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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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Globalsat Group, a prominent provider of satellite and hybrid connectivity solutions, has announced its expansion into the North American rail market. The company will showcase its mission-critical communication architectures as […]
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Stefano Antonetti at D-Orbit told the conference Europe has ships but no ports. The metaphor surfaced in five other Day 3 venues — Jarvis at Kepler, Mignolo at ESA, Willems at ST Engineering iDirect, Angellotti at EUSPA, Alam on the resilience panel. The category shifted from satellite to infrastructure layer.
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"Dual-use" was supposed to unlock procurement. On Day 3 of SmallSat Europe 2026 it got taken apart by the operators it was meant to help — Alam (Luxembourg), Gleason (Aerospace Corporation), Villemos (Leanspace), and Black (RAND Europe) — arguing the label routes funding and strips legal sanctuary at the same time.
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Day 1 of SmallSat Europe 2026 left the sovereignty debate where European procurement had left it: four definitions chasing one budget line. Day 3 produced three working answers — Spain's capability-ownership stack, Poland's portfolio diversification, and the on-orbit servicing panel's commercial veto.
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OHB Italia ships two 25-kilogram IRIDE microsatellites a month, comfortably, a deliberate departure from its five-year institutional-tier work. Day 2 of SmallSat Europe 2026 was when European production rates moved from claim to public number, and the supplier tier underneath has to match.
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A former AMD VP and an Oxford economist put the megawatt orbital data center thesis through physics and capital-allocation math at SmallSat Europe 2026.
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Day 2 of SmallSat Europe 2026 was the day Earth observation's competitive frontier moved off the sensor and onto the tasking and integration layer.
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