Author: Rachel Jewett

NASA awarded six companies contracts to provide studies of orbital transfer vehicles (OTV) to explore future applications of OTVs for NASA missions. Arrow Science and Technology, Blue Origin, Firefly Aerospace,...

NBN Co will offer a residential broadband service in Australia with Amazon’s Project Kuiper, under a new deal between the two companies announced Tuesday.  NBN is a state-owned enterprise in...

The past year has marked a scaling up for Eutelsat Group’s OneWeb Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) services, with the French operator saying Tuesday that LEO revenue grew by 84% year-over-year in...

The UK Civil Aviation Authority has granted Skyrora a license to launch its suborbital rocket from the SaxaVord Spaceport.  The approval, announced Tuesday, allows Skyrora to launch up to 16...

SES Space & Defense has been awarded a $89.6 million contract from the U.S. Army for commercial satcom services. The five-year Sustainment Tactical Network (STN) contract announced Monday is for...

Redwire is crystalizing its ambitions for space medicine with a new subsidiary, SpaceMD. The new venture will focus on Redwire’s work to grow seed crystals in orbit for pharmaceutical development —...

RTX company Blue Canyon Technologies is adding to its spacecraft bus lineup with the Saturn-400, designed for more complex missions.  The Saturn-400 spacecraft is designed to offer increased payload capacity,...

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy told investors that Amazon is planning to bring Project Kuiper into commercial beta service later this year or early next year, highlighting interest from enterprise and...

SFL Missions Inc. will develop a microsatellite for the Norwegian Space Agency for maritime ship tracking under a contract announced July 29. The AISSat-4 satellite, targeted for lunch in less...

EchoStar is moving forward with plans for a standards-based direct-to-device (D2D) constellation, placing an initial $1.3 billion order with Canadian manufacturer MDA Space for 100 Aurora satellites. The contract announced...