GOVSATCOM service coverage is expected to expand beyond its initial offering in 2027.

The initial GOVSATCOM service is enabled by pooling capacity from eight existing communications satellites provided by five EU member states: France, Spain, Italy, Greece, and Luxembourg.

GOVSATCOM was developed to serve as an operational bridge to IRIS2 by providing short-term access to secure satellite communications while laying the institutional and user framework for a future EU sovereign satellite communications constellation.

GOVSATCOM was initially announced in 2018 as the Governmental Satellite Communications initiative.

A consortium led by Spain’s GMV was given responsibility for building GOVSATCOM’s ground hubs.

The European Union plans to purchase capacity from trusted European commercial partners to expand GOVSATCOM coverage beyond the initial offering.

GOVSATCOM provides sovereign, reliable, secure, and cost-effective governmental satellite communications services for EU and national public authorities.

GOVSATCOM offers secure satellite communications to European military and government users.

The pooling and sharing of GOVSATCOM satellite capacity will be managed through two EU-operated ground hubs strategically deployed in secure facilities across EU member states.

A €107 million contract to build GOVSATCOM’s ground hubs was awarded in September 2024.

Satoshi Nakayama will serve as a co-Representative Director alongside Interstellar Technologies’ Representative Director CEO Takahiro Inagawa.

Vake Powered by KSAT integrates data from 15 satellite providers using optical satellites, radio-frequency satellites, and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites to detect, identify, and track vessels without AIS.

SpeQtral has launched two satellite QKD demonstrators, and the second demonstrator launched in November 2025 with a mission to demonstrate space-to-ground quantum communications.

Vake Powered by KSAT combines KSAT’s platform with AI and visualization technologies from VAKE, a maritime domain awareness solutions provider that KSAT acquired in March 2024, to monitor high-traffic and remote sea areas.

SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation has been studying commercialization of satellite quantum key distribution since fiscal year 2018.

Satoshi Nakayama joined Interstellar Technologies in January 2021, served in avionics development, reliability design, and quality assurance, became General Manager of the development department in September 2021, and became Director VP of Launch Vehicle in May 2024.

On January 26, 2026, Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) launched the maritime domain awareness platform Vake Powered by KSAT to support Maritime Domain Awareness from space.

SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation and SpeQtral aim to achieve early commercialization in the 2030s of highly confidential satellite communications that use quantum cryptography.

SpeQtral plans to launch the commercial satellite SpeQtral-1 in fiscal year 2027.

SpeQtral is a Singapore company that develops satellite quantum key distribution (QKD) and is led by CEO Chune Yang Lum.

PTC, led by CEO Neil Barua, announced that Reditus Space adopted PTC’s computer-aided design (CAD) and product data management (PDM) platform.

On January 29, 2026, Interstellar Technologies resolved that Satoshi Nakayama, then Vice President of Launch Vehicle, will become Representative Director President effective February 1, 2026.

Interstellar Technologies is transitioning its management structure to clarify responsibilities between its rocket business and communications satellite business to enable faster decision-making.

On January 28, 2026, SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation invested in Singapore satellite QKD company SpeQtral and signed a strategic alliance with SpeQtral.

Reditus Space, co-founded and led by CEO Stef Crum, is developing a reusable satellite named ENOS for on-orbit pharmaceutical and semiconductor manufacturing and plans to launch its first full orbital mission ENOS Mk1 as a rideshare on SpaceX’s Falcon 9.

PTC attributes Reditus Space’s rapid development from concept to launchable hardware to the strategic advantages provided by cloud-native tools.

Satoshi Nakayama worked for 12 years at Mitsubishi Precision on rocket and satellite payload development before joining Interstellar Technologies in January 2021.

Quantum key distribution (QKD) uses the quantum property that observation changes a state to securely share encryption keys while detecting eavesdropping.

York Space Systems can currently produce around 300 satellites per year.

York Space Systems plans to inventory spacecraft so payloads can be integrated and delivered on demand and to deliver hundreds to thousands of satellites per year.

York Space Systems is a prime contractor for the Space Development Agency.

York Space Systems is based in Colorado.

York Space Systems reported $253.5 million in revenue in 2024, of which 95% was government revenue.

York Space Systems is performing three different mission sets that are applicable to the missile defense and missile warning capabilities of the Golden Dome program.

The Space Development Agency launched 21 satellites built by York Space Systems for the Tranche 1 Transport Layer in September.

York Space Systems acquired ground systems-as-a-service company Atlas Space Operations in 2024.

Voyager Technologies and Firefly Aerospace completed large space IPOs in 2025.

York Space Systems’ M&A strategy targets suppliers with proven products that can be ramped to meet production needs in 2026 and beyond and whose software can be integrated into York’s software ecosystem.

SpaceX is expected to go public in 2026.

York Space Systems raised $629 million in an upsized initial public offering (IPO).

Funds from the IPO will help York Space Systems inventory spacecraft and shrink production schedules to increase scale.

York Space Systems primarily supplies satellites for defense missions.

LandViewer’s 2025 development cycle prioritized diversification of imagery sources to reduce reliance on rigid proprietary constellations.

LandViewer supports immediate execution of indices, band combinations, change detection, and time-series analysis without requiring external software.

Viktoriia Troian is Head of Product for EOSDA LandViewer.

EOSDA plans to further expand LandViewer’s multispectral satellite imagery portfolio during the remainder of 2026.

Recent LandViewer updates added quick filters for cloud cover, sensor type, and acquisition dates to streamline data search workflows.

EOS Data Analytics (EOSDA) upgraded its LandViewer platform to introduce new satellite tasking capabilities and to expand its imagery archive through 2025.

EOSDA aims to increase the volume of available images in LandViewer to support long-term monitoring tasks that require consistent historical data.

LandViewer embeds processing tools directly into its viewing interface to reduce the need for switching between separate imagery and analytics tools.