SpaceX could potentially roll out new products for Starlink and Swarm in the coming years that could capitalize on the synergies between their respective broadband and IoT businesses. Sara Spangelo, Swarm co-founder and former CEO of the company hinted at new products in a recent conversation with Via Satellite about how Swarm has functioned as…

This episode of On Orbit is being released on a big news day for U.S. space rideshare provider, Spaceflight Inc. Spaceflight has shipped its brand new fully integrated Sherpa-LTC orbital transfer vehicle to Cape Canaveral for launch on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and signed a deal with Arianespace to launch on Vega missions as soon as…

Funding for Telesat’s Lightspeed constellation is hitting some speed bumps as the Canadian operator reported delays in financing discussions with export credit agencies (ECA), and that it will likely need to secure additional funding to deal with increased costs. Lightspeed is Telesat’s Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation in the works. Earlier this year, Telesat downsized plans…

Eutelsat and OneWeb recently announced plans to combine, forming a GEO/LEO entity, in a major instance of consolidation in the satellite industry. Here is a compilation of exclusive Via Satellite content covering Eutelsat and OneWeb over the past year and a half. We will continue to assess the Eutelsat/OneWeb combination and what this means to…