Government/Military

OneWeb has signed its first commercial services contract with Hughes Network Systems for the U.S. Air Force Research Lab (AFRL). Hughes is the prime contractor on the project, and will...

SES has recently announced details of two new deals, one in the United States and one in Germany. SES Government Solutions (SES GS), a wholly-owned subsidiary of SES, has won...

Vice President Kamala Harris will chair the National Space Council, the White House has announced.   “As I’ve said before: In America, when we shoot for the moon, we plant our...

President Biden’s pick for NASA administrator — former Florida Senator Bill Nelson — was unanimously confirmed by the Senate on April 29.  Nelson becomes NASA’s 14th administrator, succeeding former Republican...

York Space Systems is adding a larger and more powerful platform called the LX-Class to its family of spacecraft platforms.  The new platform is built off of the York S-Class,...

The FCC has granted SpaceX permission to lower the altitude of future satellites in the Starlink Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation. The FCC’s decision, announced Tuesday, came despite protests from Viasat,...

Just over a week after it lost out on a high-profile and lucrative contract to build the next spacecraft that would land astronauts on the moon, Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin filed...

Northrop Grumman will proceed with its Protected Tactical Satcom (PTS) rapid prototype program for the U.S. Space Force, with a flight demonstration set for 2024.  The program involves the space...

SES and the Kazakhstan Government will explore rolling out satellite-enabled, high-speed connectivity services using the O3b mPOWER communications system to accelerate the nation’s Digital Kazakhstan project under the terms of...

ULA is now able to compete to launch future NASA missions on its Vulcan Centaur rocket, which is currently in development. On April 15, NASA announced that it had awarded...