Year: 2022

Rocket Lab successfully launched 34 satellites, and caught the Electron booster used in the mission in mid-air with a helicopter early Tuesday. This was the first time Rocket Lab performed...

The FCC granted AST SpaceMobile an experimental license for U.S.-based testing of its satellite direct to cell connectivity with the BlueWalker 3 satellite. AST SpaceMobile announced the approval on May...

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson appeared before a US Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Tuesday to discuss NASA’s budget request for the upcoming fiscal year. Then, quite unexpectedly, he dropped a bombshell....

SES has signed a contract renewal with one of its biggest broadcast customers, Sky UK. The operator announced May 3 that Sky UK has signed a deal worth around 84...

Raytheon Technologies on Thursday said its Missiles and Defense segment has invested in Firehawk Aerospace, a startup developing and manufacturing lower cost, high-performance hybrid rocket engines. The size of the Series...

You may not realize it, but the distance between Low-Earth Orbit, where most small satellites reside, and Geostationary Orbit, where nearly all of the much larger satellites live, is pretty...

L3Harris Technologies reported a 10% decline in revenue during the first quarter of 2022 compared to the first quarter of 2021, although its Space business saw a $60 million revenue...

Terran Orbital Corporation shipped two next-generation satellites for Earth observation company GeoOptics to Cape Canaveral ahead of launch on SpaceX’s Transporter-5 rideshare mission. The Transporter-5 mission is set for May...

Arabsat ordered a software-defined Geostationary (GEO) satellite from Thales Alenia Space, the regional operator announced April 29.  Arabsat-7A is based on the Thales based on the Space Inspire platform, which...

Space-based cellular broadband company AST SpaceMobile hired finance and telecom banking veteran Sean Wallace as its new executive vice president and CFO. Wallace previously served as CFO for global internet...