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Boeing won up to $2B in June for two more MUOS satellites. They are not expected to launch before 2031 and 2032. The newest one on orbit went up in 2016. Katherine Coens runs the Space Force narrowband division in between, and she opens the final day of the MilSat Symposium. #SVSW2026 satnews.com/2026/09/24/silic…
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The FCC's new Part 100 rules retire the surety bond for GSO operators and put non-processing-round NGSO systems on the ITU deployment clock. Kathryne Dickerson of Greenberg Traurig, who wrote her firm's first alerts on the overhaul, gives the #SVSW2026 market brief on it. Tue Oct 27, 10:15 a.m., Hahn Auditorium. satnews.com/2026/09/24/silic…
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SpaceX now decides how many satellites the $2.29B Space Data Network Backbone carries, and how they are arranged. Preston Dunlap, the Space Force and Air Force's first Chief Architect Officer, moderates the #SVSW2026 panel on it. Wed Oct 28, 3:15 p.m., Hahn Auditorium. satnews.com/2026/09/21/silic…
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NASA put a scale model of SpaceX's Super Heavy booster through the Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel at Ames. Dr. Eugene Tu, who directs the center, gives the first talk of day two at #SVSW2026. Wed Oct 28, 8:45 a.m., Hahn Auditorium. satnews.com/2026/09/18/silic…
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SpaceX's first public quarter: revenue up 92% to $7.8B, and the stock fell anyway. Alyssa Goessler Goodwin of AE Industrial Partners joins the panel reading that result at #SVSW2026. Tuesday, October 27, 11:00 a.m., Hahn Auditorium. satnews.com/2026/09/16/silic…
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Brig. Gen. Eric Zarybnisky runs the Space Force's launch portfolio, the office that ordered 18 Falcon 9 missions out of Vandenberg in July. He sits for a fireside interview Wed, Oct 28, 5:05 p.m. in the Hahn Auditorium, closing day one of the MilSat Symposium. #SVSW2026 satnews.com/2026/09/02/silic…
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SDA awarded about $1.75B in July for 36 Tranche 3 tracking satellites, then took Tranche 1 to 63 on orbit three days later. Dr. GP Sandhoo gives the first MilSat keynote at #SVSW2026. Wednesday, October 28, 12:15 p.m., Hahn Auditorium. satnews.com/2026/09/15/silic…
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Courtney Sayles, Chief Product Officer of Scout Space, joins "Space Control as a Market: RG-XX, RPO, and the Limits of Commercial Combat Support" at the MilSat Symposium. Thursday, October 29, 11:45 a.m., Hahn Auditorium. #SVSW2026 satnews.com/2026/09/09/silic…
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Planet posted record revenue of $116.1M on September 3, up 58%. President and CFO Ashley Fieglein Johnson talks German new space at #SVSW2026. Tuesday, October 27, 3:05 p.m., Hahn Auditorium. satnews.com/2026/09/07/silic…
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Speaker Focus: Dr. Dan Ceperley, COO and Co-founder of LeoLabs, on tracking catalogs, orbital traffic and the case for real space-traffic coordination. Tuesday, October 27, 5:15 p.m., Hahn Auditorium. #SVSW2026 satnews.com/2026/09/04/silic…
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Col. Eric Zarybnisky, who runs the Space Force's launch portfolio, sits for a fireside interview at the MilSat Symposium: Thursday, October 29, 9:00-9:30 a.m., Hahn Auditorium, Computer History Museum. #SVSW2026 satnews.com/2026/09/02/silic…
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Speaker Focus: Dr. Diana Gamzina, Founder and CEO of Elve, joins The Ground Bottleneck panel on GSaaS, the Satellite Control Network and the capital squeeze. Tuesday, October 27, 2:00 p.m., Hahn Auditorium. #SVSW2026 satnews.com/2026/08/31/silic…
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Speaker Focus: Ron Faith, President and CEO of RBC Signals, joins The Ground Bottleneck panel on GSaaS, the Satellite Control Network and the capital squeeze. Tuesday, October 27, 2:00 p.m., Hahn Auditorium. #SVSW2026 satnews.com/2026/08/28/silic…
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Speaker Focus: Dr. Slava Turyshev of NASA JPL, who published the cost arithmetic for orbital data centers in April, joins the Investable Infrastructure or Thermodynamic Bet? panel at Satellite Innovation. Tue Oct 27, 12:15 p.m., Hahn Auditorium. #SVSW2026 satnews.com/2026/08/26/silic…
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Speaker Focus: Dr. David Denhard, Chief Scientist and Technical Advisor at U.S. Space Command, joins the Building Warfighter-Ready Space Systems panel at the MilSat Symposium. Wednesday, October 28, 2:00 p.m., Hahn Auditorium. #SVSW2026 satnews.com/2026/08/24/silic…
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Speaker Focus: Dr. Robert Antypas, AFRL's Space Access, Mobility and Logistics Mission Area Lead, joins the Building Warfighter-Ready Space Systems panel at the MilSat Symposium. Wednesday, October 28, 2:00 p.m., Hahn Auditorium. #SVSW2026 satnews.com/2026/08/21/silic…
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Speaker Focus: Phil Carrai of Kratos moderates "Golden Dome – Accelerating Industrial Capability on a 2028 Clock" at the MilSat Symposium. Thursday, Oct 29, 10 a.m., Hahn Auditorium. Twelve companies, four gates, one 2028 deadline. #GoldenDome satnews.com/2026/08/19/silic…
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New on the MilSat stage: Dr. Didi Kuo of the NRO GEOINT Directorate joins Commercial GEOINT for the Battlefield, Oct 29, with Privateer Space and BlackSky. Agenda: svspaceweek.com/schedule/mil… #SVSW2026 #MilSatSymposium
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Speaker Focus: Janna Lewis, Senior VP of Policy and General Counsel, Astroscale U.S. Orbital data centers panel, Tuesday, October 27, 12:15 p.m. Moderating commercial defense architectures, Thursday, October 29, 3:15 p.m. Silicon Valley Space Week. satnews.com/2026/08/17/silic…
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Speaker Focus: Joseph Yaffe, COO and Chief Legal Officer of Cowboy Space Corporation, which has filed for up to 20,000 orbital data center satellites. "Orbital Data Centers: Investable Infrastructure or Thermodynamic Bet?" Tuesday Oct. 27, 12:15 p.m., Hahn Auditorium. #SVSW satnews.com/2026/08/14/silic…
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