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Virginia-based HawkEye 360 plans to have 60 satellites — 20 clusters of three satellites — on orbit by 2025, Alex Fox, the company’s chief growth officer, said this week. The company […]

Virgin Orbit has completed a full wet dress rehearsal ahead of its first flight from Spaceport Cornwall. The window for the launch is still to be determined by the launch […]

Honeywell has won a new contract to provide control systems for Mangata Networks’ new constellations comprising of 32 satellites. The deal was announced Oct. 4. Mangata’s planned Highly-Elliptical Orbit (HEO) […]

United Launch Alliance (ULA) launched two C-band satellites for SES in an Atlas V mission on Tuesday evening. The Boeing-built satellites are part of SES’s work to clear C-band spectrum […]

The private equity firm AE Industrial Partners (AEI) on Tuesday said it has agreed to acquire a majority share of the spacecraft company York Space Systems, which has a prime contracting role in […]

IoT company Soracom has added satellite connectivity to its global IoT platform through a partnership with Astrocast. The launch of native support for satellite allows customers to bring their own […]

Exobotics is teaming up with Simera Sense, one of Africa’s up and coming space startups, to engineer and integrate a hyperspectral imager into one of their nanosatellite platforms. The two […]

Viasat is selling its Link 16 Tactical Data Links (TDL) business to L3Harris Technologies in a nearly $2 billion divestiture that the companies say sharpens Viasat’s core focus and deepens […]

Redwire Corporation announced a deal Monday to acquire QinetiQ Space NV (“Space NV”) for 32 million euros ($31 million). Space NV, based in Belgium, is owned by QinetiQ Group plc […]

  Astroscale has signed a three-year term loan agreement totalling 5 billion Japanese yen ($35 million) with MUFG Bank. (MUFG), leveraging the credit guarantee program offered by Organization for Small […]

The cellular wireless industry is coming to a long-awaited realization that it cannot evolve and expand on its long-term business plans in the 5G era without the help of satellite […]

Firefly Aerospace successfully reached orbit and deployed customer payloads with its Alpha rocket early Saturday morning. This successful mission inaugrates a new vehicle into the smallsat launch market.  The mission […]

SES has teamed up with Kazakhstan’s Republican Centre for Space Communications (RCSC), a subsidiary of the Ministry of Digital Development, Innovations and Aerospace Industry, to bring high-speed connectivity services to […]

NASA and SpaceX plan to study using the Dragon crew spacecraft to boost the Hubble Space Telescope into a higher orbit with the Dragon spacecraft, at no cost to the […]

The FCC on Thursday adopted a new rule that requires satellite operators in Low-Earth Orbit to dispose of their satellites, calling it an important step in space safety and orbital […]

The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) has signed a slew of new study contracts in the commercial radio frequency (RF) remote sensing arena. The NRO announced the contracts Sept. 28. Companies […]

Inmarsat is partnering with Teledyne Controls in a new technology partnership as it looks to bring greater efficiency to airline digital operations. Inmarsat announced the partnership Sept. 28. It will […]

Hispasat has teamed up with Anuvu, and the service provider will use capacity on Hispasat’s satellites to provide services to key maritime customers in the Mediterranean and the Caribbean. The […]

AsiaSat has signed a new broadcast capacity contract with a leading French broadcaster. The company announced TV5Monde, will use AsiaSat 5 to distribute TV5Monde Pacifique HD to serve audiences in […]

DES MOINES, IOWA — John Deere issued an RFP to the satellite industry on Thursday, soliciting a satellite service and terminal that can provide always-on connectivity to its agricultural machines. […]

For all of its history, the satellite industry has been a business of niches. Broadcasting, maritime, energy, internet, cellular backhaul, military and civilian government. If you’ve been around a while, […]

Leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives Science, Space, and Technology Committee have asked the FCC to postpone making a decision on an order concerning orbital debris in Thursday’s meeting. […]

Astroscale has opened a new satellite manufacturing facility and operations facilities at the Harwell Science & Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire in the United Kingdom. The new facility, dubbed Zeus, covers […]

Kayhan Space, along with Astroscale U.S. and UT-Austin have been awarded a U.S. Space Force contract to develop a solution that will enable in-space service, assembly, and manufacturing. The contract […]

Satellite Vu, one of the up and coming U.K. space companies, has signed a deal with Viasat to use its Real-Time Earth global ground service network to ensure rapid reception […]

We are just weeks’ away from our CyberSatGov event in Reston, Virginia, and we have a great roster of speakers lined up to talk cybersecurity and satellites. The A-list roster […]

Until quite recently, satellite communication services largely played a complementary, if somewhat of a niche role, to terrestrial telcos in telecommunications. Chiefly, satcom operators could potentially provide coverage for communities […]

One giant leap for mankind is taking shape through the convergence of real and virtual worlds, powered by 5G connectivity, technologies such as AI and distributed ledger technology/blockchain, and data. […]

World Satellite Business Week (WSBW) was back in force this year in Paris. Sessions and happy hours were packed, and many commented on the number of new faces at the […]

The expansion of satellite data from new providers and increased remote sensing technologies is helping climate scientists fill in critical gaps in government-based coverage, and helping to bring the big […]