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Space Economy Weekly — Week 24, 2026: FCC lets Amazon Leo miss deployment deadline with temporary
Generated June 8, 2026
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FCC lets Amazon Leo miss deployment deadline with temporary spectrum penalty
SpaceNewsJune 8, 2026
Amazon no longer faces a July 30 cutoff for deploying half its planned 3,232 broadband satellites, but the reprieve comes with a temporary loss of spectrum priority that could give SpaceX and other rivals more leverage in orbit. The post FCC lets Amazon Leo miss deployment deadline with temporary spectrum penalty appeared first on SpaceNews.
Headlines This Week
Supersonic!
NASAJune 8, 2026
On June 5, 2026, NASA’s experimental X-59 aircraft flew faster than the speed of sound for the first time, setting the stage for demonstrating its quiet supersonic capabilities lat...
NASA’s INCUS Satellites Progress Toward Launch
NASAJune 8, 2026
Description One of the three satellites that make up NASA’s INCUS (Investigation of Convective Updrafts) mission sits on a fixture at the facilities of Blue Canyon Technologies in ...
Russia is jamming GPS from space
SpaceNewsJune 8, 2026
“America is at risk of high impact GPS jamming and spoofing from space” was the title of my SpaceNews opinion article in October 2024. Little did I know that its […] The post Russi...
Quantum Space to go public in SPAC deal
SpaceNewsJune 8, 2026
Quantum Space, a company led by a former NASA administrator developing highly maneuverable spacecraft for national security missions, will go public by merging with a special purpo...
WRC-27: the next arena for U.S.-China space competition
SpaceNewsJune 8, 2026
For anyone who wasn’t sure whether China was in it to win the space race and dominate the rapidly growing space economy, its filings in December for 200,000 more satellites […] The...
Company Spotlight
Manastu Space
Manastu Space designs, builds, and sells non-toxic green satellite propulsion systems based on its proprietary MS289 hydrogen-peroxide propellant — replacing hydrazine, the carcinogenic propellant tha
Key Products
- •Vyom 2U green thruster — Hydrogen-peroxide (MS289) monopropellant thruster for small satellites; in-orbit demonstrated on PSLV-C60 POEM-4 (Dec 2024); TRL-8 flight-qualified.
- •iBooster green propulsion system — Defense-application green propulsion system developed under DRDO Technology Development Fund; delivered to DRDO in December 2024 after a four-year R&D program.
- •MS289 propellant — Proprietary high-test hydrogen-peroxide-based monopropellant — non-toxic, storable, lower handling cost than hydrazine; supplies the full Vyom thruster line.
Latest: $3M pre-Series A round led by Capital 2B, BIG Capital, and E2MC Ventures.
Market Insight
In-orbit servicing & manufacturing
In-orbit servicing & manufacturing — Redwire, Varda Space, Astroscale
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