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Gilmour Space Technologies, an Australian rocket company, is teaming up with Exolaunch, a German rideshare provider, to enable better a small satellite launch experience customers. The two companies announced the […]

Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellation operator OneWeb unveiled a new user terminal on Tuesday that it developed with partners Intellian Technologies and Collins Aerospace. The new terminal, OW1, is a […]

AAC Clyde Space is launching an African subsidiary in South Africa, the company announced Monday. AAC Space Africa will be based in Cape Town, and it will design, build, and […]

Euroconsult predicts that the number of connected aircraft could double by the end of this decade, and there will be  between 16,000 and 20,000 connected aircraft by 2030. This was […]

European launch service provider Arianespace successfully launched 34 satellites on Saturday for OneWeb, bringing the operator’s total fleet to 288 Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation satellites. Arianespace sent the OneWeb satellites […]

Virgin Orbit is taking a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) merger to go public in a deal that values the company at $3.2 billion.  The launcher announced Monday that parent […]

Inmarsat ORCHESTRA will be the first of its kind. A unique, global, multi-dimensional, dynamic mesh network that will redefine connectivity at scale with the highest capacity for mobility worldwide and […]

SES had awarded Gilat Satellite Networks a multi-million-dollar contract for multiple broadband applications in Latin America, the companies announced Aug. 19. Gilat’s multi-service platform will support SES in cellular backhauling, […]

Telefónica Global Solutions (TGS) will now distribute Viasat‘s high-speed satellite internet services to enterprise customers in Brazil after the two companies entered into a new strategic partnership agreement. Viasat announced […]

UltiSat has named Richard Koucheravy as the company’s new vice president of Sales & Business Development, UltiSat announced Thursday. Koucheravy will be responsible for driving revenue growth through new customers […]

Rocket Lab’s special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) merger is set to close, making Rocket Lab a publicly traded company. Shareholders of Vector Acquisition Corporation approved the SPAC merger with Rocket […]

IT’S TME TO GET EXCITED ABOUT THE SATELLITE 2021 CONFERENCE Every year, at every SATELLITE show, people always ask me what excites me about the event. This year, my answer […]

For the first time, this is the SATELLITE show edition of the magazine. I could not have imagined we would ever have had a SATELLITE show in September, but these […]

The space segment has been undergoing a major transformation for a number of years now. Earth observation is moving towards a constellation approach, populating new orbit inclinations and altitudes and […]

At the G7 Leaders’ Summit in Cornwall, delegates pledged to take action to tackle the growing hazard of space debris as our planet’s orbit becomes increasingly crowded. But how can […]

While many satellite operators took hits during 2020, Iridium is reaping the benefits of its fully deployed Iridium NEXT constellation, with record subscriber growth in commercial Internet of Things (IoT) […]

Unlike Via Satellite’s 10 Hottest Companies or Executive of the Year award, Nine CEOs to Watch focuses on leaders who are taking on significant business or technical challenges throughout the […]

The Air Force has traditionally handled the lion’s share of U.S. military space assets and operations. But costs for major programs ballooned over the years, and the United States has […]

Smallsats, new orbits, and mega-constellations have revolutionized the satellite industry space segment in recent years. The pace of technological change has led some to question whether the ground segment can […]

With thousands of satellites blanketing the planet, it’s not just hype and we’re not on the cusp — this is the time of Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellations. Detractors may continue […]

Maxar Technologies has been awarded a five-year contract worth up to $26.4 million by the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) to continue supporting its open mapping platform.  Under the agreement […]

Planet and Google Cloud have expanded an existing partnership on data analysis. The companies announced Wednesday an agreement to create joint solutions with Planet satellite imagery and Google Cloud’s cloud-based […]

Gilat Telecom and ST Engineering iDirect have deployed a cellular backhaul network in the Democratic Republic of Congo for Vodacom, the companies announced Tuesday. The companies installed two Newtec Dialog […]

Ligado has chosen Mavenir as its partner to develop base stations for its 5G mobile satellite network, the company announced Thursday. Mavenir is an end-to-end, cloud-native network software provider.  Ligado […]

Retired U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Mark Baird has been named president of Vox Space, Virgin Orbit subsidiary that provides launch services to the national security community.  Baird has held […]

Hughes Network Systems has been awarded one of several prime positions on a U.S. Air Force contract to support its Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS). Hughes announced Tuesday that it […]

Spacecom and Get SAT have demonstrated the Get SAT Micro Sling Blade Electronically Steered Antenna (ESA) on the AMOS-17 satellite, reporting 5 Mbps forward and 25 Mbps return rate. The […]

SES has announced that Microsoft will become the first cloud provider customer for SES’s next-generation Medium-Earth Orbit (MEO) system – O3b mPOWER. Microsoft plans to leverage the MEO connectivity services […]

In our continuing series profiling Via Satellite’s 10 Hottest Companies in Satellite, our latest Thursday Morning Conversation goes all the way to Israel to talk the CEO of Satixfy, Yoel […]