Author: Rachel Jewett

SpaceX completed the first shell of its direct-to-cell constellation this week, after recently receiving approval from the FCC for its service with T-Mobile.  SpaceX launched 20 Starlink satellites on Wednesday...

Arianespace‘s Vega C rocket returned to flight on Thursday, its first launch after a failure during its second mission two years ago. Vega C launched on December 5 from Europe’s...

SpaceX launched a new satellite for SiriusXM’s satellite radio business on Thursday morning. The Geostationary Orbit (GEO) satellite, SXM-9, will deliver SiriusXM’s audio entertainment and information to millions of consumers. ...

President-elect Donald Trump has nominated billionaire and commercial astronaut Jared Isaacman to lead NASA as administrator. Isaacman is an entrepreneur and the founder of Shift4 and Draken International, and known...

Gogo completed its acquisition of Satcom Direct to form a multi-orbit, multi-band, in-flight connectivity (IFC) provider for the business aviation and military/government mobility markets. One analyst noted that the combined...

Telesat and MDA Space have completed the preliminary design review (PDR) for the Lightspeed Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation, the companies announced Wednesday.  Completing the PDR shows that the constellation design...

Shortly after taking the helm as CEO of SES, Adel Al-Saleh made the splash move to acquire Intelsat in a stunning piece of industry consolidation. It has echoes of when...

Saudi Arabia’s Neo Space Group (NSG) is making an acquisition in the Earth observation space, acquiring UP42 from Airbus Defence and Space. Terms of the deal were not disclosed in...

Theresa Condor has been appointed the new CEO of Spire Global as founder and CEO Peter Platzer transitions to the role of executive chairman.  Condor was part of the company’s...

Lockheed Martin has selected Tesat optical communication terminals (OCT) for a demonstration on a future GPS III spacecraft. Tesat announced the agreement on Tuesday for its SCOT80 OCTs.  Tesat Managing...