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With Rheinmetall officially abandoning its alternative bid for Mynaric, Germany's justification for blocking Rocket Lab's $150 million acquisition has collapsed. Over 90% of Mynaric's backlog is U.S. DoD money — the company was never a sovereign German asset in any operational sense.
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Following a year of aggressive expansion in the sovereign intelligence market, Finnish Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) specialist ICEYE is projecting revenue to exceed €1 billion ($1.2 billion) in 2027. In […]
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RTX Corporation secured a $2.01 billion ceiling increase on its AEHF terminal contract, raising the total to $2.97 billion — more than triple the original $960 million ceiling from 2021.
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United Teleports CEO Ricardo Dias argues the Ha'Ela teleport strike expanded the threat model for every ground segment operator. The $54 billion ground segment market has invested in cyber resilience but barely addressed kinetic threats.
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BROOMFIELD, COLORADO – On Wednesday, March 11, 2026, BAE Systems announced the successful completion of the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) for the U.S. Space Force (USSF) Space Systems Command (SSC) […]
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THE PENTAGON – Long before the first F-35 stealth fighters entered Iranian airspace on February 28, 2026, the battle for dominance was already being won 22,000 miles above the Earth. […]
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HERNDON, VIRGINIA – On Friday, March 6, 2026, the U.S. Department of Defense announced a major $99 million award to BlackSky Geospatial Solutions LLC for the development of a next-generation […]
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WASHINGTON – In a status update released March 5, 2026, the Space Development Agency (SDA) acknowledged significant hurdles in scaling its Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA). Despite the successful launch […]
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LOUISVILLE, Colorado – On Thursday, March 5, Sierra Space announced the closing of a $550 million Series C equity investment, propelling the company’s valuation to $8 billion. The round was […]
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Operation Epic Fury tests the Law of Armed Conflict in space. How MizarVision's proxy ISR imagery — sourced from U.S. satellites — is straining the legal definitions of combatant, civilian object, and Direct Participation in Hostilities.
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