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Ovzon will provide satcom services to an undisclosed European NATO nation under a new contract announced Dec. 19 worth 240 million Swedish krona ($25.2 million). The contract includes satellite networks […]

Lockheed Martin, Rocket Lab USA, Northrop Grumman, and L3Harris Technologies are to build 72 satellites for Tranche 3 of the U.S. Space Force’s Space Development Agency’s (SDA) Tracking Layer under more […]

HawkEye 360 on Thursday said it has acquired Innovative Signals Analysis (ISA) in a deal that is financially accretive, adds government customers and strengthens its platform for generating insights from the […]

For the fourth year in row, we bring you Spotify Wrapped in Space: The Satellite Industry’s 2025 Playlist. We asked space industry executives to share their most-listened to track of […]

President Donald Trump issued an executive order on space policy on Thursday that affirmed the priority to land Americans on the Moon by 2028, called for the development of nuclear […]

A Rocket Lab Electron rocket carrying the Pentagon’s Space Test Program (STP) S30 mission lifted off from the Virginia Spaceport Authority’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at Wallops Island, Virginia, on Thursday, according […]

Moody’s Ratings downgraded the credit assessment of SES from ba1 to ba2 on Dec. 17, citing weaker pro forma results for the first nine months of 2025 and the high integration […]

The German Armed Forces has awarded a new joint venture between Rheinmetall and Iceye a contract to deliver an exclusive constellation, valued at approximately 1.7 billion euro ($2 billion).  Data […]

Revenue for Spire Global was down nearly 56% year-over-year in the third quarter of 2025, which the company attributed to divesting its maritime business and the U.S. government shutdown shifting […]

OQ Technology has taken a technology step that it believes will rapidly expand its global addressable IoT device ecosystem for satellite connectivity. The company has certified Nordic Semiconductor’s low-power nRF9151 […]

Leonardo DRS conducted an on-orbit test of its multi-channel software-defined radio (SDR) with integrated advanced cryptography.  The SDR, called the eXtended Crypto Module3-Space (XCM3-Space), was launched aboard the Mercury satellite […]

Airtel Africa plans to bring Starlink Direct to Cell to its customers under a new partnership announced Tuesday. The telco will be the first mobile network operator in Africa to […]

The Senate voted to confirm Jared Isaacman as NASA Administrator on Wednesday afternoon. Isaacman takes the helm of NASA after an interesting journey to the role in which is initial […]

ST Engineering iDirect is working with Capgemini to develop a 5G non-terrestrial network (NTN) satellite base station that will enable integration between satellite and terrestrial networks. The companies announced Tuesday […]

Indonesia’s national satellite operator PT Telkom Satelit Indonesia (Telkomsat) has signed an MoU with Space42 to explore direct-to-device (D2D) collaboration with the Equatys joint venture.  Telkomsat is the first satellite […]

Iceye has teamed up with a major water utility company in the U.K., as it looks to improve its flood and wastewater management capabilities. It is working with Severn Trent, […]

Cailabs is working to bring transportable optical ground stations to market through a new agreement with DataPath to integrate its optical instruments onto DataPath’s transportable ground stations. Cailabs has signed […]

Beeline Kazakhstan, VEON’s digital operator in Kazakhstan, has completed the first Starlink Direct-to-Cell call in Central Asia. The call was conducted in the Akmolinskaya region of Kazakhstan. It was done […]

Latin American airline group Abra Group has selected SES’s in-flight connectivity (IFC) service to be rolled out on more than 100 aircraft, SES announced Monday.  Colombian airline Avianca, part of […]

Viasat has integrated the Global Xpress satellite fleet from Inmarsat, its Ka-band satellites, and partner satellites into a unified Ka-band network for government and military users, the company announced Monday. […]

ORLANDO, Fla. — The U.S. Space Force’s Space Rapid Capabilities Office (RCO) is preparing a request for proposals (RFP) around agile space capabilities, but it is held up due to […]

Space-based cloud service provider Satlyt has entered into a strategic partnership with Parsimoni, creator of SpaceOS, a secure unikernel-based operating environment for satellite payloads, to explore technical and commercial interoperability […]

GMV‘s subsidiaries in the U.K. and Portugal were awarded a contract under the European Space Agency’s NAVISP program to develop BEACON, an advanced beamforming antenna and receiver system designed to […]

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis appointed Sidus Space founder and CEO Carol Craig to the Canaveral Port Authority Board of Commissioners. Craig will serve the remainder of the term previously held […]

Keysight Technologies and KT SAT completed what they called “the industry’s first successful NR-NTN multi-orbit handover between a commercial GEO satellite and an emulated LEO link” based on a lab […]

Rogers Satellite has now officially launched in Canada. It is a major milestone for Rogers Communications, one of the largest telcos in Canada. The new service now includes popular apps […]

Nordic Semiconductor has launched a new software and development kit with satellite at the heart of it. The new nRF9151 SMA Development Kit (DK) will combine satellite and IoT connectivity […]

Indonesia is to use satellite technology to monitor and quantify its blue carbon assets, thanks to a new partnership between Kuva Space and WWF-Indonesia. The initiative will use satellite data […]

Two European defense tech firms — Norway’s Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace and Germany’s Helsing — plan to build a multi-sensor satellite constellation for intelligence, surveillance, and targeting (IST) capabilities.  Announcing […]

Iridium Communications will integrate global satellite IoT connectivity with HD Hyundai Construction Equipment‘s Hi MATE vehicle monitoring system under the terms of a new contract announced Wednesday. The integrated solution, […]