Archive

What’s the proper dividing line between what government does and what business does? This is not a political question — it is meant in the context of the space industry. […]

Goonhilly Earth Station opened its new data center and launched a managed High Performance Computing (HPC) platform for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) computing on demand. Goonhilly’s goal is to […]

Kleos Space, a space-powered Radio Frequency Reconnaissance data provider, completed all acceptance reviews and the satellites are mission-ready awaiting transport to RocketLab’s Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand. The satellites […]

Hughes Network Systems was awarded a National Association of State Procurement Officials (NASPO) ValuePoint contract to deliver HughesNet for Business to state agencies and eligible political subdivisions. Under the agreement, Hughes […]

Seakr Engineering is building digital Radio Frequency (RF) processors for Saturn Satellite Networks‘ small Geostationary Orbit (GEO) satellite known as “NationSat.” Saturn focuses on building small geostationary satellites, and is […]

NASA awarded a $73.7 million contract to Made In Space to demonstrate the ability of a small spacecraft, called Archinaut One, to manufacture and assemble spacecraft components in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). […]

An increase in U.S. government and military spending on launch services, combined with a sharp spike in small satellite activity and the emergence of commercial space travel and tourism will […]

Galileo, the European satellite navigation system, has been suffering a major outage since Friday, reports BBC News. The system’s status page currently lists all 22 of its satellites as either […]

Speedcast revealed a joint service offering with In Aria! Networks and Telespazio. Relying on a combination of In Aria! Networks’ redundant video contribution over Internet Protocol (IP) gateways integrated with the Speedcast […]

Russia’s Roscosmos successfully launched a Proton-M carrier rocket on July 13, carrying the Spektr-RG space telescope. The rocket lifted off from launch pad N81 at Baikonur cosmodrome at 3:30 p.m., […]

Maxar Technologies began production on a Legion-class Geostationary Orbit (GEO) satellite for Ovzon, a company located in the United States and Sweden that works to increase mobile broadband connectivity in […]

Richard Branson-backed space startup Virgin Orbit has completed a key step along its path to launching satellites for commercial customers. The company held a successful “drop test” of its LauncherOne […]

Spire Global and Teqplay are collaborating to bring new technology to the maritime market. Teqplay delivers information to the maritime industry to help companies reduce operational costs, increase asset utilization, and reduce […]

Intermap Technologies received a task order for $3.2 million to provide high-resolution terrain elevation models, related imagery, multi-sensor/multi-frequency source data, and feature layer extraction for a government customer. In addition, the company will […]

Connectivity to the ground is in short supply for today’s remote sensing satellites even as the data they collect from the Earth’s surface can predict extreme weather, protect ships from […]

A military spy satellite has come crashing down to earth after the failure of its launch rocket, sending the expensive payload into the Atlantic. The European Vega rocket had been launched from French […]

Viasat has launched Community Wi-Fi trials in Brazil. According to Viasat, the Community Wi-Fi hotspot initiative is focused on providing high-speed, affordable, satellite broadband connectivity to people where internet connections are […]

Spire Global Luxembourg will launch its open source Data Lake. The Spire Data Lake is accessible free of charge to all start-ups, research institutes, and public agencies in Luxembourg. These […]

Get Sat revealed its Nano SAT-H: a very small and lightweight Ka-band satcom terminal with an integrated Block Upconverter (BUC). The new satcom terminal meets the requirements of military, defense, and […]

Northrop Grumman was awarded a lucrative multi-spacecraft contract by Space Norway to build and deliver its Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission (ASBM) system. Northrop Grumman will design, manufacture, and integrate two satellites in […]

The mission critical design review (M-CDR) of NASA‘s Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) space-based astrophysics observatory was recently completed at Ball Aerospace‘s Boulder, Colorado, facility. The IXPE mission is led by […]

Spaceflight will provide mission management and rideshare integration services on an upcoming launch from the International Space Station (ISS) and Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus launch vehicle. Spaceflight bought the capacity through […]

RBC Signal is collaborating with Amazon Web Services (AWS) Ground Station to provide satellite operators access to AWS Ground Station. Combining the reach of the worldwide RBC communication network with high-throughput […]

SES signed two agreements with Association of Ethiopian Broadcasters (AEB) and the Ethiopian Broadcasting Cooperation (EBC) that aims to result in the creation of a dedicated Ethiopian TV environment. In […]

Blue Canyon Technologies (BCT) was selected by NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate’s Small Spacecraft Technology program and NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley — in collaboration with the University […]

Orbital Micro Systems (OMS) partnered with the Georgia Institute of Technology to develop Monolithic Millimeter-Wave Integrated Circuit (MMIC) devices using silicon-germanium semiconductor hybrid material for its next generation of commercial […]

Orbcomm‘s Pro-400 fleet management solution was independently verified by FPInnovations (PIT Group) to be fully compliant with the Electronic Logging Device (ELD) Mandate issued by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal […]

Lockheed Martin revealed that its second, next-generation GPS III satellite is ready for its planned July 25 launch. On June 26, Lockheed Martin Space and United Launch Alliance (ULA) technicians completed […]

Amazon is seeking government permission to launch 3,236 broadband satellites that would cover nearly all of the United States and much of the rest of the world. Amazon subsidiary Kuiper […]

Northrop Grumman was awarded an $82 million contract by the U.S. Air Force to facilitate military satellite communications in the Earth’s north polar region through its Enhanced Polar System Recapitalization […]