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Plans for the U.S. Space Force to award two launch services contracts for its next batch of national security space missions this summer remain on track, the Space and Missile […]

The Pentagon released a new Defense Space Strategy June 17, laying out four lines of effort meant to maintain U.S. superiority in the space domain and counteract ever-growing threats by […]

In this week’s Thursday Morning Conversation, we talk to Norman Haughton, director of IFEC Product and Analytics at Air Canada. Haughton drives Air Canada’s In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) plans. In a […]

Rocket Lab signed a launch agreement with the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) for two back-to-back dedicated small satellite missions aboard an Electron launch vehicle. The missions were awarded through […]

The U.S. Space Force Commercial Satellite Communications Office (CSCO) awarded Peraton task order CTC0331, a $56 million contract under the Future Commercial Satcom Acquisition (FCSA) program. The newly awarded contract […]

The United States and United Kingdom have signed an agreement paving the way for U.S. companies to launch from U.K. spaceports. According to the U.S. Department of State, the agreement […]

Inmarsat has joined the Energy Industry Council (EIC), a trade association for organizations that supply capital goods and services to energy industries worldwide.  Inmarsat said in a Tuesday release that […]

United Launch Alliance (ULA) has named Vernon Thorp its new director of Global Commercial Sales. In this position he will lead all commercial sales activities for Atlas V and the […]

Spaceflight revealed Wednesday that it will launch two rideshare payloads aboard SpaceX’s tenth Starlink mission, marking the first SpaceX Starlink mission that will be accompanied by Spaceflight rideshare payloads. Spaceflight’s […]

Next week, we bring you another virtual event as we look at one of the more impacted and interesting markets in this area – connected aviation. Our Global Connected Aircraft […]

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions on Tuesday said it has agreed to acquire the ASC Signal division from Communications & Power Industries (CPI) for $35 million in cash, a deal that […]

Momentus and Polish space company SatRevolution have reached an orbital deployment contract. Momentus announced Tuesday that it will launch SatRevolution’s 3U cubesat, called LabSat, on-board its Vigoride orbit transfer vehicle, […]

Senator John Kennedy, R-La., questioned the validity of the FCC’s accelerated relocation payments to incentivize satellite operators to clear C-band spectrum as FCC Chairman Ajit Pai testified before a subcommittee […]

Lockheed Martin on Monday completed its planned leadership transition with James Taiclet entering as its new president and CEO, succeeding Marillyn Hewson who remains with the company as executive chairman. […]

SES has selected Northrop Grumman and The Boeing Company, to deliver four new satellites as part of the company’s accelerated C-band clearing plan.  The satellite operator announced Tuesday that Northrop […]

Intelsat has contracted Maxar Technologies and Northrop Grumman to build new satellites to support its C-band spectrum clearing. The satellite operator announced Monday that Maxar Technologies will build and deliver […]

Welcome to the July edition of Via Satellite. We have just finished our first virtual event, Digital CyberSat Week, where we hosted about 10 hours of content including keynotes, panels, […]

Maritime broadband connectivity has been a growth story for the satellite industry in the last decade. This was largely built on the increasing value proposition of Very Small Aperture Terminal […]

It’s often said that bad news comes in threes: unfettered price drops, COVID-19, and bankruptcies certainly qualify as events that have shaken the satellite industry to its core. Big, medium, […]

“It was like driving 100 miles per hour through an intersection and getting blindsided by a truck.” This is how one of the 88 former Bigelow Aerospace employees describes being […]

Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket was on the launch pad at Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand, just days away from the “Don’t Stop Me Now” mission, when the small satellite […]

It wasn’t that long ago we were talking about the 3G revolution. That has rapidly gone to 4G and now 5G as mobile communications continue to advance at a blistering […]

Cellular backhaul has always been a strong market for satellite. Working with telcos and connecting people away from urban centers has always been a natural fit. Now, it seems this […]

Azercosmos has signed a partnership agreement with HorizonSat, a provider of telecommunications, internet, and satellite services in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). According to this agreement, HorizonSat will provide data […]

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine Friday selected Commercial Crew Program Manager Kathy Lueders to be the agency’s next associate administrator of the Human Exploration and Operations (HEO) Mission Directorate. Since 2014, […]

PlaneWave Instruments will build, install, and maintain a 700 mm Ritchey-Chrétien Optical Ground Station (OGS) telescope at the Australian National University‘s (ANU) Mount Stromlo Observatory, the company announced. ANU will […]

SpaceX successfully lofted three high-resolution imaging SkySats from Planet and a batch of its own Starlink communications satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket this past weekend on June 13. The […]

Rocket Lab’s “Don’t Stop Me Now” mission, which was delayed by COVID-19 restrictions in New Zealand, lived up to its name and successfully took off from Launch Complex 1 on […]

The U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center’s (SMC) Global Positioning System (GPS) III program reached a major milestone with the successful core mate of GPS III Space Vehicle […]