Weak signal · 28 June 2026, 06:30 UTC
Japan J-LEO award (June 30 deadline, tomorrow)
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As the brief logged it
— Still pending. Binary: Rakuten-AST (700 MHz advantage) vs. KDDI-SpaceX. Either outcome is push-grade for different reasons — Rakuten-AST confirms sovereign D2D precedent that supports COM(2026)311 architecture; KDDI-SpaceX confirms SpaceX winning the first ex-US sovereign D2C mandate, which directly weakens the "non-Musk European alternative" positioning.
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