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Muon Space has announced the development of Condor-Ultra, a new “Starship-class” satellite platform tailored specifically for the emerging orbital data center market. Scaling Infrastructure for In-Space Computing Announced on June […]
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Impulse Space has successfully closed a $500 million Series D funding round, co-led by 137 Ventures and BANNER VC, with additional participation from Founder’s Fund, Lux Capital, and Linse Capital. […]
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Amazon has successfully expanded its low Earth orbit broadband network, recently rebranded as Amazon Leo, surpassing a total of 330 satellites currently in orbit. This latest milestone was achieved following […]
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In the commercial space industry, there is a thriving ecosystem of companies that buy future payload capacity on rockets specifically to resell it on the open market. These companies are […]
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The low Earth orbit Starlink network allows frontline soldiers to maintain encrypted group chats, fly reconnaissance and strike drones, and securely upload real-time images of potential targets to coordinate precise […]
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Stefano Antonetti at D-Orbit told the conference Europe has ships but no ports. The metaphor surfaced in five other Day 3 venues — Jarvis at Kepler, Mignolo at ESA, Willems at ST Engineering iDirect, Angellotti at EUSPA, Alam on the resilience panel. The category shifted from satellite to infrastructure layer.
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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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OmniAccess, a global provider of digital solutions for the luxury cruise and superyacht sectors, has officially launched NextGen Fusion 2.0. The new service is designed to shift maritime communications beyond […]
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OHB Italia ships two 25-kilogram IRIDE microsatellites a month, comfortably, a deliberate departure from its five-year institutional-tier work. Day 2 of SmallSat Europe 2026 was when European production rates moved from claim to public number, and the supplier tier underneath has to match.
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