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Slingshot Aerospace raised $40.85 million in an oversubscribed Series A2 funding round announced Tuesday, to grow and commercialize its space situational awareness capabilities.  CEO and co-founder Melanie Stricklan sees the […]

NASA’s TBIRD mission recently achieved a record for optical communications in space. The satellite downlinked 1.4 terabytes of data over laser communications links in a single pass that lasted about […]

Satellite service provider Sencinet signed a five-year deal with Telesat for capacity on the Telstar 19 Vantage satellite to modernize and expand the Petrobras oil and gas connectivity network. Petrobras […]

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Dec. 1 established a new U.S. Department of Defense office charged with helping companies that are developing technologies critical to national security partner with private […]

Mangata Networks is to create a new space engineering, manufacturing, and operations hub in Scotland, the company announced Dec. 6. The company said it will create 575 new jobs in […]

Boeing has delivered the first two O3b mPOWER satellites for SES ahead of launch, Boeing announced Monday. The satellites are now in Florida being prepared for launch. SpaceX is set […]

Satellite startup E-Space announced a deal on Monday to acquire CommAgility from the Wireless Telecom Group, Inc. for $14.5 million.  E-Space said CommAgility is the largest stand-alone developer of embedded […]

SpaceX is venturing into Earth observation (EO) and hosted payloads for national security use, with a new business line called Starshield. The company added a section to its website for […]

Arabsat has signed a new capacity deal with Ninetnine that sees the content provider launch its live, linear entertainment TV channel Helwa TV on Arabsat. The two companies announced the […]

The FCC approved part of SpaceX’s application for the second generation of the Starlink constellation, which will allow SpaceX to deploy up to 7,500 satellites. The order was a partial […]

OroraTech, a Munich-based startup working to monitor thermal data from space extended its Series A funding round with 15 million euros ($15.8 million) from private investors and public sector funding.  […]

Rocket Lab has created a U.S. subsidiary to serve the U.S. defense and intelligence community, Rocket Lab National Security LLC (RLNS), the company announced Dec. 1.  Rocket Lab was founded […]

OQ Technology has announced that its ‘MACSAT’ mission supported by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Luxembourg Space Agency (LSA) will launch in March on a Vega-C rocket. The […]

Pradman Kaul is retiring from his role as president of Hughes Network Systems at the end of the year, after nearly 50 years with the company. Kaul is a longtime […]

The latest SES satellite, SES-21, is now in service following its launch in October. SES announced Thursday the satellite is now operational at 131 degrees West.  SES-21, built by Boeing, […]

French aerospace lab ONERA ordered two nanosat platforms from NanoAvionics for its FlyLab mission. ONERA — the Office National d’Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales — is self-financing the mission in order to […]

Commercial space is becoming key for the U.S. Department of Defense to detect, analyze and respond to threats, a top official said on Nov. 29. “As of today, we’ve got […]

Eutelsat has tasked Thales Alenia Space to build its next-generation highly flexible, software-defined satellite (SDS) called Flexsat. The two companies announced the deal Dec. 1. The new Geostationary Orbit (GEO) […]

Intelsat has tapped Arianespace to launch two software-defined satellites, IS-41 and IS-44, on an Ariane 6 rocket in 2025. The companies announced the launch agreement on Wednesday. Arianespace said the […]

SiriusXM ordered two more satellites from Maxar Technologies, SXM-11 and -12, the companies announced Tuesday. Maxar is now developing four Geostationary Orbit (GEO) satellites for SiriusXM, including SXM-9 and -10 […]

France’s President Emmanuel Macron visited NASA’s headquarters in Washington on Nov. 30 while in the U.S. for a state visit, and met with Vice President Kamala Harris and NASA Administrator […]

This article is part of a new series, in which Via Satellite interviews people in the industry at different points of their careers, with a focus on career decisions-making, and […]

OneWeb is developing new ground infrastructure in Bulgaria, the company announced, Nov. 29. Vivacom, part of the United Group network is constructing a dedicated ground station for OneWeb in Bulgaria. […]

Over the past 10 months, Amazon Web Services (AWS) ran AWS compute and machine learning software on a satellite in orbit in a first-of-its kind experiment. AWS collaborated with D-Orbit […]

Granite Telecommunications signed a deal to offer satellite internet using Viasat’s satellite network, the companies announced Tuesday. Granite, based in Massachusetts, provides voice, data, internet, wireless, video and secure networks […]

The European Commission procured five Vega C launches from Arianespace for the Copernicus program, Arianespace announced Tuesday. Arianespace will launch five Sentinel satellites for the Copernicus program from French Guiana […]

Spacecom has revealed details of some trials its has done alongside Orbit Communication Systems evaluating connectivity speeds and performance of Orbit’s latest airborne terminals. The trials took place on Spacecom’s […]

When we look back on the year that is 2022 we will see a year that has been nothing short of seismic for the satellite industry. Huge pieces of consolidation, […]

There is not a single regulatory framework that addresses mobile cellular devices with satellite capabilities – this unaddressed dichotomy belongs to the past. National satellite service licensing frameworks need to […]

The past year has been one of the most eventful on record for the satcom industry. In the 12 months from October 2021 to September 2022, the industry saw multiple […]