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Europe’s surging space investment continued at the 2025 Council of Ministers, when member states approved a €22B budget for ESA over the next three years of agency operations, a near 30% increase from the 2022 budget.
Iridium continues to grow its subscriber base (albeit slowly) amid Starlink’s onslaught in the satcom market.
The business case for satcom, EO, PNT, and defense satellites is clear. But the case for in-space servicing satellites—which fly around to extend life, refuel, inspect, service, and deorbit—is far less obvious
Starship’s clamshell fairing may still be a half-decade away, but SpaceX could deploy customer satellites via Starship’s thin pez-dispenser deployer sooner than you think.
Last week, we ran our annual poll in the Pro newsletter on the most attractive space investment sectors. Results are in
The company has improved its GAAP gross margins from -3% in 2021 to 35% today as it scales and grows through space systems acquisitions.
Some of that spectrum still sits in legacy hands, ripe for acquisition.
We finally have an answer for why Maxar Space Systems changed its name to Lanteris.
Three weeks ago, NVIDIA sparked controversy by posting a graphic of Starcloud’s massive space-based data centers, with their absurd-looking 4km solar arrays. A week later, Elon Musk announced that Starlink would also be entering the space data center race.
