Rachel Jewett

Spire Global completed the sale of its maritime business to Belgian data and analytics company Kpler, using the proceeds to retire all outstanding debt, Spire announced April 25.  Spire sold […]

The FCC has opened a review of spectrum sharing between Geostationary (GEO) and Non-Geostationary (NGSO) satellite systems, and invited comments on satellite power limits.  During Monday’s open meeting, the FCC […]

T-Mobile cut the price on its commercial service for “T-Satellite” messaging, and plans to start service in July. T-Mobile is setting the price at $10 per month, and is offering […]

The Satellite Industry Association is encouraging policy and lawmakers to look to satellite communications and technology to assist in natural disaster response. SIA, which represents satellite operators, manufacturers, equipment suppliers, […]

Booz Allen and Meta, the parent company of Facebook, tailored a version of Meta’s open source platform, Llama, for space, to be deployed on the International Space Station (ISS).  Dubbed […]

L3Harris lowered guidance for the company to account for a divestiture, but leadership was optimistic on Thursday’s investor call about opportunities for its satellite business to participate in the “Golden […]

Orbcomm is launching a new partner program for IoT solution providers and resellers to encourage new applications and reach new IoT partners.  Orbcomm has more than 400 solution providers that […]

French satellite service provider E-Sat signed a distribution agreement to deliver Eutelsat OneWeb broadband services in Europe, the company announced last week.  E-Sat will sell the full suite of Low-Earth […]

German-based satellite manufacturer Reflex Aerospace is teaming up with U.S.-based synthetic aperture radar (SAR) company Umbra to provide SAR solutions to Europe.  Under the agreement announced Wednesday, Umbra will customize […]

Revenue in the Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) segment was down 9% in the first quarter of 2025, but the segment’s operating margin improved year-over-year.  BDS reported revenue of […]

Satellite ground technology startup Northwood Space has raised $30 million in a Series A funding round led by Alpine Space Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).  Also Capital, Founders Fund, and […]

Globalsat Group will deploy a hybrid satellite and LTE connectivity solution across railway operations for VLI Logística in Brazil, under a new deal announced Tuesday.  This project will provide faster […]

Iridium CEO Matt Desch walked investors through how tariffs are impacting Iridium’s equipment supply chain, saying that for now, Iridium is absorbing a higher cost of importing goods into the […]

SpaceX launched the third Bandwagon rideshare mission on Monday evening, launching satellites for Korea’s Agency for Defense Development (ADD), Tomorrow.io, and Atmos Space Cargo.  Bandwagon is a SpaceX rideshare mission […]

United Launch Alliance (ULA) is now planning for the first full-scale launch for Amazon Project Kuiper on Monday April 28, at 7 p.m. ET. The mission was set to launch […]

The latest resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) launched early Monday included new in-space drug development technology by Redwire.  Redwire launched a high-volume industrial crystallizer that is capable […]

The Digital Intermediate Frequency Interoperability Consortium (DIFI) group is planning a second European PlugFest in Germany this September to bring together companies from around the world to test the interoperability […]

Polish space company Creotech Instruments will build three Earth observation (EO) satellites for Poland under a new contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) announced April 15. The contract is […]

L3Harris Technologies completed a $125 million expansion at its payload manufacturing facility in Fort Wayne, Indiana, to support its work for the Space Development Agency (SDA) and the “Golden Dome” […]

AT&T anticipates trials this year between AST SpaceMobile direct-to-cell connectivity and the FirstNet public safety network. This comes after this week, the FCC granted AST SpaceMobile approval to test direct-to-cellular […]

Shipping company Caribe Tankers USA will trial Inmarsat Maritme’s NexusWave managed connectivity service. Caribe Tankers will trial the service on its chemical tankers Caribe Maria and Caribe Luna. Inmarsat Maritime, […]

There’s a growing recognition that governments and large enterprises need alternative paths of connectivity, Rivada Space Networks CEO Declan Ganley says. In a recent conversation with Via Satellite, Ganley says […]

Taiwan’s largest telco, Chunghwa Telecom, is investing in a dedicated MicroGEO satellite built by Astranis, to increase access to satellite capacity. The companies said this will be the first communications […]

American Airlines is the latest airline to move toward a free Wi-Fi model for loyalty members. Starting in 2026, American will have free Wi-Fi on all aircraft equipped with Viasat […]

Agritech company Carbon Robotics is launching a new autonomy solution called Carbon AutoTractor, enabled by a low-latency satellite link. The Carbon AutoTractor product uses SpaceX‘s Starlink satellite connectivity, Via Satellite […]

The Hughes Network Systems HL1100W antenna is now available commercially for use on the Eutelsat OneWeb satellite network, Hughes announced last week. HL1100W was designed as a lighter solution to […]

Momentus has a new agreement with Velo3D to leverage the company’s additive manufacturing to produce space system components. According to Velo3D, the master services agreement announced Monday is worth $15 […]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — As the commercial space industry is investing in space communications with satellite constellations, terminals, and networking technologies, the U.S. military is working through how to bring […]

Intelsat has signed a new line-fit agreement with Embraer that allows Embraer to install Intelsat’s in-flight connectivity (IFC) equipment on Embraer E2 aircraft during factory production, the companies announced April […]

As innovation has accelerated in satellite communications in the past five years, it has put pressure on hardware and software providers to deliver greater performance and more flexible capabilities. While […]