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Eutelsat Communications signed a letter of agreement with Thales Alenia Space for the procurement of Eutelsat 10B, a new all-electric satellite built on the Spacebus NEO platform. Scheduled to be launched in 2022, the satellite will be located at 10 degrees East, an orbital position that offers a visibility spanning from the Americas to Asia....

The world changes very quickly. If we were to rewind five years ago, Via Satellite would not have even thought about issues around blockchain, cybersecurity, and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Fast forward five years, and we see the satellite world changing pretty dramatically. This issue of Via Satellite, which will be published ahead of our highly...

Northrop Grumman successfully launched the company-built Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) satellite for NASA. The first phase of the launch was aboard Northrop Grumman’s Stargazer L-1011 carrier aircraft, which took off at 8:31 p.m. EDT on Oct. 10 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Shortly after release from Stargazer, Pegasus ignited, carrying ICON to its intended...

As I sit here at WorldnSatellite Business Week (WSBW) in Paris, the event has thrown up a number of talking points. From Eutelsat’s surprise exit from the C-Band Alliance (CBA), to issues over how satellite will play in a 5G powered eco-system moving forward. At the launch panel, serving the up and coming Low-Earth Orbit...

Due to the Labor Day holiday in the U.S., Via Satellite will not publish its Daily News Feed on Monday, September 2. We will resume our normal publishing schedule on Tuesday, September 3rd. The next episode of the On Orbit podcast will also be published on September 3rd.

Our September edition is always one of the highlights of the year, as we get ready for the fall and more discussions about where the industry is heading. In this edition, we conduct an exclusive interview with the CEO of Telesat, Dan Goldberg, who talks about the operator’s 50-year anniversary, as well as how the...

Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) selected United Launch Alliance (ULA) as the launch vehicle provider for the Dream Chaser spacecraft’s six NASA missions to the International Space Station (ISS). The Dream Chaser will launch aboard ULA’s Vulcan Centaur rockets for its cargo resupply and return services to the space station, starting in 2021. Under NASA’s Commercial...

Via Satellite is no more — well, at least for one month. We have decided that as we live in unprecedented times, and space has suddenly found its way again into our mainstream consciousness, we wanted to do an edition all about space — rather than just satellites. We have launched Via Space to tackle...

Lockheed Martin was selected to design dual small deep space spacecraft to visit near-earth asteroids in a mission called Janus, led by the University of Colorado Boulder. One of NASA‘s Small Innovative Mission for Planetary Exploration (SIMPLEx) finalists, Janus is designed to fly by two binary asteroids, or asteroids orbiting a common center of mass,...

There is no doubt that ambitious business plans in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) will have a key say in how successful the overall industry will be over the next few years. In this edition, we look at the LEO debate from a number of different angles as we examine the future in a LEO world....