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Intelsat and some of its subsidiaries filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Wednesday in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Richmond Division. Intelsat said the...

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is weighing options to assist vulnerable space startups that have been hit hard by the effects of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Space Force’s...

Capella Space has signed a contract with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to provide Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data to the U.S. Navy, through the Defense Innovation Unit’s Commercial...

The FCC approved an order on Wednesday requiring foreign-licensed space stations with access to the U.S. market to pay regulatory fees to the FCC. The Commission said that it is...

Telesat has joined the Rural Broadband Consortium, a group of tech firms led by Mobile Network Operator (MNO) C Spire working to bridge the digital divide and bring broadband access...

Another consumer-grade, Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellation designed to connect billions of unconnected people has slipped through our fingers. This time, it wasn’t a scrappy underdog story, or a brilliant...

With LeoSat gone, OneWeb in Chapter 11, two of the major Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) players that had ambitious plans — barring a miraculous phoenix-like rise from the flames — won’t see...

The fall of OneWeb came fast and in a matter of days. Recently, Via Satellite spoke with a OneWeb insider to talk about the events that led up to the company entering into...

I had the unique opportunity to talk to Greg Wyler a month before OneWeb’s descent into bankruptcy, and then a month after the news. It makes for fascinating reading as...

Airbus has won the new satellite communications framework contract for military and civil missions of the European Union and its member states. Airbus announced Tuesday that the European Defence Agency...