Jeffrey Hill

This past September at the SATELLITE show, leaders from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Weather Service joined representatives from privately owned weather forecasting companies for […]

Global satellite operator Intelsat generated a 7% year-over-year increase in total revenue during its third fiscal quarter of 2021, but its hefty legal and restructuring costs caused net losses to […]

Hawkeye 360 sees itself as unique among space-based data services. Instead of collecting data through imagery, or Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), Hawkeye 360 maps Radio Frequency emissions to produce what […]

After almost seven years as CEO and more than 18 years at Intelsat, CEO Steve Spengler plans to retire once the company completes Chapter 11 financial restructuring and selects a […]

The leaders of two of the top satellite operators — Steven Spengler and Rodolphe Belmer — announced within a day of each other that they will be departing their companies.  […]

Former FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s “big day for American leadership” was Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020 — The start of a public auction of 120 megahertz of 3.7 gigahertz C-band spectrum […]

Space-based data, analytics, and services provider Spire Global released an updated version of its maritime data service on Wednesday. The upgrade, “Maritime 2.0,” aims to improve Spire’s marine data capabilities, […]

Iridium Communications raised its 2021 full-year financial projections after reporting 9% service revenue growth and an 18% year-over-year increase in total billable subscribers during its 2021 third fiscal quarter (Q3). […]

Boeing has hired U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) Director Heidi Grant to lead Boeing’s defense, space and government services sales teams, the aerospace manufacturer announced Oct. 14. She succeeds […]

L3Harris Technologies will conduct a second advanced study for NASA that aims to significantly improve the accuracy and timeliness of U.S. weather forecasting, according to the terms of a new […]

Dish Network contracted Nexsys-One to provide an end-to-end, cloud-based network deployment software solutions for Dish’s planned nationwide 5G network build. Nexsys-One is a privately owned cloud-based Telecom enterprise software provider. Its […]

Inmarsat‘s 2021 executive leadership shake-up continues. The U.K. operator confirmed Thursday that it has replaced Ronald Spithout, who has led its Maritime business unit since 2014, with Ben Palmer, the […]

On this episode of On Orbit, Via Satellite Managing Editor Rachel Jewett joins us to unpack what has been a whirlwind month for the space industry. Blue Origin just sent […]

Viasat launched a direct and customizable Ka-band In-flight Connectivity (IFC) service for business aviation on Monday called Viasat Select. The Carlsbad, California-based satellite and telecommunications operator said that Viasat Select’s […]

The U.S. Space Force plans to launch its Infrastructure Asset Pre-Assessment Program (IA-PRE) in January 2022, Jared Reece, cybersecurity lead in the Commercial Satellite Communications Office (CSCO), announced Thursday at […]

Viasat will use capacity from Brazilian state-owned telecommunications services provider Telebras to expand its Ka-band In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) coverage for business jets in Brazil. The satellite operator said Tuesday that […]

The U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has renewed its contract with Maxar Technologies to provide imagery and geospatial data for the Global Enhanced GEOINT Delivery (G-EGD) program. The renewal, which […]

Hancom InSpace will launch Korea’s first private satellite for Earth observation in the first half of 2022, the company announced September 29. Once launched, the satellite, Sejong-1, would make Hancom […]

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) confirmed it will investigate claims that 21 current and former employees at Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin made about the safety of the company’s rockets in a […]

Egypt’s state-owned National Company for Telecommunications Services (NCTS) has contracted Hughes Network Systems to develop the ground systems that will support the operation of the government’s TIBA-1 Ka-band satellite. TIBA-1’s […]

HawkEye 360 CEO John Serafini said Thursday that the radio frequency (RF) data and analytics firm’s newly launched next-generation satellites have enabled the company to secure more than $50 million […]

Adisesh Yeragudi just graduated from Rutgers University… and also became Startup Space’s youngest-ever competition winner at SATELLITE 2021. His company, AV SpaceTech, is building a modular ion space propulsion engine […]

Air France will install Intelsat‘s 2Ku high-speed satellite In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) service on 60 of its new A220-300 aircraft. Intelsat is equipping the aircraft now and will be ready to […]

Two space-as-a-service solutions providers are teaming up to demonstrate the feasibility of blockchain technology computation in space. Spire Global, a publicly traded space data analytics company, announced it entered into […]

End-to-end satellite solutions provider Terran Orbital will build a 660,000-square foot space vehicle manufacturing facility on Florida’s Merritt Island. The startup company, which is based in Boca Raton, Florida, made […]

Astranis‘ first full commercial communications satellite will now launch in the spring of 2022 as a secondary payload on SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket. The San Francisco-based Geostationary Orbit (GEO) small […]

SpaceBridge is known for developing Very Small Aperture (VSAT) hubs and terminals for satellite connectivity. CEO David Gelerman spoke with Via Satellite at SATELLITE 2021 about the progress the company […]

Hughes Network Systems and SES have demonstrated the ability to connect remotely piloted aircraft with satellites in Geosynchronous (GEO) and Medium-Earth Orbit (MEO), the satellite operators announced early Wednesday. Hughes […]

Antenna developer ThinKom has had a number of announcements lately, from its work with Telesat on the Lightspeed Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation to a new family phased-array antennas for use […]

Matt Little, senior systems test engineer at Ball Aerospace spoke with Via Satellite at SATELLITE 2021 about the company’s approach to developing phased array antenna technology at attractive consumer price […]