The PTS-G satellite hardware design uses dual-use technology heritage adapted from Viasat’s commercial ViaSat-3 fleet.

Viasat’s Space and Mission Systems team will manufacture a dual-band spacecraft with military X-band and Ka-band payloads.

The Space Force awarded a combined $437.7 million under the initial Swarm 1 phase to Viasat and Intelsat General Communications to produce the first two operational satellites of the system.

Viasat completed the Delivery Order 1 design-maturation phase for PTS-G in 2025.

The Swarm 1 award tasks Viasat with manufacturing, launching, and operating an advanced small maneuverable Geosynchronous Earth Orbit satellite for resilient anti-jam tactical communications.

Viasat was selected as a prime contractor under the Space Force’s Swarm 1 Delivery Order.

Viasat was selected as a prime contractor under the Space Force’s Swarm 1 Delivery Order for the PTS-G program.

The satellite hardware design uses dual-use technology heritage adapted from Viasat’s commercial ViaSat-3 fleet.

The Swarm 1 award tasks Viasat with manufacturing, launch, and operations of a small maneuverable geosynchronous Earth orbit satellite for resilient anti-jam tactical communications.

The Protected Tactical SATCOM-Global program is part of the U.S. Space Force’s strategy to replace low-number, multi-billion-dollar exquisite satellite systems such as the Advanced Extremely High Frequency constellation.

Space Systems Command scheduled Viasat’s dual-band satellite system to reach initial operating capability no earlier than 2029.

About $50 billion worth of SpaceX shares were traded on the first trading day.

SpaceX has current revenues of $18.7 billion.

SpaceX has a 2035 revenue target of $1.1 trillion.

SpaceX shares closed at $176.52 on June 12.

SpaceX is forecast to grow its revenues to $360 trillion by 2035.

SpaceX would need heroic annual growth of around 50 percent to grow from $18.7 billion in revenues to its 2035 target of $1.1 trillion.

SpaceX’s stock rose 30% on its first trading day.

KGI Securities rates SpaceX stock as Outperform and has a target price of $227 per share.

Elon Musk’s personal wealth is expected to be well north of $1 trillion based on SpaceX’s share price.

Oppenheimer rates SpaceX stock as Outperform and has a target price of $190 per share.

SpaceX added 83.33 million shares at $135 per share for underwriters to market to investors.

SpaceX reached a valuation of $2.3 trillion.

SpaceX’s stock listing is trading on NASDAQ.

Thales Alenia Space signed a contract with the European Space Agency for the development of two Sentinel-1 Next Generation satellites.

The Sentinel-1 Next Generation satellites are designed to maintain the operational continuity of the first Sentinel-1 generation while improving services for European users.

The European Space Agency is responsible for developing and launching the Sentinel satellites and for providing their data to operational services.

Copernicus is the European Union Earth observation component of the EU Space Programme, and it is managed by the European Commission and co-financed by the European Union and the European Space Agency.

The new mission includes a quad-polarization operating mode and a dedicated mode for monitoring sea ice in polar regions.

Thales Alenia Space Italia will lead the main contract for the mission.

Sentinel-1 Next Generation will acquire data both day and night and independently of weather conditions.

Sentinel-1 Next Generation is designed to reduce the time interval between successive acquisitions.

The Sentinel-1 Next Generation contract is the first tranche of a 700 million euro agreement.

Thales Alenia Space is the industrial prime contractor for the Sentinel-1 Next Generation mission.

The Sentinel-1 Next Generation satellites will be based on Thales Alenia Space’s MILA multi-mission platform, which has already been used for the Copernicus missions CHIME, CIMR, and ROSE-L.

The Italian Space Agency supports the Sentinel-1 Next Generation mission.

The Sentinel-1 Next Generation mission will support maritime surveillance and sensitive-area monitoring through integration of an Automatic Identification System for ship identification.

The Sentinel-1 Next Generation mission will support ocean monitoring, vegetation cover monitoring, soil moisture monitoring, forest monitoring, and agricultural crop monitoring.

Airbus Defence and Space is the main industrial partner responsible for the C-band SAR radar instrument for Sentinel-1 Next Generation.

The Swiss Thales Alenia Space site will work on cameras for monitoring radar antenna and solar array deployments.

Leonardo will supply the star trackers for Sentinel-1 Next Generation.

Thales Alenia Space France will be responsible for the solar array drive system for the panels.

The new Sentinel-1 Next Generation architecture is designed to increase image resolution by up to four times compared with the previous generation while expanding the observable area.

The Belgian Thales Alenia Space site will provide the Power Conditioning and Distribution Unit and solar panel photovoltaic assemblies.

Sentinel-1 Next Generation data will support the Copernicus Climate Change Service, land monitoring, marine environment monitoring, emergency management, and security activities.

Each Sentinel-1 Next Generation satellite will carry a C-band synthetic aperture radar and an Automatic Identification System for maritime traffic monitoring.

The MILA platform is designed to comply with space-debris mitigation regulations and to enable controlled re-entry of the satellites at the end of their operational life.

The Sentinel-1 Next Generation radar architecture includes a 13.6-meter by 0.94-meter active phased-array antenna and new modular electronic units.

The Spanish Thales Alenia Space site will develop the Remote Terminal Unit and the band transponder.

The Long March 12 (CZ-12) was being moved to the pad at Wenchang on June 13, 2026.