Rachel Jewett

Intuitive Machines has secured a two-satellite order for an unnamed commercial customer. The order is for two IM 300 platforms, the same platform that has supported Space Development Agency missions.  […]

Welcome to the 40th Anniversary Edition of Via Satellite where we celebrate an absolutely remarkable 40 years. It is hard to believe this magazine started in 1986 and 40 years […]

Over a 40-year history, Via Satellite has told countless stories of the space and satellite industry. From its first edition in 1986 to today, the magazine’s writers and editors and […]

Viasat’s third ViaSat-3 satellite (F3) has officially entered service over the Asia-Pacific region, the operator confirmed Monday.  The F3 satellite will add 1 terabit per second of capacity to Viasat’s […]

All.Space has received a contract from the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) for its Hydra satcom terminal under a contract focused on increasing production rates in the U.S. defense supply chain.  […]

The European Space Agency (ESA) has selected NorthStar Earth & Space to lead a study on uncontrolled atmospheric re-entry.  NorthStar’s European subsidiary will lead a consortium for ESA’s Forecasting of […]

SES awarded a contract to OHB to manufacture 18 Medium-Earth Orbit (MEO) satellites for Europe’s IRIS² constellation in a deal announced Monday. OHB said the contract is worth nearly 1 […]

InspeCity, a space startup based in India, has raised $10.5 million in a pre-Series A funding round to support four planned on-orbit missions over the next year and a half.  […]

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Telescope lifted off on Sunday morning on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy mission. The telescope, named after NASA’s first chief of astronomy, will orbit 1 million miles […]

The Meteosat Third Generation system imaging system is now complete after Arianespace launched the second satellite on Aug. 27.  European meteorological agency EUMETSAT confirmed after the launch that the MTG-I2 […]

Swedish satellite operator Ovzon is beginning to enter the German market through two new partnerships announced this week. The company will perform an initial test implementation with a German government […]

The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded more than 500 million euro in funding for the European Launch Challenge between PLD Space, Isar Aerospace, and Rocket Factory Augsburg. ESA also […]

Astrum Space plans to go public through a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) merger to fund the company’s plans for a “satellite-to-device” (S2D) broadcast network for the Asia-Pacific region. The […]

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH – The Office of Space Commerce’s space traffic management system, known as TraCSS, has onboarded more than 70 satellite owners and operators and more than 10 nations […]

Lyntris was formed earlier this year when Vitesse Systems combined with Accelint to form a new defense tech company. The combined company supports defense and national security missions across space, […]

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH – Impulse Space has three rideshare missions to Geostationary Orbit (GEO) fully booked through 2028 and is looking at increasing the rideshare missions to twice as a […]

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH – Edge Aerospace is scaling its manufacturing in the U.S. through a licensing agreement with Redwire under which Redwire will manufacture Edge’s data processing units (DPUs) and […]

To kick off the Small Satellite Conference, Via Satellite interviews SSC Space executives Erwin Mercado, head of market region Americas, and Greg Johnson, business development director, about the company’s offerings […]

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH — Kongsberg NanoAvionics is rolling out an upgrade to its MP42 line of satellite buses, including a new 500 kg platform which is now the company’s largest […]

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH — On-orbit checkouts of the Tranche 1 Space Development Agency (SDA) satellites launched in July are progressing much faster than previous plane launches, SDA Director Dr. Gurpartap […]

The White House set a target for the U.S to support more than 1,000 launches and reentries annually by 2030 in a new National Security Presidential Memorandum released Thursday.  That […]

While orbital data centers have drawn attention and driven headlines this year, there’s another story unfolding in spaceborne computing — the evolution of the space edge. It’s a shift to […]

Orbital data center startup Starcloud added $250 million to its Series A round just five months after the raise, more than doubling its valuation to $2.3 billion. Manhattan West led […]

Muon Space closed a $250 million Series C round as the satellite manufacturer looks to accelerate building large-scale constellations and grow differentiated mission capabilities. This brings the company’s total fundraising […]

Phantom Space has appointed Worth Wray as chief operating officer with responsibility for day-to-day operations, operational efficiency, capital formation, and scaling business processes, as the company works to ramp up […]

Rocket Lab completed its ninth launch for Japanese synthetic aperture radar (SAR) company Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space, Inc. (iQPS) on Aug. 21 from New Zealand.  iQPS based in […]

Vantor has new leadership for its U.S. government business, appointing Will Cocos as executive vice president and general manager to lead the company’s business in U.S. defense, intelligence and civil […]

The recently launched Katalyst Space servicing mission to boost NASA’s Swift Observatory won’t be able to complete the rescue, NASA and Katalyst confirmed Wednesday.  After the Katalyst Link spacecraft was […]

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has received multi-million-dollar orders from multiple international customers for GAIA antenna systems by Orbit Communication Systems, now a Kratos company. These orders support Earth Observation […]

Viasat has selected Rocket Lab to build a Geostationary Orbit (GEO) satellite for its contract on the Protected Tactical Satcom-Global (PTS-G) program. Rocket Lab will deliver a spacecraft based on […]