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Space
- Boeing’s June 30 Grants Point at Low-Cost Guided Munitions and Onboard Autonomy
- Milestone-Based Satellite Services Arrangements, Explained
- Fixed-Price, Cost-Reimbursable and IDIQ: Space Contract Types Explained
- Reading a Space Company's Government-Revenue Concentration Risk
- What the SEC's SPAC Disclosure Rules Mean for Space Companies
- What a Going Concern Disclosure Means for a Pre-Revenue Space Company
- How Space Companies Recognize Revenue Over Time on Long Contracts
- Funded vs. Unfunded Backlog in Space and Defense Filings
- What Remaining Performance Obligations Mean on a Space Company's Books
- Redwire's Derivative Settlement Wins Preliminary Approval: $912,500 in Fees, Five Years of Governance Reforms
- Airbus Defence and Space Is Filing Across Positioning, Stealth and Lunar Resources at Once
- Dawn Aerospace's Latest Filing Doubles Down on a Simpler Rocket Motor
- Lockheed's New Grant Maps the Plumbing Behind Its Phased-Array Antennas
- Hughes Is Filing Toward a Multi-Band, Multi-Orbit, Direct-to-Device Future
- Airbus Locks In a Patent for Imaging and Laser-Downlinking in One Pass
- General Dynamics' Filings Point Toward Light-Based Links in Space
- Blue Origin's New Grant Maps the Math Behind a Steady Space Station
- Mitsubishi Electric Is Quietly Patenting the Business Layer of Space Traffic
- DISH's New Patent Locks In the Plumbing of Its Satellite Fleet
- Honeywell's Radar-Beacon Filing Signals a Push Into GNSS-Independent Navigation
- A Mitsubishi Electric Application Points Beyond-Earth Positioning at the Moon
- Boeing's New Space Solar-Cell Grant Extends a Long Photovoltaics Footprint
- Maxar's Newest Grant Maps a Decade of Stacked-Satellite Dispensing IP
- Microchip's Filings Trace a Quiet Push Into Radiation-Hardened Parts
- Boeing's New Grants Map the Power and Plumbing of a Satellite
- K2 Space's Applications Point at the Bones of a Big, Cheap Satellite
- Blue Origin's Newest Grants Lock In Flight Imaging and Sea Recovery
- RTX's New Application Reaches Into Spacecraft Thermal Management
- NorthStar Just Locked In a Multi-Satellite Space-Object-Tracking Patent
- CesiumAstro's New Application Points Toward a Reconfigurable Satellite Radio
- Northrop Grumman Just Locked In a Deployable Reflector-Antenna Patent
- AST's New Applications Push Direct-to-Cell Into Traffic and Handover Logic
- Rocket Lab's Issued Patents Wrap Both the Engine and the Deployer
- Planet Labs' Published Applications Point Toward Radar, Not Just Optical
- MDA Just Locked In a Tandem-Satellite SAR Cueing Patent
- A Navigation-and-Dashcam Firm Files Into Satellite Connectivity
- Two New Grants Extend Urugus's Earth-Observation Patent Footprint
- Viasat's Foreign-Trade Zone Filing Reveals the Tariff Math Behind Satellite Ground Hardware
- From Emergency Closures to Permanent Rule: The Coast Guard Formalizes Boca Chica Launch Zones
- The FCC Wants to Fix the Spectrum Shortage Strangling Non-Comms Spacecraft
- The Fine Print of Satellite Broadband Reform: Why GSO 'Reference Links' Decide the Real Winners
- The FCC Just Retired the 1990s Rule That Capped NGSO Broadband Speed
- The FAA Is Now Billing Per Pound of Payload: Reading the 2026 Launch User-Fee Policy
- SpaceX Just Filed an 8-K — a Rare EDGAR Sighting for a Private Company, Disclosing a Cursor Merger Under the §4(a)(2) Exemption
- The FCC Moves to Bar 'Covered List' Firms From Domestic Service — A Market-Access Lever With Direct Reach Into Satellite Supply Chains
