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Networks of satellites, often in low Earth orbit, that work together to deliver broadband, communications, or Earth-observation coverage worldwide.
Starlink is encouraging every satellite operator to share maneuvers ahead of time, citing around 164,000 near-miss events in six months. It calls Stargaze free to all operators, though DatacenterDynamics describes the map behind it as proprietary.
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Mistral AI has joined the Altair-Next Gen consortium, whose initial phase plans 50 satellites that run AI inference in orbit. The first AI satellite is due in October 2026, but pricing, eligibility and latency figures are still unpublished.
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Jeff Bezos said Blue Origin will likely go public in several years, after its first outside raise of $10 billion at a reported $140 billion valuation. Outside investors get about 7% of a company with no listing date and a rocket not due to fly again until December.
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Korea's Nuri rocket placed 15 satellites at about 575 km on its fifth flight, five of them the first home-launched NEONSAT Earth-observation microsatellites. The other half of the 10-satellite constellation, and the coverage it was designed for, waits on a sixth flight next year.
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Korea's Nuri rocket is set to carry 15 satellites on its fifth flight, including half of a planned 10-satellite NEONSAT constellation. The other five need a sixth flight next year, the date that tests whether Korea can launch on a schedule.
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Earth Fire Alliance launched the first three of 50 planned FireSat satellites on July 7, a fleet built only to find wildfires. Its promised scan of every point on Earth every 20 minutes depends on the other 47 reaching orbit.
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Blue Origin's first outside raise reached $10 billion at a $140 billion valuation, the Wall Street Journal reported, with Bezos putting in $2 billion. About $8 billion of outside money is pricing a company whose rocket has not flown since a May pad explosion.
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About €20bn and 51 deals were announced at the Paris space summit, on top of an ESA budget member states had already approved. The dates suppliers will be judged against came from Macron's address, not from a contract.
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An August 2026 review grew IRIS² from around 290 satellites to 348 and its planned investment from 10.6 billion euros to more than 15.6 billion, and the largest single build order, 2.4 billion euros for 264 platforms, went to Belgium's Aerospacelab.
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Bermuda, New Zealand and Australia are tested and online, with nine sites promised by year end. The product being sold is one contract instead of a patchwork of antenna leases.
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Amazon has slowed satellite production waiting on rockets it booked five years ago, and Telesat is fielding requests to share its Falcon 9s. Capacity is the binding constraint.
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