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Executives at Thales Alenia Space and MDA described factories built to turn out one or two satellites a day at World Space Business Week. Component makers at the same conference described lines already at or above capacity and 18-month waits for solar cells.

ESA’s director general used the first fireside chat of World Space Business Week to set out what ministers will be asked in Rome on Dec. 15, a scope that runs from the rocket to crew recovery. Funding follows through ESA’s usual subscription process.

Taylor Jordan told World Space Business Week that NOAA’s new 10-year commercial data vehicle carries a $2.35 billion ceiling. The agency’s solicitation and award notices cite only the $8 billion shared across ProTech 2.0.

Terminal manufacturer Intellian Technologies and technology systems integrator Network Innovations finalized a multi-year strategic agreement to develop and distribute next-generation tactical ground flyaway terminals for military and government defense markets. […]

On Sept. 23, 2026, direct-to-satellite IoT operator Hubble Network announced the completion of a $200 million Series C financing round, raising the company’s private market valuation to $1.6 billion. Led […]

Read the whole conference rather than a panel a day and one argument runs underneath it. The industry has stopped worrying about capital and technology. It is worrying about access: to launch, to spectrum, to the ground, to the parts.

The outgoing director of the ITU Radiocommunication Bureau said at World Space Business Week in Paris that he expects the 2027 World Radiocommunication Conference to produce a regulatory framework for direct-to-device services in mobile bands. The GSMA counts 151 operators with satellite services live, in testing or planned, and no settled business model.

Space Systems Command awarded Boeing up to $2 billion in June for two more MUOS satellites, which are not expected to launch before 2031 and 2032. Katherine Coens directs the Space Force division that runs the narrowband network they will join, and she sits for an interview opening the final day of the MilSat Symposium at Silicon Valley Space Week.