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Reuters • Tim Hepher

Thales, Airbus and Leonardo accelerate talks on €10bn French‑headquartered satellite manufacturing JV

Leonardo, Thales and Airbus are accelerating talks to merge their satellite businesses into a French‑headquartered joint venture valued at about €10 billion, with sources saying an initial agreement could be reached in coming weeks. The deal would consolidate major European space suppliers and reshape satellite manufacturing capacity.

2025-09-12T12:09:44.780555-07:00

SpaceNews.com

FCC ends probe, clearing EchoStar's >$40B spectrum sales to AT&T and SpaceX

2025-09-09T11:59:20.493936-07:00

TechCrunch

SpaceX shells out $17B for EchoStar spectrum to fast-track Starlink direct-to-cell 5G

2025-09-09T14:47:35.338442-07:00

Wall Street Journal

Starship’s 10th Test Flight Largely Successful — Deploys Eight Mock Starlink Sats and Validates Heat‑Shield Tiles

2025-08-26T18:23:49.861540-07:00

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euro-sd.com

DSEI 2025: Orbit debuts MPT30Ka compact Ka‑band SATCOM On‑The‑Move terminal At DSEI 2025 Israel’s Orbit unveiled the MPT30Ka, a compact Ka‑band SATCOM On‑The‑Move (SOTM) multi‑purpose terminal designed to provide persistent beyond‑line‑of‑sight connectivity for mobile military and government platforms. The portable unit targets tactical communications where small form‑factor, high‑throughput links are required.

2025-09-13T10:43:52.173474-07:00

DSEI 2025: Orbit debuts MPT30Ka compact Ka‑band SATCOM On‑The‑Move terminal

energy-reporters.com

US Space Force and Gravitics to build $60M orbital 'aircraft carrier' to deploy satellites from orbit The U.S. Space Force has teamed with Gravitics on a $60 million effort to develop an orbital "aircraft carrier" platform that can host and deploy satellites from orbit. The prototype is presented as part of the service's push to sustain space superiority and new on-orbit operational concepts.

2025-09-12T14:20:18.727145-07:00

US Space Force and Gravitics to build $60M orbital 'aircraft carrier' to deploy satellites from orbit

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Thales, Airbus and Leonardo accelerate talks on €10bn French‑headquartered satellite manufacturing JV Leonardo, Thales and Airbus are accelerating talks to merge their satellite businesses into a French‑headquartered joint venture valued at about €10 billion, with sources saying an initial agreement could be reached in coming weeks. The deal would consolidate major European space suppliers and reshape satellite manufacturing capacity.

2025-09-12T12:09:44.780555-07:00

Thales, Airbus and Leonardo accelerate talks on €10bn French‑headquartered satellite manufacturing JV

CNBC

Amazon plays catch-up with SpaceX as Project Kuiper begins winning customers SpaceXs Starlink remains the market leader in satellite broadband, but Amazons Project Kuiper is gaining momentum and signing commercial customers as deployment shifts toward sales. The move tightens competition in LEO broadband and accelerates choices for airlines, enterprises and governments procuring connectivity.

2025-09-11T22:50:11.396758-07:00

Amazon plays catch-up with SpaceX as Project Kuiper begins winning customers

GeekWire

Xplore's XCUBE-1 Captures Hyperspectral Imagery of North Korea Nine months after its first launch, Bellevue-based Xplore released hyperspectral visible‑and‑near‑infrared imagery of North Korea from XCUBE‑1. The data show the smallsat's ability to collect detailed spectral signatures over sensitive territory, marking a commercial entrant into high‑value intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance from LEO.

2025-09-11T20:05:16.390003-07:00

Xplore's XCUBE-1 Captures Hyperspectral Imagery of North Korea

thespacerepublic.news

Are satellite-enabled services inflating the space economy? Rising estimates of the global space economy may overstate the sector's size by counting satellite-enabled downstream services — telecom, data analytics and location services — as 'space' revenue. This analysis questions headline methodologies and urges clearer separation between orbital activity and terrestrial service value.

2025-09-10T18:05:24.614749-07:00

Are satellite-enabled services inflating the space economy?

rnz.co.nz

Defence chiefs told top US space commander New Zealand could help by rapidly launching satellites

2025-09-10T14:56:04.273087-07:00

spaceinafrica.com

Kazakhstan signs satellite manufacturing agreements with Nigeria and DRC worth up to $75M Kazakhstan has signed satellite manufacturing agreements with Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo valued at up to US$75 million. The accords commit Kazakh organisations to build satellites for the two African states, representing a cross‑regional industrial pact in space manufacturing.

2025-09-10T08:58:31.058205-07:00

Kazakhstan signs satellite manufacturing agreements with Nigeria and DRC worth up to $75M

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