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AST SpaceMobile and Eutelsat OneWeb have committed to 2026 subscriber targets that, by SatNews's analysis, lean on a merchant RF supply chain ramping in fiscal 2027. Amazon Leo, on its own custom silicon, is a distinct case.
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Two SpaceX contracts, a House mark dissolving SDA, and a New Glenn pad fire — read together, they ended the multi-prime model for U.S. military space.
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A public SpaceX means earnings-driven launch pricing, mandatory disclosure, and a two-player infrastructure duopoly with Amazon reshaping unit economics for every mid-tier satellite operator.
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The satellite industry has built roughly 10 percent of the optical ground infrastructure it needs. Without 200 to 500 optical ground stations, the Pentagon's $35 billion PWSA and $185 billion Golden Dome programs risk becoming stranded assets — data moves flawlessly in orbit but cannot reach the ground.
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Europe is the only major space power building its smallsat sector on defense procurement rather than venture capital or state industrial policy. The demand signal is institutional, contracted, and accelerating.
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The FCC faces its most consequential regulatory moment in commercial satellite communications since the original Starlink licensing approval.
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Telesat’s decision to hardwire 500 MHz of military Ka-band spectrum into Lightspeed’s first 156 satellites resolved a near-term financing crisis. It also created a targeting problem that no commercial service agreement can fix.
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The aerospace and defense industry has universally accepted that the future of orbital superiority lies in proliferated, software-defined constellations. The mandate from the Space Development Agency (SDA), with support from the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), is clear: move away from vulnerable, exquisite "battlestars" and build agile, interconnected data networks in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). But while our architectural theory has evolved, the hardware foundation we are building it on is trapped in a dangerous compromise.
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With Rheinmetall officially abandoning its alternative bid for Mynaric, Germany's justification for blocking Rocket Lab's $150 million acquisition has collapsed. Over 90% of Mynaric's backlog is U.S. DoD money — the company was never a sovereign German asset in any operational sense.
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By Evan Grey Legal Contributor, SatNews For a quarter of a century, the International Space Station (ISS) has served as a true monument to post-Cold War optimism: an orbital sanctuary where geopolitical […]
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