Author: Adrienne Harebottle

The International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) Maritime Safety Committee (MSC) has recognized that the Iridium network meets all the criteria of the IMO needed to provide mobile satellite services in the...

Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) services provider SatADSL and Camtel, Cameroon’s national telecommunications provider, have announced a new partnership to provide satellite connectivity across Cameroon. The formal agreement follows a pilot launch...

Todaq Financial has announced a partnership with For All Moonkind, a non-profit organization focused on protecting and preserving our common human heritage in outer space. The two organizations will work together...

BridgeSat has announced a set of agreements to provide space laser terminals and data services to Iceye, a commercial microsatellite Synthetic-Aperture Radar (SAR) constellation. BridgeSat’s low-cost terminals and associated ground services...

Sener has won a contract to develop the optical bench for the main instrument of the European Space Agency (ESA) satellite Flex, an acronym for Fluorescence Explorer. This is the eighth member...

Orbital ATK successfully launched the company’s Antares rocket carrying its Cygnus spacecraft from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad 0A on Wallops Island, Virginia, at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility. The launch...

Av-Comm Satellite Communication Infrastructure division has been awarded a multi-year panel contract by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in support of its satellite communication network, following a...

Eutelsat has joined other members of the satellite community in signing contribution agreements with the United Nations World Food Program (WFP), on behalf of the Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC). These...

In terms of demand, Asia leads the way in satellite broadband. It’s purely a numbers game and Asia certainly has the numbers — as long as they refer to population...

The SpaceDataHighway system, a public-private partnership between the European Space Agency (ESA) and Airbus, has achieved 10,000 successful laser connections. The reliability rate has reached 99.8 percent, and during the...