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Launch
Spaceflight’s Curt Blake Talks Sherpa OTV News, Future of Multi-Orbit Ridesharing
This episode of On Orbit is being released on a big news day for U.S. space rideshare provider, Spaceflight Inc. Spaceflight has shipped its brand new fully integrated Sherpa-LTC orbital […]
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Imagery and Sensing
Spire Inks Second Optical Payload Deal with South Korea’s Hancom inSpace
South Korean satellite data and technology company Hancom inSpace (Hancom) has signed its second contract with Spire Global to host an additional optical payload on a Spire 6U satellite that […]
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Launch
Rocket Lab Hits Cadence Record with Successful NROL-199 Launch
Rocket Lab successfully launched the second of two back-to-back national security missions for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) on an Electron rocket that took off early Thursday morning from Pad […]
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Imagery and Sensing
Under New Partnership, BlackSky Gets Reseller Access to Airbus Imagery Products
Virginia-based geospatial intelligence and satellite imagery provider BlackSky Technology secured reseller rights to 23 different tasking and archive imagery products owned by Airbus under the terms of a new partnership […]
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Imagery and Sensing
ESA Confirms Loss of Sentinel-1B, Will Now Fast-Track Sentinel-1C Launch
ESA and the European Commission confirmed Wednesday that they have lost the Copernicus Sentinel-1B Earth observation satellite after it experienced a power supply failure in December that left it unable […]
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Space Economy
Momentus Identifies Cause of Vigoride-3 Anomaly, Deploys 4 More Satellites
Commercial in-space transportation services company Momentus has identified the root cause of anomalies that created power and communications issues for its Vigoride-3 orbital transfer vehicle (OTV) during its May 27 […]
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Technology
Sidus Space Selects Amazon Web Services for LizzieSat Constellation Cloud Storage
Amazon Web Services (AWS) will provide cloud storage for Sidus Space‘s new Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation, LizzieSat, under the terms of a new contract the operator announced on Tuesday. Sidus […]
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Connectivity
DIFI Space Industry Group Grows to More Than 50 Companies
Seven space companies joined the Digital IF Interoperability Consortium (DIFI) on Monday, bringing the independent industry group’s membership to more than 50 companies. DIFI named CesiumAstro, Communications & Power Industries […]
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Government/Military
Ball Aerospace Wins Two More NASA GeoXO Study Contracts
Ball Aerospace secured two contracts with NASA to support the NOAA’s next-generation geostationary weather satellite constellation under the Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) program. The space systems manufacturer said on Monday […]
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Magazine
Space-Based Shortcuts Advance in the Last-Mile Connectivity Race Against Fiber
Sitting on the stage of a crowded Denver Convention Center conference room, Dan Dooley, CCO of Washington D.C. metro-area based mobile connectivity company Lynk, tries to explain that the cell […]
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Magazine
10 Smallsat Startups to Watch
The global startup space industry is thriving. Startup space ventures brought in a record $15 billion in financing in 2021, and seed investments in startups rose by 46 percent, according […]
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Manufacturing
Members of Congress Cut Ribbon on Hawkeye 360’s New Manufacturing Facility in Virginia
Members of U.S. Congress joined HawkEye 360 CEO John Serafini on Friday to cut the ribbon on the company’s brand new 19,000-square foot satellite manufacturing facility in Herndon, Virginia. U.S. […]
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Connectivity
Viasat Scores Virgin Atlantic IFC Deal, Delivers ViaSat-3 Payload to Boeing
Viasat will supply in-flight connectivity (IFC) satellite capacity and equipment to commercial airline Virgin Atlantic under the terms of a new contract announced Wednesday. Viasat said its IFC hardware will […]
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Podcast
Cloud to Street Transforms Climate Change-Era Flood Insurance with Satellite Data
News coverage of extreme weather events and flooding has brought climate change to the forefront of public consciousness. As this flooding displaces and endangers life on Earth and causes trillions […]
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Finance
MDA Promotes Holly Johnson to Lead Robotics and Space Business
Holly Johnson will lead manufacturer MDA’s Robotics and Space Operations (RSO) division on a permanent basis after taking on the role in an acting capacity earlier this year. MDA promoted […]
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Space Economy
