Rachel Jewett

Kymeta’s Kestrel u5 terminal has received certification for compliance with railway standards ahead of connectivity trials with some of Europe’s largest rail operators.  The Kestrel u5 is a flat panel […]

SatPort Infrastructure will develop, build, and host landing stations for the Telesat Lightspeed constellation, to connect Lightspeed to terrestrial networks. The two companies announced a master services agreement on Sept. […]

SiriusXM’s latest satellite, SXM-11, has entered service after launching in June. It is now the satellite radio company’s most powerful satellite in its fleet.  Intuitive Machines built the satellite based […]

Vantor has selected EnduroSat and CACI to provide the satellite bus and payloads for its upcoming Pulse fleet, the company’s move into the smallsat imaging market. Bulgaria-based EnduroSat will build […]

After achieving success on its second launch, Isar Aerospace signed a five-launch contract with rideshare provider SEOPS during World Space Business Week. This is in addition to an Isar launch […]

PARIS — How important will direct-to-device services be to mobile network operator offerings? The jury is out as European MNO execs disagreed on the value proposition and what they’re willing to […]

Direct-to-device was heralded as a win for mobile network operators as a way to expand their networks without building infrastructure in remote places. Many MNOs have struck partnerships with satellite […]

PARIS — Satellite operators find themselves at the intersection of sovereign space strategies, capabilities across multiple domains, and integration and collaboration with the tech ecosystem and AI.  These issues drove […]

Saudi Arabia’s top telecommunications provider stc group has ordered a dedicated satellite from Astranis to provide satellite communication services.  Astranis builds smaller Geostationary Orbit (GEO) satellites than traditional GEOs. Customer […]

In a new satellite-connected car demonstration, Iridium reports a demo in which a Toyota vehicle sent a voice message using Iridium NTN Direct, working with Deutsche Telekom IoT (DT IoT).  […]

NOAA is expanding its work with commercial satellite companies for weather data, working with 14 companies to acquire data across seven categories to improve weather forecasting.  NOAA announced partner companies […]

Tomorrow.io has selected York Space Systems to build the initial phase of its next-generation DeepSky weather monitoring constellation under a $187 million contract announced Thursday.  For Tomorrow.io, DeepSky will serve […]

TrustPoint is moving forward to build out its GPS-independent PNT constellation plans, tapping EnduroSat US to build 40 satellites in a deal announced Thursday. These 40 satellites will take the […]

Eutelsat announced major orders of satellites to support service continuity for the OneWeb constellation, and Europe’s IRIS² constellation.  Airbus Defence and Space received authorization to proceed for 229 OneWeb satellites […]

Startup PiLogic is taking a unique approach to AI for the space industry, developing what it calls “exact AI,” a type of AI in the category of automated reasoning. It […]

Eclipse Space, a new megaconstellation startup, announced a lineup of satellite platforms on Wednesday geared toward direct-to-device (D2D), broadband, and on-orbit computing.  Eclipse Space was founded by a group of […]

Loft Orbital, Marlan Space, and partners are investing $1 billion to build an artificial intelligence satellite constellation to serve customers across France, Europe, the UAE, and the rest of the […]

Amazon Leo is increasing its work with Arianespace, ordering six more Ariane 64 launches to deploy its constellation.  Arianespace is a key launch provider for Amazon Leo, which has faced […]

AT&T Business has furthered its agreement with Amazon’s Amazon Leo constellation to offer “converged connectivity solutions” integrating satellite into fiber and 5G networks for business customers.  After announcing an initial […]

German launch startup Isar Aerospace achieved the first successful commercial launch from Europe over the weekend, launching payloads on the second flight of its Spectrum rocket.  The mission “Onward and […]

Hyperspectral satellite startup Pixxel completed a $100 million funding raise that Pixxel says will fuel its growth in the U.S. and expansion into sensing technologies beyond hyperspectral.  Temasek and Seraphim […]

ST Engineering iDirect reports it has demonstrated a pilot version of a multi-waveform 5G New Radio Non-Terrestrial Network (NR-NTN) user equipment modem. iDirect describes this technology as “the foundation” for […]

Planet grew revenue by nearly 60% year-over-year in the second quarter of 2026 and narrowed its net loss as the satellite imagery company sees growing momentum with sovereign deals for […]

KSAT, the company known for downlinking satellite data and operating the largest commercial ground station network, plans to expand its network to space with its upcoming Hyper network of relay […]

Hungarian tech, telecommunications, and defense company 4iG Group will launch SpaceX’s Starlink Mobile in certain European markets. The companies’ Sept. 2 announcement involved three initiatives — the current Starlink Mobile […]

Japanese satellite imagery provider Axelspace signed an agreement with Airbus Defence and Space to provide Airbus with the company’s mid-resolution optical images. The partners plan to jointly develop and deliver […]

NASA awarded Blue Origin a contract worth up to $700 million to build the Mars Telecommunications Network, which will provide communications and navigation services for future Mars missions.  Under the […]

Boeing has delivered the final three satellites that will complete SES’s O3b mPOWER constellation. The satellites are set for launch later this month on a SpaceX Falcon 9 mission. Satellites […]

Kymeta secured an order from a branch within the U.S. Department of Defense for 100 Osprey u8 multi-orbit satcom terminals worth $20 million.  The award announced Tuesday includes multi-orbit connectivity […]

Telesat will consider adopting space-to-ground optical communications capabilities through a new strategic collaboration agreement with Cailabs. Under the agreement announced Tuesday, the companies will explore integrating Cailabs optical space-to-ground connectivity […]