Rachel Jewett

Terran Orbital’s stock is at risk of being delisted if the company cannot raise its average share price over $1.  The New York Stock Exchange sent the satellite manufacturer official […]

Intellian Technologies has signed an MoU with Inmarsat Maritime, a Viasat business, to develop a next-generation terminal for the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) service. GMDSS is an […]

Canada’s Porter Airlines expanded its deal with Viasat to equip 20 new Embraer E195-E2 aircraft with Viasat’s in-flight connectivity (IFC) solution. Porter is a Canadian airline that flies across Canada […]

CesiumAstro won a NASA award worth $395,640 for a wideband satellite communications capability study, the company announced Wednesday. The award is from NASA’s Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) program, which […]

Blue Origin is building a space logistics vehicle called Blue Ring, the company announced Monday. The spacecraft is designed to provide in-space services including  hosting, transportation, refueling, data relay, and […]

Capella Space appointed Frank Backes as its new CEO, the company announced Tuesday. Payam Banazadeh, who founded the company and has led it since 2016, will serve as board director. […]

Lockheed Martin’s Space segment delivered a strong 8% revenue increase in the third quarter of 2023, led by higher sales on strategic and missile defense programs.  Lockheed Martin released its […]

ST Engineering iDirect appointed two new leaders to its executive team, naming Sridhar Kuppanna its new senior vice president of Engineering and Cynthia Harty as senior vice president of Corporate […]

BlackSky Technology won a competitive U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory contract to build an automated target recognition service that can track vehicles in real time from space. The contract announced […]

Euroconsult and Iceye are teaming up to lead a new consortium of European space companies conducting a study on a future European Union Earth observation governmental service. The new consortium […]

When the space industry talks about sustainability, the conversation usually centers around in-space topics like  space traffic management and space debris. But what about the impact of the space industry […]

Stellant Systems is acquiring Comtech’s Power Systems Technology (PST) product line for $40 million, the companies announced Friday. Stellant is acquiring the PST product line to strengthen its portfolio of […]

Ligado Networks filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government, claiming the government unlawfully took the company’s licensed spectrum without compensation. Ligado announced the lawsuit on Oct. 12. It was filed […]

SpaceX launched NASA’s Psyche mission on a Falcon Heavy mission on Friday morning, launching the spacecraft to an interplanetary transfer orbit.  The Psyche spacecraft is now headed toward the asteroid […]

Viasat gave an update on the status of its ViaSat-3 satellite on Thursday, sharing that although it expects to recover less than 10% of the throughput of the satellite, the […]

Shipping giant Maersk plans to deploy SpaceX’s Starlink broadband internet on more than 330 of its container vessels, the company announced Thursday. Maersk has already tested Starlink on more than […]

Designing for resource constraints in space can impact climate resiliency on Earth, a Procter & Gamble executive told attendees at the Space Economy Summit hosted by The Economist on Thursday.  […]

Italian space company Argotec is opening a manufacturing facility in Largo, Maryland, expanding its business to the U.S.  Argotec is investing $25 million to launch its business in the U.S., […]

SpaceX is targeting direct-to-cell service that enables text messaging with the Starlink constellation in 2024, and voice and data and IoT service by 2025. SpaceX updated Starlink’s website with a […]

Aalyria is working with Second Front Systems to bring its Spacetime network orchestration platform to government sectors, the companies announced Tuesday. Spacetime is a software platform used to manage complex […]

Intelsat signed a multi-launch deal with Relativity Space, for Relativity to launch Intelsat satellites on the Terran R rocket as early as 2026. With this agreement, Relativity now has nine […]

The UK Space Agency (UKSA) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) are working together to develop an in-orbit telemetry relay service to be demonstrated on the H3 launch vehicle. The […]

Energy company MAN Energy Solutions (MAN-ES) is a new Spire Global customer, and will use Spire’s AIS and weather data for a marine monitoring tool.  The company has an engineering […]

Kymeta is launching a new version of its u8 terminal — the Osprey u8 HGL — a hybrid Geostationary/Low-Earth Orbit (GEO/LEO) terminal for military users on the move. The terminal […]

Arianespace launched a Vega mission on Sunday, launching an Earth observation satellite THEOS-2 for Thailand and weather satellite Formosat-7R/Triton for Taiwan. The mission also carried 10 additional cubesats, but Arianespace […]

Comtech was recently awarded a U.S. Army contract with a maximum ceiling value of $544 million to provide satellite communications and professional engineering services. The contract supports the Global Field […]

The European Space Agency (ESA) launched a competition on Monday for business ideas involving communications for the future lunar economy. ESA said the competition is looking for business ideas that […]

United Launch Alliance (ULA) launched the first two prototype satellites for Project Kuiper on Friday, putting the first assets in space for Amazon’s Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation.  The Atlas V […]

Axiom Space and the European Space Agency (ESA) signed an MoU this month to collaborate on human spaceflight, science, technology, and commercialization. The MoU is active for three years, with […]

Northrop Grumman is no longer pursuing its own commercial space station and instead will be working with Voyager Space on its Starlab project. Voyager and Northrop Grumman announced their new […]