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Open Cosmos recently laid out plans for a 192-satellite comms constellation, and ICEYE announced a partnership with Nokia for its own comms satellite network.
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Solar has become one of the space industry’s most consequential procurement decisions.
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There has been a lot of speculation about how SpaceX is going to achieve its goal of moving from D2C dead zone coverage to taking AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon head-on, tapping into a hundreds of billions in revenue opportunity. 
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We spoke with a Space Force official on background to better understand how startups should pitch the service for award opportunities. What are the green flags in applications? What are the red flags?
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 What should we expect the flight cadence ramp to be for next-gen reusable rockets like New Glenn, Neutron, Nova, Terran R, and Eclipse?
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Space stocks did nothing but go vertical in the first half of the year (many were up well over 100%). 
Momentum was driven by SpaceX’s IPO and valuation, increased geopolitical conflict with the war in Iran, orbital-data-center hype, and a broader market pivot from software into hardware businesses.
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The FCC is proposing opening unlicensed Bluetooth and Wi-Fi frequencies for space-based comms. 
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Hundreds of space companies we have all grown to know and love were founded—and raised billions of dollars—on the assumption that SpaceX had solved launch with Falcon 9, all but guaranteeing reliable, predictable access to orbit. But that premise is now on shaky grounds, turning the future of many satellite businesses into an existential question. 
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Introducing the new crop of early-stage space startups.
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SpaceX’s IPO prospectus is here.
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For many satellite applications, optical links are not worth their cost (often hundreds of thousands of dollars).
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