Author: Ben Ackman

The European Space Agency has selected Toronto-based Kepler Communications as prime contractor for HydRON Element 3, the third part of a sovereign optical communications constellation, the company announced this week...

Slingshot Aerospace released Portal, an artificial intelligence-based platform for satellite data monitoring and analysis this week. The software combines Slingshot’s data flows with external sources into its analytics engine, which...

Lonestar gave a launch date for “the world’s first commercially operational space-based sovereign data storage platform,” dubbed StarVault, in a statement on Wednesday. The company said demand for off-planet data...

Toronto-based MDA Space presented MDA Midnight, an on-orbit servicing platform, at Space Symposium on Monday morning. Midnight is designed for rendezvous and proximity operations (RPO) use to detect, identify, counter,...

EnduroSat and Shield Space have joined a strategic partnership to jointly operate space defense missions, EnduroSat said on April 8. The companies’ combined technologies could allow them to deliver on-orbit...

On a dark, clouded night, a Russian ballistic missile submarine departs a naval base in the Arctic. A small vessel navigates the Mediterranean Sea at 15 miles per hour. A...

Amazon is reportedly in discussions with Globalstar to potentially acquire the company. Financial Times (FT) reported first broke the news in an article published Wednesday evening. The article cited people familiar...

Gravitics has received a Strategic Funding Increase (STRATFI) contract from SpaceWERX, the U.S. Space Force’s innovation arm, to accelerate development and demonstration of its Orbital Carrier architecture, the company said...

“Space remains hard,” Ryan Wolff, a program director for Tranche 0 and vendor growth at the Space Development Agency (SDA), said during SATShow Week. “It is a hard place to...

Launch vehicle manufacturer Phantom Space Corporation has acquired Thermal Management Technologies (TMT) to accelerate the development of its planned orbital data center constellation and further its vertical integration strategy. TMT...