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Novaspace projects that emerging in-orbit services will generate approximately $3 billion in cumulative service revenue over the next 10 years. The forecast points to an early-stage market focused on making space operations more flexible, resilient and sustainable, while the sector continues to develop commercial applications and capabilities.
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Novaspace projects that emerging in-orbit services will generate approximately $3 billion in cumulative service revenue over the next 10 years. The forecast points to an early-stage market focused on making space operations more flexible, resilient and sustainable, while the sector continues to develop commercial applications and capabilities.
A SpaceX rocket body slammed into the moon earlier this month, underscoring the operational hazards created by uncontrolled spacecraft near the lunar surface. As governments and companies establish a sustained presence there, managing impact risks and traffic around the moon will become increasingly important.
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The emerging orbital data-center sector is converging on sun-synchronous orbits, intensifying questions over congestion, coordination and operational rules. The development also raises a strategic policy issue for Europe: whether it will help shape the traffic-management framework governing a potentially important new class of space infrastructure.
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Astranis is expanding beyond communications satellites with Perceptor, a spacecraft designed to monitor and maneuver around other objects in geostationary orbit. The company says the system addresses shortcomings it encountered with existing space-domain-awareness technology, targeting surveillance of an increasingly contested orbital environment.
SpaceX is maintaining a high-tempo Starlink campaign, including Falcon 9 missions carrying 24 and 29 satellites to low Earth orbit, despite a scrub and rescheduled launch. The company is also targeting Starship’s 14th test flight for late August, with a planned first operational deployment of Starlink V3 satellites.
A proposal to deploy as many as 1 million AI satellites in orbit could sharply increase rocket-launch emissions and produce concentrated toxic ash as spacecraft reenter the atmosphere. The scale of the data-center constellation raises questions about the environmental limits of orbital computing and satellite disposal.
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Portugal-based Neuraspace secured €15.6 million from Lince Capital, Explorer Investments, Armilar Venture Partners and the country’s Recovery and Resilience Plan. The financing will support expansion of its AI-enabled space domain awareness and space traffic management platform for commercial, institutional and defense satellite operators.
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