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With 1.5 billion smartphones shipped in 2025 featuring Neural Processing Units (NPUs) capable of up to 100 TOPS (Trillions of Operations Per Second), the economies of scale from the mobile […]
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Chris Forrester — There’s a wonderful scene in the 1963 20th Century Fox movie ‘Cleopatra’. Cleopatra is dead, and the victorious Romans under Gaius Octavian (played by Roddy McDowell) having […]
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The passing of Ted Turner on May 6, 2026, marks the end of an era for both global journalism and the satellite communications industry. While primarily remembered as a flamboyant […]
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Massimo Comparini, Managing Director of Leonardo's Space Division, is leading the company's roughly €500 million investment in a proprietary LEO constellation. At SmallSat Europe, he delivers the keynote "Decoding Europe's Smallsat Ascent."
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The FCC votes Thursday, April 30, to replace 1990s EPFD limits with a performance-based coordination framework. SpaceX got its waiver January 9; Amazon Kuiper followed in February. By the time the Commission codifies the new rules, the two largest LEO operators will have been running under them for three to four months. The vote is not the starting gun. It is the regularization of a head start.
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On Monday, April 27, 2026, Santa Fe-based Solstar Space Company announced that its Deke Space Communicator has successfully completed its initial on-orbit checkout and is operating nominally. The system was […]
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To address the growing demand for managed high-speed internet in the maritime sector, IEC Telecom has launched the IEC Voucher System during Singapore Maritime Week 2026. Unveiled at the French […]
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On Wednesday, April 22, 2026, Danish small satellite provider GomSpace and Ukrainian technology firm STETMAN signed a strategic agreement at the EU-Ukraine Business Summit in Brussels to establish UASAT. This […]
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The global LEO Satellite 5G Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) chipset market is undergoing a phase of exponential growth, driven by the finalization of 3GPP standards and a strategic pivot toward direct-to-device […]
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The International Space Station (ISS) National Laboratory announced the launch of the 2026 Orbital Edge Accelerator, marking the program’s second year of connecting early-stage startups with in-orbit validation and private […]
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