This quarter's Companies in Focus spotlights businesses making a real impact across the sector, including: 🛰️ Orbit Fab 🛰️ ISPTech 🛰️ Quantum Systems 🛰️ D-Orbit 🛰️ ClearSpace 🛰️ Robin Radar Systems 🛰️ MDA Space 🛰️ Telesat 🛰️ Vast The convergence of commercial innovation, defence priorities, and sustainable space infrastructure is creating huge momentum across the market and, as always, we're seeing a lot of change across the sector!

The U.S. Space Force picked a satellite communications system that hides inside a shipping container. No visible dish antenna, no fixed location, no easy target. https://lnkd.in/dBgpXPef

A closer "under the hood" look at ThinKom's Containerized Digital Array (CDA,) the Gold-Medal winner of the most recent "Fight Tonight" SSC/SpaceWERX competition.

"Space Is the Best Offset Strategy" OpEd by Sita Sonty, Partner & Managing Director, Global Space and Satellite Leader; Diane Shaw, Partner & Managing Director, Space and Satellite Sector; Harry Malins, Partner, Space and Satellite Sector; David Owusu-Gyebi, Vice President of Strategy and Analysis; and Alice Teixeira, Analyst, Corporate Strategy and Transformation. Via Satellite https://lnkd.in/e_CGQSfc

MDA Space Secures 41 Early Customer Contracts and Letters of Interest for MDA CHORUS™ Data MDA Space Ltd. (TSX: MDA; NYSE:MDA), a trusted mission partner to the rapidly expanding global space industry, announced at the GEOINT Symposium that it has finalized nine early customer contracts for MDA CHORUS™ data, its next-generation Earth observation constellation expected to launch in late 2026. Read the full release: https://lnkd.in/e2KXA3dW

Tempest Droneworx™, a portfolio company of Leonid Capital Partners, was recently featured as part of the Catalyst Accelerator Colorado Springs #CAAMO cohort supporting U.S. Space Force Space Delta 7.    The cohort focused on advancing AI-driven intelligence capabilities for national security and space operations, with Tempest Droneworx contributing technology that helps turn complex sensor and operational data into real-time decision-making tools.    We’re excited to see the team continuing to build mission-critical capabilities for the future of defense and space. 

Huge thanks to Leonid Capital Partners for the support and for putting this spotlight on our team. Being part of the Catalyst Accelerator Colorado Springs cohort alongside Space Delta 7 was a real honor, and we’re grateful for the chance to earn trust in rooms where details matter. We build software that pulls together drone, camera, and sensor data into one live picture—so operators can act with clarity instead of chasing disconnected feeds. Let’s keep building the kind of national security tech that’s dependable when it counts.

Thanks, Leonid Capital Partners, for backing us and for the kind words. Getting to contribute in the Catalyst Accelerator Colorado Springs CAAMO cohort alongside Space Delta 7 was a real honor for our team. We’re a software company, and we’re proud of the work we’re doing to pull messy sensor, camera, and operational data into something operators can actually use in real time. Let’s keep building useful capability for the people doing the hard jobs in defense and space, together.

TrustPoint CEO Patrick Shannon spoke with Via Satellite about the company's $4M TACFI award from SpaceWERX, which will fund four satellites and four ground stations to demonstrate an independent PNT capability. “You can build a microsat-class bus in the 10 kilogram range and get the mission done and that lays the groundwork to build a lot of these in an affordable way," he said. https://lnkd.in/ewbRsGjF

TrustPoint won a Space Force contract to demonstrate a GPS-independent positioning, navigation and timing system. The $4 million award announced Tuesday is a Tactical Funding Increase, or TACFI, issued through SpaceWERX, the organization that manages the Space Force's Small Business Innovation Research contracts. Within the next 12 months, TrustPoint plans to manufacture and deploy a four-satellite system supported by four ground stations to test positioning, navigation and timing services independent of GPS. [SpaceNews] https://lnkd.in/dfxwsGSX