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Weak signal · 14 August 2026, 08:28 UTC

CesiumAstro buys semiconductor specialist Jariet Technologies to support a future…

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SpaceNews (Jason Rainbow, 2026-08-14 02:24Z) reports the phased-array antenna maker is acquiring Jariet to bring more capability in-house behind its constellation plans. CesiumAstro is one of the five applicants in the FCC's third Ku/Ka/V-band NGSO processing round (DA 26-552), so a component supplier verticalizing toward becoming an operator is a structural datapoint for that round rather than a component-market story. No terms disclosed and single-outlet at time of writing — below the POSITIONING bar, which needs primary-grade or a secondary cluster.

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