Private markets continue to fund many space companies while public exchanges increasingly demand legitimate earnings rather than revenue projections.

Space Leasing International bought ground stations and leased them back to RBC Signals.

Space Leasing International is pioneering an aviation-style orbital leasing model that converts large upfront capital expenditures into manageable operating expenditures for satellite operators.

In-Q-Tel highlights the importance of patient capital to sustain long development cycles for deep tech in the space sector.

U.S. startup investment in space contracted in 2024.

The emerging financial stack for space combines venture capital for innovation, private equity for scaling, and asset-backed leasing for infrastructure.

Market discussions suggested a $1.5 trillion valuation for SpaceX.

Commercial space companies were the primary drivers of the global space economy's valuation entering 2026.

The GOVSATCOM Hub is a €107 million infrastructure project.

GOVSATCOM reduces reliance on third-party non-European commercial communication providers for EU Member States.

GOVSATCOM is positioned as an operational bridge to the forthcoming IRIS² constellation.

GOVSATCOM operates by pooling and sharing existing satellite capacities from national military and governmental systems.

The GOVSATCOM Hub serves as the intelligent management layer that orchestrates the allocation of heterogeneous space resources.

The GOVSATCOM Hub was designed and deployed by a consortium led by GMV in partnership with Indra and Hisdesat.

GOVSATCOM provides EU Member States with secure, sovereign, and encrypted communication services.

IRIS² stands for Infrastructure for Resilience, Interconnectivity and Security by Satellite.

The GOVSATCOM system currently integrates eight satellites from five countries.

Jesús Serrano is the CEO of GMV.

The start of GOVSATCOM operations confirms Europe’s ability to deploy sovereign critical space infrastructure within very demanding timeframes.

The GOVSATCOM one-stop-shop model allows authorized users, including border surveillance teams, crisis management responders, and critical infrastructure operators, to access high-assurance bandwidth on demand.

The activation of GOVSATCOM occurred on Thursday, Feb. 12.

The European Union has entered the operational phase of the GOVSATCOM program.

The main factors found to influence leakage risk were pipe length, installation year, diameter, land use, population density, and land surface temperature.

The demonstration identified high-risk and low-risk leakage areas within Phnom Penh and its surrounding areas.

The demonstration organized the status of water-pipeline leakage repair data and the availability of environmental and satellite data for Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

The demonstration confirmed that sufficient data are available in Phnom Penh to perform leakage risk evaluation for water-pipeline systems.

The demonstration experiment used AI to perform high-accuracy analysis of satellite imagery to diagnose water-pipeline leakage risk.

The demonstration investigated the feasibility of introducing a GIS-based leakage risk management service for Phnom Penh.

Leakage risk evaluations in developing countries, including projects funded by ODA, are feasible when access to water-pipeline and leakage-repair data and their quantity and quality are secured through cooperation with JICA and development consulting partners.

天地人 (located in Chuo-ku, Tokyo) completed a demonstration experiment of satellite-image-based leakage risk diagnosis on February 10 under commission from Kitakyushu Water Service for a JICA DX introduction survey related to the Cambodia water-supply expansion project.

The demonstration period ran from September 8, 2023 to December 31, 2023.

Leakage repair history in Phnom Penh has accumulated a sufficient number of records to be useful for leakage risk evaluation.

The target area for the demonstration covered the entire water-pipeline network within Phnom Penh and surrounding administrative areas.

Leakage risk was diagnosed on a roughly 100-meter square mesh basis using a five-level risk scale.

The webinar highlights a growing regional demand for professionals with governance competencies related to the space sector and understanding of regional interactions at national and European levels.

The 20th webinar in the Education/Training in the Space sector series promoted by NEREUS is scheduled for 19 February 2026 from 11:00 to 12:30.

The session intends to foster dialogue between universities, training institutions, and regional authorities to define training pathways aligned with regional and European needs in space policy and governance.

NEREUS promotes the use of space technologies at the regional level and fosters collaboration among public authorities, universities, schools, and space companies.

Participation in the webinar requires registration, and the detailed agenda and registration form are available on the event's official webpage.

The session focuses on developing skills in space policy, space governance, and regulatory aspects of the space sector.

The webinar is titled "Space Policy & Skills at regional level."

The webinar emphasizes strengthening university curricula with disciplines such as space policy, space governance, space economics, and space law.

Regione Puglia is an effective member of NEREUS.

The webinar references new European instruments and initiatives including the EU Space Act as part of the evolving context for regional space skills needs.

NEREUS – Network of European Regions Using Space technologies is the promoter of the webinar series on education and training in the space sector.

Margarita Chrysaki, Communication & Project Officer at NEREUS, will provide introduction and moderation for the webinar.

The webinar will include presentations of best practices and concrete examples from European universities and regions.

Blue Origin presented the Mars Telecommunication Orbiter (MTO) in a post on X.

The Mars Telecommunication Orbiter (MTO) is described as an orbiter dedicated to telecommunications designed to ensure continuity of communications around Mars and to support future scientific missions.

The MTO is conceived as a data-transmission platform intended to ensure continuity of communications between the Mars surface, orbiting assets, and Earth.