Top Stories for the week of April 3, 2026

SATShow 2026 | March 31, 2026
Faced With Starlink Competition, Ground Segment Leaders Turn to Orchestration, Specialization
Faced with the game-changing advent of vertically integrated Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) megaconstellations like Starlink and Amazon Leo, ground segment hardware and service providers are having……[continued]
Launch | April 1, 2026
NASA Launches Artemis II in Further Step Toward a Moon Return
NASA launched Artemis II, its first crewed mission under the Artemis program, on Wednesday evening. The mission will test the Orion spacecraft’s life support capabilities…...[continued]
Mobility | March 31, 2026
Delta Taps Amazon Leo for IFC Rollout on 500 Aircraft
Delta Air Lines has turned to Amazon to expand its in-flight connectivity offerings, announcing plans to roll out Amazon Leo IFC service starting with 500…...[continued]
SATShow 2026 | March 30, 2026
WAVE Achieves First Cloud-to-Gateway Satcom Virtualization with AI Signal Analysis
Members of the Waveform Architecture for Virtualized Ecosystems (WAVE) Consortium, an IEEE standards body, achieved the first instance of standardized waveform virtualization using field-programmable gate…...[continued]
People | March 31, 2026
Claussen Departs, ST Engineering iDirect Names Sridhar Kuppanna as CEO 
ST Engineering iDirect has named CTO Sridhar Kuppanna as CEO to succeed Don Claussen in leading the company.  Claussen had served as ST Engineering iDirect…...[continued]
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Finance | April 1, 2026
Bloomberg, CNBC Report SpaceX Submitted Confidential Filing for IPO 
Bloomberg and CNBC reported Wednesday that SpaceX has confidentially filed for its initial public offering (IPO).  A confidential filing allows a company to submit draft…...[continued]
SATShow 2026 | March 26, 2026
Bridgit Mendler Outlines Northwood’s Vision for Rapidly Deployable Ground Infrastructure
Bridgit Mendler detailed how she and the team at Northwood Space are working to solve the “gnarly problem” of satellite ground infrastructure by developing an…...[continued]
Launch | March 30, 2026
SpaceX Launches 119 Payloads on the Transporter-16 Rideshare Mission
SpaceX launched 119 payloads into Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) at 4:02 a.m. PT on Transporter-16, a dedicated smallsat rideshare mission, from Vandenberg Space Force Base in…...[continued]
Government/Military | March 31, 2026
Air Force Awards BlackSky $99M to Large Aperture Optical Payload for Space-Based Imaging
BlackSky Technology on Tuesday said a $99 million contract it received from the Air Force Research Laboratory in early March that will accelerate the design…...[continued]
Partner Content | April 1, 2026
CanarySat CEO Antonio Abad Outlines the Sovereign, Secure Approach Behind the Magec Constellation
CanarySat Satellite Services, the new Arquimea-backed satellite operator emerging from Spain’s Canary Islands, unveiled Magec, its advanced Ka-band, Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation last week during SATShow…...[continued]
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