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In his first call as Comtech’s permanent CEO, John Ratigan said the company’s financial performance in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2024 was below expectations.  Ratigan spoke with investors […]

Apple is doubling down on its partnership with Globalstar, investing $1.5 billion to fund a new constellation for expanded satellite services.  Apple will pay Globalstar up to $1.1 billion to […]

The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) said on Wednesday that its Office of Space Launch (OSL) has awarded Broad Agency Announcements for Agile Launch Innovation and Strategic Technology Advancement (BALISTA) contracts […]

Airbus is evaluating potential consolidation for its Space segment in Europe, CEO Guillaume Faury told investors on Oct. 30.  The Space segment at Airbus has been challenged this year with […]

The European Commission selected a team led by Eutelsat, Hispasat, and SES to build IRIS² — Europe’s future multi-orbit satellite constellation.  The three European satellite operators will lead a consortium […]

U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) on Wednesday released a new solicitation for Phase 3, Lane 1 of the National Security Space Launch (NSSL) program, and SSC said that it […]

CyberSat returns very soon for its eighth edition as we look at what the satellite industry needs to do to keep its space assets safe. The event has gone from […]

In our recent Cal Poly report, we introduced the ICARUS matrix to generate novel scenarios in outer space cybersecurity. It’s meant to guard against a failure of imagination, a key […]

This year’s hurricane season in the United States has been especially rough, with devastation from Hurricane Helene making an impact across the Southeastern part of the country. The Category 4 […]

From the earliest days of NASA’s Apollo Program to the launch of the International Space Station (ISS), Canada has stood out as a pioneer and trusted U.S. partner in space […]

In a new era of warfare enabled by commercial products and services, owners and operators of earth observation constellations are finding themselves on the frontlines of novel conflicts, often fought […]

Following the Viasat hack, which took place a few hours prior to the invasion of Ukraine and impacted both the Ukrainian Armed Forces as well as thousands of customers across […]

The satellite industry is undergoing a seismic shift. With competition heating up from players like SpaceX and Amazon, and the horizontal consolidation of satellite operators, the sector is being compared […]

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 […]