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ThrustMe founder Dr. Ane Aanesland has put 100 iodine propulsion systems in orbit and signed a €10 million Japanese contract. At SmallSat Europe, she joins a panel asking whether orbital environmental services will become a real business.
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Odysseus Space CEO Jordan Vannitsen argues that laser communication is the missing infrastructure layer that will turn isolated satellite constellations into connected, distributed computing systems in orbit.
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SatNews Editorial Analysis Before we dream of floating data centers, we must understand why the SmallSat is the only laboratory that matters. Welcome to The Fractal Lab: a three-part series on […]
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Dispatch from SmallSat Symposium. The era of cheap, plentiful, and diverse access to space was supposed to be here by now. Instead, the industry arrived at the 2026 SmallSat Symposium only to find itself trapped in a bottleneck of its own making.
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On February 3, 2026, ExLabs (Exploration Laboratories) announced a strategic partnership with CUS-GNC to integrate the SpacePilot onboard autonomy software into its upcoming Mission to Asteroid Apophis. The mission, dubbed […]
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In Part 2 of this series, we examine the second bottleneck facing the Orbital Data Center (ODC) : Data Gravity. We will explore why moving exabytes to and from orbit is harder than processing them, and how this specific constraint fractures the market into two mutually exclusive compute types: the high-speed "Real-Time Reduction Hub" and the massive "Batch Trainer." We will also examine other computing challenges unique to space.
Read MoreBefore we dream of floating data centers, we must understand why the SmallSat is the only laboratory that matters. Welcome to The Fractal Lab: a three-part series on why orbital computing succeeds or fails first at 10 kilograms, not 10,000.
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On January 28, 2026, Terran Orbital, a Lockheed Martin Company, announced it has been selected to provide its Nebula satellite bus for the Mitsubishi Electric LEO Demo Mission. The state-of-the-art […]
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In the aerospace sector, the success of orbital delivery and recovery cycles is fundamentally dependent on the equilibrium between Newtonian mechanics and Pascal’s principle. During the launch phase, Isaac Newton’s […]
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The test utilized a portable, high-intensity loudspeaker array to simulate the ascent environment, replacing traditional shaker-table methods for the massive lunar vehicle.
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