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Cambridge Consultants' Stewart Marsh built Iridium's Push-to-Talk satellite phone and helped deliver a $3 billion constellation upgrade. At SmallSat Europe, he joins the opening market outlook panel.
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ESA's Director of Technology oversees every mission the agency flies. After recovering a tumbling spacecraft in a three-month rescue operation, Dr. Dietmar Pilz brings Europe's technology readiness question to SmallSat Europe's defense stage.
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Omar Qaise founded OQ Technology to build 5G NB-IoT connectivity from LEO. The company proved an end-to-end link with a standard terrestrial chipset — no hardware modifications required. At SmallSat Europe, he joins the panel on 5G NTN regulation.
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Kateryna Chernohorenko served as Ukraine's Deputy Minister of Defence for Digital Development, building Reserve+, Army+, and the NATO-certified DELTA system under active combat. She created the Space Policy Directorate. At SmallSat Europe, she joins a fireside chat on defence innovation and Ukraine's space imperative.
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The S-1 reveals SpaceX is three businesses (Connectivity, Space, and AI), only one of which is profitable today. With an implied $1.75 trillion valuation, here is what every satellite operator needs to read before SPCX prices on June 11.
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Celia Pelaz joined Spire Global as COO from HENSOLDT's Management Board. The company projects 30%+ revenue growth in 2026 with more than $200 million in backlog. At SmallSat Europe, she brings the operational playbook.
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John Rood leads Momentus (NASDAQ: MNTS), a publicly traded in-space transportation company that has placed eight customer satellites in orbit. Before joining Momentus, he served as Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. At SmallSat Europe, he brings the operational track record.
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Cowboy Space Corporation, formerly Aetherflux, closed a $275M Series B led by Index Ventures and filed plans for a 20,000-satellite "Stampede" constellation three days later. The largest single capital commitment in orbital compute history lands inside a thesis SatNews has been mapping bottleneck by bottleneck all year. Editor-in-Chief Nick Warfield on what Cowboy actually bet $275M on, and what they have to prove.
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Moritz Novak co-founded GATE Space to build green propulsion systems for maneuverable smallsats. The company is building Austria's first military satellite. At SmallSat Europe, he delivers a Tech Brief on redefining satellite mobility for defense.
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With Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) set to begin on June 8, 2026, the tech industry is focusing on what could be the most significant overhaul of the iPhone’s software […]
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