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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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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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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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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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As of today, May 5, 2026, NASA has officially submitted a filing to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) objecting to Blue Origin’s “Project Sunrise” application. The project, first revealed in […]
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The FCC votes Thursday, April 30, to replace 1990s EPFD limits with a performance-based coordination framework. SpaceX got its waiver January 9; Amazon Kuiper followed in February. By the time the Commission codifies the new rules, the two largest LEO operators will have been running under them for three to four months. The vote is not the starting gun. It is the regularization of a head start.
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