US Space ForceGovernment
Defense News
The week to 4 October 2026
Sixteen entries reached Space in the seven days to 4 October 2026, from twelve sources. The largest group was news items, at ten. Sixteen companies were named, twelve of them in this segment for the first time in this record. The week before carried eight, eight fewer.
Contract award
3Product launch
1Blue OriginSpace
Blue Origin Eyes Major Increase in New Glenn Launches
Product launch
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Funding round
1SatlytOther
Satlyt Secures $8M in Seed Financing
Funding round
Via Satellite
Facility expansion
1Facility expansion
Lockheed Martin newsroom
News item
10SpaceXSpace
NASA news releases
OroraTechOther
GlobeNewswire, Aerospace and Defense industry
MDA SpaceSpace
From Mile High to Outer Space: Denver Broncos CCO Details Team’s Partnership With MDA Space
News item
Via Satellite
EutelsatSpace
Airbus delivers first batch of next-generation satellites for Eutelsat’s OneWeb constellation
News item
Airbus newsroom
PR Newswire
ICEYESpace
Via Satellite
GomSpaceOther
GomSpace Launches GOMX-5 to Demonstrate Next-Generation Satellite Communications Technologies
News item
PR Newswire
Firefly AerospaceSpace
GlobeNewswire, Aerospace and Defense industry
Defense Innovation UnitGovernment
Breaking Defense
US NavyGovernment
Shipbuilder Behind Failed Constellation Class Wants Back Into The U.S. Navy Frigate Business
News item
The War Zone
Where the week came from
twelve sources supplied the 16 entries. Every row above links the original, and its entry page carries the terms it is quoted under.
| Source | Entries |
|---|---|
| Via Satellite | 3 |
| GlobeNewswire, Aerospace and Defense industry | 2 |
| USAspending.gov award data | 2 |
| Airbus newsroom | 1 |
| American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics | 1 |
| Breaking Defense | 1 |
| Defense News | 1 |
| Lockheed Martin newsroom | 1 |
| NASA news releases | 1 |
| PR Newswire, Aerospace and Defense | 1 |
| PR Newswire, Airlines and Aviation | 1 |
| The War Zone | 1 |
How this edition was put together
Every row is an entry in the record, fetched again at its source on the day the record was read and confirmed to carry its excerpt. The groups are the record's own event classes, ordered as a reader of this segment reads them rather than by score alone, and within a group by the record's score and then by date.
The counts on this page are arithmetic over those rows and nothing else. Nothing is added about a company that its own entry does not carry, and the edition is assembled by software, so no line here is an opinion about anyone. What gets in, and what does not is the standard the entries are held to.
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