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