Technology

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 […]

Tesat has delivered optical communications terminals to Lockheed Martin to be used on future GPS satellites. Tesat said Monday it completed delivery of its SCOT80 terminals to Lockheed Martin.  Tesat […]

Muon Space is integrating Starlink laser terminals onboard its satellites to give its constellation customers near real-time data transmission. Muon Space said Tuesday that this agreement integrates its satellites into […]

ST Engineering iDirect has opened general availability of its Intuition 1.1 next-generation ground system, with new capabilities to improve efficiency for satellite operations. Intuition is the company’s cloud-native, multi-orbit ground […]

A Japanese consortium of Softbank, ArkEdge Space, Kiyohara Optics, and the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) are planning to demonstrate optical communications between space and the stratosphere. […]

Gilat Satellite Networks has received $42 million in orders from an unnamed satellite operator for its multi-orbit SkyEdge IV platform. These orders are scheduled for delivery over the next 12 […]

Keysight Technologies has acquired Spirent Communications in a $1.46 billion deal that integrates more communications testing technology into Keysight’s business.  Keysight, based in the U.S., provides design, emulation, and test […]

Momentus will host an in-space crystallization demonstration for NASA and also demonstrate a new thruster on orbit under two recently announced contracts.  Under a $5.1 million contract from NASA’s Flight […]

One of the big topics at any space conference nowadays is what impact Artificial Intelligence (AI) can have on space companies in terms of improving efficiencies and bringing new technologies […]

Vitesse Systems has recently acquired ground antenna technology provider Spacetime Engineering to enhance its ground capabilities for the connected battlefield.  Spacetime Engineering provides high-performance antenna feeds for ground-based satellite and […]

The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded Thales Alenia Space a further contract for the SAGA mission to develop a space-based system for generating cryptographic keys.  The contract announced Wednesday […]

Telesat has tasked Calian Group with designing and deploying the data platform that will form the data backbone of its Lightspeed constellation. The data platform will support bi-directional, asynchronous data […]

Satellite ground network provider Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) is expanding its business to offering end-to-end mission services for satellite operators to access mission operations, ground network, and data delivery in […]

Space42 will help create what it calls the UAE’s first Sovereign Mobility Cloud in a new initiative working with Microsoft. This mobility cloud will be enabled by Core42’s Sovereign Public […]

Swissto12 has opened a new engineering and R&D facility in Madrid, Spain to accelerate development of satellite systems and user terminals. The company has a growing Spanish team of engineers […]

ThinKom and KSAT are partnering with the goal of improving operational efficiency for their Earth Observation (EO) customers. The two companies will develop a commercially viable receive-only ground station, with […]

Voyager Technologies said it has acquired proprietary technology in optical communications from BridgeComm, the company announced Monday. Voyager said this acquisition will allow the company to deliver optical communication solutions […]

ETL Systems is a leading radio frequency (RF) designer and manufacturer and the company’s technology supports satellite networks for many of the top satellite operators. With the increase in satellite […]

Next year, Anduril Industries and the Impulse Space startup plan to run a Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) rendezvous and proximity operations mission using Anduril’s mission data processor (MDP) and long-wave infrared imager aboard […]

Japanese pay-TV satellite operator SKY Perfect JSAT signed a technology partnership agreement with Harmonic to utilize its software-based XOS Advanced Media Processor in the enhancement of JSAT’s playout and delivery […]

Intellian Technologies and Eutelsat have developed an ultra-portable military-grade manpack terminal for Eutelsat’s OneWeb Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) network. This expands the portfolio of OneWeb user terminals. Intellian said the terminal will […]

French photonics technology startup Cailabs has raised 57 million euro ($67 million), led by financing from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to scale up production of its optical ground stations.  […]

Comtech Telecommunications’ defense-grade SLM-5650B modem has been certified to operate with SES’s O3b mPOWER Medium-Earth Orbit (MEO) constellation, Comtech announced Wednesday. The modem can be used to provide hybrid communications […]

AeroVironment (AV) has won a contract worth around $240 million for its long-haul laser communications terminals. The terminals will be deployed in orbit by an unnamed customer. AV’s long-haul laser […]

Panasonic Avionics and Intellian Technologies are working together on a new aviation antenna compatible with Eutelsat’s OneWeb constellation. The antenna is intended only for Low-Earth Orbit (LEO), and Panasonic noted […]

ST Engineering iDirect has reported a recent demonstration that showed interoperability between its ground system and the 5G core. In the demonstration, a non-3GPP satellite network connected with the 5G […]

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) and Kepler Communications have reported a successful air-to-space optical communications demonstration using Space Development Agency (SDA)-compliant optical terminals.  The demonstration announced Tuesday took place between […]

Orbit Communication Systems is rolling out a new on-the-move satcom terminal geared toward military vehicles and maritime vessels. The company announced the new MPT30Ka Satcom On-The-Move (SOTM) terminal on Tuesday. […]

Sky Perfect JSAT is joining an R&D project to demonstrate satellite-based quantum key distribution (QKD) led by Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT).  The project is part […]