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Dispatch from SmallSat Symposium. The free drinks at SmallSat Symposium usually signal a celebration, but this year they feel more like a necessity. If 2024 was the year of the press release, early 2026 is the year of the hangover. Breathless promises of ubiquitous, high-speed connectivity from space have collided with a formidable wall of physics, finance, and federal regulation.
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Dispatch from SmallSat Symposium. The mood at the SmallSat Symposium has shifted from anxiety to resolve. While previous years were defined by fear of orbital overcrowding, this year marks the moment the industry decided to act. Experts at the Space Domain Awareness panel officially retired the “Big Sky” theory, the old assumption that space is too vast for collisions to matter. Yet panic did not replace this outdated concept. Instead, a sophisticated, militarized professionalism has taken command.
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DUBAI and KYIV — On Thursday, January 15, 2026, VEON Ltd. (Nasdaq: VEON) announced that its Ukrainian subsidiary, Kyivstar, has reached 3.0 million registered users for its Starlink Direct to […]
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SatNews Editorial Analysis Executive Summary The Event: The FCC’s December 16, 2025, grant of the SpaceX/T-Mobile Supplemental Coverage from Space (SCS) license officially graduated Direct-to-Device (D2D) from a beta experiment […]
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Iranians with access to the approximately 50,000 to 100,000 smuggled terminals can now connect to the web.
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Wireless Optical Communication (WOC) is quietly providing the high-capacity backbone required to bridge the global digital divide without the inherent limitations of space-based infrastructure.
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The testing process involved engineers from both organizations validating that EPOCH hardware and software could communicate with a simulated OneSat vehicle.
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PARIS — While the industry’s gaze is fixed on the mega-constellation race in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), Eutelsat Group has delivered a potent reminder that Geostationary (GEO) real estate remains […]
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By Chris Forrester — The past few days have seen the business pages full of reports that Elon Musk’s SpaceX could have a value of some $800 billion. The reports […]
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MADRID — The race to provide seamless, global air traffic management (ATM) from orbit accelerated today as Startical, the joint venture formed by Indra and the Spanish air navigation service […]
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