Rachel Jewett

Maxar Technologies has received a $35 million, multi-year contract for capacity on its WorldView Legion satellite constellation with an unnamed international defense and intelligence customer, the company announced July 7. […]

Hughes Network Systems has joined the FCC’s Emergency Broadband Benefit Program that provides financial assistance for broadband service during the COVID-19 pandemic. At this point, Hughes is the only nationwide […]

In partnership with Hughes Network Systems, Via Satellite takes a look at how the satellite landscape will progress over the next 50 years. Looking into the future, 25 years is […]

New Space Earth Observation (EO) leader Planet is going public through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), the company announced July 7. Planet will combine with dMY […]

Mu Space has opened a satellite manufacturing facility in Bangkok, Thailand, and plans to add more than 300 high tech jobs in the city over the next year. The company […]

AST SpaceMobile, Inc. has signed an MoU with Smart Communications to bring the space-based cellular broadband network the company is developing to customers in the Philippines.  AST SpaceMobile is developing […]

Earth Observation (EO) space startup Satellogic plans to go public through a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) merger that values the company at $850 million. Satellogic announced July 6 that […]

The billionaire race to space is heating up, as Virgin Galactic bumped plans to fly Sir Richard Branson to space ahead of Blue Origin’s timeline for Jeff Bezos.  Virgin Galactic […]

AAC Clyde Space has signed a Space Data as a Service contract with Canadian Earth Observation (EO) company Wyvern worth 8.4 million pounds ($11.6 million). Under the contract, AAC Clyde […]

Airbus has shipped Eutelsat’s QUANTUM satellite to French Guiana ahead of its July launch. The QUANTUM launch has been pushed back multiple times, and is now set for Arianespace launch […]

Astra is now the first launch company to be publicly traded on the Nasdaq Global Select Market after its special purpose acquisition (SPAC) merger was approved.  Shareholders of SPAC Holicity […]

SpaceX conducted the second mission in its dedicated service on Wednesday afternoon, carrying 88 spacecraft to Low-Earth Orbit (LEO).  The Falcon 9 rocket took off from Space Launch Complex 40 […]

Momentus has cut its valuation in half as it has gone through challenges with its special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) merger. The in-space transportation company announced June 29 that it […]

Virgin Orbit has kicked off commercial service with a successful LauncherOne mission on Wednesday, June 30.  As part of Virgin Orbit’s air-launch system, carrier aircraft Cosmic Girl took off from a […]

Bharti Global will invest $500 million more into OneWeb, fully funding the Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation company and making Bharti Global the company’s largest shareholder.  In the deal announced June […]

The space and satellite industry is at an exciting inflection point, as startups prove their business plans and industry standard-bearers invest in next-generation technology. Via Satellite’s third annual crop of […]

Speedcast has completed testing on Telesat’s phase one Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite for Brazilian petroleum company Petrobras.  Over nine tests, Speedcast measured throughput, latency, packet loss, and jitter across applications […]

Christopher Kubasik has taken the helm of L3Harris as CEO, succeeding William Brown. This leadership transition was planned and first announced with the merger of L3 Technologies and Harris Corp. […]

SatixFy and SWISSto12 have formed a strategic collaboration for work on advanced satellite payloads. The companies said they each offer products that are complementary to advanced digital payloads, and are […]

The smallsat launch market is set to get a bump in launch capacity as new launch providers come to market over the next year. Astra is one of those companies, […]

Eutelsat is launching a new end-to-end managed connectivity service called Advance, tailored to maritime, aviation, enterprise, government, and telecom markets. Advance, announced June 24, includes network interconnection, terrestrial connectivity, Ku- […]

Commercial ground station startup Leaf Space is expanding its network and installing three additional ground stations in Sri Lanka, the Azores, and Scotland, the company announced Tuesday. The Sri Lanka […]

Iceye is planning a business expansion in Japan, and has hired Makoto Higashi as general manager of the company’s business operations in the country. The company announced Wednesday that it […]

  Kymeta’s u8 land mobile antenna has been selected to participate in the U.S. Army’s Armored Brigade Combat Team (ABCT) satellite communications on the move pilot program. The program will […]

Benchmark Space Systems has announced an in-space mobility offering that allows customers to pay as they go for in-space transport. SCOUT and Orbit Fab has signed on with agreements for […]

Iridium’s L-band broadband Iridium Certus 200 service is now available for maritime, land mobile, and government markets, the operator announced June 22. This service is designed to offer uncompressed transmission […]

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Department of the Air Force have signed an agreement to streamline regulation for commercial space launch activity. The agreement, signed June 21, establishes […]

The ST Engineering iDirect Evolution platform is being deployed in the Philippines with Intelsat’s Horizons 3e satellite to expand broadband service across the archipelago. This deployment is through a long-term […]

Ligado Networks said it has received approvals from wireless standard organization Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) to deploy its L-band spectrum in 5G networks.  The company is developing a 5G […]

SES has been certified as an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Direct Connect Partner, which the satellite operator said is an advantage to enterprises and government users working in remote locations. […]