Orbital partners with Reflex Aerospace for space data center constellation
Experienced German developer finds its first US customer, promises it technology exclusively
News - North America, Laurence Russell
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
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Blue Origin to become first telco on Mars with $700m NASA contract
Resurgent NASA has bold plans for Mars, could Rocket Lab also benefit?
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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
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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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Telesat expands Lightspeed capacity by 44% after securing $1.93bn Arctic military satcom contract
Canadian space champion sees compounding recommitment in funding on sovereign space connectivity
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FCC approves Xona application for 258-satellite PNT constellation
GPS competitor prepares to scale following March Series C
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Amazon Leo files for up to 5,105 D2D satellites for voice, data, and messaging for mobile devices
Amazon sets out plan for mobility, IoT market share, building upon Apple service
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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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SpaceX files FCC application for 100,000 Gen3 Starlink satellites
New satellites aim to solve orbital data center downlink bottleneck
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Orbital files for 100,000 space data satellites for 10GW compute constellation
Application claims space's passive radiative cooling power eliminates need for cooling tech
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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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Northwood announces Prism & Portal satellite ground station antennas, targets 10Gbps+ per site
California firm has already deployed 14 antennas across five sites
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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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Starcloud buys 50+ ISL lasers off Starlink for orbital data center network
Starcloud cements reliance on Starlink interconnectivity solution
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Space Force drops $2.29bn on SpaceX satellite “Backbone” & $437m for GEO program by Viasat and SES
Priority for assured space-based communications abounds, compounding on existing efforts
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“Project Quartz” satellite ground station network teased by Blue Origin president
Blue Origin president hypes ground station expansion, scaling up company's terrestrial mission operations capability
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Telesat adds military Ka-Band to Lightspeed constellation, following defense demands
Lightspeed further aligns to defense needs following recent contracts, as GEO business atrophies
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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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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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FCC approves Starlink expansion to 19,000+ satellite constellation with direct-to-device capability
Starlink granted regulatory power to grow after reporting record numbers in 2025
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Inmarsat & Viasat announce new terminal following ViaSat-3 launch
New Viasat-Inmarsat GEO satellites replace functionality lost over the Americas in 2023's market-altering malfunction
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Y-Combinator champions startup promising space-based nuclear fusion power
Zephyr Fusion proposes an ambitious solution in want of the problem of power constraints in space
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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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Fire damages two buildings at Bitdeer’s Ohio Bitcoin mine construction site
No signs of arson determined, responders speculate impacted structure could be salvageable
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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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Elon Musk’s SpaceX explores acquisition of Globalstar - report
Satellite firm looks to buy Apple-backed operator