Technology

Europe’s space industry is undergoing a renaissance right now. With governments looking to spend more money on space and defense, this investment is starting to reverberate across the supply chain. […]

A new partnership between NanoAvionics and Kepler Communications will give NanoAvionics’ customers easier access to Kepler’s optical relay network. Canada-based Kepler has selected NanoAvionics as the preferred European satellite bus provider […]

ST Engineering iDirect will integrate the network management program from G&S SatCom into its Intuition ground system software, under a new strategic partnership. G&S SatConnect is a service management platform widely […]

The annual Startup Space entrepreneur pitch contest showcases emerging space and satellite technology to an audience of investors during SATShow Week. Competitors’ technologies and innovations have pushed the boundaries of […]

Momentus will undertake a rendezvous and proximity operations (RPO) demonstration mission with NASA next month, as the former moves to fulfill a contract signed with the U.S. Space Force last […]

Quindar is to supply secure automated mission control infrastructure to Starfish Space. Quindar will support operations for Starfish’s first three Otter missions. Starfish Space is developing the Otter satellite servicing […]

Atombeam has received an expanded contract from the Space Development Agency for the company’s Neurpac technology to improve the data transmission capabilities of Link 16. The award announced Wednesday is […]

Space edge computing startup Satlyt will license DiskSat technology from The Aerospace Corporation to enable autonomous operations, in-orbit data processing, and distributed satellite coordination.  Aerospace saw the first four DiskSats […]

Telespazio and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) are joining forces to modernize Telespazio’s FOC-1A antenna, which has been operational at the Fucino Space Centre in Italy since 1967. The objective […]

OHB Hellas and Parsimoni are teaming up to develop a secure, sovereign in-orbit software platform in a major new space software initiative. It will combine OHB Hellas’ Orbital HPC hardware […]

CesiumAstro has secured $470 million in growth capital, with CEO Shey Sabripour calling it a “scale moment” for the company.  The Series C funding includes $270 million in equity, led […]

Skynopy, a French space startup, has won a major deal in the ground satellite services arena. Airbus Defence and Space has tapped the company to support the enhancement of the […]

Ground tech startup Northwood Space has raised $100 million in a Series B round and a more than $50 million award from the U.S. Space Force to support the Satellite […]

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) will evaluate Aalyria’s Spacetime network orchestration software as a candidate for a future “network of networks” concept under a new selection announced Thursday.  […]

An unnamed satellite operator in the Asia Pacific region has contracted Gilat Satellite Networks for $11 million for its SkyEdge platform to deliver advanced mobility services. Gilat reported the SkyEdge […]

The U.S. Space Force has awarded Slingshot Aerospace a $27 million contract to integrate its Talos AI agent into Space Force scenario training.  Slingshot Aerospace debuted Talos in July last […]

Airbus is teaming up with a group of satellite tech leaders to test standardized global 5G non-terrestrial network (NTN) connectivity. On Wednesday, Airbus announced the UpNext SpaceRAN (radio access network) […]

Keysight Technologies reported demonstrating a new radio non-terrestrial networks (NR-NTN) connection in band n252 using Samsung Electronics‘ next-generation modem chipset.  Keysight on Thursday announced the demonstration at CES 2026 including […]

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 […]