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Telesat secures Canadian sites for Lightspeed LEO ground stations ahead of planned December launch

Telesat has bought three tracts of land, including Estevan, Saskatchewan and Papineauville, Quebec, and signed leases to establish ground landing stations for its Lightspeed LEO network. The moves precede an anticipated first Lightspeed launch as soon as December and support its planned low‑Earth‑orbit broadband roll‑out.

2026-03-10T07:59:14.060181-07:00

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DC Moot Court Tests Federal Regulatory Reach Over Commercial Megaconstellations

2026-03-10T08:15:19.873917-07:00

SpaceWatch Global

Amsterdam Space Symposium spotlights security, defence and industrial policy in Europe’s space debate

2026-03-10T06:20:09.911650-07:00

European Spaceflight

ESA launches SME design call for spaceplane-based launcher with novel propulsion

2026-03-10T04:12:24.583722-07:00

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DC Moot Court Tests Federal Regulatory Reach Over Commercial Megaconstellations A moot court in Washington this month will bring lawyers, industry counsel and regulators together to probe how far federal authority extends over commercial megaconstellations, testing statutory limits on the FCC and other agencies, questions of preemption, and the legal framework for licensing, safety and liability.

2026-03-10T08:15:19.873917-07:00

DC Moot Court Tests Federal Regulatory Reach Over Commercial Megaconstellations

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Telesat secures Canadian sites for Lightspeed LEO ground stations ahead of planned December launch Telesat has bought three tracts of land, including Estevan, Saskatchewan and Papineauville, Quebec, and signed leases to establish ground landing stations for its Lightspeed LEO network. The moves precede an anticipated first Lightspeed launch as soon as December and support its planned low‑Earth‑orbit broadband roll‑out.

2026-03-10T07:59:14.060181-07:00

Telesat secures Canadian sites for Lightspeed LEO ground stations ahead of planned December launch

SpaceWatch Global

Amsterdam Space Symposium spotlights security, defence and industrial policy in Europe’s space debate The inaugural Amsterdam Space Symposium convened Europe’s space community in a no‑nonsense forum combining security, defence, climate and industrial policy — the candid intersection industry leaders and policymakers say is essential to build sovereign capabilities, align funding and accelerate operational responses to geopolitical pressures.

2026-03-10T06:20:09.911650-07:00

Amsterdam Space Symposium spotlights security, defence and industrial policy in Europe’s space debate

European Spaceflight

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ESA launches SME design call for spaceplane-based launcher with novel propulsion The European Space Agency has issued a solicitation inviting European small and medium-sized enterprises to design a spaceplane-based launch system that integrates novel propulsion technologies. The study seeks SME-led proposals to evaluate spaceplane architectures and propulsion integration for future European access-to-space options.

2026-03-10T04:12:24.583722-07:00

ESA launches SME design call for spaceplane-based launcher with novel propulsion

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Mars advocates: NASA's lunar return can advance crewed Mars goals Mars mission proponents say NASA's renewed human-return-to-Moon program can be leveraged as a practical stepping stone toward eventual crewed Mars missions, providing a near-term arena to develop and validate systems, operations and programmatic pathways needed for longer-duration interplanetary exploration.

2026-03-09T21:09:09.942633-07:00

Mars advocates: NASA's lunar return can advance crewed Mars goals

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Swissto12's micro‑GEO push: flexible payloads and the sovereign‑space case Swissto12 CEO Emile de Rijk outlines the company's cutting‑edge payload technology and a micro‑GEO approach that prioritizes smaller, reconfigurable geostationary platforms. He presents flexible, modular satellites as a route to rapid capability delivery and to compete with larger GEO incumbents while meeting sovereign-space needs.

2026-03-09T13:53:00.218450-07:00

Swissto12's micro‑GEO push: flexible payloads and the sovereign‑space case

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GNSS resilience emerges as an economic and national‑security priority Dependence on GNSS across critical infrastructure makes navigation and timing resilience an economic imperative and national‑security priority, driving industry and governments to focus on signal integrity, jamming/spoofing mitigation, and development of layered alternative PNT capabilities to protect commerce, aviation and defence operations.

2026-03-09T06:02:22.392525-07:00

GNSS resilience emerges as an economic and national‑security priority

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Chinese delegate urges prioritizing ambitious Neptune orbiter mission A senior Chinese space scientist and delegate to the national congress has called for prioritizing an unprecedented orbiter mission to Neptune, urging Beijing to accelerate planning for an ice‑giant exploration effort. The proposal could mark a shift toward higher‑profile, deep‑space science in China's program.

2026-03-09T04:41:03.259148-07:00

Chinese delegate urges prioritizing ambitious Neptune orbiter mission

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Telesat secures Canadian sites for Lightspeed LEO ground stations ahead of planned December launch

DC Moot Court Tests Federal Regulatory Reach Over Commercial Megaconstellations

Amsterdam Space Symposium spotlights security, defence and industrial policy in Europe’s space debate

ESA launches SME design call for spaceplane-based launcher with novel propulsion

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