Technology

NASA is investing in 22 early-stage technology proposals that have the potential to transform future human and robotic exploration missions, introduce new exploration capabilities, and significantly improve current approaches to […]

By the mid-21st century, businesses in nearly every industry on the planet will have to leverage Big Data to stay competitive, according to a panel of experts at the 33rd […]

Mitsubishi Electric announced that it will invest approximately 11 billion yen ($99.4 million) to construct a new facility for the production of satellites at company’s Kamakura Works facility in Kamakura, […]

Globalstar announced it will launch a new compression service for the satellite industry. The effort will include rolling out compression services developed by Yippy to Globalstar’s subscribers as well as […]

Astronics, through its subsidiary Astronics AeroSat, announced its latest aircraft antenna system, the FliteStream F-310. It provides Ku-band High-Throughput Satellite (HTS) connectivity with new technology that minimizes service interruptions when […]

Iridium reseller Rock Seven is debuting a miniature plug-and-play, two-way satcom system with integrated antenna. RockBlock 9603 is a smaller variant of the RockBlock MK 2 Internet of Things (IoT) […]

A Remote Interface Unit, an aluminum electronic enclosure designed to hold avionic circuits, will be the first 3-D printed part certified for use on a Lockheed Martin military satellite. The […]

VT iDirect announced that Kevin Steen has been named the company’s new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Mary Cotton, as retiring CEO, will serve on VT iDirect’s Board of Directors as […]

Spaceflight Industries has revealed BlackSky Spectra, its on-demand satellite imagery service which enables customers to discover archive images and task new images from 13 high-resolution imaging spacecraft through a web […]

Rocket reusability, Earth observation and big data promise to be hot topics at the 33rd Space Symposium, taking place in Colorado Springs, Colorado this week. Commercial Spaceflight Federation (CSF) President Eric Stallmer […]

Space Systems Loral (SSL) announced completion of the Systems Requirements Review (SRR) for the Restore-L project to demonstrate satellite servicing in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). As announced on December 9, […]

Lockheed Martin has introduced iSpace — intelligent Space — to provide defense, civil, commercial, and international customers with sensor data processing, space domain awareness, command and control, and battle management […]

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions announced that Frank Backes has been named vice president of business development for Kratos satcom products and federal satellite solutions. Backes was most recently chief […]

Comtech Telecommunications announced that during its third quarter of fiscal 2017, a U.S. military integrator awarded its Santa Clara, California-based subsidiary, Comtech Xicom Technology, a follow-on contract for more than […]

VT iDirect announced another successful Over-the-Air (OTA) test of its Digital Video Broadcasting-Satellite Second Generation Extension (DVB-S2X) technology. The company conducted the test on the SES 4 satellite over C-band […]

ViaSat has announced that its ViaSat KG-142, a 100 Gbps type 1 Ethernet encryptor, is now National Security Agency (NSA)-certified. Building on ViaSat’s Internet Protocol (IP) encryption heritage, the ViaSat […]

Northern Sky Research (NSR) predicts that into 2025, launch rates for Situational Awareness (SA) initiatives will grow at a 21 percent Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR). The satellite industry has […]

ViaSat has chosen McObject’s eXtremeDB to implement a new physical layer satellite debugging application known as the Data Metric Aggregation System (DMAS). The application ingests metrics feeds from satellite ground-system […]

Orbcomm announced that it has collaborated with Pole Star and Weatherdock to develop Hali, a Class B tri-mode vessel tracking solution that ensures complete vessel visibility. Hali combines terrestrial and […]

During a Mountain View, California, forum this week organized by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), SES showcased some of its solutions geared toward humanitarian […]

PacSci EMC announced the release of its new Modular Architecture Propulsion System (MAPS) for the small satellite market. According to the company, the compact design of MAPS reduces cost of […]

Spire Global announced it has successfully developed, tested, and deployed a constellation of nanosatellites with Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receivers. The data from this growing constellation will augment the […]

Esri has introduced four image platform bundles that enable management and analytics of all forms of imagery in a fraction of the time most desktop or enterprise image processing technologies […]

ABS CEO Tom Choi has garnered a reputation for speaking unabashedly — so his somewhat harsh comments on the viability of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) constellations came as no surprise […]

Rocket Lab announced closing a Series D financing round of $75 million. Data Collective led the round, with additional investment from Promus Ventures and an undisclosed investor, and with renewed participation […]

Newtec announced that the Arab States Broadcasting Union (ASBU) will use its Newtec Dialog platform technology for the upgrade of its satellite Multimedia Exchange Network over Satellite (MENOS). Installed by […]

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions announced today that Yahsat has selected Kratos to support its expanding satellite fleet with Command and Control (C2), signal monitoring and data analysis solutions. Kratos’ […]

Telit announced the introduction of new positioning modules in the SE868xx-Ax family featuring multi-constellation Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receivers with a 9 mm by 9 mm patch antenna. According to […]

Universal standards for real-time aircraft data streaming are long overdue. This is the view of Brian Pemberton, who works as vice president and general manager of Iridium’s aviation business. With […]

First Derivatives (FD) announced it has signed an agreement with Airbus Defence and Space to develop an innovative approach for large scale processing of geospatial data using its Kx analytics […]