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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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Astroscale U.S. has a $25.5 million refueling spacecraft built and waiting on a ride to geostationary orbit. Janna Lewis carries the policy case for that mission, and she appears on both Silicon Valley Space Week stages: a panelist on the orbital data center session at Satellite Innovation, and moderator of the closing commercial architectures panel at the MilSat Symposium.
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Joseph Yaffe is Chief Operating Officer and Chief Legal Officer of Cowboy Space Corporation, which has filed to fly up to 20,000 orbital data center satellites. He joins the orbital data center panel on the opening day of Satellite Innovation at Silicon Valley Space Week.
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Robert Cardillo ran the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency from 2014 to 2019 and now chairs Planet Labs' federal arm. He joins a panel on how commercial satellite imagery is reaching military decisions, on the final day of the MilSat Symposium at Silicon Valley Space Week.
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Eutelsat has committed €3.39 billion to build and operate the low Earth orbit segment of Europe's IRIS² constellation. Ian Canning runs the subsidiary that sells the company's existing constellation to the U.S. government, and he opens the Satellite Innovation track's second day at Silicon Valley Space Week.
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On August 8, 2026, Teledyne Technologies Incorporated announced plans to showcase its integrated defense, space, and advanced sensing portfolio at the upcoming 2026 Space and Missile Defense (SMD) Symposium in […]
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NTIA's Office of Spectrum Management has 500 megahertz to find and a 2027 deadline. Scott Patrick, who helps direct that work, joins the Satellite Innovation track at Silicon Valley Space Week.
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Col. Timothy Trimailo directs the Space Force office turning commercial satellites into operational military capability. On October 28 he takes the MilSat Symposium stage twice: a fireside keynote on space superiority and the commercial question, and a buy-versus-build budget session with Chris Quilty.
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FARNBOROUGH, U.K. – The 2026 Farnborough International Airshow, held July 20 through July 24, marked a decisive structural evolution in the event’s 78-year history as military technologies, defense electronics, and […]
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On Monday, August 31, 2026, the Space Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Space ISAC) will open its seventh annual Value of Space Summit (VOSS VII) in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Reflecting […]
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