- The Unglamorous Meetings Where Satellite Spectrum for the Next Decade Gets Decided: Inside the FCC's WRC-27 Prep
- The FCC Reopens Its $4-Billion-a-Year High-Cost Program — and Satellite Broadband Is Now in the Subsidy Conversation
- The FCC's 'Weird Space Stuff' Rulemaking Is Really About Unlocking Spectrum for In-Orbit Servicing, Tugs and Stations
- The FCC Wants to Redefine the GSO 'Reference Link' — and the Stakes Are Billions in Shared C- and Ku-Band Spectrum
- Viasat Files for Foreign-Trade Zone Status in Georgia to Shield Its Ground-Antenna Supply Chain From Tariffs
Space & Defense
- Rocket Lab Agrees to Buy Iridium for $27.00 Cash Plus Stock — With a Collar That Fixes the Deal's Math
- Virgin Galactic Swaps ~$52.5M of 2027 Convertible Notes for Stock, Cutting That Note Balance ~75%
- AeroVironment Says Its Q3 10-Q Can No Longer Be Relied Upon — an $89.4M Space-Unit Goodwill Error
- SpaceX Launches Its First Bond — the 8-K Discloses ~$100.8B in Cash and a Bridge Loan to Repay
- What a Satellite-Tasking Patent Is Really Worth to an Earth-Observation Business
- Why a Hall-Effect Thruster Patent Is Really a Story About Satellite Unit Economics
- The SAR Patent Behind the Earth-Observation Deals Nobody's Pricing Yet
- MatrixSpace's Moving-Node Radar Patent and the Dual-Use Market Bet
- Urugus's Geospatial Order-Management Patent Is a Bet on Owning the Marketplace, Not the Pixels
- Momentus's Constellation-Maintenance Patent vs. the Cash That Has to Fund It
- AST SpaceMobile Went From $86 Million to $3 Billion in Cash in Two Years — At a Price
- Rocket Lab Is Carrying $1.2 Billion in Cash Into Its Neutron Year
- Reading RTX's U.S.-Government Revenue Concentration Across Its Three Segments
- IMETALX's Multi-Agent Rendezvous Patent and the In-Space-Services TAM
- Planet Labs Crossed $300M in Annual Revenue — The Filing Also Shows a Thinner Cash Line Than Its Peers
- 77% of Rocket Lab's Backlog Sits With Five Customers — The Risk Factor Spells It Out
- Rocket Lab's Revenue Went From $62M to $602M in Four Years — The Filings Show the Shape
- AST SpaceMobile Spent Over $1 Billion on Property and Equipment in 2025 — And Raised to Match
- Destinus's Airframe Heat-Exchanger Patent and the Hard Cap-Table Math of Hypersonic Startups
- Lockheed's Space and Missile-Defense Program Stack, Read From the 10-K
- The Aerospace Corporation's Rendezvous-Craft Patent and the Government R&D Pipeline
- RTX's Missile-Defense Receipts: $901M for SM-3, $647M for SPY-6 in One Quarter's Filing
- Blue Origin's Reusable Upper-Stage Patent Aims at Launch's Hardest Savings
- Northrop's 'Servicing Pod' Patent Points to a More Modular Servicing Business
- Planet Labs' $527M Backlog Comes With a Cancelable Asterisk the Filing Discloses
- A NorthStar Patent on Simulating Space Imaging Is a Tell About an SSA Data Product
- Rocket Lab's Backlog Crossed $1 Billion — Here's the Number in the Filing
- A Counter-UAV 'Net' Patent and What It Signals About Defense Procurement Dollars
- A Space-Tug Network Patent Sketches the Orbital-Logistics Business
- A Swarm-Trajectory Patent and the Autonomy Cost Curve Reshaping Space Operations
- A USC Swarm-Optimization Patent Is About the Cost of Coordinating Many Servicers
- An Arqit Patent on Secure Remote Operations Points at a Managed-Service Model
- Blue Origin's Thermal-Protection Patent Is a Down Payment on Cheap Reuse
- Northrop's Growth Tells: Transport Layer, Hypersonics and HALO Show Up as Volume in the 10-Q
