Existing international Section 214 foreign ownership reporting frameworks have typically centered on a 10 percent benchmark.

The Lazio Innova training courses aim to strengthen human capital and support the competitiveness of strategic production supply chains.

Lazio Innova launched new training courses dedicated to the automotive and aerospace sectors.

The Lazio Innova training approach responds to the needs of companies operating in highly regulated and competitive markets.

The Lazio Innova training programs target technical and professional profiles seeking specialist skills in high-technology areas.

Lazio Innova designed the courses to align available skills with the needs of the regional production system.

The Lazio Innova initiative is part of a broader regional strategy to support technological supply chains where training plays a key role.

The Lazio Innova courses combine theoretical knowledge and practical applications to provide operational tools immediately usable in production contexts.

Aerospace training is framed as a lever to support innovation, technology transfer, and industrial development in the region.

The new Lazio Innova courses aim to bridge the gap between supply and demand of skills in the aerospace sector.

The regional aerospace sector is one of the domains with the highest knowledge intensity and produces direct impacts on qualified employment and enterprise competitiveness.

The Space Force's "Race to Resilience" frames 2026 as the pivotal year for transitioning to a full-spectrum warfighting architecture.

Historically, "positional" satellite operations minimize spacecraft movement to conserve limited fuel supplies.

Sustained space maneuver requires development of on-orbit logistics-enabling infrastructure, including refueling and servicing capabilities.

Gen. Stephen Whiting introduced the "Apollo Maneuvers" exercise concept to simulate complex satellite movements, responsive launch surges, and spectrum maneuvering.

U.S. Space Command aims to have sustained maneuver capabilities fully operational by 2028.

Dynamic Space Operations (DSO) encompasses on-orbit refueling, logistics, and sustained maneuverability.

The "Apollo Maneuvers" concept borrows the idea of "shatter[ing] enemy cohesion" from U.S. Marine Corps warfighting doctrine MCDP 1.

The fiscal year 2026 defense budget allocated $14.5 million for SAML activities.

Gen. Stephen Whiting warned that positional satellite operations create predictable targets for adversaries such as China and Russia, which are rapidly fielding maneuverable counterspace capabilities.

Gen. Stephen Whiting advocated that the Department of Defense move beyond a "launch-centric" model toward an architecture defined by Dynamic Space Operations (DSO).

Gen. Stephen Whiting, Commander of U.S. Space Command, delivered a keynote address at the Space Mobility Conference in Orlando, Florida on January 28, 2026.

The United States Space Force is preparing a series of high-profile logistics demonstrations throughout 2026 to prove the feasibility of on-orbit refueling and sustained maneuver concepts.

The mission will demonstrate how commercial Deorbit-as-a-Service can support both government and commercial constellation operators.

Starfish Space executed a previously awarded competitive mission study contract for the Space Development Agency throughout 2024–2025.

Otter is designed to capture and deorbit satellites without requiring any prior modifications, allowing Starfish Space to service existing and future spacecraft deployed or planned within the PWSA constellation.

The contract represents the first dedicated end-of-life disposal mission for a low Earth orbit constellation.

Under the contract, Starfish Space will build, launch, and operate an Otter spacecraft in low Earth orbit to dispose of SDA satellites at the end of their operational lives.

The award is the first contracted mission for end-of-life satellite disposal service for any provider.

The mission is targeting launch in 2027.

The U.S. Space Force Space Development Agency awarded a $52.5 million contract to Starfish Space to provide Deorbit-as-a-Service for satellites within the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture.

The mission will begin with an initial deorbit and includes options for multiple additional deorbits enabled by Otter’s capacity to service several satellites in a single mission.

The International Astronomical Union led a study finding that Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellites currently exceed brightness recommendations intended to protect ground-based astronomy.

Project Kuiper satellites operating at 630 km remain illuminated for longer periods during twilight than lower-altitude satellites.

Lowering Project Kuiper satellites to approximately 590 km will decrease the time a satellite is visible during a single pass but increase apparent brightness for observers directly beneath the orbital path.

Starlink satellites are physically larger than Project Kuiper satellites and orbit at lower altitudes of approximately 550 km.

Approximately 25% of the observations recorded Project Kuiper satellites bright enough to be seen with the unaided eye in dark-sky locations.

Starlink satellites benefit from being in the Earth’s shadow for a larger portion of their orbit compared with Project Kuiper satellites operating at higher altitudes.

The study concluded that 92% of Project Kuiper satellites in their operational phase are brighter than the IAU’s research limit.

The IAU Centre for the Protection of the Dark and Quiet Sky established a standardized satellite luminosity formula: MV > 7.0 + 2.5 · log10(altitude / 550).

The study measured a mean apparent magnitude of 6.28 for Project Kuiper satellites.

Project Kuiper’s planned fleet size is 3,236 satellites.

Amazon’s engineers have reduced reflectivity of Project Kuiper satellites compared with early prototypes.

Amazon plans to lower the altitude of future Kuiper satellites to approximately 590 km.

For satellites operating at 630 km altitude, the IAU research limit corresponds to approximately magnitude 7.15.

Amazon engaged with the astronomical community early in Project Kuiper’s design phase and employed mitigation strategies to reduce satellite reflectivity.

The IAU and NSF NOIRLab are expected to continue monitoring the Project Kuiper constellation as Amazon increases launch cadence toward an FCC mid-2026 deployment milestone.

Satellite streaks from bright Project Kuiper satellites can saturate sensitive digital sensors and permanently corrupt data from wide-field surveys such as those conducted by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory.

Researchers analyzed nearly 2,000 observations of Project Kuiper satellites as of January 2026.

ASEAN member states engaged in space technology initiatives share an objective of building a coordinated and sustainable regional space ecosystem.