Author: Rachel Jewett

Nanoracks is building an AgTech research program in Abu Dhabi as part of an United Arab Emirates initiative to invest in its AgTech ecosystem. The StarLab Space Farming Center will...

Spaceflight is rolling out its next-generation orbital transfer vehicles called the Sherpa series — a “last mile” delivery service for smallsats on rideshare missions. The first Sherpa-FX will carry 14...

Talia has acquired an additional Ka-band spot beam with coverage across the Levant region from Arabsat, the communications provider announced Thursday. The new agreement adds an additional Ka-band spot beam...

Ellen Stofan of the Smithsonian Institution will lead the NASA review team for President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, the transition team announced Tuesday.  Stofan is the John...

Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $258 million contract to develop a prototype payload for the U.S. Space Force’s Evolved Strategic Satcom (ESS) program, the U.S. Department of Defense announced...

Relativity Space recently completed a full-duration Mission Duty Cycle test of its Aeon 1 rocket engine. The company shared a Youtube video of the test at NASA‘s Stennis Space Center...

Eutelsat has hired Pascal Homsy, head of Thales Alenia Space’s Space Telecommunications Business Line, as chief technical officer (CTO). Eutelsat said in a Tuesday announcement that Homsy will join the...

Executives from SpaceX, Telesat, Iridium and SES gathered virtually at World Satellite Business Week Virtual Edition hosted by Euroconsult on Tuesday, to discuss their different approaches with Low-Earth Orbit (LEO)...

India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) launched a national Earth Observation (EO) satellite along with nine satellites for international customers on Nov. 7. The mission, PSLV-C49 took off from Satish...

A Chinese Long March 6 rocket delivered 10 Satellogic satellites to Sun-Synchronous Low-Earth Orbit at 3:18 a.m. UTC on Friday, November 6. It was Satellogic’s first dedicated launch and brings...