Business & Finance
Ovzon Reports Record 2025 Results Driven by NATO and Defense Breakthroughs
STOCKHOLM — In its year-end report released Thursday, February 19, 2026, Ovzon AB announced a landmark fiscal year 2025, characterized by record revenue growth, the transition to full-scale commercial operations of its Ovzon 3 satellite, and major multi-year defense contracts ...
GomSpace Achieves Record Q4 Performance and Profitable Full-Year 2025 Growth
UPPSALA, Sweden — In a financial statement released Thursday, February 19, 2026, GomSpace Group AB (GomSpace) reported an all-time high revenue for the fourth quarter of 2025 and a full year of significant expansion. The company surpassed its financial guidance ...
SpaceX Consolidates xAI Operations Amid Co-Founder Departures and Cultural Realignment
February 15, 2026 — Following the February 2, 2026, acquisition of xAI by SpaceX, the newly integrated artificial intelligence division is undergoing a significant structural and cultural transformation. The transition, aimed at aligning xAI’s research-heavy roots with SpaceX’s high-cadence engineering ...
Bank: “Too many LEO constellations” but 18m Starlink customers by end 2026
Chris Forrester — You can almost smell the investment bankers and their tangible excitement over a probable SpaceX Initial Public Offering (IPO) this year. The current gossip points to a summer IPO with some Crystal Ball gazers suggesting that June ...
The Hybrid Architecture Is No Longer Theoretical
Dispatch from SmallSat Symposium. If there was any doubt that the center of gravity in the commercial space sector has shifted from venture capital speculation to kinetic necessity, that doubt was shattered by the final session, Smallsats at the Tactical ...
Balance Sheets Now Matter More Than Rockets
Dispatch from SmallSat Symposium. The visionaries pitching Mars colonies have largely left the building. In their place sit investment bankers, project finance lawyers, and strategic investors who are currently rewiring the architecture of the $613 billion space economy. At this ...
70,000 Satellites, One Big Bottleneck: The Industry Wakes Up to the Data Trap
Dispatch from SmallSat Symposium. Novaspace Partner Nathan De Ruiter presented staggering figures. Opening the floor with an exclusive forecast, he predicted that 70,000 small satellites launching over the next decade will represent an investment of roughly $134 billion. Yet the ...
Software Defines the New Front Lines of Space Defense
Dispatch from SmallSat Symposium. For decades the space industry measured ground segment power in rack units and heavy copper cabling. That model was effectively retired here at the SmallSat Symposium. Instead of bigger antennas or faster rockets, discussion on the ...
SES Executive Confirms End of the 15-Year Satellite Era
Dispatch from SmallSat Symposium. Taking the stage, Dr. Bryan Benedict, Senior Director of Innovation at SES Space & Defense, dismantled rather than defended the legacy model. He described the merger between satellite giants SES and Intelsat that created a fleet ...
The Dumb Pipe Is Dead: Why Physics Is Forcing AI Into Orbit
Dispatch from SmallSat Symposium. The concept of the satellite as a simple relay, serving as little more than a shiny mirror reflecting data to control rooms in Houston or Darmstadt, is extinct. At the Computer History Museum, the panel on ...
The Space Tourist Is Dead. Long Live the Orbital Industrialist.
Dispatch from SmallSat Symposium. For the Space Industry Investment and Exit Strategies panel, a clear consensus emerged that the space sector has graduated from a science fair to a serious asset class. No one’s funding technology for technology's sake anymore ...
The End of the Passive Satellite
Dispatch from SmallSat Symposium. For years, the SmallSat Symposium acted as a showcase for cheaper data relays and internet-from-the-sky optimism. But inside the Grand Hall today, the mask slipped during the session on Building the Physical Layer of Autonomy. The ...
The Benign Era is Over: Why the Commercial Space Sector Just Woke Up on the Front Lines
Dispatch from SmallSat Symposium. For the past decade the SmallSat industry operated under a comforting delusion that low Earth orbit was a sanctuary where commercial operators could move fast, break things, and prioritize automotive-grade electronics over military-grade hardening. Dr. Paul ...
The Empire Strikes Back: Europe’s Defense Giants Are Done Playing Catch-Up
Dispatch from SmallSat Symposium. Dr. Marco Brancati, newly minted Technical Director of the Leonardo Space Division, took the stage for the Keynote By Leonardo. Brancati didn't come to Mountain View to talk about democratizing space but to describe a fortress ...
The $175 Billion Shadow: Inside the Golden Dome’s Identity Crisis
Dispatch from SmallSat Symposium. Even here in the heart of Silicon Valley, the conversation has pivoted aggressively toward the Pentagon. The topic is the Golden Dome, the administration’s missile defense architecture mandated by Executive Order 14186 and funded at $175 ...
AST SpaceMobile Shares Rally Following Successful Deployment of Massive BlueBird 6 Array
MIDLAND, Texas – Shares of AST SpaceMobile, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASTS) climbed as much as 6.9% in premarket trading on Wednesday, Feb. 11, following the company’s announcement of the successful unfolding of its BlueBird 6 satellite antenna. The event marks a ...
D2D’s Hype Hangover: The Physics Finally Bite Back
Dispatch from SmallSat Symposium. The free drinks at SmallSat Symposium usually signal a celebration, but this year they feel more like a necessity. If 2024 was the year of the press release, early 2026 is the year of the hangover ...
Silicon Valley to Aerospace: Code is the New Steel
Dispatch from SmallSat Symposium. Rockets still make a lot of noise, but the revolution visible at the SmallSat Symposium moves silently, digitally, and at the speed of code. For decades “metal benders”—those massive aerospace conglomerates that first weld titanium and ...
Space Has a Plumbing Problem, and It’s Getting Expensive
Dispatch from SmallSat Symposium. Rockets function reliably. Satellites roll off assembly lines at scale. Yet the buzz at SmallSat Symposium in Mountain View can’t mask a sobering reality: data gets stuck on the way down ...
The New Orbital Guard: Commercial Tech Steps Up as the Pentagon’s Watchtower
Dispatch from SmallSat Symposium. The mood at the SmallSat Symposium has shifted from anxiety to resolve. While previous years were defined by fear of orbital overcrowding, this year marks the moment the industry decided to act. Experts at the Space ...