Nanoracks Confirms Follow-Up Bishop Airlock Mission with Japan’s Gitai
Nanoracks confirmed Monday that it will conduct a second Bishop Airlock mission with Japanese space robotics startup Gitai. A follow-up to the companies’ successful Bishop Airlock demonstration in 2021, the […]
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Launch
Terran Orbital Completes First CAPSTONE Test Burn for NASA Artemis Program
Terran Orbital reported Friday that it successfully completed the first TCM burn (TCM-1) on the NASA Artemis program’s CAPSTONE space vehicle. CAPSTONE uses the gravity of the Sun instead of […]
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Launch
Rocket Lab USA Establishes New Program to Accelerate Satellite Launching
Launch and space systems company Rocket Lab established a Responsive Space Program on Thursday that will open a direct line of communication with satellite operators to understand their mission requirements […]
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Space Economy
Atomos, Addvalue Partner to Develop LEO OTV Tech Using Inmarsat Elera Service
Denver-based in-space transportation company Atomos Space entered into a technology partnership with Addvalue Innovation, a communication terminals provider, to develop orbital transfer vehicles (OTVs) that relocate Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites […]
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Connectivity
SatixFy Achieves First 5G LEO Satellite Backhaul Link with OneWeb Constellation
SatixFy Communications confirmed Wednesday that its electronically steered multi-beam array achieved a high-speed, low-latency 5G backhaul link with a OneWeb Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation satellite during a June 28 demonstration […]
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Launch
Can Europe’s Newest Spaceports Turn the Continent into a Global Launch Hub?
In order to have meaningful access to space to meet the demand for launch services, the world needs more spaceports and launch centers. British and European launch services could also […]
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Finance
Lux Capital Invests in Tom Mueller’s Impulse Space Startup
Impulse Space, an in-space transportation services startup launched in 2021 by SpaceX founding member Tom Mueller, has secured $10 million in funding from Lux Capital. This brings Impulse Space’s recent […]
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Finance
BlackSky Promotes Imagery Industry Veteran to CFO
BlackSky Technology has named its new CFO. The geospatial intelligence company announced June 16 that it promoted Chief Development Officer Henry Dubois, a veteran of the satellite imagery industry, to […]
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Space Economy
Collins Aerospace Issues NASA xEVAS Program Sub-Contract to Sidus Space
Space-as-a-Service company Sidus Space has been tapped to join the Collins Aerospace team that was awarded NASA‘s Exploration Extravehicular Activity (xEVAS) services contract at the beginning of June. Sidus Space […]
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Connectivity
Hughes Engineers Use Jupiter System to Connect 5G Smartphones to the Internet
Hughes Network Systems successfully tested 5G satellite backhaul services on the its Jupiter System ground platform, the company announced June 14th. During a series of tests at its Germantown, Maryland […]
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Connectivity
AXESS Networks Deploys Massive Satellite Network Infrastructure for Mexico’s CFE
CFE Telecomunicaciones e Internet para Todos (CFE TEIT), a subsidiary of Mexico’s Federal Electricity Commission, has deployed AXESS Networks satellite services and technology under the national “Internet for Everyone” development […]
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Technology
Northrop Grumman Completes Mynaric Laser Comms System Demo for SDA
Northrop Grumman successfully completed a demonstration of a secure, networked laser communications system for proliferated-LEO constellations using Mynaric’s Condor Mk2 optical communications terminals. The demonstration is part of a contract […]
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Launch
Momentus Manages to Deploy Two Customer Satellites from Malfunctioning Vigoride OTV
Momentus reported late Monday that it was able to deploy two customer satellites from its Vigoride demonstration orbital transfer vehicle (OTV), which experienced several anomalies after its launch. The U.S. […]
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Launch
AST SpaceMobile Confirms New SpaceX Launch Date for BlueWalker 3
SpaceX will launch AST SpaceMobile’s BlueWalker 3 test satellite from Cape Canaveral, Florida during the week of August 15, according to an AST SpaceMobile statement posted Monday. BlueWalker 3, which […]
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Podcast
John Deere’s Kiel Ronning Sees Data-Driven Solutions for Food Shortages
In this episode of Via Satellite’s On Orbit Podcast, John Deere’s Industry 4.0 lead Kiel Ronning joins us to talk about how his company is working to solve the global […]




























