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GEOINT 2026 Draws 4000+ for AI-Driven Earth Intelligence Push
How is AI reshaping geospatial intelligence at scale? The 2026 GEOINT Symposium in Aurora, Colorado is drawing more than 4,000 analysts, engineers, mission commanders, and policy leaders focused on three critical imperatives: artificial intelligence integration, massive data processing capabilities, and operational scale requirements that now define modern geospatial intelligence. This year’s gathering represents a pivotal…
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Lockheed Martin Joins Seagate–Firefly Partnership on Sea-Based Launch Platform
Lockheed Martin is supporting a newly announced partnership between Seagate Space and Firefly Aerospace to develop a sea-based launch system centred on an offshore platform for the Alpha rocket. The initiative builds on a memorandum of understanding signed in April between Seagate Space and Firefly Aerospace to deploy Firefly’s Alpha launch vehicle from Seagate’s Gateway…
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STMicroelectronics Targets $3 Billion in Space Revenue on Growing LEO Demand
STMicroelectronics expects to generate more than $3 billion in revenue from its space-related business over the next three years, driven by growing demand in low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite programs and continued collaboration with SpaceX. Speaking during a virtual presentation, Remi El-Ouazzane, president of Microcontrollers, Digital ICs and RF Products at STMicroelectronics, said the company’s LEO-related…
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NRO Director Scolese Exits After Expanding Commercial Intel Partnerships
What did Chris Scolese accomplish as NRO director? Chris Scolese’s departure as National Reconnaissance Office director marks the end of a transformative four-year tenure that fundamentally reshaped America’s intelligence satellite strategy. Under his leadership, the NRO expanded commercial partnerships to counter growing threats from China and Russia while opening unprecedented public engagement channels for the…
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Lt. Gen. Douglas Schiess Nominated as Next Space Force Chief
The U.S. Space Force said on Friday that Lt. Gen. Douglas Schiess has been nominated to serve as its next chief of space operations, the service’s top uniformed role. If confirmed, Schiess would become the third officer to hold the position since the Space Force was established in 2019, succeeding Jay Raymond and Chance Saltzman,…
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SciTec Secures Deal to Advance Space Force Missile Defense Under Golden Dome
SciTec, a Firefly Aerospace company, announced it received an Other Transaction Authority (OTA) agreement from U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command to support the nation’s emerging missile defense- architecture as part of the Space Based- Interceptor (SBI) program. This program was established under the Department of War to develop a space-based missile defense interceptor system…
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OroraTech Launches Greece’s Wildfire Monitoring Satellite System
OroraTech, the global leader in space-based wildfire intelligence, announced the successful launch and deployment of the Hellenic Fire System, four dedicated wildfire monitoring satellites for Greece, marking the world’s first national satellite system designed exclusively for wildfire detection and tracking. The satellites were launched with SpaceX via Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Developed for…
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Interlune Awarded $6.9 Million Contract from NASA for Lunar Resource Development
Interlune, a natural resources company, announced a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase III project with NASA‘s Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) Game Changing Development (GCD) program for a lunar resource development effort. The sole-source contract is for a firm-fixed-price of $6.9 million over the next 18 months to develop a payload suite that will…
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NGA Grants Vantor $70 Million Contract to Enhance GEOINT Platform
Vantor, the leader in unified spatial intelligence, has been awarded a $70 million Option Year 1 contract by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) as part of the Global Enhanced GEOINT Delivery (G-EGD) program. Under this follow-on award, Vantor delivers and operates GEGD Pro, a secure, web-based geospatial intelligence platform that leverages Vantor’s Tensorglobe software suite. Designed…
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Kongsberg NanoAvionics Expands Modular Small Satellite Buses for Mission Deployment
NanoAvionics, a small satellite mission integrator specializing in modular satellite buses and end-to-end mission solutions, is advancing space mission deployment with a broad portfolio of standardized CubeSat and microsatellite platforms. The company’s flight-proven architectures are designed to enable rapid integration, scalable constellation deployment and reduced time-to-orbit across commercial, research and defense applications. NanoAvionics’ platform ecosystem…