Technology

Redwire has a won a new quantum-secure satellite contract in Europe. It will develop a quantum-secure satellite under the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Quantum Key Distribution Satellite (QKDSat) program, within...

Astroscale and Exotrail will develop a satellite de-orbiting mission together. This new contract brings together Japanese and French expertise in on-orbit servicing to develop a capability for safely removing satellites...

“Space remains hard,” Ryan Wolff, a program director for Tranche 0 and vendor growth at the Space Development Agency (SDA), said during SATShow Week. “It is a hard place to...

Faced with the game-changing advent of vertically integrated Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) megaconstellations like Starlink and Amazon Leo, ground segment hardware and service providers are having to rethink both their technology...

Starcloud, a space startup working to deploy satellites to serve as orbital data centers, raised $170 million in a Series A round announced Monday that values the company at $1.1...

Members of the Waveform Architecture for Virtualized Ecosystems (WAVE) Consortium, an IEEE standards body, achieved the first instance of standardized waveform virtualization using field-programmable gate array (FPGA) acceleration in the...

SpaceBridge launched a its new Estella’s UniHub, a new compact all-in-one VSAT hub platform. The solution aims to simplify satellite network deployment alongside high performance, efficiency, and scalability. SpaceBridge made...

Bridgit Mendler detailed how she and the team at Northwood Space are working to solve the “gnarly problem” of satellite ground infrastructure by developing an end-to-end ground system built for...

Kymeta is working toward releasing the first prototypes this year of its multi-band, multi-orbit single aperture user terminal in development.  Called the KuKa 8 Series, Kymeta says it is the...

Portal Space Systems and Paladin Space are teaming up to offer regular, commercial debris removal missions.  The partners are pitching what’s called Debris Removal as a Service (DRAAS), a recurring...