Author: Kendall Russell

Robbie Schingler is the co-founder and chief strategy officer at Planet, where he heads the company’s efforts to usher in the next era of Earth Observation (EO) capabilities. Ahead of his opening keynote “A...

Virgin Galactic has announced that its family of space companies now numbers three. Virgin Galactic will continue to provide commercial human spaceflight services and The Spaceship Company will continue to offer design,...

Telesat announced its consolidated financial results for the three month and one year periods ended Dec. 31, 2016. For the fourth quarter, Telesat reported revenues of $240 million, a decrease...

Gogo CEO Michael Small confirmed the in-flight connectivity provider’s plans to launch a next-generation air-to-ground (ATG) network in 2018, during Gogo’s 2016 earnings call Monday. Although Small provided little details...

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas 5 rocket carrying a payload for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) lifted off from Space Launch Complex-3 March 1. Designated NROL-79, the mission is...

Orbcomm announced that its Canadian partner Maerospace has won a multi-year contract with the government of Canada. Through its Canadian subsidiary SkyWave, Orbcomm will provide satellite Automatic Identification System (AIS) data used...

Space Systems Loral (SSL) announced that it provided a two-axis gimbal mechanism for NASA’s Raven flight demonstration, which the 10th SpaceX cargo resupply mission delivered to the International Space Station...

Airways New Zealand and Aireon announced that they have signed an agreement in principle to enter into an operational validation trial. This agreement will pave the way to a formal...

Intersil Corporation has introduced a radiation hardened 32-channel driver with integrated decoder that reduces the Size, Weight and Power (SWaP) of satellite command and telemetry systems. According to the company,...

5BARz International announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, 5BARz India Private Limited, has rolled out its first set of Rovr Wi-Fi routers in the households of Pune, India. The deployment...