Who do you call when GPS goes down? Xona Space Systems raised $250 million this week. Co-founder and CEO Brian Manning joins "GPS Under Attack: Jamming, Spoofing, and the PNT Fight" with Innoflight, EraDrive and Mission Delta 3. Thursday, October 29, 1:30 p.m., Hahn Auditorium. satnews.com/2026/10/23/silic…

Meeting requests for #SVSW2026 are already busy. Register this week and you can book your floor time before you land. 300+ organizations, Oct 27 to 29, Mountain View. satnews.regfox.com/svsw-2026

Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Viasat, Blue Origin, Rocket Lab, the Space Development Agency, the NRO, NASA Ames, the FCC. 300+ organizations on one floor Oct 27 to 29. Pre-registration required: satnews.regfox.com/svsw-2026 #SVSW2026

Who used to buy the imagery, and who sells it now? Scot Currie of BlackSky, formerly of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, joins "Commercial GEOINT for the Battlefield" with Planet Federal, Vantor, Privateer Space and the NRO. Thursday, October 29, 10:45 a.m., Hahn Auditorium. satnews.com/2026/10/21/silic…

The executive who leads BlackSky's US government engagement used to buy commercial imagery for that government. Scot Currie joins the commercial GEOINT panel at Silicon Valley Space Week on Thursday, October 29, 10:45 a.m., Hahn Auditorium. satnews.com/2026/10/21/silic…

Speaker Focus: Matt Jenkins, chief space systems officer at Vantor, joins the commercial GEOINT panel at #SVSW2026 on Thursday, October 29, 10:45 a.m., Hahn Auditorium. Vantor said this month its visual positioning software lets drones navigate with GPS jammed. satnews.com/2026/10/19/silic…

Speaker Focus: Austin Spiegel, co-founder and CEO of Sift, gives "Mission Software Lessons of 2026" at #SVSW2026 on Tuesday, October 27, 5:00 p.m., Hahn Auditorium. He worked on Starlink's telemetry platform at SpaceX before founding Sift. satnews.com/2026/10/14/silic…

Speaker Focus: Peter Cabauy, co-founder and CEO of City Labs, gives "Nuclear Power for Satellites" at #SVSW2026 on Thursday, October 29, 11:30 a.m. in the Hahn Auditorium. City Labs flew a tritium betavoltaic payload on SpaceX's Transporter-17 in July. satnews.com/2026/10/12/silic…

"Backup systems for GPS exist, but almost nobody is paying for them." That is the entire description of Patrick Shannon's market brief at #SVSW2026. His company has forty satellites on order for a navigation system that does not use GPS. Wednesday, October 28, 9:45 a.m., Hahn Auditorium. satnews.com/2026/10/09/silic…

What does Starlink dominance actually mean? Dr. Tim Farrar of TMF Associates gives a solo market brief on broadband and D2D at #SVSW2026, twenty minutes, the longest on the program. Tuesday, October 27, 2:45 p.m., Hahn Auditorium. satnews.com/2026/10/07/silic…

Who gets a manifest slot? Curt Blake, twelve years the CEO of Spaceflight Inc., moderates "Launch Isn't Settled: Scarcity, Queues, and the 2029 Gap" at #SVSW2026. Blue Origin, Firefly, SEOPS, ULA and Stoke Space on the panel. Tuesday, October 27, 4:15 p.m., Hahn Auditorium. satnews.com/2026/10/05/silic…

BofA put $235 on SpaceX in July. Six days later MoffettNathanson opened at $131, below the $135 the stock priced at in June. Ron Epstein, who wrote the higher number, gives the keynote that opens Silicon Valley Space Week. #SVSW2026 satnews.com/2026/09/30/silic…

The NRO didn't buy hyperspectral data from Pixxel in May. It bought a demonstration, to decide whether commercial hyperspectral belongs in its architecture at all. Allyson Jenkins runs public sector at Pixxel, and she's on the final full panel of the MilSat Symposium. #SVSW2026 satnews.com/2026/09/29/silic…

Boeing won up to $2B in June for two more MUOS satellites. They are not expected to launch before 2031 and 2032. The newest one on orbit went up in 2016. Katherine Coens runs the Space Force narrowband division in between, and she opens the final day of the MilSat Symposium. #SVSW2026 satnews.com/2026/09/24/silic…

The FCC's new Part 100 rules retire the surety bond for GSO operators and put non-processing-round NGSO systems on the ITU deployment clock. Kathryne Dickerson of Greenberg Traurig, who wrote her firm's first alerts on the overhaul, gives the #SVSW2026 market brief on it. Tue Oct 27, 10:15 a.m., Hahn Auditorium. satnews.com/2026/09/24/silic…

SpaceX now decides how many satellites the $2.29B Space Data Network Backbone carries, and how they are arranged. Preston Dunlap, the Space Force and Air Force's first Chief Architect Officer, moderates the #SVSW2026 panel on it. Wed Oct 28, 3:15 p.m., Hahn Auditorium. satnews.com/2026/09/21/silic…

NASA put a scale model of SpaceX's Super Heavy booster through the Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel at Ames. Dr. Eugene Tu, who directs the center, gives the first talk of day two at #SVSW2026. Wed Oct 28, 8:45 a.m., Hahn Auditorium. satnews.com/2026/09/18/silic…

SpaceX's first public quarter: revenue up 92% to $7.8B, and the stock fell anyway. Alyssa Goessler Goodwin of AE Industrial Partners joins the panel reading that result at #SVSW2026. Tuesday, October 27, 11:00 a.m., Hahn Auditorium. satnews.com/2026/09/16/silic…

Brig. Gen. Eric Zarybnisky runs the Space Force's launch portfolio, the office that ordered 18 Falcon 9 missions out of Vandenberg in July. He sits for a fireside interview Wed, Oct 28, 5:05 p.m. in the Hahn Auditorium, closing day one of the MilSat Symposium. #SVSW2026 satnews.com/2026/09/02/silic…

SDA awarded about $1.75B in July for 36 Tranche 3 tracking satellites, then took Tranche 1 to 63 on orbit three days later. Dr. GP Sandhoo gives the first MilSat keynote at #SVSW2026. Wednesday, October 28, 12:15 p.m., Hahn Auditorium. satnews.com/2026/09/15/silic…