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Read the whole conference rather than a panel a day and one argument runs underneath it. The industry has stopped worrying about capital and technology. It is worrying about access: to launch, to spectrum, to the ground, to the parts.
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The FCC adopted its Part 100 rules in July, ending the surety bond for geostationary operators and putting non-geostationary systems outside processing rounds on the ITU deployment clock. Kathryne Dickerson, the Greenberg Traurig shareholder who wrote her firm's first alerts on the new framework, gives the market brief on what it changes at Silicon Valley Space Week.
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The Space Force is letting SpaceX decide how many satellites the $2.29 billion Space Data Network Backbone will carry, and it plans to zero out future Transport Layer funding in fiscal 2027. Preston Dunlap, the first Chief Architect Officer of the Space Force and Air Force, moderates the panel on whether that network is a backbone or a single point of failure at Silicon Valley Space Week.
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NASA ran a scale model of SpaceX's Super Heavy booster through the Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel at Ames, and the data feeds the software that will guide it back through the atmosphere. Dr. Eugene Tu, the center's director, gives the first talk of the second day at Silicon Valley Space Week, on what Ames will de-risk for industry.
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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. Adam Marsh, the company's Vice President of Technical Solutions, 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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