Major opportunities for 2 GHz over Europe
Chris Forrester — It might be some time yet for the dust to settle and would-be buyers to emerge over Europe’s plans to sell off some key satellite frequencies over […]
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“Dual-use” is the funding word. It’s also the label operators want off.
"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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Sovereignty got an answer on Day 3. Two answers, actually, and a commercial veto.
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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Dependency killed the old debate. Sovereignty is the new one, and Europe hasn’t agreed what it means.
A single shutoff order in 2025 ended a decade-long debate. Single-source dependency is the strategic risk Europe is now organizing around — and "dual-use" is no longer the operative category. The replacement frame is technological sovereignty. The harder problem: Europe is using the same word for four different things.
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Canadian Space Agency Shifts to Agile Procurement and Resets WildFireSat Mission
Embracing Speed and Iteration At the recent Space Canada Horizons conference, Canadian Space Agency President Lisa Campbell announced a major shift in how the organization approaches space procurement. Moving away […]
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BAE Systems Supplies Sensor Hardware for Space Force Next-Gen Polar Satellite
In a statement released on Friday, May 15, 2026, BAE Systems announced the delivery of critical flight hardware to support the U.S. Space Force’s Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared Polar […]
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Pentagon Enforces Commercial Satellite Blackout Over Middle East War Zone
The United States government and primary domestic commercial satellite operators have restricted public access to high-resolution aerial imagery across Iran and the broader Middle East conflict zone. The data blackout […]
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ESA and Spain Establish Formal Framework for Sovereign Satellite Connectivity
On May 20, 2026, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Spanish Space Agency (Agencia Espacial Española, or AEE) signed a formal Memorandum of Intent to deepen technical cooperation and […]
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The transatlantic space defense timeline mismatch is now a NATO problem
The United States is advancing its tactical low-Earth orbit (LEO) capabilities with active deployments, while European counterparts are still in the prototyping stage. This divergence creates a significant timeline mismatch. Without a designated NATO authority to mandate interoperability standards, the alliance faces a critical decision on how to ensure a cohesive space-based defense architecture before the 2026 budget cycle.
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Do Satellite Providers Have a Say in Ground-Level Restrictions
A recent documentary was officially released in October 2025 by the anti-vaccine organization ICAN alleged that their study had been suppressed. See here The core of the controversy involves a […]
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