Technology

[Via Satellite 10-10-2016] Advantech Wireless has received new orders in excess of $1 million for its second generation Gallium Nitride (GaN)-based 250W Ku-band Solid State Power Amplifiers (SSPA). The company […]

[Via Satellite 10-07-2016] GeoOptics, a company currently in the process of building a constellation to collect environmental data via satellite, has emerged as one of the first two companies awarded […]

[Via Satellite 10-06-2016] Orbital ATK has entered a multi-year production-based partnership with Stratolaunch Systems to provide several Pegasus XL air-launch vehicles for use with the Stratolaunch aircraft. The combination of Pegasus […]

[Via Satellite 10-06-2016] Blue Origin completed the fifth flight of the same New Shepard suborbital launch vehicle Oct. 5, recovering the booster after an in-flight escape test of the crew […]

[Via Satellite 10-06-2016] Intelsat 36, launched Aug. 24 aboard an Arianespace Ariane 5 rocket, has entered service for satellite operator Intelsat, the company announced today. Built by Space Systems Loral […]

[Via Satellite 10-05-2016] Global satellite operator Telesat has entered an agreement with Middletown, Virginia-based Experis Data Centers, a collocation and disaster recovery center, for teleport backup services. To enhance the capabilities […]

[Via Satellite 10-05-2016] The Peruvian Space Agency CONIDA’s PeruSAT 1 satellite has delivered its first images after launching Sept. 16 from Kourou, French Guiana. The satellite, built by Airbus Defence […]

[Via Satellite 10-05-2016] AvL Technologies has announced a new line of fixed Earth station antennas ranging in size from 85cm to 5m. The antennas feature the company’s unique carbon fiber […]

[Via Satellite 10-04-2016] Telesat reports that its Anik F2 satellite is back to providing customer services after experiencing a technical anomaly that caused a service blackout on Oct. 2 at […]

In 1973, J.C. Fuenzalida and colleagues published a study pertaining to nonlinear characteristics of High Power Amplifiers (HPAs). The study showed that nonlinear HPA not only amplifies the uplink carriers

[Via Satellite 10-03-2016] Airbus Defence and Space has gained its first hosted payload customer for the Bartolomeo platform, a planned attachment to the European Columbus module of the International Space […]

[Via Satellite 10-03-2016] Macom Technology Solutions has expanded its high-performance Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit (MMIC) portfolio with a family of power amplifiers optimized for L-band and Ka-band satellite communications systems. […]

[Via Satellite 09-30-2016] The disappearances of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in 2014 and the earlier Air France 447 have triggered new global regulations around tracking flights. With the need for […]

[Via Satellite 09-30-2016] Orbital Insight, a U.S.-based geospatial analytics and software company, has announced the general availability of China Oil, the latest addition to its global oil supply monitoring tools. […]

[Via Satellite 09-29-2016] In the wake of losing the long anticipated Amos 6 satellite Sept. 1 during SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket explosion, satellite operator Spacecom has created a plan to […]

[Via Satellite 09-29-2016] Firefly Space Systems has successfully completed more than 50 hot fire tests, including multiple full Mission Duty Cycle (MDC) tests, of the combustor for the Firefly Alpha […]

[Via Satellite 09-29-2017] NanoRacks has received a launch contract from the RemoveDebris consortium to deploy an Active Debris Removal (ADR) experiment from International Space Station (ISS) in June 2017. The […]

[Via Satellite 09-29-2016] NovelSat has launched a new satellite Network Management System (NMS) called NovelNet NMS, designed to accelerate the deployment of both point-to-point and point-to-multipoint links. The product performs […]

[Via Satellite 09-28-2016] The United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) continues to expand its use of commercial satellite imagery, exemplified by the agency’s recent contract award to Silicon Valley firm […]

[Via Satellite 09-28-2016] Phasor has demonstrated the transmission of live HD video with its flat panel, electronically steered antenna system over the Intelsat 903 satellite from its test site in […]

[Via Satellite 09-28-2016] Google’s Terra Bella has released the first on orbit images from the SkySat 4 through 7 satellites. Terra Bella’s constellation now counts seven total in orbit satellites. […]

[Via Satellite 09-27-2016] In a year of landing rockets, mega-High Throughput Satellite (HTS) ideas and renewed faith in Non-Geosynchronous (NGSO) orbits, 2016 has been exceptionally newsworthy. Even more news came […]

[Via Satellite 09-27-2016] United Launch Alliance (ULA) has kicked off the 3-2-1 Liftoff! ULA Rocket Hardware Challenge via GrabCAD Community Challenges, inviting participants to design a launch support attachment bracket […]

[Via Satellite 09-26-2016] Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC) will deploy new ground infrastructure facilities within the Dubna Space Communications Center (SCC), the company announced today. Working with fellow satellite operator […]

[Via Satellite 09-23-2016] President of Boeing Network & Space Systems Craig Cooning is retiring from his position after 11 years at the company, Boeing announced Sept. 22. Jim Chilton will […]

[Via Satellite 09-22-2016] Airbus Defence and Space is constructing a new four-story, 4,200 square meter Integrated Technology Center (ITC) in Friedrichshafen, Germany for satellite manufacturing. The building will be an […]

[Via Satellite 09-21-2016] Kymeta, manufacturer of the meta-materials-based mTenna, has formed a new aviation partnership with antenna solutions supplier Tecom. The two companies will merge Kymeta’s flat-panel satellite antenna technology […]

[Via Satellite 09-21-2016] C-Com Satellite Systems reports it has received $1.2 million in orders in the last 30 days from resellers in Europe, South America and Asia. Some of the […]

[Via Satellite 09-20-2016] Boeing is interested in having partners to join the company as it seeks to create a new Non-Geosynchronous (NGSO) satellite constellation for broadband services using V-band. The […]

[Via Satellite 09-20-2016] Macom Technology Solutions has released MAAL-011129 and MAAL-011130, two new low noise amplifiers for customers in test and measurement, satellite communications, aerospace, defense and Industrial, Scientific and Medical […]