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Rocket Lab agreed to buy satellite operator Iridium for $54 a share, an $8 billion deal that would let it build, launch, and operate its own constellations.

AST SpaceMobile's first three Block 2 BlueBird satellites reached orbit on a Falcon 9, two months after the company lost BlueBird 7 on Blue Origin's New Glenn.

The three largest US carriers announced an agreement in principle on May 14 to form a joint venture that will pool spectrum resources and build shared satellite direct-to-device infrastructure to close coverage gaps in rural and underserved areas.

Astranis raised $300M Series E plus $155M Trinity Capital credit facility at a $2.8B valuation, scaling micro-GEO satellite output for U.S. defense Programs of Record and sovereign telecom customers in Taiwan and Oman.

SpaceX targets April 27 to launch ViaSat-3 F3 to the Asia-Pacific, ending Falcon Heavy's longest gap and capping a constellation that lost 90% of its first satellite to an antenna failure.

GPS III SV10 'Hedy Lamarr' lifts off April 21, completing a 32-satellite navigation constellation with optical crosslink tech never before flown on a GPS satellite.

Amazon will acquire Globalstar for about $11.57 billion and inherit the company's iPhone satellite partnership, accelerating its Starlink challenge and its rebranded Amazon Leo constellation.

SpaceX used MWC 2026 to rebrand its satellite phone service, announce next-generation V2 satellites with 100x data density, and sign Deutsche Telekom to bring coverage to 10 European countries by 2028.

AT&T commits $250 billion through 2030 to expand fiber, 5G, and satellite networks, but analysts question how much is new spending versus relabeled costs.