The National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration will be eliminates funding for the Traffic Coordination System for Space (TraCSS) in its Fiscal Year 2026 budget.  LeoLabs has been selected for a $4M Tactical Funding Increase (TACFI) opportunity by the US Space Force’s SpaceWERX. Thales Alenia Space has been selected by CNES to develop a very-high-throughput laser communications demonstrator, and more.

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Our guest today is Kirk Konert, Managing Partner at AE Industrial Partners and Chairman of the Board at Firefly Aerospace. 

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Selected Reading

National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration Budget Estimates Fiscal Year 2026 

LeoLabs Selected by USSF to Further Develop Next-Gen, Scout-Class Radar Capabilities to Detect and Track Launches

Thales Alenia Space to develop SOLiS very-high-throughput laser communications demonstrator

Sidus Space Partners with VORAGO Technologies to Advance Radiation-Hardened Compute Capabilities for Scalable Space and Defense Infrastructure

Momentus and Orbit Fab Partner to Advance Space Servicing with Podracer and RAFTI Demonstration Flight

Rocket Lab Successfully Completes Critical Design Review for Space Development Agency’s T2TL-Beta Constellation

ESA - Watch MTG-S1 and Sentinel-4 launch live

Teledyne Space Imaging CIS120 sensors launch on Japanese GOSAT-GW climate change observation mission - Game Developers Conference News Today

China's Tianwen-2 probe sent back images of Earth and moon - CGTN

NASA+ is Coming to Netflix This Summer - NASA

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