Technology

Findus Venture and Spire Global are the latest two companies to look to tackle the big issue of space debris. The two companies announced April 20 that they are collaborating […]

Gilat Satellite Networks reported April 19 that it’s Wavestream subsidiary received orders of more than $20 million for Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation gateways. Wavestream was chosen as the vendor of […]

NASA awarded a contract to the Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL) at Utah State University to provide essential ground calibration validation for a new space-based instrument that will continue the agency’s […]

Satcom Global is forming a partnership with software company AnsuR Technologies (AnsuR) to support to its maritime and remote land-based communications customers. Satcom Global announced the partnership April 14. The […]

SpaceChain has introduced SpaceChain Callisto, an open-source demo hardware board designed for developing blockchain applications that can be used and deployed in space. This development kit, announced April 13, aims […]

Northrop Grumman and its SpaceLogistics LLC subsidiary hit another milestone in the work to commercialize in-orbit satellite servicing on Monday, as the second Mission Extension Vehicle (MEV-2) successfully docked with […]

MDA has contracted Analog Devices for the Beamforming Integrated Circuit (BFIC) that will be used in MDA’s phased array antenna for the Telesat Lightspeed constellation, the companies announced April 7. […]

The Orbit Communication Systems Orbit GX46 multi-purpose terminal has been approved for use over Inmarsat‘s Global Xpress (GX) network, the companies announced April 6. This high-throughput aviation terminal supports military, […]

Airbus Defence and Space and the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) are developing a new prototype satellite laser communication terminal for the European Space Agency (ESA). The terminal, […]

SES and the Luxembourg government have reached an agreement to broaden the reach of the SATMED telemedicine project through 2024. This is a program that has been in use since […]

BridgeComm reports that it has demonstrated high-speed optical communications of speeds beyond 100 Gb per second in a lab setting. The company announced Thursday that it will hold point-to-point demonstrations […]

Leaf Space, the Italian Ground Segment-as-a-Service (GSaaS) startup, plans to expand in the United States. A spokesperson for the company recently told Via Satellite the company is vetting several locations […]

Astroscale, the Japanese startup that wants to remove dangerous clutter from an already congested space environment, reached a critical milestone with the successful launch of its ELSA-D debris removal spacecraft […]

Eutelsat is investing in a state-of-the-art new satellite in one of its key orbital locations at 36 degrees East. The operator announced March 22 that it has contracted Airbus to […]

When Intelsat kicked off 2021 with an announcement that it had ordered two Airbus OneSat Geostationary (GEO) software-defined satellites to drive new applications, the service provider offered a new roadmap […]

SES has been partnering with network automation software company Amartus to develop automation for SES’s O3b mPOWER constellation. The companies began working together in October 2020, and announced the collaboration […]

Maxar Technologies and Busek Co. successfully completed an end-to-end hot fire test for NASA as part of an effort that could lead to the first electric propulsion-powered crewed space mission […]

Inmarsat has signed a new deal for its Fleet Connect service, the operator announced on Tuesday. Evitalz Health Management will join a group of certified application providers to offer a dedicated […]

SpacePath Communications has won a key new contract with a major U.S. satellite equipment manufacturer, the company announced March 16. SpacePath will supply both Ku- and X-band solid-state power amplifiers […]

Space vacations are a real thing! If you want to see the Earth from a brand new perspective, and experience weightlessness like a real astronaut, and you have a few […]

Auton, Inc., developer of a mobile broadband solution for connected cars has successfully tested connected car technology with WatchTV, an owner and operator of broadcast internet facilities. The company said in […]

Hardware technology developer SatixFy will give Canadian satellite operator Telesat early access to its second-generation Sx3099 modem chip for verification testing on Telesat’s Lightspeed Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation, according to […]

Lepton Global Solutions, a Kymeta company, will add Satcube’s class of extremely small Very Small Aperture Terminals (VSAT) to the company’s global satellite network, under a deal announced March 9. […]

Lockheed Martin is preparing to launch a demonstration mission of the LM 400, a mid-size satellite bus that can support missions to both Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) and Geostationary Orbit (GEO). […]

Satcom Global is extending its Aura Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) maritime communications network, the company announced March 3. It is adding two new additional satellite beams, Astra 4a Nordic […]

Wavestream’s In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) high-power transceiver, the AeroStream 40Ku, has been successfully tested by Global Eagle Entertainment, achieving DO-160G certification. Wavestream is a subsidiary of Gilat Satellite Networks, which announced […]

Lockheed Martin and NEC Corporation have agreed to extend their partnership utilizing NEC’s System Invariant Analysis Technology (SIAT), which provides Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) capabilities across product […]

Space Machines Company, an Australian in-space transportation provider, has signed a deal with Fireball International to deploy its bushfire detection satellite into its final orbit on board Space Machines Company’s […]

Orbit Fab, the San Francisco-based start-up that is building gas stations for spacecraft in orbit, has entered into a technology partnership with non-toxic small satellite propulsion supplier Benchmark Space Systems […]

Over recent years we’ve seen some impressive advancements across the satcoms industry with boundaries pushed further than we once thought possible. It was recently reported that SpaceX’s satellite broadband service Starlink, is […]