Mark Holmes

Via Satellite’s annual 10 Hottest Companies rounds up 10 “must watch” companies in the satellite industry, from constellations, manufacturing, launch, and more. Via Satellite editors chose the companies on this list based on […]

For nearly all of Via Satellite’s 40 years, Satellite Executive of the Year has recognized outstanding leadership in the satellite industry. The list of winners over the years reflects those who […]

Even though the in-flight connectivity (IFC) market has been established and growing for years, less than half of commercial aircraft are equipped with connectivity. This was one of the key […]

At the start of this month, SpaceX acquired Elon Musk’s AI venture xAI, amid the run-up to an expected SpaceX IPO. SpaceX cited plans for an orbital data center satellite constellation in […]

Virgin Media O2 (VMO2), one of the largest wireless operators in the U.K. is now a step closer to bringing direct-to-device (D2D) services to its U.K. customer base. Ofcom, the […]

Europe’s space industry is undergoing a renaissance right now. With governments looking to spend more money on space and defense, this investment is starting to reverberate across the supply chain. […]

SatVu has closed a 30 million pound ($40 million) funding round bringing its total equity funding to 60 million pounds ($80 million). The U.K.-based thermal intelligence company has two satellites […]

Revenue from the OneWeb constellation is surging for Eutelsat, and the operator is focusing its future CapEx on Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) assets. This was the key highlight of its six-month […]

SpaceX’s Starlink constellation continues to make inroads into the in-flight connectivity (IFC) market by winning business from one of the leading airlines in the U.S. Southwest Airlines is the latest […]

Update — U.K. rocket company Skyrora is considering purchasing Orbex assets. The company said in a Feb. 12 statement it may invest up to 10 million pounds ($13.7 million) to […]

The ground segment is one of the most vibrant right now in the satellite industry, as companies look to bring newer, more flexible technology to customers. Comtech has undergone a […]

constellr has raised 37 million euros ($44 million) through a new Series A funding round to advance its thermal intelligence capabilities. The round was led by Alpine Space Ventures and […]

Sidus Space is teaming up with Simera Sense to develop next‑generation hyperspectral imaging solutions incorporating onboard data processing and analytics. The aim is to enable commercially deployable, intelligence‑driven Earth Observation […]

Telesat has signed a strategic partnership deal in the Middle East with Es’hailSat to deliver Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite connectivity services to Qatar and across key international markets. The two […]

Quindar is to supply secure automated mission control infrastructure to Starfish Space. Quindar will support operations for Starfish’s first three Otter missions. Starfish Space is developing the Otter satellite servicing […]

Blue Origin is now targeting the satellite constellation market, in one of the biggest and perhaps even most surprising story of the year, Blue Origin announced it was going to […]

Arabsat is going to be using new IoT tools to help it monitor satellite TV reach and channel activity across the MENA region. It has signed a deal to work […]

Kymeta is taking the next step as it aims to bring better multi-orbit, multi-band communications to its customer base. It is teaming up with Japan Display Inc (JDI), to develop […]

Telespazio and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) are joining forces to modernize Telespazio’s FOC-1A antenna, which has been operational at the Fucino Space Centre in Italy since 1967. The objective […]

OHB Hellas and Parsimoni are teaming up to develop a secure, sovereign in-orbit software platform in a major new space software initiative. It will combine OHB Hellas’ Orbital HPC hardware […]

The global space economy could be worth over $1 trillion by 2034. This is one of the key findings of Novaspace’s latest edition of its Space Economy Report. The global […]

Skynopy, a French space startup, has won a major deal in the ground satellite services arena. Airbus Defence and Space has tapped the company to support the enhancement of the […]

2026 is a new year. And Thursday Morning Conversations (TMC) are back with a bang. We have new questions, new guests and a new format as we talk to some […]

LiveEO is to launch a new constellation focusing on critical infrastructure in Germany. The constellation, named Twinspector, aims to enable large-area, high-resolution, three-dimensional observation of the Earth and is specifically designed […]

KSAT has made a significant move in the area of maritime situational awareness. It is launching a new vessel detection service called Vake Powered By KSAT, to monitor areas and […]

Last year, D-Orbit took the game capture-the-flag to space, hosting a cybersecurity competition conducted on a real spacecraft in orbit. The Capture-the-Flag CTF) cybersecurity competition took place at the European […]

Riyadh Air has signed a partnership deal with Neo Space Group (NSG) to equip Riyadh Air’s Airbus A321 fleet with NSG Skywaves – the company’s in-flight connectivity (IFC) solution. NSG […]

Spire Global has secured a new weather intelligence deal in the energy/utilities sector. AiDash, a provider of vegetation, storm, and ignition risk intelligence and SatelliteFirst grid monitoring solutions, has tapped […]

The first two satellites in Open Cosmos‘ Ka-band satellite constellation have launched, just one week after the company announced it secured Liechtenstein’s high-priority Ka-band spectrum. This represents the first activation […]

Qatar is looking to satellite to boost its military capabilities with a new MoU signed by Es’hailSat and the Qatar Armed Forces (QAF). The MoU is for satellite communications and ground networks for sovereign requirements. […]