Technology

SES’ aggressive move into broadband, a downturn in manufacturing orders and growth in the video segment were the main discussion points at World Satellite Business Week (WSBW) this year. Via […]

Orbital ATK announced that its Mission Extension Vehicle-1 (MEV 1) spacecraft successfully completed its critical design review earlier this year and is now in production, with about 75 percent of […]

Virgin Orbit announced that Cloud Constellation has selected its LauncherOne service to deploy the SpaceBelt constellation of space-based cloud storage data centers. In an agreement signed by the Chief Executive […]

Japan-based Infostellar has raised $7.3 million in a funding round led by Airbus Ventures to develop an antenna sharing platform that it describes as being similar to Airbnb. Essentially, Infostellar […]

Day Two of Euroconsult’s 21st Summit for Satellite Financing kicked off with a panel called “Venture Capital: Fueling Both Satellite Systems and Applications,” where two investors gave insights into how […]

Space Systems Loral (SSL) has selected L3 Electron Devices to provide next-generation Traveling Wave Tube Amplifiers (TWTAs) for its High Throughput Satellites (HTS). According to L3, the new TWTA provides […]

Ursa Space Systems has unveiled its Caribbean Oil Storage Report, a weekly report of Caribbean oil inventories. The product is the newest release in a series of regional expansions to achieve […]

Space Systems Loral (SSL) has awarded Azur Space Solar Power a multi-year, long-term purchase agreement to supply high-efficiency, multi-junction space solar cells for SSL’s next-generation solar arrays. In the future, […]

The Australian Department of Defense has awarded two tech start-ups — Myriota in South Australia and New Zealand’s IMeasureU — a grant to develop a black box-esque sensor to track […]

The CubeSat arena is growing fast — Spaceworks’ latest market assessment predicts an 80 percent increase in CubeSat launches this year compared to 2016. However, according to EnduroSat founder and […]

Toyota Motor North America announced the decision to form a new group focused on delivering new technologies for its Toyota and Lexus vehicles. The newly formed Connected Technologies group will […]

NTT DATA announced an agreement with DigitalGlobe to extend their strategic partnership to produce large-scale 3D vector building model datasets, called AW3D Metro. This will combine NTT DATA’s elevation expertise […]

FourKites, a real-time supply chain visibility platform connected to more than four million assets in North America, will help Vitti Logistics, a Third Party Logistics (3PL) provider to companies in […]

Although the global repository of Earth Observation (EO) imagery continues to grow, the means by which developers can turn that data into value are arguably less abundant. To address this […]

Ursa Space System, with support of satellite images furnished by e-Geos, a subsidiary of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and Telespazio, is monitoring areas affected by Hurricane Harvey in Texas. […]

NanoAvionics has signed a turnkey mission contract with Rupercorp, based in Argentina, to supply its Earth Observation (EO) demonstration mission with a 2U CubeSat as a precursor for a succeeding […]

Some research has shown that autonomous cars lacking a steering wheel or brakes may in fact be safer than a vehicle in which human drivers can take manual control. Should […]

For the first time, researchers have sent a quantum-secured message containing more than one bit of information per photon through the air above a city. The demonstration showed that it […]

Iceye has announced $13 million in new funding, including an $8.5 million financing round led by Draper Nexus. Iceye will use the latest funding to scale up operations, including manufacturing […]

The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) recently awarded Audacy a grant that will allow the two-year-old startup to demonstrate the Software-Defined Radio (SDR) that will power […]

Southwire, one of North America’s largest wire and cable producers, now offers satellite-based tracking of its cable products. Unlike cellular-based beacons which operate at shorter ranges, the Southwire Automated Materials […]

ViaLight Communications has signed a design and manufacturing agreement with California-based Airborne Wireless Network (AWN), an important step toward integrating VLC’s series of airborne laser communication terminals into the Inifinitus […]

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions announced that its satID satellite interference geolocation product offers a Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) network geolocation capability to combat Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) […]

More than 12,000 farmers in India have committed suicide every year since 2013, according to the Centre for Global Health Research. This phenomenon marks an acceleration of a trend motivated […]

The global small satellite market is expected to grow from $2.28 billion in 2016 to reach $7.66 billion by 2023 with a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 18 percent, according to Stratistics MRC’ […]

Helios Wire announced that it has raised an additional $4 million in financing to help facilitate the launch of its first two satellites. According to Helios, it will allocate these funds toward […]

In response to media inquiries, Elbit confirmed that on Aug. 7, a jury in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas found Hughes Network Systems to have infringed one […]

Analysts at Northern Sky Research (NSR) have forecast 2016 to 2026 revenues for commercial satellite ground equipment to surpass $158 billion, according to the second edition of its Commercial Satellite […]

Atmospheric scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Haystack Observatory will investigate the effects of the eclipse on space weather. According to the researchers, the eclipse will generate waves […]

Research and Markets’ new report is projecting that the yearly value of additive manufactured parts in the space industry will reach $4.7 billion, driving nearly $1 billion in yearly sales […]