Technology

VT iDirect announced that Kevin Steen has been named the company’s new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Mary Cotton, as retiring CEO, will serve on VT iDirect’s Board of Directors as...

Spaceflight Industries has revealed BlackSky Spectra, its on-demand satellite imagery service which enables customers to discover archive images and task new images from 13 high-resolution imaging spacecraft through a web...

Rocket reusability, Earth observation and big data promise to be hot topics at the 33rd Space Symposium, taking place in Colorado Springs, Colorado this week. Commercial Spaceflight Federation (CSF) President Eric Stallmer...

Space Systems Loral (SSL) announced completion of the Systems Requirements Review (SRR) for the Restore-L project to demonstrate satellite servicing in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). As announced on December 9,...

Lockheed Martin has introduced iSpace — intelligent Space — to provide defense, civil, commercial, and international customers with sensor data processing, space domain awareness, command and control, and battle management...

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions announced that Frank Backes has been named vice president of business development for Kratos satcom products and federal satellite solutions. Backes was most recently chief...

Comtech Telecommunications announced that during its third quarter of fiscal 2017, a U.S. military integrator awarded its Santa Clara, California-based subsidiary, Comtech Xicom Technology, a follow-on contract for more than...

VT iDirect announced another successful Over-the-Air (OTA) test of its Digital Video Broadcasting-Satellite Second Generation Extension (DVB-S2X) technology. The company conducted the test on the SES 4 satellite over C-band...

ViaSat has announced that its ViaSat KG-142, a 100 Gbps type 1 Ethernet encryptor, is now National Security Agency (NSA)-certified. Building on ViaSat’s Internet Protocol (IP) encryption heritage, the ViaSat...

Northern Sky Research (NSR) predicts that into 2025, launch rates for Situational Awareness (SA) initiatives will grow at a 21 percent Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR). The satellite industry has...