In this week’s seven-day box set
LEO still hogged the camera, MEO offered a tasteful cameo, GEO kept its tie straight, D2D flexed some terrestrial muscles via gateways and regulators quietly locked a door marked “2 GHz MSS, last call.” If the industry were a franchise, this was the episode where the writers moved three subplots forward without exploding a single planet, and somehow it was more satisfying for the restraint.
Amazon’s Project Kuiper turned up with the confidence of a lead actor five seasons in, logging a fifth successful deployment and tipping over the 100-satellite mark. SpaceX, for its part, didn’t so much “announce” as “continue”, which is very on-brand. Elsewhere in LEO, Telesat delivered the most government-savvy line of the week. And because every space opera needs a scene set in a bustling port, Globalstar announced on September 22 that it’s doubling the size of its Estonian earth station.
