Author: Rachel Jewett

The Senate voted 68-31 on Tuesday confirming Jessica Rosenworcel as FCC chair. Rosenworcel is the first woman to hold the position and is now confirmed for a five-year term.  The...

Israeli satellite IoT company hiSky has completed a $30 million Series A financing round, led by ST Engineering’s venture capital arm. hiSky announced the round on Wednesday, led by ST Engineering...

Australian satellite IoT company Fleet Space Technologies is ramping up plans after a recent capital raise, and has reached an agreement with the South Australian government to build a satellite...

Weather forecasting company Tomorrow.io is going public through a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) merger that will fund its plans for a satellite constellation.  Tomorrow.io announced Tuesday that it will combine...

South American satellite service provider Grupo Andesat will use an Astranis MicroGEO satellite to provide broadband connectivity in rural Peru. The deal, announced Tuesday, will launch the first dedicated communications...

Arianespace’s latest launch brings Europe’s Galileo constellation to 38 satellites. On Saturday, December 4, a Soyuz launcher successfully orbited two satellites for Europe’s Galileo constellation. The Soyuz rocket launched from...

Planet is set to go public this week after its special purpose acquisition company merger (SPAC) has been approved. Shareholders of SPAC dMY Technology Group, Inc. IV approved the business...

AST SpaceMobile has decided to push back the launch of its demonstration satellite BlueWalker 3, the company announced Monday. AST SpaceMobile had raised this possibility during its recent third quarter...

Intelsat announced in filings to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Thursday that COO Samer Halawi is leaving the company at the end of the year. This comes a...

NASA has awarded a combined total of about $415.6 million to Blue Origin, Nanoracks, and Northrop Grumman to develop commercial space stations in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO), the agency announced Dec....