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AST SpaceMobile Shares Rally Following Successful Deployment of Massive BlueBird 6 Array

MIDLAND, Texas – Shares of AST SpaceMobile, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASTS) climbed as much as 6.9% in premarket trading on Wednesday, Feb. 11, following the company’s announcement of the successful unfold [...]

Compliance Becomes the New Gatekeeper for Space Startups

Dispatch from SmallSat Symposium. The SmallSat Symposium traditionally showcases hardware and orbital mechanics, but this year a different theme emerged. As the commercial space sector deepens tie [...]

The FCC Is Converting Space Regulation Into an Assembly Line

Dispatch from SmallSat Symposium. Dr. Jay Schwarz, Chief of the FCC Space Bureau, delivered a direct message to the industry during the Navigating Global Space Regulations session this afternoon. T [...]


SmallSat Launch Prices Rise as Competitors Stall on the Pad

Dispatch from SmallSat Symposium. The era of cheap, plentiful, and diverse access to space was supposed to be here by now. Instead, the industry arrived at the 2026 SmallSat Symposium only to find  [...]

The Dumb Pipe Is Dead: Why Physics Is Forcing AI Into Orbit

Dispatch from SmallSat Symposium. The concept of the satellite as a simple relay, serving as little more than a shiny mirror reflecting data to control rooms in Houston or Darmstadt, is extinct. At [...]

FCC Proposes Assembly Line Licensing to Replace Decades-Old Space Rules

Dispatch from SmallSat Symposium. Speaking at the SmallSat Symposium, Sheppard Mullin partner Drew Svor outlined the Federal Communications Commission’s plan to retire legacy Part 25 rules in fa [...]

The End of the Open Range: LEO’s Spectrum Crunch Hits Home

Dispatch from SmallSat Symposium. With over 14,000 satellites in orbit and filings for hundreds of thousands more flooding the International Telecommunication Union [ITU], the industry has hit a w [...]

The Space Tourist Is Dead. Long Live the Orbital Industrialist.

Dispatch from SmallSat Symposium. For the Space Industry Investment and Exit Strategies panel, a clear consensus emerged that the space sector has graduated from a science fair to a serious asset c [...]

The End of the Passive Satellite

Dispatch from SmallSat Symposium. For years, the SmallSat Symposium acted as a showcase for cheaper data relays and internet-from-the-sky optimism. But inside the Grand Hall today, the mask slipped [...]

The Benign Era is Over: Why the Commercial Space Sector Just Woke Up on the Front Lines

Dispatch from SmallSat Symposium. For the past decade the SmallSat industry operated under a comforting delusion that low Earth orbit was a sanctuary where commercial operators could move fast, bre [...]

The Empire Strikes Back: Europe’s Defense Giants Are Done Playing Catch-Up

Dispatch from SmallSat Symposium. Dr. Marco Brancati, newly minted Technical Director of the Leonardo Space Division, took the stage for the Keynote By Leonardo. Brancati didn’t come to Moun [...]

The $175 Billion Shadow: Inside the Golden Dome’s Identity Crisis

Dispatch from SmallSat Symposium. Even here in the heart of Silicon Valley, the conversation has pivoted aggressively toward the Pentagon. The topic is the Golden Dome, the administration’s miss [...]

China Advances 2030 Lunar Timeline with Successful Long March 10 Integrated Test

JIUQUAN, China – The China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) has completed an “extraordinary” integrated flight test involving its next-generation Mengzhou crew capsule and the Long March 10 [...]

Global Defense Budgets Shift Toward Total Situational Awareness and Orbital AI

HERNDON, Virginia – Targeting the gap between raw satellite data collection and actionable battlefield intelligence, global defense agencies have officially pivoted toward “Total Situationa [...]

US-India Space Forum Convenes in Bengaluru to Solidify TRUST Initiative Framework

BENGALURU, India – Key government officials and industry leaders from the United States and India met in Bengaluru on Tuesday, Feb. 10, for the inaugural US-India Commercial Space Forum of [&hell [...]

MTN Finalizes Reseller Agreement for Amazon Leo Maritime Deployment

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida – MTN Satellite Communications (MTN) has secured a landmark agreement to become one of the first authorized maritime resellers for Amazon Leo, the low-Earth orbit (LEO) s [...]

SatService to Deploy Q/V-band Ground Station for German Bundeswehr University

Steißlingen, Germany – SatService GmbH, a subsidiary of Calian Group Ltd. (TSX: CGY), has been awarded a contract by the German Federal Ministry of Defence to deliver a full-service Q/V-band [&h [...]