SATCOM INTELSatellite & space-infrastructure intelligence, read through SESBrief 2026-08-29 · 15:14 UTC
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Weak signal · 9 August 2026, 03:46 UTC

MDA never got credit for three DoD/sovereign-defense contract wins

Satellite consolidation wave

As the brief logged it

All three would have cleared the DOD/GOVERNMENT-CONTRACT MATERIALITY FLOOR's default push bar had they been caught same-week. Root cause traced: Via Satellite (satellitetoday.com), which broke all three stories within days of each announcement, has shown `"http":"403"` in `sources/latest/manifest.json` for `viasatellite-rss` across multiple recent cycles — a real, ongoing mirror coverage gap on a named LANDSCAPE SOURCE, not a one-off. Flag for ops-repair: either restore the Via Satellite feed (alternate URL/host) or find a substitute route.

Provenance

Logged in the brief of 9 August 2026.

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