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Deployment schedules and manufacturing cadence of large LEO constellations such as Amazon LEO, Telesat's network and AST SpaceMobile.
Earth Fire Alliance launched the first three of 50 planned FireSat satellites on July 7, a fleet built only to find wildfires. Its promised scan of every point on Earth every 20 minutes depends on the other 47 reaching orbit.
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Blue Origin's first outside raise reached $10 billion at a $140 billion valuation, the Wall Street Journal reported, with Bezos putting in $2 billion. About $8 billion of outside money is pricing a company whose rocket has not flown since a May pad explosion.
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About €20bn and 51 deals were announced at the Paris space summit, on top of an ESA budget member states had already approved. The dates suppliers will be judged against came from Macron's address, not from a contract.
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An August 2026 review grew IRIS² from around 290 satellites to 348 and its planned investment from 10.6 billion euros to more than 15.6 billion, and the largest single build order, 2.4 billion euros for 264 platforms, went to Belgium's Aerospacelab.
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Bermuda, New Zealand and Australia are tested and online, with nine sites promised by year end. The product being sold is one contract instead of a patchwork of antenna leases.
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Amazon has slowed satellite production waiting on rockets it booked five years ago, and Telesat is fielding requests to share its Falcon 9s. Capacity is the binding constraint.
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