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ICEYE has proven that European-owned, sovereign-operated reconnaissance works at scale; the continent's task now is to build a deeper bench of champions on the model it pioneered.
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MADRID, SPAIN — June 24, 2026 — FOSSA Systems, a prominent player in the European space and defense ecosystem, has officially closed a €9.25 million funding round to accelerate its […]
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Defense Tech Startup Partners With Elite Silicon Valley Backers to Combat Proliferated Under-Earth Bunkers and Tunnel Networks DETROIT — Confronting a massive vertical bias in global military spending that routinely […]
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READING, UK — European satellite manufacturer NewOrbit has officially announced the closing of an oversubscribed $18.5 million Series A funding round aimed at commercializing Earth’s very low Earth orbit (VLEO). […]
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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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For a decade, European space had one problem: not enough money. By the end of Day 1 of SmallSat Europe 2026, that problem was gone — and a sharper one had replaced it. Europe has the budget. The supply chain is the bottleneck. The next 18 months decide which side of the gap European defense space lands on.
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Cowboy Space Corporation, formerly Aetherflux, closed a $275M Series B led by Index Ventures and filed plans for a 20,000-satellite "Stampede" constellation three days later. The largest single capital commitment in orbital compute history lands inside a thesis SatNews has been mapping bottleneck by bottleneck all year. Editor-in-Chief Nick Warfield on what Cowboy actually bet $275M on, and what they have to prove.
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Chris Forrester — There’s a wonderful scene in the 1963 20th Century Fox movie ‘Cleopatra’. Cleopatra is dead, and the victorious Romans under Gaius Octavian (played by Roddy McDowell) having […]
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Massimo Comparini, Managing Director of Leonardo's Space Division, is leading the company's roughly €500 million investment in a proprietary LEO constellation. At SmallSat Europe, he delivers the keynote "Decoding Europe's Smallsat Ascent."
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McKinsey partner Dr. Jakob Stöber co-authored the report that quantified Europe's space launch gap: five rockets in 2025 versus 154 for the United States. At SmallSat Europe, he brings the investor's lens to a conference floor dominated by engineers and operators.
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