- Maxar's Dispenserless Launch Patent Trims a Hidden Cost Per Satellite
- Orbit Fab's Fuel-Tank Patent Is a Bet That Orbit Will Have Gas Stations
- MIT's In-Orbit Satellite-Assembly Patent and the Long Bet on Orbital Manufacturing
- A Lockheed Optical Cross-Connect Patent Is About the Value of a Resilient Network
- AST SpaceMobile's Deployable-Array Patent Is the Engine of Its Capital Story
- Northrop's Capture-Assembly Patent Is About Servicing More Satellites, Cheaper
- A Navy 'Chromatic Mapping' Patent Hints at the Niches in Ocean-Color Data
- NASA's Space-Traffic Patent Sketches the Market Commercial SSA Will Sell Into
- An Altius 'Service Interface' Patent Is a Bet on Becoming the Standard Plug
- A Honeywell Optical-Switching Patent Is About the Cost of Constellation Bandwidth
- A Raytheon Calibration Patent Is About Whether Earth-Observation Data Sells
- An MIT 'Satellite-on-a-Wafer' Patent Pushes Unit Cost Toward the Floor
- Embraer's Spaceborne-SAR Patent Reads Like a Move Into a New Market
- A Blue Origin Nozzle-Seal Patent Is a Small Part With Big Reuse Economics
- A SpaceX Signal-Processing Patent Is About Squeezing Revenue From Spectrum
- GeoOptics' Multistatic-Radar Patent Is a Bet on a Hard-to-Copy Data Product
- Building Antennas in Orbit: A Tethers Unlimited Patent and the Launch-Cost Dodge
- Lockheed's Combined Cross-Link Antenna Patent Is About Constellation Value
- Amazon's Multiband Antenna Patent Is a Statement About User-Terminal Cost
- ThinKom's Antenna-Pointing Patent Targets the Money in Mobile Connectivity
- Northrop's Second Servicing Patent Signals a Fleet, Not a One-Off
- Northrop's Client-Capture Patent Defines the Reachable Market for Servicing
- A GNSS-Architecture Patent Bets on a Premium for Navigation You Can Trust
- A Planet Labs Downlink Patent Is Really About How Much Data You Can Sell
- LeoLabs' Radar-Calibration Patent Is the Backbone of a Data Subscription
- Telesat's Global-Coverage Patent Maps the Capex Bet Behind a LEO Constellation
- A Skeyeon Patent on Very-Low-Orbit Imaging Is Really About Cost Per Image
- Northrop's Spacecraft-Servicing Patent Is the Backbone of a Recurring-Revenue Model
- Lockheed's Self-Mating Satellite Bus Patent Is a Manufacturing-Cost Story
- When Electronics Become Structure: A Made In Space Patent and the Mass Budget
- ULA's Amphibious-Landing Patent Quietly Prices the Cost of Catching Up on Reuse
- Boeing's Stackable 'Pancake' Satellite Patent Is About Dollars Per Launch Slot
- Northrop's Backlog Splits Into Funded and Unfunded — The 2019 10-K Shows Why the Distinction Matters
- Lockheed's Missiles and Fire Control Segment, Read From the 2019 10-K
- RTX's 2020 10-K Carves Out a 'Defense Backlog' — And Ties It to Government Customers
- Northrop's Backlog at Year-End 2020: Reading the Funded and Unfunded Lines
- Lockheed's MFC Segment in 2020: Air and Missile Defense Holds the Line
- Lockheed's 2021 10-K Points Growth at Hypersonics, NGI and Next Gen OPIR
- RTX's $156B Backlog, $63B of It Defense: Reading the 2021 10-K Split
- Northrop's Aeronautics Backlog Fell 24% in 2021 — The Segment Table Shows Where
- Rocket Lab's Top Five Customers Were 47% of Backlog at Year-End 2021 — Its First Annual Report Says So
- AST SpaceMobile's 2021 10-K Plans First Commercial Satellites for 2023 — A Pre-Revenue Bet on a Schedule
- Planet Labs' First Public 10-K Frames a Recurring-Revenue Imaging Business
- Northrop Grumman's Revenue, 2020–2024: A Five-Year Read From the Filings