Rachel Jewett

Fleet Space Technologies has opened a new global headquarters and satellite factory in Adelaide, Australia — a move the company says will enable the production of thousands of sensors and […]

IoT provider Soracom said that its non-terrestrial network (NTN) integration with Skylo is now in general availability for North America, Europe, Latin America, and Oceania. This allows Soracom customers to […]

The Maxar name is being retired, with two sides of the company moving forward with new identities. The spacecraft manufacturing business, formerly Maxar Space Systems, is now Lanteris Space Systems; […]

The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded Thales Alenia Space a further contract for the SAGA mission to develop a space-based system for generating cryptographic keys.  The contract announced Wednesday […]

Advanced Cooling Technologies (ACT), which provides thermal management solutions for spacecraft, has acquired Canyon Composites, a move that allows the company to provide full thermal control systems.  ACT, based in […]

Boeing completed delivery of the second ViaSat-3 satellite to Viasat, and the satellite has arrived in Cape Canaveral ahead of launch. The satellite, VS-3 F2, was shipped from Boeing’s facility […]

Japanese synthetic aperture radar (SAR) provider Synspective has signed a 10-launch deal with Rocket Lab for dedicated Electron launches, its second multi-launch agreement with Rocket Lab in a year and […]

The UK Space Agency is funding 23 space projects that center around international space collaboration, issuing a total of 6.5 million pounds ($8.7 million) in funding from the International Bilateral […]

Back from Paris, Via Satellite Editor Mark Holmes joins On Orbit host Rachel Jewett to unpack some of the top takeaways from World Space Business Week. Two themes drove much […]

Telesat has tasked Calian Group with designing and deploying the data platform that will form the data backbone of its Lightspeed constellation. The data platform will support bi-directional, asynchronous data […]

Satellite ground network provider Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) is expanding its business to offering end-to-end mission services for satellite operators to access mission operations, ground network, and data delivery in […]

Swissto12 has contracted Beyond Gravity to supply thruster pointing mechanisms for its small Geostationary Orbit (GEO) satellite platform, the HummingSat. The pointing mechanisms are being developed and built at the […]

The SpaceRise consortium leading Europe’s IRIS² constellation is kicking off the procurement process for the ground segment. The European Space Agency (ESA) published the RFI announcement this week after recently […]

Germany is planning to invest 35 billion euro ($41 billion) in space defense capabilities by 2030, Defense Minister Boris Pistoriu announced this week. In a speech in Berlin at the […]

United Airlines has received certification from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for the first mainline Starlink-equipped aircraft, ahead of the first commercial flight planned for Oct. 15.  The FAA approved […]

Amazon’s Project Kuiper constellation reaches 129 satellites after United Launch Alliance (ULA) launched another batch on Thursday morning from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. This was Kuiper’s fifth […]

SpaceX has filed with the FCC asking to launch 15,000 new satellites for direct-to-device service that would use the spectrum SpaceX purchased from EchoStar.  According to the filing SpaceX submitted […]

Voyager Technologies has selected Vivace Corporation to manufacture the primary structure of the Starlab commercial space station.  Vivace is an aerospace manufacturer that produces hardware for a wide range of […]

Satellite operators Viasat and Space42 are pitching a new way to approach the direct-to-device (D2D) market, based on shared spectrum and treating satellites like shared infrastructure of cell towers. The […]

SpaceX launched three science and weather satellites for NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on Wednesday. The launch for NASA heliophysics mission IMAP, or the Interstellar Mapping and […]

Swissto12 has opened a new engineering and R&D facility in Madrid, Spain to accelerate development of satellite systems and user terminals. The company has a growing Spanish team of engineers […]

Terran Orbital has completed delivery of 42 satellite buses to Lockheed Martin for the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) Tranche 1, Transport Layer.  Lockheed awarded Terran Orbital the subcontract in 2022 […]

Voyager Technologies said it has acquired proprietary technology in optical communications from BridgeComm, the company announced Monday. Voyager said this acquisition will allow the company to deliver optical communication solutions […]

ETL Systems is a leading radio frequency (RF) designer and manufacturer and the company’s technology supports satellite networks for many of the top satellite operators. With the increase in satellite […]

Representatives from 11 communications and technology policy organizations wrote a joint letter to the FCC this week calling on the Commission to update rules for satellite power limits.  Earlier this […]

Germany’s Media Broadcast Satellite (MBS) signed a launch deal with South Korean launch startup Innospace for two missions to Low-Earth Orbit (LEO). Innospace will launch two missions with its HANBIT launch […]

Maritime connectivity provider Pulsar International will roll out Inmarsat Maritime’s NexusWave service across 300 vessels, the companies announced last week. Installations will start in October.  NexusWave is a multi-network maritime […]

PARIS — While satellite manufacturing startups are working to lower the cost of satellite ownership, there is wide debate about the best ways to bring down cost, how to structure […]

PARIS — SES will take an agile, iterative approach to building the next-generation of its Medium-Earth Orbit (MEO) network, including a new partnership with satellite manufacturing startup K2 Space, CEO Adel […]

PARIS — After EchoStar’s spectrum sales under the pressure of an FCC investigation, the company is at a pivot point with its new status of light in assets and heavy […]