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I have reviewed a lot of pitches. Between my career and projects at Jack Industries, reviewing startups for personal investment at Astia Angels and volunteering to judge startup competitions from […]

SES released its financial results for the three months ending March 31, 2019, and reported a 26.5 percent decrease in net profit in comparison to the same period in 2018. […]

Boeing reported its Q1 results, in which its Defense, Space, and Security segment saw revenue increase to $6.6 billion, a 2 percent increase compared to the same period last year. According […]

Forsway, a provider of hybrid satellite routers and solutions for satellite broadband, has been awarded a co-funded development contract from the European Space Agency (ESA). The scope of the development […]

Airbus Defense and Space and Orbital Insight have expanded upon their partnership agreement to create Earth Monitor, a change analysis and insights service which provides situation awareness over archived or […]

Remember the talking car? You would have to be of a certain age to do so. And I’m not talking about Knight Rider, the TV show about the robot car […]

SoftBank is developing an aircraft that delivers telecommunications connectivity from the stratosphere. The company launched a High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS) business through HAPSMobile, a joint venture between SoftBank and U.S.-based […]

Toyota Research Institute-Advanced Development (TRI-AD), Toyota’s automated driving software development company, Maxar Technologies, and NTT DATA will collaborate on a proof of concept to build automated High-Definition (HD) maps for autonomous vehicles […]

Speedcast International signed a partnership agreement with India Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) service provider Nelco to offer global communications while at sea in Indian waters. This is the first partnership of […]

NASA awarded a contract to PathFinder Digital to study the feasibility of developing a transportable research and test platform to facilitate the design of Free Space Optic (FSO) satellite networks. […]

For some time now the European Space Agency (ESA) project “Satellite for 5G,” together with 3GPP, has been quietly evaluating how Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN) (including satellite segments) might form an integral […]

SES Networks teamed up with Teleglobal to bring broadband access and mobile connectivity services to rural communities in Indonesia, delivered by SES’ managed data services and the SES-12 satellite. Under a […]

Viasat and China Satellite Communications (China Satcom) entered into a strategic partnership to jointly provide In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) services within China for domestic and international airlines. Viasat and China Satcom will help enable […]

Following the successful completion of payload and bus integration, Boeing will begin antenna range testing and core testing of Kacific‘s Kacific1 satellite. Kacific’s first satellite is a High Throughput Satellite […]

SiriusXM revealed its Q1 2019 operating and financial results, in which total revenue increased by $1.7 billion compared to the prior year period — an increase of 26 percent. According […]

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine will deliver the welcome address at SATELLITE 2019’s Via Satellite Awards Luncheon on Wednesday, May 8th at 12:00 p.m. The Administrator will kick off the luncheon […]

Iridium Communications reported financial results for the first quarter of 2019 and affirmed its full-year 2019 outlook. The company reported a Q1 total revenue of $133.7 million, which consisted of $107 […]

Relativity, partnered with mu Space, a Thai satellite and space technology company, to launch a satellite to Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) on Relativity’s Terran 1 rocket, the world’s first 3D printed […]

The Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) awarded Slingshot Aerospace a $6 million contract to rapidly prototype and deploy Machine Learning (ML) capabilities to augment a wide variety of Enterprise […]

Boeing will build the 11th U.S. Air Force Wideband Global Satcom (WGS-11) communications satellite. The company was awarded a not-to-exceed $605 million firm-fixed-price modification (P00109) to previously awarded contract FA8808-10-C-0001 […]

Iridium Communications was awarded a new contract by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) to continue supporting the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Enhanced Mobile Satellite Service (EMSS) gateway. The […]

Canadian rural broadband provider Xplornet Communications entered into a contract with Hughes Network Systems, agreeing to a lifetime capacity agreement on the next-generation JUPITER3 Ultra High Density Satellite (UHDS), designated EchoStar XXIV. […]

Claro Argentina selected Comtech Telecommunications‘ Heights Networking Platform to connect rural communities throughout Argentina with high-speed 2G/3G and LTE backhaul. The Heights Networking Platform is a Very Small Aperture Terminal […]

Inside the massive high-bay building that houses Harris’ space reflector production facilities, workers have been meticulously calibrating, testing, and making adjustments to a very special upcoming deliverable: Harris’ 100th unfurlable […]

Still seems weird that the SATELLITE show is in May this year. Still haven’t quite got my head around it, but it promises to be a show rich on discussion, […]

It is a measure of the complex challenges facing the autonomous vehicle industry that participants in the space cannot yet seem to agree on whether wireless vehicle connections are necessary. […]

In 2017, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) substantiated India’s place in the global satellite industry further by placing 104 satellites (including 103 nanosatellites) in the Earth’s’ orbit, in a […]

Investors speaking at SATELLITE 2019 will undoubtedly share their thoughts on the future of the satellite industry, and the state of their appetites for space-based startup opportunities. In all-star lineup […]

It would be hard to describe a future where everything’s made in space with more enthusiasm than Andrew Rush — who also happens to be President and Chief Executive Officer […]

This year, Via Satellite is proud to introduce its very first Satellite Technology of the Year (STOTY) award, complementing the financial and strategic achievements recognized by our long-standing Satellite Executive […]