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Professor Tim Farrar of TMF Associates has released a comprehensive new analysis detailing the consumer business prospects for Starlink. Published on June 5, 2026, the report arrives at a critical […]
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Kongsberg Satellite Services, a premier global provider of integrated mission operations, and the Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space, an innovative Japanese aerospace company, have officially announced a significant expansion […]
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Beyond Gravity has introduced a new two-axis electric propulsion pointing mechanism, designated as the APPMAX2-XS, designed specifically to meet the rigorous demands of the small satellite market operating in Low […]
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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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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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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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A former AMD VP and an Oxford economist put the megawatt orbital data center thesis through physics and capital-allocation math at SmallSat Europe 2026.
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Day 2 of SmallSat Europe 2026 was the day Earth observation's competitive frontier moved off the sensor and onto the tasking and integration layer.
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