Firefly Aerospace has announced a new contract with the Department of War’s Defense Innovation Unit and Space Development Agency to complete a preliminary design review (PDR) for a mission providing deorbit services with Firefly’s Elytra spacecraft. Once the PDR is complete, Firefly will be eligible to compete for the next phase of mission execution, including launch and spacecraft operations.

Lockheed Martin has been selected for a contract with the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to develop, evolve, modernize and sustain the agency’s Modeling & Simulation (M&S) Objective Simulation Framework (OSF), a virtual testing environment for the United States’ missile defense system. This contract is called M&S Vistas Framework.

Astrolight and ATMOS Space Cargo have signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly demonstrate what they aim to make the first in-flight optical communications link between a re-entry spacecraft and an orbiting satellite. The demonstration is planned for 2027.

SES has announced the successful completion of Rendez-vous 1 (RDV1) under the Infrastructure for Resilience, Interconnectivity and Security by Satellite (IRIS²) programme, marking a key milestone in the programme's implementation phase and reinforcing Europe’s path towards sovereign, resilient and secure satellite connectivity.

Gilat Satellite Networks has announced the successful demonstration of a breakthrough AI-based interference detection and cancellation technology for satellite communication links. The patent-pending solution leverages advanced AI-based signal processing designed to run on standard AI for edge NPU and has demonstrated exceptional performance across a wide range of non-cooperative and non-static interference scenarios.

For years, satellite communications companies were judged primarily on capacity, terminals and connectivity. Today, that narrative is changing rapidly. Gilat's second-quarter 2026 results demonstrate that success in the satellite industry is increasingly being driven by defence, mobility and mission-critical communications rather than traditional commercial broadband alone.

Hughes Satellite Systems Corporation has announced that it and certain of its US subsidiaries, including Hughes Network Systems, LLC, have filed voluntary chapter 11 petitions in the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas, Houston Division (the “Court”) to facilitate a financial and operational reorganization.

ALL.SPACE has announced that its next-generation wideband, multi-orbit SATCOM terminal platform, Hydra MAX, is now available to the market. Extending the proven Hydra family, Hydra MAX supports wideband Ka networks with 500 MHz of instantaneous bandwidth per Ka beam while maintaining the platform's simultaneous multi-orbit, on-the-move connectivity.

Eutelsat have announced the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Poland to deepen cooperation in support of Europe's future secure satellite communications infrastructure under the IRIS² programme.

Recent reports that the historic Jodrell Bank Observatory could face closure or a significant reduction in its scientific role should concern everyone who cares about Britain's place in science, technology and innovation.