Astrolight has commissioned the Holomondas Optical Ground Station in Greece.

Astrolight is a Lithuanian laser technology developer.

The European Space Agency is developing the multi-orbit HydRON transport network.

Astrolight is advocating a rapid industrial transition to laser-based terminal payloads to bypass licensing delays and congestion in traditional RF architectures.

The EU is developing the IRIS² secure satellite constellation.

Germany has proposed a €35 billion defense space modernization initiative.

Novaspace projects that global satellite connectivity demand will expand more than 11-fold between 2024 and 2034.

Unseenlabs’ Gen 2 satellites are intended to support dual-use RF intelligence applications ranging from maritime surveillance to land-based monitoring and space-domain awareness.

Unseenlabs’ first-generation satellites will continue to focus on maritime domain awareness.

Unseenlabs’ Gen 2 satellites broaden coverage across maritime, land, and space activity.

Unseenlabs’ Gen 2 satellites are designed to detect L, S, C, X, and Ku bands.

Unseenlabs expects Gen 2 and its first-generation satellites to provide layered RF data and intelligence services to government and commercial customers.

Unseenlabs has deployed a new generation of satellites called Gen 2.

Unseenlabs’ Gen 2 satellites expand space-based radio frequency detection from maritime monitoring to multi-domain awareness.

Unseenlabs positions Gen 2 as a source of actionable intelligence that can be fused with AIS or imagery.

The Türkiye program will equip more than 850 commercial fishing vessels with RockFLEET Vessel Monitoring System hardware between May and October 2026.

Ground Control is delivering the Türkiye rollout in partnership with its parent company, CLS Group.

The Turkish rollout follows a national deployment of the RockFLEET platform by the French government for its commercial maritime monitoring fleets.

Ground Control has initiated a vessel tracking hardware rollout in Türkiye targeting illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing in the Mediterranean and Black Sea regions.

The RockFLEET devices feed telemetry into Türkiye’s national fisheries monitoring infrastructure.

Kimi Onoda, Japan’s Minister of State for Space Policy, visited the ispace booth on the opening day of SPACETIDE 2026.

ispace develops technologies and missions dedicated to lunar exploration.

Kimi Onoda and ispace discussed the continued growth of Japan’s commercial space industry and ispace’s recent activities supporting that growth.

Solace Communications has integrated Iridium Communications Inc.'s ASIC into its Vector product ecosystem.

Iridium Communications Inc. made its first-to-market Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Application-Specific Integrated Circuit commercially available on July 14, 2026.

More than 150 international organizations in logistics, maritime, unmanned systems, aviation, and the defense industrial base requested evaluation hardware for Iridium Communications Inc.'s PNT ASIC after its initial preview in late October 2025.

The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology estimates that unmitigated primary satellite positioning outages cause a rolling loss of more than $1.3 billion per day on national infrastructure operations.

Skyband Systems' M100 Line Replaceable Unit is intended to provide business and commercial aviation cockpits with automated space-verified warnings during localized jamming disruptions.

Skyband Systems is incorporating Iridium Communications Inc.'s hardware into its M100 Line Replaceable Unit.

Iridium Communications Inc. acquired Satelles Inc. and received complementary timing awards from the U.S. Department of Transportation with T-Mobile.

Iridium Communications Inc.'s PNT ASIC has a low size, weight, power, and cost profile intended to simplify integration across dense hardware architectures.

The May 2026 GPS jamming incident involved an RAF Dassault Falcon 900LX transport aircraft carrying United Kingdom Defence Secretary John Healey near the Russian border.

Solace Communications' Vector product combines the ASIC with local inertial measurement sensors and multi-band GNSS receivers to produce a real-time confidence score.

Iridium Communications Inc.'s PNT ASIC is designed to provide physical layer defenses against GNSS jamming and spoofing.

Iridium Communications Inc. is distributing standardized developer documentation and online provisioning options at iridium.com/pnt/asic for OEM integration ahead of winter production runs.

Isar Aerospace aims to deliver the launch pad before November.

The new Isar Aerospace launch complex in Nova Scotia is scheduled to begin operations in 2028.

Alexandre Dalloneau is vice president of launch missions and operations at Isar Aerospace.

The new launch complex will include a launch pad, assembly, integration and test facilities, an operations center, and a payload integration building.

The agreement aims to strengthen Canada's sovereign access to space.

Construction on the new launch complex is expected to begin this year.

The contract between Isar Aerospace and Maritime Launch Services has an initial term of ten years.

Isar Aerospace opened its first launch center in Andøya, Norway.

Isar Aerospace will develop a new launch complex for its Spectrum rocket at the Nova Scotia Spaceport in Canada.

Isar Aerospace and Maritime Launch Services must agree on the work plan and initial program milestones before 1 September.

Canada and TKMS have a recent agreement for the development of 12 submarines for the Canadian Navy.

The new launch complex is expected to support 40 missions per year starting in 2029.

Isar Aerospace is opening a subsidiary in Canada.

Isar Aerospace and Maritime Launch Services signed a strategic agreement in Ankara during the NATO Summit's Defense Industry Forum last week.

The first orbital launches from the new launch complex are targeted for 2028.