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On Sept. 21, 2026, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr confirmed that the regulatory agency projects raising over $100 billion (€87.1 billion) for the U.S. Treasury through a series […]
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On Sept. 18, 2026, SpaceX submitted a 12-page technical response to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) detailing atmospheric re-entry thermodynamics and orbital collision probabilities for its proposed “Starmind” space-based data […]
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On Sept. 16, 2026, Italian aerospace developer Involve Space secured project funding from the European Space Agency under the Investing in Industrial Innovation (InCubed) programme to develop StratoSAR, a stratospheric […]
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On Sept. 11, 2026, Rocket Lab USA filed a formal bid protest with the U.S. Government Accountability Office, challenging NASA’s decision to award a $700 million contract to Blue Origin […]
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Between Aug. 31 and Sept. 1, 2026, the European Space Agency (ESA) completed the operational lifecycle of its Cluster II magnetospheric observation mission as the final two identical spacecraft, Samba […]
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Cowboy Space's 20,000-satellite Stampede filing implies 400,000 tonnes of hardware against a 3,193-tonne launch year. The FCC has no field for mass.
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On Tuesday, September 8, 2026, market research organization GSMA Intelligence published an analysis following the UK government’s unveiling of its updated national space strategy. Tim Hatt, Head of Research at […]
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On September 4, 2026, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) issued an official statement regarding its organizational roadmap, confirming that the state space agency will neither be privatized nor undergo […]
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On September 3, 2026, major American commercial space companies—including SpaceX, Blue Origin, Stoke Space, and Starcloud—withdrew their participation from the upcoming European Space Summit hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron […]
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DIU and SDA are buying end-of-life disposal as a service. Katalyst's LINK failure and an empty U.S. flight record put the real constraint on bus reliability.
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