€210M raised. Zero orbital flights. PLD Space's Daniele Dallari brings the European launch question to #SmallSatEurope's defense stage.
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Day 1 keynotes at SmallSat Europe 2026 spanned both stages. Massimo Claudio Comparini of Leonardo Space and Thales Alenia Space addressed Europe's commercial smallsat trajectory; Major General Wolfgang Ohl, Deputy Director General for Armed Forces at Germany's Federal Ministry of Defence, opened the Defense Stage. The breadth of who's in this room says a lot about where the industry is. #SmallSatEurope#SmallSat#SpacePolicy#NewSpace#SatNews
$104M raised. 17,500 sqm factory. Two satellites per day. EnduroSat's Simon van den Dries brings the production scale question to #SmallSatEurope's Flexible Factory panel.
10 Gbps. 1 TB/day. First in-orbit demo this year. Odysseus Space CEO Jordan Vannitsen brings laser comms and quantum-ready security to #SmallSatEurope.
Iridium's Push-to-Talk phone. The $3B constellation upgrade. Cambridge Consultants' Stewart Marsh brings the deep tech lens to #SmallSatEurope's opening market outlook panel.
13 nations building counterspace EW tools. GNSS jamming up 50%. RUSI's Thomas Withington brings the electromagnetic threat map to #SmallSatEurope's defense stage.
$104M raised. 17,500 sqm factory. Two satellites per day. EnduroSat's Simon van den Dries brings the production scale question to #SmallSatEurope's Flexible Factory panel. satnews.com/2026/05/25/small…
Iridium's Push-to-Talk phone. The $3B constellation upgrade. Cambridge Consultants' Stewart Marsh brings the deep tech lens to #SmallSatEurope's opening market outlook panel. satnews.com/2026/05/25/small…
13 nations building counterspace EW tools. GNSS jamming up 50%. RUSI's Thomas Withington brings the electromagnetic threat map to #SmallSatEurope's defense stage. satnews.com/2026/05/25/small…
87% operator workload reduction. 4x planning improvement. Cognitive Space's Guy de Carufel brings agentic AI for constellation management to the IRIS² Ground Game panel at #SmallSatEurope.
SES-Intelsat closed. SpaceX filed its S-1. European consolidation is accelerating. Hogan Lovells' Alexis Sáinz joins "The Liquidity Event" panel at #SmallSatEurope.
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Standard chipset. No modifications. End-to-end 5G NB-IoT from LEO. OQ Technology CEO Omar Qaise brings the mass-market satellite connectivity thesis to #SmallSatEurope: "The One Standard, 27 Regulators."
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100 analyses per week. No proprietary satellites. The EU Satellite Centre's Rear Admiral Louis Tillier brings the structural tension of European geospatial intelligence to #SmallSatEurope.
From HENSOLDT's Management Board to COO of a 200-satellite constellation. Spire Global's Celia Pelaz: 30% revenue growth projections, $200M backlog, and the operational playbook at #SmallSatEurope.
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6 million users. Built under fire. Ukraine's Kateryna Chernohorenko created the digital defense infrastructure that NATO is now studying. Fireside chat at #SmallSatEurope: "Defence Innovation and Ukraine's Space Imperative."
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Two years ago, Spain didn't have a space agency. Now its director is about to chair the ESA Council. Juan Carlos Cortés Pulido brings the institutional rewrite to #SmallSatEurope.
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