Technology

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) has delivered a Space GPS Receiver (SGR-20) to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to be integrated as part of the pointing control system for NASA’s […]

Inmarsat announced that its LoRaWAN-based network developed in partnership with Actility, is delivering on its strategy to bring the Internet of Things (IoT) to every corner of the globe. Early applications in […]

Comtech Telecommunications announced the release of the VersaFEC-2 High-Performance Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) option board and version 1.5 for the CDM-570A/Large Internet Packet (L-IP) satellite modems. The VersaFEC-2 waveform is an evolved version […]

Northern Sky Research’s (NSR) “Flat Panel Satellite Antennas, 2nd Edition” report forecasts cumulative Flat Panel Antenna (FPA) equipment sales to reach $9.1 billion by 2026. NSR finds that aeronautical equipment […]

BridgeSat has selected Solers to provide software to support the BridgeSat optical communications ground network. Solers will design and deliver the ground terminal and ground site data processing and data […]

SolAero Technologies announced a $10 million program investment to augment its existing solar panel production capabilities, just months after Airbus OneWeb Satellites selected the company to supply solar panels for […]

DigitalGlobe announced growth in its ecosystem of partners that leverage the company’s Geospatial Big Data Analytics (GBDX) platform. At the heart of GBDX is DigitalGlobe’s 17-year, time-lapse image library, hosted […]

Planet officially announced it will acquire Google’s Terra Bella business including the SkySat constellation of satellites. As part of the deal, upon closing, Google will enter into a multi-year contract […]

Boeing and NanoRacks will partner to develop the first privately funded commercial airlock, enabling the United States to potentially triple the number of small satellites it can deploy from the […]

York Space Systems announced the launch of its Space Segment Enterprise Program (SSEP) in collaboration with its network of partners. Under the program, York will now offer complete space segment […]

[Via Satellite 01-26-2017] Denver-based aerospace company York Space Systems is currently working with government and commercial customers to standardize spacecraft, hoping to slash both satellite price and time-to-market in the […]

Gogo has appointed Patrick Carroll as regional president in Asia Pacific (APAC). Carroll will manage Gogo’s airline accounts, certification and operations in the APAC region from Shanghai and will report […]

Advantech Wireless has received a multi-million dollar contract from an unnamed NATO-member country to provide its ruggedized military-grade satcom terminals, including the new advanced line of Gallium Nitride (GaN)-based Solid […]

Flightcell International has released its next-generation, high frequency, low-cost tracking technology using Internet Protocol (IP) over cellular. Cellular IP tracking provides more precise tracking by increasing the number of GPS […]

Boeing, Iridescent’s Curiosity Machine, PBS Learning Media and the Teaching Channel have produced a collection of free educational materials and tutorials that children can use to design their own satellite, […]

Orbital ATK has selected EaglePicher Technologies to design and manufacture a battery with specifications to use lithium-ion cells manufactured by GS Yuasa Technology (GYT) to power the Joint Polar Satellite […]

Macom Technology Solutions Holdings announced it has successfully completed the acquisition of Applied Micro Circuits Corporation. With the transaction now closed, Macom plans to engage with previously identified potential buyers […]

Raytheon has completed factory acceptance testing of the flight operations system for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). With seven times the light-collecting power of its predecessor, the Hubble Space […]

Viptela, the Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN) company, announced that its partner, NTTPC Communications, a premier telecommunications carrier in Japan, is offering the company’s first managed cloud network service called Master’sONE using […]

[Via Satellite 01-26-2017] The Mobile Satellite Users Association (MSUA) has announced its 2017 board of directors and new corporate and small business members. MSUA is a nonprofit association dedicated to […]

[Via Satellite 01-26-2017] Globalstar’s President and Chief Operating Officer David Kagan will be leaving the company in March to accept an opportunity with SpeedCast. After his departure, Kagan will assume […]

[Via Satellite 01-26-2017] XPRIZE and Google have announced that a $1 million diversity prize will be split among 16 Google Lunar XPRIZE teams, and that five teams have verified launch […]

[Via Satellite 01-25-2017] As rumors began to swirl in early January that Google’s parent company Alphabet could be selling Terra Bella (formerly Skybox Imaging) to breakout smallsat imaging start-up Planet […]

[Via Satellite 01-25-2017] Kymeta has announced plans to work with Aurum Security to bring Kymeta mTenna High-Throughput Satellite (HTS) connectivity to VIP and Civilian Armored Vehicles (CAV). According to a […]

[Via Satellite 01-23-2017] ExactEarth, a Canadian company that provides satellite Automatic Identification System (AIS) data services, saw a huge drop in earnings in 2016, but is looking to newly struck […]

[Via Satellite 01-24-2017] Phasor and Thales Alenia Space (TAS) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop a software-defined, smart terminal for commercial Ka-band satellite communications. The companies call […]

[Via Satellite 01-24-2017] Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology has awarded Av-Comm a multi-antenna contract to refurbish and upgrade four 3.7-meter earth station satellite antennas at their Crib Point facility in Australia’s […]

[Via Satellite 01-23-2017] The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has released the first image taken by Harris’s Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) onboard their next-generation weather satellite. The image taken […]

[Via Satellite 01-23-2017] Simularity, a Silicon Valley-based company that focuses on Artificial Intelligence (AI), has partnered with Taqnia Engineering and Technology Services, with the aim to provide automated anomaly detection […]

[Via Satellite 01-20-2017] TellusLabs, an Earth monitoring and machine learning company, has raised $3.1 million in seed funding led by IA Ventures and including Hyperplane Venture Capital, Founder Collective and […]