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On Saturday, October 17, 2026, space tracking data and defense reports revealed that Russian military satellite Kosmos 2612 executed a sequence of synchronized orbital maneuvers to shadow ICEYE-X36, a commercial […]
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Editorial Note: On October 14, 2026, SatNews reported—based on direct statements from Ukrainian defense advisers—that SpaceX had unilaterally imposed velocity caps on Starshield terminals in Ukraine. Subsequent reporting by Reuters […]
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On September 28, 2026, a coalition of 20 European governments approved plans to invest up to €24 billion ($27 billion) in SPACE, a joint military space program establishing sovereign defense […]
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On Sept. 23, 2026, the European Space Agency (ESA) initiated the selection phase for in-orbit demonstration missions supporting the European Union’s planned military Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) satellite network. […]
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On Sept. 22, 2026, in-space transportation services provider Impulse Space secured a $28 million contract from the U.S. Space Force to deliver an orbital Space Domain Awareness (SDA) demonstration mission. […]
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On Sept. 17, 2026, defense intelligence assessments revealed that Russian Earth observation and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite constellations are actively providing high-resolution imagery to Iranian military forces to assist […]
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ICEYE has established national entities in Germany, Portugal, India, the Netherlands and Korea inside 49 days and named a country chief executive for the UAE in the same window. CEO Rafal Modrzewski and ICEYE UAE chief Christos Kolimenakis told SatNews what the country-leadership model is actually selling: schedule. Poland went from contract signature to a constellation its own military operators fly in under 12 months, while France's first sovereign radar demonstrator does not enter service until 2029.
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On August 10, 2026, a Japanese H-3 launch vehicle lifted off from the Tanegashima Space Center carrying Japan’s Quasi-Zenith Satellite 7 (QZS-7) spacecraft, which hosts an optical Space Domain Awareness […]
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On August 11, 2026, Italian cybersecurity scale-up DamoTech officially joined the Space Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Space ISAC). The membership expands the international threat-sharing community, bringing specialized European space-domain […]
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On July 30, 2026, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, carrying the classified NROL-95 payload […]
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