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GENEVA — While SpaceX dominates the physical reality of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) with a staggering 10,653 active satellites, Beijing is playing a high-stakes regulatory chess game to lock the […]
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — In the rapidly accelerating race to dominate the low-Earth orbit (LEO) economy, the most decisive battles are no longer being fought on launchpads in Cape Canaveral or […]
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Two SpaceX contracts, a House mark dissolving SDA, and a New Glenn pad fire — read together, they ended the multi-prime model for U.S. military space.
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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" 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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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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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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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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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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