Author: Rachel Jewett

A Northrop Grumman Minotaur I rocket launched three classified national security payloads for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) on Tuesday morning.  The Minotaur rocket took off from Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport...

Hungarian telecommunications company 4iG is in the midst of a deal to take a majority stake in Israeli satellite operator Spacecom.  4iG is negotiating to take a majority 51% stake...

Northrop Grumman’s air-launched Pegasus launch vehicle deployed a payload for the U.S. Space Force over the weekend — in its first launch since 2019. The L-1011 carrier aircraft dubbed Stargazer...

The group of G7 nations has pledged to take action on space debris as part of the G7 Leaders’ Summit in the United Kingdom.  Delegates from G7 nations — Canada,...

Iridium Communications has tapped Greg Pelton from Pyron as the company’s new CTO. The company announced Monday that Pelton will take over for retiring CTO Hermon Pon. As CTO, Pelton will...

Capella Space has rolled out two new data types using its Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery. The new data types, Geocoded Ellipsoid Corrected (GEC) and Sensor Independent Complex Data (SICD),...

Alaska Communications will use OneWeb’s satellite capacity to provide broadband service in the state, under a distribution agreement announced June 10.  Alaska Communications is a business and residential network provider...

A Lite Coms terminal has received certification to work with the SES O3b Medium-Earth Orbit (MEO) constellation. Lite Coms said that its Lite Sat 2.2A terminal is the only Very...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has selected a crop of space startups for a new program called the AWS Space Accelerator, in collaboration with space investor firm Seraphim. The companies selected...

Momentus has made a concrete step forward with a after a turbulent few months dealing with U.S. national security concerns with the business. The in-space transportation company announced Wednesday that it...