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Lockheed Martin completed its acquisition of smallsat manufacturer Terran Orbital, acquiring the former SPAC as its largest customer. Terran Orbital and subsidiary Tyvak International are now part of Lockheed Martin’s […]

Maxar Intelligence continues to hire for its executive team, announcing three new leaders on Wednesday including Matt Santangelo as chief financial officer. Santangelo was most recently CFO of cybersecurity company Forcepoint […]

A new remote sensing startup Matter Intelligence emerged from stealth mode on Wednesday with $12 million in seed funding. The startup aims to capture hyperspectral data of “all matter on […]

Anuvu announced a deal with D-Orbit USA on Tuesday to study how a highly elliptical orbit (HEO) satellite network could bring additional capacity to the planned Anuvu Constellation.  The Anuvu […]

Comtech recently released its new portfolio of Digital Common Ground (DCG) modems that the company says will enable digitized, hybrid satellite network architectures. Given the conversations around multi-orbit in our […]

NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory awarded Spire Global a contract to develop space-based capabilities for wildfire early detection and active monitoring. Spire announced the award on Tuesday and said the company […]

Eutelsat Group reported modest revenue growth in the first quarter of its 2024-25 fiscal year, driven by growth in Fixed Connectivity from OneWeb’s deal with Saudi Arabian city Neom.  Eutelsat […]

Airbus signed two new airline deals for its HBCplus program for in-flight connectivity (IFC), along with a new MoU to add Telesat Lightspeed to the program, the company announced Monday […]

The Gogo Galileo HDX antenna built by Hughes Network Systems completed a test flight on a Bombardier Challenger 300 aircraft connected to satellites in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO). Hughes announced the […]

BAE Systems demonstrated M-Code on with a next-generation GNSS receiver as part of a U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command contract.  BAE reported the demonstration on Monday, which validated M-Code […]

There is little doubt that activities in space will be crucial to the future economic wellbeing of humans, apart from important scientific and other discoveries. Future economic growth — from […]

Olsen Actuators & Drives has appointed Ian Walch as its new managing director. Walch takes the role with a mission of increasing revenue, developing skilled U.K. engineering and manufacturing capability […]

L3Harris reported challenges on classified programs in its Space and Airborne segment while revenue for the segment was flat during the third quarter of 2024. L3Harris reported Q3 financials on […]

Japanese transport company Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd., known as “K’’ Line, will trial the new Inmarsat Maritime network service NexusWave on its fleet of ships. Implementation of the trails will […]

The NROL-167 mission launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Thursday from Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif., is a step toward what the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is calling “the U.S. […]

Azercosmos and Italian ground segment-as-a-service (GSaaS) company Leaf Space broadened their exisiting collaboration with a new antenna at an Azercosmos teleport. The companies first began working together back in 2022. Azercosmos, Azerbaijan […]

Northrop Grumman and Boeing’s Millennium Space Systems on Wednesday received U.S. Space Force (USSF) missile defense awards of nearly $1.8 billion and $386 million, respectively. The almost $1.8 billion award […]

Earnings for Northrop Grumman’s Space segment were up 14% year-over-year in the third quarter of 2023, despite a modest decline in sales. Northrop Grumman reported Q3 results on Thursday. The […]

ST Engineering iDirect has been selected for the Phase Two expansion of Indonesia’s Satria-1 satellite network, following the successful completion of Phase One which involved the deployment of ST Engineering […]

The Space Development Agency has selected 19 space companies to be a part of a hybrid acquisition pool known as HALO to compete for demonstrations for the Proliferated Warfighter Space […]

NSSLGlobal has won a new contract with the German government. The company, a full-service project engineering, satcom and systems integrator, will provide satellite communications services and technology to Germany’s Federal […]

Telesat has contracted Intellian to build 127 gateway antenna systems at landing stations for the Telesat Lightspeed constellation. Intellian will design, supply, install, and integrate its 4-meter gateway antenna system.  […]

Revenue for Boeing’s Defense, Space & Security (BDS) segment was flat in the third quarter of 2024, but loss from operations more than doubled as Boeing took charges on fixed-price […]

Smallsat launcher Astra announced a new award from the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) on Wednesday, months after taking the company private.  The DIU awarded Astra a contract worth up to […]

Iceland could benefit from space based solar energy by 2030 under a new deal between U.K. company Space Solar and Transition Labs. The companies announced an agreement to deliver 30 MW […]

Umbra has been awarded a multi-million dollar contract by the Space Development Agency (SDA) to demonstrate the feasibility of integrating its commercial remote sensing capabilities into SDA’s Proliferated Warfighter Space […]

As the direct-to-device space picked up steam in 2024 with demonstrations and new partnerships with mobile network operators and device manufacturers, the business model is still being worked out.  Industry […]

New company in the satellite tech space Aptos Orbital debuted a terminal to allow satellites to run powerful AI on orbit. The Aptos terminal announced Tuesday is a device for […]

Eutelsat Communications confirmed a successful launch for 2o new OneWeb satellites launched over the weekend. SpaceX launched the satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California […]

Intelsat confirmed on Monday the Intelsat-33e satellite is a “total loss” after a recent anomaly. Intelsat first reported a service outage on the satellite on Oct. 19.  U.S. Space Forces-Space […]