The Tactical Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Tracking (TacSRT) program was left out of the 2026 defense budget

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The Trump administration’s proposal would cut electro-optical imagery funding and eliminate funding entirely for the acquisition of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery

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Industry officials: Cuts of this magnitude would be a stunning reversal of policy

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Rep. Seth Moulton: 'I am especially concerned about the rumor that the National Reconnaissance Office, at the direction of OMB, has slashed commercial imagery funding lines in the FY26 budget'

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The Joint Task Force-Space Defense Commercial Operations cell is broadening its focus beyond space tracking to battlefield intelligence

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The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency announced its first commercial solutions opening to provide direct-to-warfighter commercial analytics for maritime domain awareness.

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The House Science Committee advanced four space-related bills March 20 addressing issues from commercial remote sensing to space resources.

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Space industry executives and investors at a U.S. Chamber of Commerce event grappled with unanswered questions on the Pentagon’s plans to commercialize activities.

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Urban Sky, a startup offering high-resolution imaging from small stratospheric balloons, has raised $9.75 million in a Series A round.

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Australian startup HEO, which uses space-based sensors to inspect and image objects in orbit, announced Aug. 23 it has completed an $8 million Series A funding round.

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The agency that regulates commercial remote sensing satellite systems has loosened restrictions imposed on many companies’ licenses, enabling them to provide higher-resolution imagery or other services.

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Remote-sensing space companies worry that U.S. defense and intelligence agencies are not adopting commercial products and services at the pace and scale they hoped.

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Satellite manufacturer Terran Orbital has formed a new business unit that will produce electro-optical imaging satellites.

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It is becoming increasingly difficult to hide behind the “commercial” label when their work has geopolitical and national security implications.

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Cognitive Space raised $4 million in seed funding for its artificial intelligence-based software designed to manage constellations of imaging satellites.

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The National Reconnaissance Office on Nov. 3 released a request for bids from U.S. commercial providers of satellite imagery. 

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A Colorado startup has raised a seed round of funding to further develop a system that can provide imagery from high-altitude balloons at much higher resolution than satellites.

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The Space Development Agency is looking to work with commercial operators of imaging satellites so they can send data directly to U.S. government satellites in orbit.

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An Indian startup raised $7.3 million to allow the company to continue work on a constellation of hyperspectral imaging satellites, the first step in its much bigger ambitions.

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Earth observation company Satellogic announced Jan. 19 it signed a contract with SpaceX covering several rideshare launches of its satellites through next year.

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With the successful launch of 10 satellites, Earth observation company Satellogic says it can now move ahead of its rivals in providing high-resolution imagery.

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The commercial space industry hopes to continue recent progress in regulatory reform even if there is a new president or a change in party control in Congress after the election.

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The federal government will soon allow U.S. commercial remote sensing companies to sell high-resolution satellite images of Israel, changing resolution limits that have been in place for more than two decades.

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As revised commercial remote sensing regulations win widespread approval, the industry is turning its attention to how those new rules will be implemented.

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