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On September 1, 2026, Spanish launch provider PLD Space announced an extension to its Series C financing round, securing an additional €108 million in equity capital. The tranche expands the […]
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Elve said on August 19 that its 100 watt millimeter wave space amplifier had reached TRL-8, in a market where the incumbent describes itself as the only American maker of space-qualified traveling wave tubes. Dr. Diana Gamzina, the company's founder and chief executive, joins the ground bottleneck panel on the opening day of Satellite Innovation at Silicon Valley Space Week.
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For decades the U.S. had one supplier of space-qualified traveling wave tube amplifiers. Elve CEO Diana Gamzina says its TRL-8 qualification makes it two — and the Justice Department spent the first half of 2026 making the same single-source argument about the market next door. Qualification and flight heritage are different things, and the incumbent counts 360 million on-orbit hours.
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Blue Origin has three ground stations running and six more to build by December, and the partner surveying, procuring, deploying and hosting them is RBC Signals. Ron Faith, the company's president and chief executive, joins the ground bottleneck panel on the opening day of Satellite Innovation at Silicon Valley Space Week.
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On August 29, 2026, European aerospace group Airbus initiated a strategic review of its U.S. satellite manufacturing business, evaluating options that include a potential sale of its automated production facility […]
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Saudi Arabia’s space sector investments are projected to increase nearly four-fold over the next decade, growing from $8.7 billion in 2024 to $31.6 billion by 2035, according to a report […]
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On Thursday, August 27, 2026, NASA announced that astronaut Lt. Cmdr. Jonny Kim has departed the civilian space agency to return to full-time active military duty with the U.S. Navy. […]
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A NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory astrophysicist published the arithmetic of orbital computing in April: one megawatt needs 5,640 square meters of solar array and 2,500 square meters of radiator, and the economics only close between $250 and $1,000 per kilogram for launch and build combined. Dr. Slava Turyshev joins the orbital data center panel on the opening day of Satellite Innovation at Silicon Valley Space Week.
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On August 26, 2026, Danish small satellite manufacturer GomSpace Group AB published its interim report for the second quarter and first half of 2026. The company achieved a 30 percent […]
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Addressing expanding constellation manifests and civil exploration timelines, space organizations globally are encountering severe labor shortages and retention bottlenecks. Industry data highlights that 95 percent of space companies face skills-related […]
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