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NASA and the Department of Energy signed an agreement on October 8 to accelerate space nuclear power and propulsion, three months after a Miami company flew a tritium-powered payload on a SpaceX rideshare. Peter Cabauy, co-founder and chief executive of City Labs, gives the technical brief on nuclear power for satellites at the MilSat Symposium.
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On October 12, 2026, Luxembourg-based ispace-EUROPE S.A. and Italian space engineering firm ALTEC S.p.A. signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on lunar rover testing, mission simulations, and operator […]
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On October 8, 2026, space systems manufacturer Blue Origin announced plans to construct Constellation Park, a $550 million satellite manufacturing complex in central Texas. The 120,000-square-meter (1.3 million-square-foot) industrial facility […]
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On October 8, 2026, satellite network operator SpaceX announced a definitive agreement to acquire the nationwide 800 MHz low-band spectrum portfolio held by digital infrastructure investment firm Grain Management. The […]
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The Space Force cancelled a $1 billion program to harden GPS against jamming in January, and the GAO reported this week that the Army will not finish fielding anti-jam receivers on its aircraft until 2049. Patrick Shannon, whose company has ordered forty satellites for a navigation system that does not use GPS, gives the market brief on protected PNT at Silicon Valley Space Week.
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On October 8, 2026, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued Patent No. 12,757,141 B1 to SpaceX, detailing a beam synchronization and signal delay compensation system engineered for […]
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On October 8, 2026, satellite platform developer Muon Space announced the expansion of its executive leadership team with the appointments of Jody Kelman as Chief Product Officer and Emelia Probasco […]
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Last year at Silicon Valley Space Week, Tim Farrar chaired a panel that asked whether direct-to-device was overhyped. Since then SpaceX has agreed to take more EchoStar spectrum for Starlink Direct to Cell and Amazon has filed for a constellation of its own. Farrar returns with a solo market brief on what Starlink's dominance in broadband and direct-to-device means.
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Financial market disclosures released in early October 2026 highlighted shifting competitive dynamics across the commercial space sector as Rocket Lab USA pursues dual operational tracks: challenging civil space contract awards […]
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In a market analysis released in October 2026, intelligence platform GlobalData projected that fixed communications service revenue in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region will grow at a compound annual growth rate […]
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