Payload
• Douglas Gorman
Satellogic has secured an $18 million-plus defense-monitoring contract, marking the company’s first large agreement since its strategic shift toward persistent-monitoring capabilities. The award signals strengthening demand for continuously available defense-ready space monitoring rather than episodic collection.
FlightGlobal
• Craig Hoyle
By FlightGlobal: Contractor will deliver new surveillance service from January 2028. Canberra has picked Metrea Australia to deliver a new aerial surveillance service from later this decade, with the contractor to make available “a fleet of 11 fully crewed, technologically advanced aircraft”.
Breaking Defense
• Yann Le Balc’h
By Breaking Defense: The era of uncontested GPS dominance is over. As counterspace threats and electronic warfare redefine the battlefield, learn how Exail’s Fiber Optic Gyro (FOG) technology provides the high-end stability and autonomous “source of truth” required for land maneuver and precision fires in GNSS-denied environments.
AeroTime
• Clement Charpentreau
By AeroTime: Lithuania's RSI Europe has completed the delivery of 9,500 Shpak FPV systems to an undisclosed NATO state, with most aircraft transferred to Ukraine.
AeroTime
• Clement Charpentreau
By AeroTime: Kaliningrad’s Khrabrovo Airport briefly halted flights after the Russian exclave issued its first drone-danger alert since 2022.
Reuters
By Reuters: Private equity-backed government contractor Applied Aerospace & Defense is targeting a valuation of up to $3.59 billion in its U.S. initial public offering, as defense firms tap into strong investor appetite for the sector driven by heightened geopolitical tensions.
Reuters
• David Jeans
By Reuters: As U.S. kamikaze drones guided by Elon Musk’s Starlink network began to make visible gains in the war against Iran, senior SpaceX officials reached a conclusion: The Pentagon should be paying more for access to their satellite Wi-Fi network.
AeroTime
• Clement Charpentreau
By AeroTime: Thales carried out the first firings of its X-Fire ground-based long-range strike launcher on May 20, 2026, advancing France's FLP-T program.
Associated Press
• Efrem Lukatsky, EVGENIY MALOLETKA
