Year: 2022

Up to 40 of SpaceX‘s Starlink satellites are expected to fall out of orbit thanks to some inopportune timing: The company launched the satellites directly into a solar storm. A...

Viasat is opening a Real-Time Earth (RTE) facility in Sweden in partnership with Arctic Space Technologies to bring polar capabilities to its ground-station-as-a-service (GSaaS) network. Arctic Space Technologies, which offers...

Satellite service provider Marlink has expanded its long-term partnership with SES for dedicated capacity on the O3b mPOWER constellation. SES and Marlink announced the multi-year, multi-million-euro deal on Wednesday.  Marlink...

Kleos Space and Satellogic are partnering to bring together Kleos’ radio frequency (RF) data and Satellogic’s satellite imagery, the companies announced Wednesday.  Under the partnership, Kleos’ RF data will be...

Spaceport Cornwall is publishing a “Sustainability Impact Report and Action Plan” as it prepares for Virgin Orbit’s planned launch from the spaceport this summer. The spaceport shared details of the...

German optical communication technologies company Tesat-Spacecom (Tesat) is expanding its footprint into the United States to provide optical communications terminals (OCTs) to U.S. government and commercial customers. Tesat announced Tuesday...

Tokio Marine Holdings (Tokio Marine), a multinational insurance holding company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, has made a strategic investment in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data provider Iceye and will start...

Lynk Global reports that recent pre-commercial tests on its fifth satellite in orbit connected the satellite to thousands of unmodified devices, including cell phones and IoT devices.  Lynk said in...

Five organizations joined the standards group working to promote interoperability between ground communications in the satellite industry. The Digital IF Interoperability Consortium (DIFI) announced Monday that ViaLite Communications, Swedish Microwave...

GMV has won a new contract from the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, known as Eumetsat, the company announced Feb. 8. The contract is for the provision...