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German rideshare provider Exolaunch was a part of SpaceX’s Transporter-1 mission on Sunday, the largest rideshare mission to date, carrying 143 satellites in total. Exolaunch brought 30 satellites along for...

Forsway, the Swedish satellite/terrestrial broadband player, is adding a new member to its board of directors. The company announced Jan. 22 that Irdeto Executive Bengt Jonsson will join the board....

Editor’s Note: This story was updated on Friday, Jan. 22.  U.S. President Joe Biden named Jessica Rosenworcel acting chairwoman of the FCC on Thursday. She succeeds Ajit Pai, who stepped...

Satellite manufacturing, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, and Johnny Cash. Via Satellite’s Thursday Morning Conversation this week goes to France to talk to Jean-Marc Nasr, head of Space Systems...

Rockets, “Beat Bobby Flay” (a cooking show for the uninitiated), French 1980s pop music, “The Crown,” “The Marvelous Mrs Maisel”— all topics for our first Thursday Morning Conversation of 2021,...

European Space Agency (ESA) Director General Jan Woerner has decided to step down from his position at the end of February, a few months before the end of his term,...

Elon Musk, the outspoken entrepreneur behind Tesla Inc. and SpaceX, is now the richest person on the planet. A 4.8% rally in the electric carmaker’s share price Thursday boosted Musk...

Skylo, an Indian Internet of Things (IoT) network provider, revealed Tuesday that Angira Agrawal was hired as Chief Operationg Officer (COO). Agrawal will oversee all operations and customer-facing activities throughout...

UltiSat revealed Monday that the company has made several new senior leadership appointments and reorganized around four primary lines of business – Managed Network Services, Airborne Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance...

In the final Thursday Morning Conversation of 2020, we catch up with Mark Dankberg. This is Dankberg’s second TMC of the year, but some big news has happened since June....