T-Minus Space Daily

SWISSto12 has secured €73 million in financial support from European Space Agency (ESA) member states through the HummingSat ARTES partnership project. Canada Rocket Company (CRC) has emerged from stealth with $6.2 million CAD in seed funding from entirely Canadian investors. Starfish Space has been awarded a $52.5 million contract by the US Space Force’s Space Development Agency (SDA) to provide Deorbit-as-a-Service for satellites within the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture, and more.

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Selected Reading

€73 Million From ESA Member States Towards HummingSat – SWISSto12’s Next-Gen Affordable, Compact Satellite, to Meet Growing Demand for Commercial and Sovereign Communications

Canada Rocket Company wants Canada to stop hitching rides to space- BetaKit

Starfish Space Awarded First Ever End-of-Life Disposal Contract for a LEO Constellation

New NASA Artemis Payloads To Study Moon’s Terrain, Radiation, History

Orion Space Solutions to operationalize IARPA system for space debris detection and tracking

Astra Ships 110 Satellite Engines, Focuses on 2026 Test Flight of New Rocket

The first commercial space station, Haven-1, is now undergoing assembly for launch - Ars Technica

Comtech Receives Space Components Award Exceeding $5 Million to Support Critical Civil Space Program

Space sector eyes further investment growth in 2026 after record year- Reuters

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NASA’s Artemis II Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft reached Launch Pad 39B after a nearly 12-hour journey from the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) . Gilmour Space Technologies has raised $217 million Australian dollars in a Series E round. The UK Space Agency UKSA) has supported the opening of a new £20 million space innovation hub in Buckinghamshire.

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Our guest today is Christian Davenport, Journalist, and Author of "Rocket Dreams".

You can connect with Christian on LinkedIn, and learn more about his books on Amazon.

Selected Reading

NASA’s Moonbound Artemis II Rocket Reaches Launch Pad

Gilmour secures $217 million in private investment- Australian Space Agency

Westcott Space Hub opens to boost UK space innovation and create hundreds of jobs - GOV.UK

York Space Systems Announces Launch of Initial Public Offering

BlackSky Lands Multiple Gen-3 Expansion Contracts as Early Access Pilot Programs Pivot into Renewal Deals

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Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) is the practice of intercepting and analyzing electronic signals, like phone calls, emails, radar, and telemetry, to gather actionable intelligence for national security, defense, and military operations. It’s primarily conducted by agencies like NSA, but over the last decade many companies in the commercial sector have grown in this vital area of national defense, especially in space. Our guest is Dave DeWalt, CEO of NightDragon, who shared why his firm is investing in tech and space. 

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The Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 NASA/NOAA Appropriations Bill cleared the US Senate. Eutelsat has signed a deal with French space startup MaiaSpace for future launches of its low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites. Isar Aerospace is targeting its second flight and qualification mission from the company’s dedicated launch complex at Andøya Space in Norway from January 21, 2026, and more.

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Elysia Segal brings us the Space Traffic Report from NASASpaceflight.com.

Selected Reading

US Senate passes bill to boost federal science spending after White House sought major cuts- Reuters

Final FY2026 NASA/NOAA Appropriations Bill Clears Senate, White House is Next – SpacePolicyOnline.com

Starlink-rival Eutelsat signs deal with Europe's MaiaSpace to launch satellites- Reuters

Isar Aerospace targets second launch not earlier than 21 January 2026

China launches AlSat-3A remote sensing satellite - CGTN

U.S. Space Force switches rockets for upcoming GPS satellite launch – Spaceflight Now

Nigeria grants satellite permits to BeetleSat, Satelio and Amazon's Kuiper - Reuters

AST SpaceMobile Awarded Prime Contract Position on U.S. Missile Defense Agency SHIELD Program

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Zak Kassas, Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Ohio State University, recently released a white paper on “Navigating the Arctic Circle with Starlink and OneWeb LEO Satellites” and shares his insights. The study suggests that radio signals from low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites could become reliable navigation alternatives, as disruptions to GPS services increase globally. Zak helps us understand how he reached that conclusion. 

You can read  “Navigating the Arctic Circle with Starlink and OneWeb LEO Satellites” here.

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