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• Peter B. de Selding
Indra Group reported sharply higher revenue and EBITDA and booked €1.926 billion ($2.2 billion) in new orders tied to Europe’s Iris² multi-orbit secure communications constellation during the three months ended Sept. 30. The award places the Spanish company among the leading participants in Europe’s space industry.
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Rocket Lab is scheduled to launch a privately owned Japanese Earth-observation satellite on Nov. 2, marking its 99th mission to date. The company plans to stream the launch live; the available report does not identify the satellite’s operator or provide its mission specifications.
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Indra Group reported sharply higher revenue and EBITDA and booked €1.926 billion ($2.2 billion) in new orders tied to Europe’s Iris² multi-orbit secure communications constellation during the three months ended Sept. 30. The award places the Spanish company among the leading participants in Europe’s space industry.
Military and civil satellites are observing fireballs as they blaze through Earth's atmosphere, giving scientists data to improve planetary-defense capabilities and understand the impacts of space debris. The observations connect routine atmospheric events with two growing areas of concern: detecting hazardous space rocks and assessing objects that fall back to Earth.
Google says it successfully ran an artificial intelligence model on a data-center-class processor aboard a satellite. The demonstration is an early milestone in the company’s effort to assess whether computing infrastructure for AI could eventually operate in space.
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MDA Space has secured a €64 million agreement to develop antennas for the European Union’s IRIS2 constellation. The deal comes as Canada explores participation in the program, connecting a Canadian supplier’s work on the satellite network with wider discussions about international involvement.
At SDSC 2026, ETH Zurich researcher Clémence Poirier discusses tracking cyber attacks against space systems and assessing the sector’s threat landscape. Her central argument is that improving security depends less on creating additional frameworks than on implementing existing protections more effectively.
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