 21 more Transport Layer satellites on orbit. Dr. GP Sandhoo, who directs SDA and holds the Space Force missile warning and tracking portfolio, gives the first keynote of the MilSat Symposium at Silicon Valley Space Week.
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Scout Space raised up to $18 million in May to scale the optical payloads it builds to watch other satellites, and Blue Origin manifested its Owl sensor on the first Blue Ring mission. Courtney Sayles, the company's Chief Product Officer, joins the space control panel on the closing day of the MilSat Symposium at Silicon Valley Space Week.
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Planet reported record quarterly revenue of $116.1 million on September 3, up 58 percent, and signed a 240 million euro agreement with the German government last year. Ashley Fieglein Johnson, the company's President and Chief Financial Officer, joins the Germany panel on the opening day of Satellite Innovation at Silicon Valley Space Week.
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LeoLabs won a $20.68 million prototype agreement in August to demonstrate a variant of Scout-S, the S-band transportable radar it first fielded in the Indo-Pacific in June. Dr. Dan Ceperley, the company's co-founder and chief operating officer, closes the opening day of Satellite Innovation at Silicon Valley Space Week.
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Space Systems Command ordered 18 Falcon 9 missions out of Vandenberg in July, all expected to fly by the end of 2027. Brig. Gen. Eric Zarybnisky, who runs the Space Force's launch portfolio, sits for an interview closing the opening day of the MilSat Symposium at Silicon Valley Space Week.
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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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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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Blue Origin has three ground stations running and six more to build by December, and the partner surveying, procuring, deploying and hosting them is RBC Signals. Ron Faith, the company's president and chief executive, joins the ground bottleneck panel on the opening day of Satellite Innovation at Silicon Valley Space Week.
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A NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory astrophysicist published the arithmetic of orbital computing in April: one megawatt needs 5,640 square meters of solar array and 2,500 square meters of radiator, and the economics only close between $250 and $1,000 per kilogram for launch and build combined. Dr. Slava Turyshev joins the orbital data center panel on the opening day of Satellite Innovation at Silicon Valley Space Week.
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