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ATHENS, Greece – August 3, 2026 – To expand national space infrastructure and domestic industrial capabilities, Greece’s Ministry of Digital Governance and Artificial Intelligence unveiled the Hellas-Space 2.0 national space […]
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July 29, 2026 – NASA has officially transitioned propulsion test expert Ray Williams from contractor status to a full civil servant role at the agency’s Stennis Space Center near Bay […]
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On Tuesday, July 21, 2026, Reading-based satellite manufacturer NewOrbit welcomed the UK Government’s new £62 million funding package for the national space sector. Commenting on the strategic initiative outlined by […]
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Targeting the widening governance gap surrounding the militarization of commercial orbital assets, Space & Satellite Professionals International (SSPI) released the inaugural episode of its new Collateral Risk podcast series on […]
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On Friday, July 3, 2026, the South Korean government formally authorized a sweeping national aerospace roadmap that pulls forward its first uncrewed lunar landing by two years and establishes a […]
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a joint ceremony at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building on Monday, June 29, 2026, NASA and the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) signed a […]
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — In an expansion of its public-private orbital framework, NASA has broadened its Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) initiative to streamline how commercial Earth observation data is ingested […]
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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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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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