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SpaceX announced a deal Thursday afternoon to acquire nationwide, low-band spectrum from Grain Management to improve service for  Starlink Mobile and enable the service to operate indoors.  SpaceX and Grain […]

Golbriak Space, an Estonian space laser communications company, has raised 4 million euro ($4.5 million) in seed funding. This was co-led by Join Capital and PhontonVentures with participation from Takeoff […]

Startup Fortastra raised a $30 million Series A round as the company aims to establish “persistent, multi-orbit security coverage” in orbit.  Founder Mike Smayda, a SpaceX alum who also co-founded […]

The need for a qualified and prepared talent pool is becoming one of the commercial space industry’s major challenges. Many jobs in the industry require specialized skills and years of […]

Amazon and Blue Origin — two companies owned by Jeff Bezos with separate satellite constellation plans — reached new manufacturing milestones. Amazon reached the milestone of manufacturing 1,000 Amazon Leo […]

American Airlines is expanding its planned rollout with SpaceX’s Starlink for in-flight connectivity to now include its full mainline fleet of both Airbus and Boeing aircraft.  The rollout, targeted to […]

Azercosmos has made a significant move in the AI arena. It has launched Platerra, an AI-powered platform designed to automatically analyze satellite imagery and turn it into geospatial information that […]

Eutelsat signed a capacity renewal for the Eutelsat 7 West A satellite with Télédiffusion d’Algérie (TDA), Algeria’s national broadcasting network operator. TDA has been a long-time customer of Eutelsat and […]

Gilat Satellite Networks reports recent contract wins totalling $38 million for its SkyEdge system and connectivity projects in Peru.  Wednesday, Gilat announced $10 million in orders from an unnamed satellite […]

The FCC approved SpaceX’s request to deploy 15,000 satellites for direct-to-device (D2D) services, while deferring some of SpaceX’s requests.  This 15,000-satellite system is designed to provide both mobile satellite services […]

The last year in space has garnered unprecedented new interest from the who’s who of international finance, smashing funding records for individual companies and marketwide as Silicon Valley has learned […]

As Russia begins deploying its military RASSVET constellation, internal political fractures and slow-moving bureaucracy are leaving Europe completely reliant on the U.S. for security in orbit. And things won’t change […]

A decade is a long time in the space industry. In 2017 there was no Starlink or Amazon Leo; no commercial synthetic aperture radar constellations; and U.S. astronauts had to […]

CyberSat was a first-of-its-kind event launched 10 years ago that brought the government, IT, cyber and space professionals together to talk about the security of space assets. It has featured […]

What role can Poland play in the European and global space market? Does its space sector have the capabilities to become a partner not only supplying technologies and subsystems, but […]

The proposed EU Space Act could become one of the most important developments in Europe’s space economy. For the first time, it would establish EU-wide rules on the safety, resilience […]

I was at the first-ever UK Space Power event in mid-September and it struck me how elevated the conversations around space defense have become now. It is a conversation that […]

In this new era of space defence, Germany has been making a lot of headlines as it looks to ramp up its capabilities. Germany’s security also came into a sharp […]

Today, Europe is on the move to establish a resilient ecosystem of sovereign launch capabilities on European territory and beyond, by working through partnerships. But Europe needs to plan its […]

Kymeta won further U.S. government business in the form of a development contract. The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has tapped Kymeta to develop an enhanced cartridge that integrates compute, […]

Northrop Grumman has selected a ThinKom antenna to provide satcom for the U.S. Navy’s E-130J Phoenix II aircraft, which will assume the Navy’s TACAMO mission.   Northrop Grumman is developing the […]

The state of California is integrating Iceye satellite data into statewide emergency operations as part of a new agreement. California opened a modernized state operations center (SOC) for emergency response […]

The in-flight connectivity (IFC) market is at an inflection point as airlines have embraced the free model and Starlink has made deep inroads into the market over the last two […]

Open Cosmos’ is targeting 192 satellites for its ConnectedCosmos Low-Earth Orbit (LEO). The company is building toward more than 96 satellites in orbit by the end of 2028, putting it […]

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has received multiple contracts worth more than $100 million combined for space and cyber capabilities to provide space intelligence data. Kratos’ work under these contracts […]

York Space Systems will integrate a government space domain awareness (SDA) into a spacecraft headed to Geostationary Orbit (GEO), marking the first time the company has integrated a satellite for […]

German launcher in development Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) has made another change to its CEO leadership, after naming a new CEO last year.  RFA has appointed Alexander Dahm, COO of […]

Canadian space domain awareness (SDA) company NorthStar Earth & Space began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Friday morning after completing a SPAC merger this week.  NorthStar completed […]

Satlyt has been boosted by securing $8 million in seed financing led by non sibi ventures. The funding will accelerate development of its virtual Al data centers in space, expand […]

AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon formally established the joint venture focused on direct-to-device services the telcos first announced in May of this year. Wireless industry exec Paul Roth will serve as […]