Author: Rachel Jewett

Chris Johnson, president of Boeing Satellite Systems International, is moving to Maxar Technologies, to lead the company’s Space Programs Delivery (SPD) division. Maxar announced April 29 that it has appointed...

Viasat has completed its purchase of Eutelsat’s share of Euro Broadband Infrastructure (EBI), the wholesale broadband services business, the company announced April 30. This purchase gives Viasat complete ownership of...

President Biden’s pick for NASA administrator — former Florida Senator Bill Nelson — was unanimously confirmed by the Senate on April 29.  Nelson becomes NASA’s 14th administrator, succeeding former Republican...

Arianespace’s Vega rocket returned to flight on Wednesday evening, launching a next-generation Earth Observation (EO) Pléiades Neo satellite for Airbus, along with five rideshare small satellites. The launch from French Guiana...

Northrop Grumman’s Space segment saw sales increase 29% in the first quarter of 2021, the company reported Thursday. Sales were $2.5 billion in Q1 of 2021, up from $1.9 billion...

Days before sending the Crew-2 mission to the ISS, Gwynne Shotwell jumps on the phone for an interview with Via Satellite while working at SpaceX’s facility in McGregor, Texas. She speaks openly...

York Space Systems is adding a larger and more powerful platform called the LX-Class to its family of spacecraft platforms.  The new platform is built off of the York S-Class,...

German rocket developer Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) has signed a launch contracts with OHB Cosmos and LuxSpace, for dedicated missions between mid-2024 and 2025.  The deals, announced Tuesday, are for...

The FCC has granted SpaceX permission to lower the altitude of future satellites in the Starlink Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation. The FCC’s decision, announced Tuesday, came despite protests from Viasat,...

Eutelsat has joined the OneWeb investment consortium with a $550 million investment. This brings funding for the new iteration of OneWeb to $1.9 billion — 80% of what is needed to...