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Dispatch from SmallSat Symposium. Dr. Marco Brancati, newly minted Technical Director of the Leonardo Space Division, took the stage for the Keynote By Leonardo. Brancati didn't come to Mountain View to talk about democratizing space but to describe a fortress under construction.
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Dispatch from SmallSat Symposium. Even here in the heart of Silicon Valley, the conversation has pivoted aggressively toward the Pentagon. The topic is the Golden Dome, the administration’s missile defense architecture mandated by Executive Order 14186 and funded at $175 billion.
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BENGALURU, India – Key government officials and industry leaders from the United States and India met in Bengaluru on Tuesday, Feb. 10, for the inaugural US-India Commercial Space Forum of […]
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Dispatch from SmallSat Symposium. The polite fiction that the commercial space industry exists primarily for crop yields and climate monitoring has ended. During the symposium’s Future of Geospatial Intelligence session, industry titans stopped pretending their product is intended for sale to NGOs, admitting they are instead building a new global backbone for national defense.
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Dispatch from SmallSat Symposium: The era of the slide-deck billionaire is dead. Attendees entering the Small Satellites: Trends and Opportunities session expecting standard futurism about connecting the unconnected or democratizing the stars were likely disappointed. The mood at SmallSat Symposium has shifted from gold-rush optimism to the cold calculus of a fortress under construction.
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In early 2026, the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) released a critical analysis regarding the “untethered” expansion of foreign Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellations into India’s critical social infrastructure. The […]
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Chris Forrester — India has increased its space-related budget for the upcoming 2026-2027 period to $1.64 billion which goes to the nation’s Dept. of Space. The total is ₹13,705.63 crore […]
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On February 5, 2026, Callala Ltd, trading as SustainabilityOf.Space, announced the launch of the Scottish Space Sector Sustainability, Safety, and Security Maturity Assessment. This pioneering project, funded by Space Scotland […]
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On February 5, 2026, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) officially granted Logos Space Services, Inc. the authority to construct, launch, and operate a major new non-geostationary orbit (NGSO) satellite system. […]
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On January 30, 2026, Amazon formally requested a 24-month extension from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to meet a critical deployment milestone for its satellite broadband network, now rebranded as […]
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