Jeffrey Hill

Comtech Telecommunications has named Meketa Investment Group Managing Principal Judy Chambers to its board of directors after confirming the retirements of current board members Edwin Kantor, Ira Kaplan and Robert […]

Space and digital engineering solutions provider Redwire successfully demonstrated the ability to simulate hybrid space architectures in support of advanced mission planning for the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, the […]

Satellite internet services provider Isotropic Networks extended its multi-year strategic partnership with RF-over-fiber (RFoF) technology provider ViaLite and has ordered new RFoF L-Band satcom links for their location in Alaska. […]

Gilat Satellite Networks entered into a strategic agreement with Pacific Dataport (PDI) to deliver Gilat SkyEdge II-c multi-service platform in support of  PDI’s expansion of ubiquitous broadband coverage in Alaska. […]

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) awarded an Indefinite-Delivery / Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) contract to ground based mobile satellite technology developer Kymeta to provide its u8 terminal and Kymeta Connect service […]

Canadian data processing and analytics company EarthDaily Analytics Corp. (EDA) says it will start building a new constellation of nine Earth observation satellites this month and plans to have them […]

Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation operator Iridium Communications grew its total billable subscribers 19% year-over-year during its second fiscal quarter of 2021 (Q2 21), driving growth across all of its service […]

Blue Origin successfully launched its founder, Jeff Bezos, his brother Mark, aerospace pioneer Wally Funk and Dutch teenager Oliver Daemen into space at 9:13 a.m. EDT Tuesday morning on its […]

Blue Origin and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos isn’t nervous about his historic, multi-generational ride on his reusable suborbital New Shepard rocket’s first crewed mission, scheduled for 9 a.m. EDT tomorrow, […]

Recognizing the amount of change that the New Space movement delivered to the aerospace industry, ST Engineering iDirect wants to cultivate that same level of disruption in the complex world […]

Montréal-based greenhouse gas satellite monitoring startup GHGSat closed its Series B funding round, netting $45 million from an investment group that included the government of Québec (through its Investissement Québec […]

The European Space Agency (ESA) is investing approximately 90 million euros ($106 million) into a developmental contract with ArianeGroup that will give its Ariane 6 rocket a new kick stage. […]

Palo Alto-based space supercomputing systems developer Ramon.Space will partner with LEOcloud to develop satellite-hosted cloud edge computing capabilities for commercial, government, and military markets, the two companies announced Monday. Ramon.Space […]

Space-based cellular broadband network AST SpaceMobile‘s U.K. business opened a new headquarters on Friday at the Space Park complex in Leicester, England. The new headquarters is part of Leicester’s $138.8 […]

Inmarsat‘s new CEO Rajeev Suri urged the space industry to achieve a “Net Zero” space sustainability equivalent and address what he called “the ever more congested Low-Earth Orbit (LEO)” during […]

In partnership with Hughes Network Systems, Via Satellite takes a look at how the satellite landscape will progress over the next 50 years. Way back in 1956, William Beller, a […]

U.K. satellite operator Inmarsat has signed a partnership agreement with netTALK Maritime to provide a communication system for Canadian Coast Guard lighthouses based on Inmarsat’s Global Xpress (GX) high-throughput data […]

In this episode, On Orbit host Jeffrey Hill joins Via Satellite Editor-in-Chief Mark Holmes and Managing Editor Rachel Jewett to reveal and explain the team’s picks for the magazine’s ultra-popular […]

Relativity Space will occupy one of largest headquarters facilities in the commercial space industry after signing the lease on Boeing‘s former C-17 manufacturing plant in Long Beach, California. The 3D […]

Tokyo-based Ground Station as a Service (GSaaS) provider Infostellar confirmed that its StellarStation mission control software will include Amazon Web Services‘ (AWS) Ground Station capabilities as a result of a […]

London-based Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation operator OneWeb sent a critical batch of 36 new satellites into space early Thursday morning, following a successful launch on an Arianespace Soyuz rocket. The […]

The past year-an-a-half must have felt like an out-of-body experience for the satellite industry. After nearly two decades of rapid technology innovation and broadening access to space, the COVID-19 pandemic […]

The space and satellite industry is at an exciting inflection point, as startups prove their business plans and industry standard-bearers invest in next-generation technology. Via Satellite’s third annual crop of […]

Very few people understand the realities of space like former NASA Astronaut Dr. Sandra Magnus. After all, she spent more than 150 days — nearly half a year of her […]

Dish Network secured a significant and extensive partnership that it hopes will advance the roll-out of its U.S.-based, next-generation 5G network. On Friday, the company entered into a strategic agreement […]

Spaceplane launcher and propulsion company Dawn Aerospace (Dawn) entered into a non-legally binding MOU with Colorado Air and Space Port to explore establishing a Dawn presence at the spaceport, work […]

Via Satellite’s financial quarterly wrap-up condenses all of our quarterly reporting of publicly traded companies into one convenient location, with additional insight and analysis for our premium subscribers.   First Quarter […]

Commercial launch services provider Blue Origin‘s online auction for a ride on its New Shepard rocket concluded Saturday with a winning bid of $28 million. The auction winner, whose name […]

California-based startup Phase Four closed a $26 million Series B investment round on June 11 to advance the development of its Radio-Frequency Thruster (RFT) and plasma propulsion systems. Phase Four […]

Iridium Communications will kick off a series of partnership-driven field exercises on Friday called Operation Arctic Lynx (OAL) involving more than 20 government and commercial organizations deploying Iridium services above […]