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HawkEye 360 has secured $40 million in debt financing from Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), the satellite data company announced Tuesday. HawkEye said it plans to use the funds to improve […]

The Hughes Network Systems HL1120W flat panel antenna is now commercially available with service on the Eutelsat OneWeb network, the company announced Tuesday. The terminal will support a variety of […]

Terran Orbital grew revenue in 2023 by 44% compared to 2022, but the company posted a net loss larger than its revenue. Terran Orbital issued its full year results on […]

Gilat Satellite Networks has revealed details of a number of new contract wins in the US and beyond. It’s U.S. subsidiary DataPath has won a $12 million contract from the […]

Telesat’s Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation Lightspeed will receive additional support from the Canadian government with a new loan announced Monday. The government of Canada is prepared to loan Telesat $2.14 […]

United Arab Emirates satellite operator Yahsat has appointed Amit Somani as chief growth and strategy officer, Yahsat announced Monday. Somani is returning to Yahsat, where he worked from 2010 to […]

We have a special On Orbit episode from SATELLITE 2024 this week, a fireside chat with Impulse Space CEO Tom Mueller. Mueller is considered one of the world’s leading spacecraft […]

Gogo Business Aviation is partnering with Atlas Air Service AG to develop a European Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) for the Gogo Galileo HDX antenna. The STC modifications will be applied […]

SpaceX launched the Airbus-built Eutelsat 36D telecommunications satellite for Eutelsat Group over the weekend. It was launched aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on […]

Maritime domain awareness (MDA) is the understanding of anything associated with a navigable waterway that could impact safety, the economy, or the marine environment. It encompasses a wide range of […]

The U.S. Space Force’s Space Development Agency (SDA) issued a solicitation this week for one contractor to build about 20 Tranche 2, Transport Layer (T2TL)-Gamma satellites, the final in the T2TL series. […]

Latvia’s flag carrier airBaltic is testing SpaceX’s Starlink internet, with plans to equip its entire Airbus A220-300 fleet with the in-flight connectivity (IFC) system. airBaltic announced March 28 that it […]

In-flight connectivity (IFC) developers are working to balance cost with capabilities while offering an in-flight internet experience to match what is available at a consumer’s home. A panel of experts […]

Planet Labs increased revenue by 15% year-over-year in fiscal year 2024 to $220.7 million. The satellite imagery and analytics company reported financials for the 2024 fiscal year that ended Jan. […]

Telesat is seeing a decline in revenue in its Geostationary Orbit (GEO) business in broadcasting with the increase in cord-cutting, and enterprise competition from SpaceX’s Starlink constellation. Yet Telesat is […]

Gilat Satellite Networks has revealed details of another contract win in the U.S. government arena. One of its U.S.-based subsidiaries, DataPath won a new order from the U.S. Department of […]

Gogo Business Aviation hit a milestone with its Gogo Galileo global broadband service completing end-to-end connectivity using the HDX antenna on the Eutelsat OneWeb Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite network. The […]

Spire Global set an agreement with Korean company Hancom InSpace to enhance its Sejong-1 satellite and to build and operate two additional satellites, Sejong-2 and Sejong-3. The company said that […]

Texas Governor Greg Abbott launched the new Texas Space Commission this week to improve the state’s position in the national space industry. Abbott also announced inaugural members of the commission’s […]

The FCC dismissed SpaceX’s request to use certain mobile satellite services (MSS) spectrum authorized to Globalstar and Dish in the Gen2 Starlink constellation, according to a March 26 FCC order.  […]

Eutelsat won a new contract in the aviation connectivity arena. ALOFT AeroArchitects, the private Boeing Business Jet (BBJ) operator, has selected Eutelsat OneWeb to deliver high-speed, low-latency broadband connectivity to […]

The relationship between satellite operators and telcos can at times seem like a troubled marriage — “It is difficult to live together. But it’s more difficult to live alone,” Jean-Luc […]

Melanie Stricklan has joined Space Workforce 2030 as the first executive director of the initiative. Space Workforce 2030 is a strategic partnership between Space Foundation and The Aerospace Corporation that […]

In the expansive landscape of the space industry, Winchester Interconnect is an indispensable partner, ensuring precision and reliability from conceptualization to the realization of space missions. Renowned for its flight […]

The space economy is such an interesting topic, it feels like science fiction in many ways to use materials from space to help people back on Earth. I am very […]

Human beings can be messy, selfish, and provincial when it comes to environmental responsibility on Earth. We leave rubbish behind us – and expect someone else to clean it up; […]

The introduction of low profile and discrete antenna design has sparked in-flight connectivity (IFC) adoption after years of relatively limited growth. Data from the Valour Consultancy quarterly IFC tracker shows […]

In the next half-century, a plethora of tech sectors currently stationed here on Earth are poised to move up to space, and the U.S. government and its commercial partners want […]

GMV won a 78.4 million euro ($85 million) contract to lead the European Space Agency‘s (ESA) mission to develop a five-satellite constellation in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) for positioning, navigation and timing […]

More than four years after the establishment of a sixth military service, U.S. Space Force, in December 2019, a new report advises the creation of a seventh service, the U.S. […]