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This week we had the privelege of speaking with Sophia Space CEO Rob DeMillo about how their orbital data center technology is the best way to scale to the sizes Earth needs in space. Read our coverage on our website, watch the full interview on our YouTube, and check out Sophia Space to learn more!

Comms

* Aerospacelab won a €2.4B contract to build 264 LEO sats for European sovereign communications constellation IRIS2.[source]

* Airbus selected to design and build at least 66 LEO satellites on behalf of Eutelsat for IRIS2. [source]

* TrustPoint ordered 40 satellites from EnduroSat to develop their GNSS alternative PNT constellation. [source]

* stc group partnered with Astranis to develop a dedicated connectivity satellite for Saudi Arabia. [source]

Orbital Compute

* Sophia Space won $300M to provide 10 satellites to SLI. [source]

* Loft Orbital and Marlaan Space announced a $1B program to build the world’s largest AI infrastructure. [source]

* York Space Systems won the contract to build DeepSky for Tomorrow.io’s early warning weather constellation. [source]

* Pixxel raised $100M in Series C funding led by Temasek and Seraphim for edge compute enabled satellite manufacturing in India and the US. [source]

* Orbital selected Reflex Aerospace as their exclusive satellite platform partner for their planned space data center constellation. [source]

Infrastructure

* Eutelsat selected Infinite Orbits to provide a GEO life-extension mission. [

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