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Secretary Troy Meink and space acquisition advisor Maj. Gen. Stephen Purdy laid out Space Force execution plans, SDA-style PAE reform, and a multi-year satellite buying push at Space Symposium 2026.
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Acting SDA chief Dr. Gurpartap "GP" Sandhoo told reporters at Space Symposium 2026 that Tranche 1 Transport Layer launches will restart in May or June.
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U.S. Space Command moves its first operational personnel to Redstone Arsenal this week as Gen. Stephen Whiting advances a maneuver warfare strategy.
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Chief of Space Operations uses his final Space Symposium briefing to set force design through 2040, scale procurement and press allied integration.
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Poland's space sector posted its first profitable year in January 2026. Col. Marcin Mazur, VP of the Polish Space Agency, takes the SmallSat Europe stage to explain how policy becomes procurement.
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Targeting the growing requirement for resilient space domain awareness and autonomous orbital infrastructure, the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) will unveil its latest suite of revolutionary technologies at the 41st […]
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On April 5, 2026, Planet Labs PBC confirmed it has indefinitely suspended the distribution of satellite imagery covering Iran and broader Middle East conflict zones. This policy shift follows a […]
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The satellite industry has built roughly 10 percent of the optical ground infrastructure it needs. Without 200 to 500 optical ground stations, the Pentagon's $35 billion PWSA and $185 billion Golden Dome programs risk becoming stranded assets — data moves flawlessly in orbit but cannot reach the ground.
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Europe is the only major space power building its smallsat sector on defense procurement rather than venture capital or state industrial policy. The demand signal is institutional, contracted, and accelerating.
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Telesat’s decision to hardwire 500 MHz of military Ka-band spectrum into Lightspeed’s first 156 satellites resolved a near-term financing crisis. It also created a targeting problem that no commercial service agreement can fix.
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