Jeffrey Hill

Blue Origin has successfully completed its NS-12 mission, launching its ninth commercial payload and 100th customer into orbit on a New Shepard rocket. This was the sixth consecutive launch of […]

Satellite operator Iridium Communications revealed its first seven authorized Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) service partners. Beginning in the first half of 2020, Arion Communications, AST, Marlink, Marsat, […]

Data Analytics satellite company HawkEye 360 won a commercial RF survey study contract from the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), the company announced Dec. 11. HawkEye 360 will examine the integration […]

Though the 2019 third fiscal quarter delivered very notable mergers and acquisitions (M&A), particularly Dish Network’s $5 billion asset transaction with Sprint and T-Mobile and Broadcom’s $10 billion-plus acquisition of […]

SpaceX Founder and Chief Engineer Elon Musk will appear as a keynote speaker at the SATELLITE 2020 Conference and Exhibition on Monday, March 9 at 4:00 p.m. EST at the […]

Agricultural analytics company CropX has partnered with Costa Rican agroforestry equipment vendor FarmAgro to provide satellite-powered precision agriculture tools to farmers in Central America. The partners will deploy applications such […]

  Capricorn Space has contracted antenna systems supplier ViaLite to install RF- over-fiber links at its new Australian teleport, ViaLite announced Dec. 10. ViaLite said that it would supply lossless, […]

Microsoft Azure wants to craft its own space business vertical. But instead of building their own satellites, they’ve opted to build the business through partnerships. William Chappell, CTO of Microsoft […]

The 2019 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-19), a “death-by-a-thousand-cuts” experience for the satellite industry held every four years by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), has just wrapped up its latest get-together […]

Thales Alenia Space will build the Nilesat-301 geostationary communications satellite for Egyptian operator Nilesat, the company announced December 4. Thales Alenia Space will be responsible for satellite design, production, testing […]

The Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC) has signed a cooperation agreement with Azerbaijan’s satellite communications operator Azercosmos to jointly provide satellite communications and broadcasting services in Baku, Azerbaijan and surrounding […]

Satellite operator Spacecom has selected Rugby, Warwickshire-based Satellite Mediaport Services (SMS) to serve as the European gateway for its new AMOS-17 high-throughput communication satellite, which recently become operational over the […]

Satellite networking technologies provider Gilat Satellite Networks named Slava Frayter as its North American regional vice president, the company announced Dec. 2. Frayter previously served as Vice President of the […]

Speedcast was awarded a multi-year communications and value-added services contract with Aurora Expeditions for the Greg Mortimer expedition ship, one of the most advanced expedition ships in the world. Speedcast […]

The U.S. Navy has announced the winner of its $731.8 million sole-source contract award for the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) ground system. General Dynamics Mission Systems will provide new […]

China successfully launched a new weather radar-imaging satellite designed for civilian use, Chinese state media confirmed. Gaofen 12, the latest in a fleet of Chinese Earth observation satellites, lifted off […]

Science Applications International (SAIC) claimed it has secured $582 million in space and intelligence contracts in its 2019 third fiscal quarter report. SAIC’s 3Q haul includes two contracts worth a […]

If you think your maritime satellite terminal is safe from hackers, give Ken Munro a call to make sure. He’s probably already found a backdoor to your system on the […]

Via Satellite has a long history of issuing industry professional, technology, entrepreneur, and executive leadership awards, but we haven’t yet had the opportunity to recognize student awards and grants from […]

AMOS satellite operator Spacecom has finalized a contract to provide C-Band high-throughput capacity to an unnamed “leading Angolan satellite services company.” Spacecom confirmed November 12th that it would provide the […]

Atlas Space Operations has established a new partnership with launch and space logistics service provider Aevum to collaborate on the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD) Agile Small Launch Operational Normalizer […]

Italian microsatellite ground segment company Leaf Space has reached an agreement with Pixxel to support the Earth imagery startup’s first 24 satellites, set to launch in July. Pixxel designed its […]

Viasat’s Ka-band business aviation in-flight connectivity (IFC) system has received Type Certification (TC) from the FAA, EASA and ANAC for use on the Embraer Praetor 600 mid-sized business jet. Viasat’s […]

NanoAvionics CEO Vytenis Buzas defines his small satellite-building business as an homage to the smart industrial practices of the American automobile industry. What emerged as a spinoff of Lithuania’s Vilnius […]

With the unveiling of the SATELLITE 2020 Conference Program this week, we have a very well-timed episode of On Orbit featuring an interview with Scott Chase, Chairman Emeritus of SATELLITE […]

According to the former CIO and Digital Strategy Lead for one of the world’s largest multinational energy companies, digital transformation represents both the top opportunity and business risk for the […]

How important are precision agriculture and global food and water supply monitoring applications to our future? Via Satellite’s On Orbit podcast takes a look at the numbers: The world’s population […]

Northrop Grumman and its wholly-owned SpaceLogistics subsidiary sent the industry’s first on-orbit servicing satellite life-extension spacecraft, the Mission Extension Vehicle-1 (MEV-1), into Supersynchronous Transfer Orbit (SSTO) on an International Launch […]

Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne is a rather unique launch vehicle. It’s a rocket that deploys, or drops, from a customized Boeing 747 — a “Flying Launchpad,” so-to-speak. One of those aircraft, […]

Consumer Technology Association (CTA) President and CEO and New York Times best-selling author Gary Shapiro is one of the most powerful tech industry voices in Washington D.C., representing more than […]