Sovereign Satellites

US SDA, Leo for WiFi, light pollution, and HANBIT-Nano

December 19, 2025 Fudge Factor

📈 Sovereign satellites are a growing trend as more countries want to head to the high ground of space.

💰🛰️🚀 US Space Development Agency placed $3.5B worth of orders for building missile warning, tracking, and defense (MWTD) space vehicles (SVs) with Lockheed Martin, Rocket Lab USA, Northrop Grumman, and L3Harris Technologies.

🇰🇷🚀🛰️ South Korea’s Innospace had their first HANBIT-Nano orbital launch postponed in Brazil and it is being rescheduled

👀 Two more updates caught my eye involving the competition within established solutions and the disruption of astronomy itself.

✈️🛰️🛜 Amazon Leo in flight WiFi might be coming to American Airlines

🛰️🔭🤔 Satellite megaconstellations threaten space-based astronomy

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