Author: Rachel Jewett

Quantum computing company IonQ has completed its acquisition of Capella Space, a move it said will support building a space-based satellite quantum key distribution (QKD) network.  IonQ said the company...

Spain’s Indra Group has signed a new financing agreement with the European Investment Bank worth 385 million euros ($447 million) to invest in the defense and space sector. The loan...

The Australian Department of Defence is investing $4 million in a sovereign Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite project, led by Australian satellite operator Optus. Under the co-funded arrangement announced Monday, Optus...

Firefly Aerospace looks to be the next space company to go public, filing a registration statement for an initial public offering (IPO) on July 11. The company hasn’t yet announced how...

The past few years have seen an uptick in partnerships between satellite and telcos as mobile operators look to expand the reach of their networks. Direct-to-device has garnered many of...

The FCC approved SES’s acquisition of Intelsat on Friday, determining that the combination will create “a more vigorous satellite competitor.” With this approval, the deal is set to close this...

Varda Space Industries raised a $187 million Series C round to scale the company’s work to build in-space pharmaceutical labs and hypersonic reentry test capabilities.  Varda has completed three launch...

The European Space Agency (ESA) recently demonstrated the first deep-space optical communication with a European ground segment, communicating with NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment onboard the Psyche mission. ...

Network Innovations U.S. Government (NIUSG) has deployed a multi-orbit radio frequency (RF) sensing platform, working with Integrasys and AvL Technologies. The platform is designed to deliver processed data at the...

All.Space is rolling out a new dual-beam satcom terminal capable of holding wideband connections on two or more independent Ka-band satellite networks at the same time. The Hydra Max Ka-band...