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Members of U.S. Congress joined HawkEye 360 CEO John Serafini on Friday to cut the ribbon on the company’s brand new 19,000-square foot satellite manufacturing facility in Herndon, Virginia. U.S. […]

Measat’s latest satellite, Measat-3D has now entered commercial service, the company confirmed July 22. The satellite has a planned lifespan of more than 18 years, carries C-band and Ku-band payloads for […]

Isar Aerospace has received approval from French Space Agency CNES to operate its rockets from the Guiana Space Centre (CSG) in French Guiana. This is a major milestone for the […]

Eutelsat’s Konnect VHTS satellite is on the way to French Guiana ahead of a launch planned for Sept. 6. Arianespace will launch the satellite, built by Thales Alenia Space, on […]

The U.S. Army Future Command awarded Kratos Defense & Security Solutions a contract to develop a virtualized satcom ground system based on its OpenSpace Platform. Kratos received the contract from […]

Boeing on Wednesday said it has agreed to provide $50 million to anchor a new aerospace technology venture fund that is privately-managed by the company’s partner AE Industrial Partners (AEI), a private […]

Millennium Space Systems shared details of a previously unknown small satellite mission for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) that tested crosslinks and on-orbit processing. Millennium Space Systems began […]

Argentine telecommunications company Arsat signed an agreement with SES for capacity on the recently launched SES-17 satellite to offer broadband services. Service under the multi-year agreement is set to start […]

Raytheon Technologies on Monday said its United Kingdom-based subsidiary has agreed to acquire another U.K.-based company, Northern Space and Security Ltd. (NORSS), that specializes in space domain awareness. Terms of […]

Portuguese startup Neuraspace rolled out its space traffic management platform this week, aimed at satellite operators, insurers, regulators and policy makers. The Neuraspace platform is an automated solution designed to […]

OneWeb is teaming up with Hanwha Systems Corporation (HSC) and Hanwha Defense Australia (HDA) as it looks to target the defense market in Australia. The company announced July 20 that […]

New space transportation company Impulse Space announced a partnership with Relativity Space on Tuesday to deliver the first commercial payload to Mars. Impulse Space is developing the Mars Cruise Vehicle […]

Sales in Lockheed Martin’s Space segment decreased $352 million, or 11% in the second quarter of 2022, compared to the same period in 2021. Lockheed Martin overall saw a dip […]

The European Space Agency gave Thales Alenia Space and QinetiQ a study contract to pave the way for small multi-mission satellites to operate in Very Low-Earth Orbit (VLEO). In the […]

NanoAvionics, the highly touted, Lithuanian startup small satellite company is set to be acquired by Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace (Kongsberg) under a deal announced earlier this month. The acquisition could enable NanoAvionics […]

The UAE is accelerating its plans to be a major player in the space arena with a new fund for space projects and details of a new remote sensing constellation. […]

SES has signed a deal with Explora Journeys to provide global connectivity services, debuting on its Explora I ship. Explora Journeys is a new luxury lifestyle brand of the MSC […]

The Space Development Agency (SDA) said on July 18 that it has awarded L3Harris and Northrop Grumman fixed price Other Transaction Authority contracts worth $1.3 billion for 28 satellites — 14 by […]

SatixFy revealed details of its Onyx Aero terminal for aviation on Monday, touting that it can simultaneously communicate with multiple satellites in multiple orbits. SatixFy said Onyx uses multi-beam electronically […]

Airbus is launching a new connectivity service business around its HAPS technology platform, Zephyr, led by former Intelsat CCO Samer Halawi. The new venture, HAPS Services Business, is a subsidiary […]

Latin American company All2Space has signed an exclusive launch agreement with Vaya Space to launch its constellation.  Vaya Space, formerly Rocket Crafters, is a smallsat launcher in development based in […]

Iceye will participate in a risk transfer project with the Ghana Ministry of Finance, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the Insurance Development Forum (IDF), the company announced July […]

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded Atlas Space Operations a multi-year, multi-million dollar contract for ground station as a service. Atlas announced the indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract […]

NASA and the Russian space agency Roscosmos have reached an agreement to resume integrated crews on U.S. crew spacecraft and the Russian Soyuz to transport crew to and from the […]

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) has awarded BlackSky a second award to support a research program to automate analysis of satellite imagery. On Thursday, BlackSky announced the $4.4 […]

Capella Space is adding a selection of its synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Open Data Sponsorship Program to make it openly accessible. The company […]

Skyrora has opened a large new manufacturing and production facility in the U.K., which it claims to be the largest of its kind in the nation. This new facility in […]

Northrop Grumman has won a sole source, $22 million cost-plus-fixed-fee undefinitized contract through February 2026 from U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command for the Rapid On-orbit Space Technology Evaluation Ring […]

Planet has won a new contract with one of Germany’s federal agencies. The company announced July 13 that it had signed a contract with the German Federal Agency for Cartography […]

Viasat will supply in-flight connectivity (IFC) satellite capacity and equipment to commercial airline Virgin Atlantic under the terms of a new contract announced Wednesday. Viasat said its IFC hardware will […]