Plus: Plans for an 'orbital carrier' flight test, and preview for the rest of the conference
The SpaceNews team is on the ground at The Broadmoor all week long, bringing you the latest news from the largest industry gathering of the year.
In today's update: what to listen for at Symposium, a new Aerospace Corporation program, pushback against proposed NASA budget cuts and more
If you're here in Colorado Springs, we want to connect with you this week. Visit us at booth #1331 to meet the team, grab a free Space Race sticker and take advantage of discounts on our individual and group subscriptions. Be sure to grab our daily print editions at the booth, around the exhibit halls or at the International Center.
On Tuesday, grab a seat at these conversations moderated by SpaceNews:
Stop by Redwire booth #1373 at 3:30 p.m. MT for Sandra Erwin's panel on optical links in contested and congested space. The discussion with leaders from the Space Development Agency, Kepler Communications, Cailabs and Tesat will explore how optical communication links can provide warfighters and operators with the data throughput, resilience and security they need. At 3:45 p.m. MT, Mike Gruss moderates a conversation in the International Center on how industry leaders are powering the next commercial boom with data, with perspectives from Lockheed Martin, Palantir, Slingshot Aerospace, Anduril and L3Harris Technologies. Also: tomorrow's the last day to vote in Redwire's Spaceship Smackdown. Tell us which sci-fi spaceship is the greatest ever put to screen, and then stop by Redwire booth #1373 on Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. MT as Jeff Foust hosts a panel of industry leaders who will reveal the winner and offer their expert takes on the results.
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By Jeff Foust At a space policy roundtable of government and industry officials ahead of the 41st Space Symposium, Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., chairman of the Senate appropriations subcommittee that funds NASA, said he opposes proposed cuts to part of NASA's budget and will seek to fund the agency at levels similar to last year. He discussed the need for a NASA budget that balances resources across the agency's key mission areas and told reporters that he will work to reverse those proposed cuts in the spending bill his committee will craft.
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Sophia Space will begin deploying edge compute nodes on Kepler Communications satellites in late 2026, under a strategic pact announced April 13.
Washington is converging on a central premise in space policy: the U.S. must spend more, move faster and coordinate better to stay ahead of China. What remains unsettled, according to a Space Symposium panel of White House, Congress, military and industry officials, is whether the system in place can deliver on that ambition.
Atomic-6, a supplier of specialized materials and subsystems for satellites, is launching an online marketplace designed to simplify how companies procure spacecraft for in-space computing. |
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Citra Space said it raised $15 million in a Series A funding round led by Washington Harbour Partners, as the Colorado-based startup looks to expand its software platform for identifying objects in orbit.
Gravitics is preparing to test a space architecture built around a large orbital platform designed to store and deploy multiple spacecraft that would allow customers such as the U.S. Space Force to position assets in orbit before they're needed.
Amazon has unveiled the antenna its upcoming constellation would use to provide gigabit speeds to commercial aircraft. |
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As the 41st Space Symposium opens in Colorado Springs, optimism is bountiful for the space industry. With a week of keynotes, policy signals and industry dealmaking ahead, the SpaceNews staff wrote three questions to listen for this week
The Aerospace Corp. plans to offer industry access to its expertise and facilities through a new program called government furnished talent.
Phantom Space believes it now has the key pieces of a vertically integrated model to compete on the edges of the emerging orbital data center market, where industry giants are already staking claims to meet soaring AI-driven demand.
Heather Pringle, the Space Foundation's chief executive officer and a retired Air Force major general, previewed the nonprofit's annual Space Symposium, now in its 41st year, in a March 27 interview with the Space Minds podcast.
Commercial Space Federation President Dave Cavossa describes a pathway to surging space investments through new mission authorization processes. |
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