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Government/Military
OneWeb Partners With TrustComm as US Military Distribution Partner
TrustComm, a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) satellite communications application specialist, is now a distribution partner of OneWeb. The companies announced an MoU on March 26 that TrustComm will deliver […]
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Imagery and Sensing
Zacatecas Mining Uses Maxar, DLR Imagery to Survey Silver Resources in Mexico
Zacatecas Silver Corp. is using high-resolution satellite imagery to conduct resource estimates at the Panuco Silver Deposit in Zacatecas State, Mexico. The company announced March 26 that it acquired its […]
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Finance
Inmarsat Appoints New Marketing and Commercial Officers
Inmarsat continues to reshape its management team under the leadership of new CEO Rajeev Suri after the surprise departure of Rupert Pearce in February. The company has tapped ex-Nokia Chief […]
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Launch
Airbus Inks Deal with JSAT for OneSat Satellite
Airbus has signed another order for OneSat, its fully digital, in-orbit reconfigurable satellite product line. Sky Perfect JSAT has ordered Superbird-9 from Airbus, targeted to launch in 2024, the companies […]
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Connectivity
OneWeb’s Constellation Grows to 146 After Successful Arianespace Launch
OneWeb’s latest satellite launch early Thursday morning brings the Low-Earth Orbit constellation to 146 satellites. An Arianespace Soyuz rocket took off from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia on 25 March […]
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Connectivity
Yahsat Partners with Emirates Red Crescent for E-Learning in Refugee Camps
Yahsat has announced a new deal to help disadvantaged students in refugee camps. The company announced March 25 that it is teaming up with Emirates Red Crescent Authority, which will […]
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Finance
Redwire Will Go Public This Quarter Through SPAC Merger
Redwire has officially added its name to the list of space companies going public through a special-purpose acquisition corporation (SPAC). The space infrastructure conglomerate, which includes recently acquired entities such […]
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Launch
UK’s Orbex and Skyrora Win ESA ‘Boost’ Launch Contracts
U.K. space companies Orbital Launch Express (Orbex) and Skyrora signed new commercial small satellite launch contracts with the European Space Agency (ESA) through its Boost! commercial space transportation services program. […]
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Connectivity
SpaceX Launches 4th Starlink Batch of the Month
SpaceX continued its rapid launch cadence for Starlink missions, launching the fourth batch of satellites this month in an early morning launch on Wednesday. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 60 […]
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Connectivity
Cubic’s Nuvotronics Wins 2 DoD Awards for PolyStrata Tech
Nuvotronics, a subsidiary of Cubic Corporation, has been awarded a contract worth more than $10 million to support the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) “5G to Next G” program, the […]
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People
Thursday Morning Conversation with UK Sprinter Laviai Nielsen and Avanti
Laviai Nielsen is one of the United Kingdom’s top athletes and likely to be competing in the 400 meters in the Tokyo Olympics later this year. Find out why she […]
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Finance
Avanti Taps Former OneWeb CIO for CTO Role
Avanti Communications has appointed Vikas Grover as its new chief technology officer, the company announced Tuesday. Grover was previously the founding chief information officer at OneWeb, where he led global […]
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Connectivity
Globalstar Europe Provides Worker Monitoring Solution in Scotland
Globalstar Europe Satellite Services has announced a new partnership with Perth & Kinross Council in Scotland which will see its SPOT Gen4 devices deployed in Scotland to help workers in […]
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Launch
Rocket Lab Passes 100-Satellite Milestone With Latest Launch
With its latest mission “They Go Up So Fast,” Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket has now deployed 104 small satellites. The launch marked a milestone for the company that has set […]
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Connectivity
Lockheed Martin Signs On to Omnispace’s 5G Satellite Project
Omnispace acquired a new strategic partner in its quest to build and operate a Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite-powered 5G network. The Washington D.C.-based operator reached a collaborative agreement with Lockheed […]
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Launch
NanoAvionics CEO Unveils New MP42 Bus, Says Market Needs Bigger Smallsats
NanoAvionics is expanding its offering of satellite buses with a larger microsat bus size, the MP42, a move the company said will help it capture a larger share of the […]
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Government/Military
Inmarsat CEO Rajeev Suri Reappointed to UN Broadband Commission
Inmarsat‘s new CEO Rajeev Suri was reappointed to the UN Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development on Sunday. Suri will continue to be a Commissioner and powerful voice on the organization […]
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Government/Military
SpaceX Will Yield to NASA During Potential Collisions with Starlink
NASA has struck an agreement with SpaceX that the agency hopes will prevent collisions involving its Low-Earth orbit (LEO) spacecraft, the International Space Station (ISS) and SpaceX Starlink satellites. The […]
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Connectivity
SES Selects Gilat’s SkyEdge II-c to Connect Brazil’s Most Remote Schools
Satellite operator SES awarded a contract to Israel’s Gilat Satellite Networks to provide broadband connectivity via its SkyEdge II-c platform for a nationwide education program in Brazil. The Gilat SkyEdge […]
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Technology
Astroscale Sends its First Space-Sweeper to Orbit
Astroscale, the Japanese startup that wants to remove dangerous clutter from an already congested space environment, reached a critical milestone with the successful launch of its ELSA-D debris removal spacecraft […]
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Technology
Eutelsat Taps Airbus for Major New Satellite Build
Eutelsat is investing in a state-of-the-art new satellite in one of its key orbital locations at 36 degrees East. The operator announced March 22 that it has contracted Airbus to […]
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Video
Introducing Z Series – A Rugged, Solderless, Interposer Connector
Introducing Z Series – A Rugged, Solderless, Interposer Connector Z Series offers users a one-piece, solderless contact system compressed between parallel printed wiring boards or a printed wiring board and […]
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Video
Push the Limits of Wideband Satellite Throughput
Today’s satellite communication (SatCom) systems require a more sophisticated approach to wideband component characterization. You need a test solution with the widest analysis bandwidth and highest frequency range to help […]
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Magazine
Via Satellite Continues Streak of High-Value Interviews
The big interviews keep coming for Via Satellite. This year, we have bought you in-depth conversations with the likes of Sunil Bharti Mittal of OneWeb and Dan Goldberg of Telesat, […]
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Opinion
Brexit’s Impact on ESA Customs, Duties Privileges, and Immunities
The United Kingdom’s third country status in regards to the EU has been problematic for manufacturers, suppliers, and logistics companies with tariffs and taxes, new administrative requirements and logistical border […]
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Opinion
The Rise of the Indian Satellite Market
The reliance on space assets of various industrial sectors has grown tremendously over the past few years. The Indian satellite market has been bolstered by demand generation of various satellites, […]
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Technology
How Software-Defined Satellites Will Shape Communications
When Intelsat kicked off 2021 with an announcement that it had ordered two Airbus OneSat Geostationary (GEO) software-defined satellites to drive new applications, the service provider offered a new roadmap […]
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Finance
Speedcast’s New CEO Joe Spytek Wants to Transform the Company Post-Bankruptcy
Speedcast’s acquisition spree in the 2010’s made it one of the world’s largest remote telecommunications service providers. But, 2020 presented steep challenges to the company’s remote oil and gas and […]



























