Rachel Jewett

Telesat’s Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation Lightspeed will receive additional support from the Canadian government with a new loan announced Monday. The government of Canada is prepared to loan Telesat $2.14 […]

United Arab Emirates satellite operator Yahsat has appointed Amit Somani as chief growth and strategy officer, Yahsat announced Monday. Somani is returning to Yahsat, where he worked from 2010 to […]

Latvia’s flag carrier airBaltic is testing SpaceX’s Starlink internet, with plans to equip its entire Airbus A220-300 fleet with the in-flight connectivity (IFC) system. airBaltic announced March 28 that it […]

Planet Labs increased revenue by 15% year-over-year in fiscal year 2024 to $220.7 million. The satellite imagery and analytics company reported financials for the 2024 fiscal year that ended Jan. […]

Telesat is seeing a decline in revenue in its Geostationary Orbit (GEO) business in broadcasting with the increase in cord-cutting, and enterprise competition from SpaceX’s Starlink constellation. Yet Telesat is […]

The FCC dismissed SpaceX’s request to use certain mobile satellite services (MSS) spectrum authorized to Globalstar and Dish in the Gen2 Starlink constellation, according to a March 26 FCC order.  […]

Melanie Stricklan has joined Space Workforce 2030 as the first executive director of the initiative. Space Workforce 2030 is a strategic partnership between Space Foundation and The Aerospace Corporation that […]

In 2024, more than 45 people wrote to Via Satellite celebrating the contributions of their colleagues, mentors, friends, and bosses. It was more than we could fit in the March […]

Astranis will build a dedicated MicroGEO satellite for Argentine internet service provider (ISP) Orbith, the company announced this week.   The satellite is set to launch in 2025 as part of […]

South Korea’s flagship air carrier Korean Air signed a deal with Viasat for in-flight connectivity (IFC) for an additional 40 aircraft, Viasat announced Wednesday. Viasat will connect 40 Boeing 787s […]

Intelsat is expanding its partnership with Eutelsat Group for the company’s OneWeb Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation, committing to $250 million for LEO services over the first six years, with an […]

ST Engineering iDirect announced its next-generation ground system Intuition, aiming to improve speed, scale, cost and flexibility of service. Intuition, announced Monday, is an advanced satellite networking ground system. It […]

There is a new industry standard consortium in the satellite industry, geared at advancing waveform virtualization for satellite gateway and terminals. The new consortium, Waveform Architecture for Virtualized Ecosystems (WAVE), […]

The first two WorldView Legion satellites have arrived at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, and could be launched as soon as April. Maxar Space Systems, which built the satellites […]

SpaceX’s Starship rocket successfully launched to space for the first time and maintained a suborbital trajectory before it was destroyed while attempting to return to Earth on Thursday morning. The […]

The FCC adopted a new regulatory framework on Thursday to allow satellite operators to use mobile spectrum to provide satellite-to-cell coverage The FCC said this is the world’s first regulatory […]

Global technology company Comtech fired its President and CEO Ken Peterman for “conduct unrelated to business strategy, financial results or previously filed financial statements,” the company announced in a March 13 […]

Omnispace is collaborating with African mobile network operator MTN to explore using S-band for satellite services in MTN’s portfolio of wireless service. The companies announced the agreement on Tuesday and […]

Rocket Lab launched the fourth satellite for Japanese synthetic aperture radar (SAR) company Synspective.  Rocket Lab launched the mission on an Electron rocket from Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand […]

NASA released its fiscal year 2025 budget proposal on Monday, requesting $25.4 billion, as the agency works to return humans to the Moon in the Artemis program; advance climate research; […]

Kymeta has named a new CEO, hiring Rick Bergman, formerly of AMD and Synaptics, to lead the company, effective April 1. The company’s co-CEOs, Doug Hutcheson and Walter Berger, are […]

Canadian manufacturer MDA has rebranded to MDA Space, a move the company said positions it to lead in a new era of space innovation. MDA Space announced the rebrand on […]

The founders of Astra Space are taking the company private to avoid bankruptcy, less than three years after going public during the SPAC boom of 2021. Astra announced March 7 […]

Spire Global had a strong 2023 full year financial performance, achieving positive cash flow from operations in the fourth quarter, and full year revenue growth of 32% compared to 2022. […]

Thales Alenia Space reported a dip in demand for commercial telecommunication satellite orders in 2023, and is shifting part of its workforce to respond to the change. Thales announced the […]

A few weeks ago, space security issues took center-stage in the news after reports of a nuclear satellite weapon. The White House confirmed that Russia is developing an anti-satellite (ASAT) […]

U.S. Space Force‘s Space Systems Command awarded Boeing a contract worth $439.6 million to build the 12th Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) communications satellite. The U.S. Department of Defense announced the […]

Icelandair has selected Viasat to provide the in-flight connectivity for the airline’s new fleet of Airbus aircraft, Viasat announced Tuesday.  This comes after Icelandair ordered 13 Airbus A321XLR planes in […]

Lockheed Martin made an offer to acquire Terran Orbital on Friday, and Terran Orbital responded by adopting a limited duration stockholder rights plan, which is also known as a “poison […]

NASA made the decision to cancel the On-orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing 1 (OSAM-1) mission, citing technical, cost, and schedule challenges. NASA announced the decision on March 1, which affects […]