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Voyager Technologies secured a patent from the US government covering its unique process of manufacturing crystals in microgravity to support future optical communications use cases, the company announced this week.

Voyager plans to send its patented process to the ISS this spring to demonstrate the hardware, but this mission is just the beginning. Voyager CTO Paul...


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In its push to double down on its national security and defense clientele, spacecom firm CesiumAstro has secured $200M in government financing.

The Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) and JP Morgan jointly provided the batch of financing. The breakdown:

$185M as an EXIM-authorized debt facility; A $15M revolving-credit facility from JPM. <...


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Sovereign systems are all the rage in Europe. Countries on the continent are spending like mad to increase their own space defense capabilities by buying nationally run satellites, setting up sovereign launch services, and boosting local industrial capacity.

This week’s announcement from the Swedish Armed Forces—that it would be allocating 1.3B Swedish Kronor (€121...


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ESA and Liberty Mutual Reinsurance (LMRe) signed an agreement this week to kick off a three-year collaboration exploring how space data can be used to create parametric insurance solutions for terrestrial assets.

The agreement is a lot more exciting than it sounds, especially for EO and analytics companies on the continent, which stand to benefit from ESA support a...


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It’s rare for space operators to cross their fingers, hoping a sat will get hit with a piece of space debris. But that’s exactly what Atomic-6 CEO Trevor Smith is doing. 

Atomic-6’s Space Armor tile system will fly to space for the first time in October on SpaceX’s Transporter-18 rideshare mission, with the goal of protecting its first paying customer: Portal ...


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