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WASHINGTON, D.C. — In an enforcement action announced on Monday, June 29, 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) unsealed a series of court orders authorizing the seizure of nearly […]
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Chris Forrester — The FCC auction of cellular licences (AWS-3, Auction 113) wrapped last week after 72 rounds having settled on accepted bids of more than $3.57 billion. Up to […]
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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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WASHINGTON, D.C. — June 24, 2026 — Breaking a four-year spectrum allocation drought, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) officially wrapped up Auction 113—the Advanced Wireless Services (AWS-3) re-auction—on Tuesday, June […]
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If an astronaut crew suffers a catastrophic life-support failure in low-Earth orbit today, no global authority possesses the centralized legal mandate—or the structural obligation—to execute an emergency rescue mission. This […]
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The high-stakes regulatory battle over the future of the Direct-to-Device (D2D) and Supplemental Coverage from Space (SCS) markets has entered a new phase of entrenched resistance. In a series of […]
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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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