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On Monday, October 26, 2026, European space services provider Telespazio and the European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA) signed an agreement to expand the Galileo Control Centre at […]
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On October 7, 2026, the U.S. Department of State and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) confirmed that the United States and Japanese governments are jointly […]
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On October 6, 2026, satellite manufacturer and operator Open Cosmos requested a one-year extension from the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Radio Regulations Board after missing 50% fleet deployment deadlines across […]
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On October 5, 2026, Space & Satellite Professionals International (SSPI) released Episode 5 of its Collateral Risk podcast series, examining the legal, regulatory, and policy friction impacting cross-border commercial space […]
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In an exchange of letters finalized on September 10, 2026, during the International Space Summit in Paris, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) formally […]
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On Monday, August 31, 2026, the Republic of Türkiye officially signed the Artemis Accords during a ceremony held at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., becoming the 71st nation to join […]
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ICEYE has established national entities in Germany, Portugal, India, the Netherlands and Korea inside 49 days and named a country chief executive for the UAE in the same window. CEO Rafal Modrzewski and ICEYE UAE chief Christos Kolimenakis told SatNews what the country-leadership model is actually selling: schedule. Poland went from contract signature to a constellation its own military operators fly in under 12 months, while France's first sovereign radar demonstrator does not enter service until 2029.
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On Friday, July 24, 2026, the GSMA (Global System for Mobile Communications Association) formally endorsed the Abuja Declaration on Meaningful Connectivity for Africa, partnering with African ministerial leaders to launch […]
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If an astronaut crew suffers a catastrophic life-support failure in low-Earth orbit today, no global authority possesses the centralized legal mandate—or the structural obligation—to execute an emergency rescue mission. This […]
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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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