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We are going to do something new with this week’s Thursday Morning Conversation (TMC) with OneWeb and O3B founder, Greg Wyler. We are going to pitch you a slightly surreal […]

The FCC on Wednesday voted to establish a unified licensing framework for Earth stations and space stations that the commission said will increase flexibility for satellite operators.   The new, optional […]

Astroscale is preparing for the launch of its end-of-life services demonstration, ELSA-d, to launch in March 2021. Astroscale announced Wednesday the mission will launch on a Soyuz rocket operated by […]

Telecom Italia (TIM) purchased all of the capacity dedicated to Italy on Eutelsat’s KONNECT satellite in order to provide fixed broadband services to Italian households starting in January 2021. Additionally, […]

Intelsat revealed on its corporate blog on Tuesday that the Intelsat CellBackhaul service is coming to Europe. The company recently implemented a new gateway using Comtech hubs at the Intelsat […]

Viasat revealed Tuesday that its phased array flat panel antenna, which was selected by SES for the O3b mPower satcom system in 2018, has entered the Test Readiness Review (TRR) […]

The SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience successfully docked with the International Space Station late Monday night, and NASA and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronauts have entered the ISS.  The docking […]

Boeing’s bid to build a spacecraft capable of flying NASA astronauts to the moon didn’t meet NASA’s requirements, and the company was going to lose out on a contract worth […]

Arianespace provided an update on Tuesday after initial investigations into the Nov. 16 Vega launch failure, reporting a cable inversion problem related to the integration of the fourth-stage AVUM nozzle […]

The Arianespace Vega mission VV17 on Monday night failed. The Vega rocket took off from the Guiana Space Center (GSC) in French Guiana on Monday at 8:52 p.m. ET. But eight […]

At the start of this year, we could not have imagined our last edition of Via Satellite would be the end of such a tumultuous year for all of us […]

When Poland joined the European Space Agency (ESA) eight years ago, the country also kicked off a dedicated incentive scheme to benefit Polish space entities that lasted through 2019. Now, […]

In the space industry, it has become mundane to alarm on potential issues of crowded orbits. A concrete translation of this factual evidence is the multiplication of Space Traffic Management […]

Working with telcos in major future communications projects is one of the holy grails for the satellite industry, particularly entering into the 5G era. There are already some interesting case […]

It’s safe to say that most people are done with the year 2020 – a seemingly never-ending nightmare of health crisis, economic recession, and political upheaval converging in a perfect […]

2020 has been one of the most disruptive, if not THE most disruptive year in recent history. The satellite industry has remained resilient in the face of global adversity. What […]

Industry-watchers could almost get whiplash looking at how 2020 has progressed. Think about everything that happened just in the first half of the year: the FCC made its final decision […]

Speedcast is selling its Inmarsat maritime reseller business to Inmarsat for $13.6 million, the companies announced Monday. This includes Fleet Xpress, FleetBroadband, and FleetOne, all Inmarsat managed services that Speedcast […]

Eutelsat Communications revealed Monday that its KONNECT High Throughput Satellite (HTS) entered into service at the 7 degrees East orbital position. This is the first Eutelsat satellite that will provide […]

Viasat signed a Real-Time Earth (RTE) agreement with Infostellar, the operator revealed Monday, and will be a preferred supplier of antennas for Infostellar’s network of ground stations. Additionally, Viasat will […]

United Launch Alliance (ULA) launched a classified payload for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) on Nov. 13 on an Atlas V launch vehicle. The ULA Atlas V 531 launched the […]

Intelsat has partnered with Mobile Network Operator (MNO) Inland Cellular to bring 4G LTE broadband coverage to rural areas of Washington state, the companies announced Nov. 13. Inland Cellular will […]

Nanoracks is building an AgTech research program in Abu Dhabi as part of an United Arab Emirates initiative to invest in its AgTech ecosystem. The StarLab Space Farming Center will […]

Exolaunch signed a launch agreement with Omnispace to deliver two satellites into orbit, the companies revealed Nov. 10. Exolaunch will provide launch, mission management, integration, and deployment services for these […]

Kleos Space raised an additional $13.8 million (11.7 million euros) in funding, the company revealed last Wednesday. The money was raised from existing and new investors, and the round was […]

Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) revealed Tuesday that its U.K. subsidiary was awarded a contract by the European Space Agency (ESA) for the Global Newspace Network Evolution (GNNetE) initiative. SSC will […]

Northrop Grumman revealed Wednesday that the company was awarded a follow-on contract under the Commercial Resupply Services contract-2 (CRS-2), which includes two additional NASA missions. Northrop Grumman will deliver a […]

Spaceflight is rolling out its next-generation orbital transfer vehicles called the Sherpa series — a “last mile” delivery service for smallsats on rideshare missions. The first Sherpa-FX will carry 14 […]

Talia has acquired an additional Ka-band spot beam with coverage across the Levant region from Arabsat, the communications provider announced Thursday. The new agreement adds an additional Ka-band spot beam […]