PLD Space, an international space transportation company, has announced a major thirty-five million euro investment to develop and deploy its orbital launch complex at the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, […] Source: https://satnews.com/2026/06/01/pld-space-boosts-guiana-space-centre-investment-to-e35-million/

Business Finland, the public innovation agency of Finland, has officially approved a €28.3 million continuation grant for ICEYE, a global leader in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite technology. This grant […] Source: https://satnews.com/2026/06/01/iceye-secures-e28-million-grant-to-advance-sovereign-space-intelligence/

In the commercial space industry, there is a thriving ecosystem of companies that buy future payload capacity on rockets specifically to resell it on the open market. These companies are […] Source: https://satnews.com/2026/05/31/if-you-thought-space-was-hard-try-to-get-your-satellite-on-a-rocket/

Blue Origin experienced a massive failure last night when its heavy-lift New Glenn rocket exploded during a routine engine test in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Video footage of the incident showed […] Source: https://satnews.com/2026/05/30/blue-origin-suffers-major-setback-as-new-glenn-rocket-explodes-during-static-fire-test/

Chris Forrester — It might be some time yet for the dust to settle and would-be buyers to emerge over Europe’s plans to sell off some key satellite frequencies over […] Source: https://satnews.com/2026/05/30/major-opportunities-for-2-ghz-over-europe/

The low Earth orbit Starlink network allows frontline soldiers to maintain encrypted group chats, fly reconnaissance and strike drones, and securely upload real-time images of potential targets to coordinate precise […] Source: https://satnews.com/2026/05/30/starlink-in-the-crosshairs-how-nations-are-utilizing-the-constellation-for-war-and-national-security/

Day 1 of SmallSat Europe 2026 left the sovereignty debate where European procurement had left it: four definitions chasing one budget line. Day 3 produced three working answers — Spain's capability-ownership stack, Poland's portfolio diversification, and the on-orbit servicing panel's commercial veto. Source: https://satnews.

"Dual-use" was supposed to unlock procurement. On Day 3 of SmallSat Europe 2026 it got taken apart by the operators it was meant to help — Alam (Luxembourg), Gleason (Aerospace Corporation), Villemos (Leanspace), and Black (RAND Europe) — arguing the label routes funding and strips legal sanctuary at the same

Stefano Antonetti at D-Orbit told the conference Europe has ships but no ports. The metaphor surfaced in five other Day 3 venues — Jarvis at Kepler, Mignolo at ESA, Willems at ST Engineering iDirect, Angellotti at EUSPA, Alam on the resilience panel. The category shifted from satellite to infrastructure layer. Source:

OmniAccess, a global provider of digital solutions for the luxury cruise and superyacht sectors, has officially launched NextGen Fusion 2.0. The new service is designed to shift maritime communications beyond […] Source: https://satnews.com/2026/05/28/omniaccess-launches-unified-multi-orbit-maritime-connectivity-service/

Atos, a global provider of digital transformation and managed services, has been selected by satellite communications company Viasat to deploy a multi-year program aimed at modernizing its digital workplace infrastructure […] Source: https://satnews.com/2026/05/28/viasat-selects-atos-to-modernize-its-global-digital-workplace-operations/

NewSpace Systems, a globally recognized provider of spacecraft components and subsystems, has announced the establishment of a new European subsidiary in the Netherlands. Strengthening Continental Presence The announcement was made […] Source: https://satnews.com/2026/05/28/newspace-systems-announces-european-expansion-with-new-netherlands-subsidiary/

Day 2 of SmallSat Europe 2026 was when European space publicly accepted that contested orbit is a 2026 operating condition, not a 2030 scenario. Donati put the doctrine pivot in a single line. Rotteveel put replenishment velocity on the table as the new constellation-design metric. Tillier framed SatCen interoperability as

AI shipped to production in European space on Day 2 of SmallSat Europe 2026. Ubotica's Aubrey Dunne walked through a deployed maritime ISR use case. Cognitive Space, Telespazio, and Spaceflux put the trust problem on the table. The next procurement question is auditability, not capability. The European vendor

Day 2 of SmallSat Europe 2026 was the day Earth observation's competitive frontier moved off the sensor and onto the tasking and integration layer. Source: https://satnews.com/2026/05/28/the-pixel-war-is-over-the-integration-war-is-what-comes-next/

A former AMD VP and an Oxford economist put the megawatt orbital data center thesis through physics and capital-allocation math at SmallSat Europe 2026. Source: https://satnews.com/2026/05/28/the-orbital-data-center-thesis-just-became-an-economics-question/

OHB Italia ships two 25-kilogram IRIDE microsatellites a month, comfortably, a deliberate departure from its five-year institutional-tier work. Day 2 of SmallSat Europe 2026 was when European production rates moved from claim to public number, and the supplier tier underneath has to match. Source: https://satnews.com/2026/05/28/

Aitech, a global provider of rugged, embedded computing solutions, has announced the integration of the NVIDIA IGX Thor platform into its S-A2300 commercial-off-the-shelf artificial intelligence supercomputer and future hardware designs. […] Source: https://satnews.com/2026/05/27/aitech-supercharges-its-space-proven-rugged-ai-systems-with-nvidia-igx-thor/

Revolv Space, a European manufacturer of high-performance space mechanisms and power generation systems, has secured a new contract with Infinite Orbits, a Toulouse-based satellite integrator that specializes in in-orbit servicing. […] Source: https://satnews.com/2026/05/27/revolv-space-signs-deal-to-provide-solar-assemblies-for-infinite-orbits-geostationary-servicers/

Firefly Aerospace has been awarded a seventy-five million dollar subcontract from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to deliver four drones to the lunar south pole. This high-profile mission, named MoonFall, is […] Source: https://satnews.com/2026/05/27/firefly-aerospace-wins-75-million-nasa-jpl-moonfall-subcontract-to-deliver-drones-to-the-moons-south-pole/

Archangel Lightworks, an Oxford-based laser communications company, has successfully demonstrated the capabilities of its TERRA-M system, which is currently the world’s smallest deployable operational optical ground station. In a recent […] Source: https://satnews.com/2026/05/27/archangel-lightworks-completes-successful-trials-for-miniature-deployable-optical-ground-station/

For a decade, European space had one problem: not enough money. By the end of Day 1 of SmallSat Europe 2026, that problem was gone — and a sharper one had replaced it. Europe has the budget. The supply chain is the bottleneck. The next 18 months decide which side of

A single shutoff order in 2025 ended a decade-long debate. Single-source dependency is the strategic risk Europe is now organizing around — and "dual-use" is no longer the operative category. The replacement frame is technological sovereignty. The harder problem: Europe is using the same word for four different things.

The honest summary of Day 1 of SmallSat Europe 2026: the capital is in, the technology exists, the talent is available, and none of it works without procurement reform. The procurement architecture is the lever that decides whether the capital pivot builds an ecosystem or simply reinforces the incumbent prime

Rocket Lab has experienced a major surge in its market valuation, with its stock price pushing past the $135 mark following a record-breaking financial quarter and the announcement of a […] Source: https://satnews.com/2026/05/26/rklb-stock-surges-past-135-on-90m-space-force-contract-q1-revenue-hits-200-3m/