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On August 12, 2026, in-space transportation provider Impulse Space was awarded a $28 million Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase III contract extension by the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems […]
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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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Pegasus XL's final flight ended the only operational orbital-class air-launch system the same week VICTUS HAZE delivered a 17-hour tactical call-up from a fixed pad. Responsiveness turned out to be a software and operations problem, not an aircraft problem.
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ICEYE has proven that European-owned, sovereign-operated reconnaissance works at scale; the continent's task now is to build a deeper bench of champions on the model it pioneered.
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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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"Dual-use" was supposed to unlock procurement. On Day 3 of SmallSat Europe 2026 it got taken apart by the operators it was meant to help — Alam (Luxembourg), Gleason (Aerospace Corporation), Villemos (Leanspace), and Black (RAND Europe) — arguing the label routes funding and strips legal sanctuary at the same time.
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Day 1 of SmallSat Europe 2026 left the sovereignty debate where European procurement had left it: four definitions chasing one budget line. Day 3 produced three working answers — Spain's capability-ownership stack, Poland's portfolio diversification, and the on-orbit servicing panel's commercial veto.
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AI shipped to production in European space on Day 2 of SmallSat Europe 2026. Ubotica's Aubrey Dunne walked through a deployed maritime ISR use case. Cognitive Space, Telespazio, and Spaceflux put the trust problem on the table. The next procurement question is auditability, not capability. The European vendor that builds the audit layer around the model wins the defence contract.
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Day 2 of SmallSat Europe 2026 was when European space publicly accepted that contested orbit is a 2026 operating condition, not a 2030 scenario. Donati put the doctrine pivot in a single line. Rotteveel put replenishment velocity on the table as the new constellation-design metric. Tillier framed SatCen interoperability as the work of the next two years.
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