Technology

[Via Satellite 08-31-2015] Italian boat manufacturer Monte Carlo Yachts (MCY) has selected KVH Industries’ TracVision TV8 marine satellite television antenna system for its newest and largest luxury line, the MCY […]

[Via Satellite 08-28-2015] Goonhilly Earth Station Ltd. (GES) has appointed Martin C Faulkes as chairman of its board of directors. The appointment of Faulkes further strengthens GES as it continues […]

[Via Satellite 08-27-2015] The European space industry is soon to gain a boost in venture capital once the London-based Seraphim Capital launches the Seraphim Space and Special Situations Fund during […]

[Via Satellite 08-27-2015] Asia Satellite Telecommunications Holdings Limited, or AsiaSat, reported that licensing approvals are inhibiting growth from its new satellites AsiaSat 6 and AsiaSat 8 during its 2015 interim […]

[Via Satellite 08-26-2015] An average of 140 satellites with launch masses greater than 50 kg will enter orbit by 2024, according to Euroconsult’s new “Satellites to be Built & Launched […]

[Via Satellite 08-26-2015] The United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded a contract to Space Systems/Loral (SSL) to study on-orbit robotic assembly of geostationary communications satellites. The […]

[Via Satellite 08-25-2015] The University of Michigan recently started building a constellation of eight microsatellites for use on NASA’s Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) mission, which aims to improve […]

[Via Satellite 08-25-2015] Commercial weather startup PlanetiQ has opened a science and engineering facility in Boulder, Colo., where the development and manufacture of the first 12 Pyxis sensors will take place. […]

[Via Satellite 08-25-2015] Qatari satellite company Es’hailSat has selected a 50,000 square meter site north of the city of Doha, Qatar, to establish a new teleport. Promer Qatar Contracting Company […]

[Via Satellite 08-25-2015] Lockheed Martin scientists have improved threefold the power density of the company’s High Power Microcryocooler. The new system cools optics and electronics to as low as minus […]

[Via Satellite 08-24-2015] Lockheed Martin has signed a contract with Orbital ATK for propellant and pressurant tanks for its modernized A2100 satellite platform. Under the new five-year contract, Orbital ATK […]

[Via Satellite 08-24-2015] Newtec together with Intelsat, have achieved a world first for the amount of throughput in a single transponder. During a demonstration at Intelsat’s Fuchsstadt teleport in Germany, engineers […]

[Via Satellite 08-21-2015] Airbus Defence and Space has completed an imagery project covering all of South Africa in three months using the Spot 6 and Spot 7 twin satellites. A […]

[Via Satellite 08-21-2015] E2v has launched a new grade of high-performance microprocessors based on the multicore processors from the Freescale QorIQ family. These processors produce tens of Gflop (1 billion […]

[Via Satellite 08-20-2015] On Aug. 19 an H2B rocket from the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) successfully launched the H-2 Transfer Vehicle (HTV) 5 to […]

[Via Satellite 08-20-2015] Aerojet Rocketdyne has delivered the environmentally friendly propellant propulsion subsystem to Ball Aerospace for NASA’s Green Propellant Infusion Mission (GPIM). Ball Aerospace, prime contractor for GPIM, will […]

[Via Satellite 08-19-2015] Mexican telecommunications company Elara Comunicaciones has recently struck a partnership with private equity firm Northgate Capital that will enable the company’s “aggressive” growth plans over the next […]

[Via Satellite 08-19-2015] German media production company in satellite-based live broadcasting, rt1.tv production GmbH, has invested in Riedel Communications’ MediorNet real-time media network and Artist digital matrix intercom system for […]

[Via Satellite 08-19-2015] Lime Microsystems and Airbus Defence and Space, with funding from Innovate UK (formerly the Technology Strategy Board), announced a joint development of GNSS products. Airbus Defence and […]

[Via Satellite 08-18-2015] Avanti Communications Group announced the completion of financing for its Hylas 4 satellite. The company has successfully placed $125 million in Senior Secured Notes due 2019 under […]

[Via Satellite 08-14-2015] German spacecraft manufacturer OHB Systems AG is taking fledgling steps toward greater prominence in building geostationary satellites. Hispasat AG1, the first satellite based on its SmallGEO platform, […]

[Via Satellite 08-14-2015] SES’ wholly owned subsidiary SES Techcom Services and Post Luxembourg’s subsidiary Post Telecom, a specialist in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) solutions, have entered a new partnership […]

[Via Satellite 08-13-2015] The U.K.-based Goonhilly Earth Station is shifting back to prominence in the satellite industry after rebounding from an uncertain fate. The iconic facility, which beamed the very […]

[Via Satellite 08-13-2015] Norsat International’s land mobile radio division Sinclair Technologies, has started shipments of the newly designed SE41x series of wideband enclosed dipole antennas, which covers the entire 746 […]

[Via Satellite 08-12-2015] Vancouver-based UrtheCast has achieved Initial Operating Capability (IOC) for its High-Resolution Camera (HRC), Iris, aboard the International Space Station (ISS) in a move that will likely push […]

[Via Satellite 08-12-2015] Made In Space, a company capable of manufacturing technology in space, and NanoRacks have teamed up to offer a “Stash and Deploy” service for CubeSat developers. Together […]

[Via Satellite 08-12-2015] Gilat Satellite Networks is entering into a partnership with China’s Space Star Technology Co (SSTC), a subsidiary of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), in which […]

[Via Satellite 08-11-2015] NanoRacks has added Peter Bak to its ranks as the company’s first head of European operations. Bak spent the last three years working with Danish CubeSat company […]

[Via Satellite 08-11-2015] Lockheed Martin Commercial Space has placed Carl Marchetto at the helm as its new vice president and general manager. Following the company’s two-satellite contract with Arabsat and […]

[Via Satellite 08-10-2015] RT Logic, a subsidiary of Kratos Defense and Security Solutions has partnered with Spaceflight Networks to offer small satellite companies ground radio products optimized for Spaceflight’s global […]