Technology

The Japan Ministry of Defense (MoD) has awarded Astroscale Japan a contract worth $1 billion yen ($6.4 million) to develop a gripping mechanism for national satellites. Under the contract, Astroscale […]

Array Labs, a startup focused on building radar payload technology for satellites, has raised $20 million in a new funding round announced Monday.  Catapult Ventures led the round with participation […]

Mira Aerospace, a subsidiary of UAE-based Space42, conducted a flight of a high altitude platform system (HAPS) vehicle in Europe in December.  Mira Aerospace flew its solar-powered HAPS model, ApusNeo18, […]

Mission Microwave will provide solid state power block upconverters (BUCs) for the landing stations for Telesat Lightspeed under a deal the companies announced Monday.  BUCs are a core component of […]

There’s never a slow news day in the space and satellite industry. The past year was marked by mega-mergers with SES completing the Intelsat acquisition and European space primes planning […]

Hughes Network Systems has released a new product family of ruggedized cases for its transportable terminals for Eutelsat’s OneWeb network. The electronically steerable antenna terminals are now available with transportable […]

Leonardo DRS conducted an on-orbit test of its multi-channel software-defined radio (SDR) with integrated advanced cryptography.  The SDR, called the eXtended Crypto Module3-Space (XCM3-Space), was launched aboard the Mercury satellite […]

ST Engineering iDirect is working with Capgemini to develop a 5G non-terrestrial network (NTN) satellite base station that will enable integration between satellite and terrestrial networks. The companies announced Tuesday […]

Cailabs is working to bring transportable optical ground stations to market through a new agreement with DataPath to integrate its optical instruments onto DataPath’s transportable ground stations. Cailabs has signed […]

Space-based cloud service provider Satlyt has entered into a strategic partnership with Parsimoni, creator of SpaceOS, a secure unikernel-based operating environment for satellite payloads, to explore technical and commercial interoperability […]

Keysight Technologies and KT SAT completed what they called “the industry’s first successful NR-NTN multi-orbit handover between a commercial GEO satellite and an emulated LEO link” based on a lab […]

Italian airline ITA Airways will adopt Viasat’s air traffic modernization solution Iris, which was developed through a European Space Agency (ESA) program.  Iris is a datalink service that is part […]

Gogo has made a strategic equity investment in user terminal startup Farcast to fund the development of aviation user terminals for Gogo customers.  Gogo, which provides in-flight Wi-Fi for business […]

Sedaro has inked a deal to use Shield AI’s Hivemind Pilot as its preferred autonomy software for on-orbit demonstrations. Intriguingly, the partnership marks Shield AI’s deliberate expansion into the space […]

As the fast-evolving commercial satellite sector looks to leverage the advantages of Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO), situated at the edge of space in orbits between 250 and 400 kilometers […]

For years, satellite conferences have been peppered with cyclical conversations concerning the alleged lethargy of the ground segment. Despite being rooted in more conventional technologies, the importance of satellite landing […]

Blue Origin will integrate an optical payload from Optimum Technologies (OpTech) on the first operational Blue Ring mission, set to launch in 2026. The vehicle will perform a space domain […]

Calian Group will design and manufacture four gateway ground stations for two Geostationary (GEO) satellites for an unnamed customer under a new deal announced Monday.  Calian will deliver four 10-meter […]

Infostellar and Fusic have an ambitious aim to deliver a new software-defined ground system model to customers in Japan and worldwide, thanks to a new partnership. For Infostellar, it will […]

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded Redwire a $44 million phase 2 contract to advance an “air-breathing” spacecraft in the Otter Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) mission.  […]

Quantum company IonQ is making another acquisition in the space industry with a deal to acquire optical communications company Skyloom Global.  Optical communications will “form the backbone for quantum-secure communications […]

SES has signed an agreement with French company Infinite Orbits for a Geostationary Orbit (GEO) life extension mission with the Infinite Orbits Endurance docking vehicle.  The Endurance spacecraft is expected […]

Filtronic has won a contract worth over 7 million euros ($8 million) to supply radio frequency (RF) assemblies for integration into a major Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellation program. The […]

Google is launching a new “moonshot” project focused on the future of in-space computing and solar-powered satellites called Project Suncatcher, with plans to deploy an in-orbit demonstration with Planet in […]

Telesat is making a $5 million U.S. dollar investment into flat panel antenna developer Farcast as it prepares for its Lightspeed network. The Canadian operator announced the investment on Tuesday […]

Swedish space computing company Unibap Space Solutions announced a deal with Leonardo this week to collaborate on space intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) systems. The companies plan to conduct a […]

Leaf Space and Infostellar have signed a new agreement to make Infostellar the exclusive representative of Leaf Space to the Japanese market for its ground segment as-as-a-service (GSaaS) offering.  Under […]

Voyager Technologies on Monday said it has acquired ExoTerra Resource in a deal that gives it capabilities in compact electric propulsion systems used to maneuver satellites in orbit. Terms of the […]

Terminal developer All.Space and network orchestration software company Aalyria are teaming up to demonstrate interoperable communications across domains, specifically for defense scenarios.  Under a new strategic partnership announced Tuesday, the […]

Iridium is rolling out a dedicated chip that will allow Iridium PNT capabilities to be integrated into electronic devices for GPS and GNSS resilience. Announced Monday, the Iridium PNT application-specific integrated […]