Year: 2026

Rocket Lab on Tuesday said it closed its acquisition of optical communications terminal (OCT) supplier Mynaric AG for $155.3 million, $5.3 million more than the original deal terms announced in […]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Burden sharing in the current space domain is about how allies and partners contribute in ways that strengthen collective capability, resilience, and deterrence. This type of […]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Getting back to the Moon with Artemis II has ignited plans to accelerate building a base on the Moon, while NASA takes steps to launch Artemis […]

Via Satellite Managing Editor Rachel Jewett interviews Karman Space & Defense Director of Space & Launch Market Renee Frohnert at Space Symposium about how the company supported the Artemis II […]

Airbus will equip 20 of Delta Air Lines‘ upcoming A350-1000 aircraft with a multi-orbit in-flight connectivity (IFC) solution co-developed by Delta and satellite operator Hughes under the terms of a new […]

Amazon has planted its flag in the direct-to-device (D2D) landscape with a deal to acquire Globalstar and deploy its own D2D satellite system. Amazon will acquire Globalstar under a roughly […]

Ensign-Bickford Aerospace and Defense (EBAD) has a 190-year history of supporting critical customer missions. An example of that deep heritage supporting customer missions was Artemis II.  Lisa Brown, EBAD’s Space […]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — To meet the Defense Department’s appetite for orbital warfare capabilities, Lockheed Martin is self-funding two next-generation space dominance efforts for rendezvous and proximity operations (RPO) and command […]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — With the pace of development in the commercial space industry over the last decade, regulators continue to work through how to oversee that development while enabling […]

California-based satellite ground-systems technology company ThinKom unveiled a new multi-orbit electronically steered antenna (ESA) for aircraft on Monday. Named the ThinAir Nexus, the new ESA is designed for ease of […]

Toronto-based MDA Space presented MDA Midnight, an on-orbit servicing platform, at Space Symposium on Monday morning. Midnight is designed for rendezvous and proximity operations (RPO) use to detect, identify, counter, […]

Darktrace has released a new research report, “Crimson Echo: Understanding Chinese-nexus Cyber Tradecraft Through Behavioral Analysis” which looks at how Chinese-nexus cyber activity is evolving and the threats its poses. […]

Anthropic has announced an ambitious new project as it looks to play a key role in securing the world’s most critical software. It is teaming up with Amazon Web Services, […]

Space companies face an ever-growing attack surface, including a recent upsurge of attacks from Iran. Top CISOs of space companies from Vantor, SES, Viasat, and Telesat shared a view into […]

The National Security Agency (NSA) along with a number of other parties, has released a new Cybersecurity Information Sheet (CSI), a report that highlights high-level cybersecurity risks and mitigation strategies […]

The Artemis II crew splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego on Friday, wrapping up a historic nearly 10-day mission that marked the first crewed […]

In November last year, Emirates stunned the in-flight connectivity (IFC) world when it announced a move to adopt Starlink. Emirates is deploying Starlink Wi-Fi across its entire in-service fleet, beginning […]

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said Amazon’s satellite constellation is scheduled to launch service in mid-2026, in a letter to shareholders on Thursday.  Jassy did not share a more specific timeframe […]

BryceTech, one of the leading space research firms, has released its 2025 Year in Review tracking the launch market. It shows a market moving towards small satellites, and underlines the […]

EnduroSat and Shield Space have joined a strategic partnership to jointly operate space defense missions, EnduroSat said on April 8. The companies’ combined technologies could allow them to deliver on-orbit […]

Decision making must occur at the speed of conflict, and commercial space leaders are pursuing initiatives to push data forward from centralized nodes to the tactical edge. In the past, […]

Commercial satellite operator and spatial intelligence provider Vantor on Thursday introduced two new classes of electro-optical imaging satellites that packaged together offer its customers high-resolution imagery and frequent revisit rates around the […]

U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) said on Wednesday that it has awarded 14 companies more than $1.8 billion in firm fixed price “Andromeda” contracts for the Geosynchronous Reconnaissance […]

Neo Space Group (NSG), the fast-growing Saudi space company, has appointed Haithem Mohammed Mojil Alfaraj as its new CEO. Alfaraj replaces Martijn Blanken, who has led the company since its inception […]

Portal Space Systems has raised $50 million in a Series A round to accelerate its progress building maneuverable spacecraft as the startup grows its team and expands manufacturing capacity.  The […]

Sky Perfect JSAT, one of the biggest global operators, is banking on a multi-faceted approach to grow its business over the next few years. SKY Perfect JSAT President & CEO […]

The FCC is set to vote later this month to update satellite spectrum-sharing rules between Geostationary (GEO) and Non-Geostationary (NGSO) satellite systems. If adopted, the Report and Order would replace […]

Italy and Argentina are to continue their collaboration in the space data arena. e-GEOS, a joint venture between the Italian Space Agency and Telespazio, has signed a multi-year co-operation deal with […]

Hungarian company 4iG Space and Defense Technologies has signed with Northrop Grumman to develop the nation’s first communications satellite under a deal announced Tuesday.  Northrop Grumman will build HUGEO — a […]

5G Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTNs), are essentially satellite base stations or ‘cell towers in space’ and are being designed to overcome some of the limitations of terrestrial networks. Download this white […]