Amazon Leo files for three new 6-antenna ground stations in Florida, Minnesota, and Texas
LEO up-and-comer sets out on ambitious ground station expansion to keep pace with constellation hyperscaling
News - Business Operations, Laurence Russell
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
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SpaceX petitions FCC to block ViaSat-3 F2 satellite, citing interference concerns
Obligatory regulatory squabbling causes more problems for the ViaSat-3 program
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Starcloud closes $250m Series A extension at $2.3bn valuation to scale AI on orbital data centers
ODC pioneer secures nearly half a billion dollars of investment to prove out space computing
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Eutelsat releases 2025-26 financial results, with 69.5% increase in LEO revenues YoY
Legacy European satellite operator continues navigating GEO & broadcast decline through LEO market, IRIS² leadership
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Coalition of environmental action groups petition FCC to halt orbital data center applications
Earthjustice set to take the issue to court if applications keep getting granted
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York Space completes $300m acquisition of All.Space, seeks to address unmanned connectivity gap
After acquiring Orbion and Solestial earlier in 2026, York is on a buying spree to verticalize a mission-critical package of space defense technologies
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FCC waives Amazon Leo deadline after extending it, as constellation gets ready for market
Regulator takes soft approach to breach of agreement in interest of enabling a significant Starlink competitor
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Launcher Rocket Lab acquires satellite operator Iridium in $8bn deal
New vertical launch operator will build competitor to SpaceX's Falcon 9
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Comtech to sell most of its satcoms segment to Gilat for $157.5m, and pivot to public safety
Legacy satellite tech company bought by the firm it failed to acquire six years ago
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California startup Orbital joins space data center craze with $5m pre-seed
Company aims to send Nvidia Blackwell chip into orbit next year, has hopes for 10GW deployment
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NewOrbit raises $18.5m to build a satellite to survive VLEO for up to 5 years
UK startup building satellite to sustain 200-300 km elevation solely through AURA
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Satellite firm Aetherflux rebrands to Cowboy Space Corporation, raises $275m Series B
Robinhood luminary pursues vertical orbital data center/rocket empire, quintuples its Series-A
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NASA objects to Bezos’ Blue Origin’s 51,600 satellite “Project Sunrise” constellation
Space agency queries technical details of plan
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Univity raises $31 million for 5G satellite demonstrators
French state-backed Series-A strengthens VLEO 5G demonstrator, hoping to enable Euro sovereignty
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Archangel Lightworks secures $13.57m in Series A funding to scale optical downstream technology
Deployable optical terminal technology to scale manufacturing in Oxford
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Sateliot launches €116 million public/private Series C to fund its constellation deployment
Catalan LEO contender seeks match funding from state on dual-use sovereign IoT tech
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SLI Aerospace buy two small geosynchronous satellites from ReOrbit for $172m
Leasing giant’s aerospace arm buys into small GEO trend
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Eutelsat completes its re-financing plan, closing €1.5bn bond offering
Funding to support LEO growth
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Amazon Leo requests FCC refuse SpaceX plan to launch a million satellites
Nothing to do with Amazon founder's own orbital data center plans
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OQ Technology lands $29.5m financing to build, launch 20+ satellites in 2 years
Europe deploys capital on C- and S-band D2D as US developers enjoy head start on the technology
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FCC greenlights Logos Space’s 4,178-satellite mega-constellation for enterprise sector
Google exec’s startup given leave to try to leapfrog Amazon Leo after $50m Series A
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Amazon Leo seeks 24-month extension from FCC for satellite rollout due to launch shortages
Space economy strains under the growing pains of a second tech giant entering the LEO market
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Space Leasing International buys two AscendArc GEO satellites for $200m+
SLI moves on from leasing ground stations to leasing back satellites
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WISeKey satellite subsidiary WISeSat.Space poised for SPAC merger and public listing
SPACs in space: $250m entity hopes to innovate with post-quantum secure satellite IoT solution
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Telesat invests $5m in Farcast to develop integrated Lightspeed satellite terminal
Secures flat-panel terminal capability for enterprise and government LEO network
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Alps Blockchain rebrands to Alps, pivoting to AI and HPC data centers
The Italian crypto specialist hopes to transition to support AI computation as it scales
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX explores acquisition of Globalstar - report
Satellite firm looks to buy Apple-backed operator
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Airbus, Leonardo, and Thales to form new European space giant
Europe plans new conglomerated aerospace manufacturing giant to compete globally