Rachel Jewett

Today’s space startup landscape is arguably the most difficult and competitive it has been in several years. Space investors, now much more cautious following a string of big bank failures […]

A new Eutelsat satellite has entered service. The operator announced Monday that Eutelsat 10B is now in service at 10 degrees East, after SpaceX launched the satellite in November. Thales […]

Iridium Communications is expanding its Iridium Certus service, launching service for commercial aviation, the company announced Monday. The L-band service is now available for cockpits in commercial transport aircraft, business […]

Maxar Technologies’ new satellite bus, called the Maxar 300 series, has completed its first critical design review (CDR), the company announced Monday.  Maxar is developing this satellite bus to support […]

Ovzon announced the Ovzon T7, a new mobile satellite terminal designed for military, civil defense, police, and emergency services. It is a rugged terminal that weighs only 2.8 kg and […]

Astranis is reporting issues with vendor-supplied solar arrays on its first satellite that was launched in April, and the satellite is not fulfilling its mission to provide broadband connectivity in […]

Amazon is investing $120 million in a new satellite processing facility in Florida as it ramps up activity for the Project Kuiper constellation. Amazon and Space Florida announced the new […]

Wind River and Astroscale have announced a collaboration that sees Wind River’s VxWorks Real Time Operating System (RTOS) being used on an On-Board Computer (OBC) to command Astroscale’s ELSA-M Servicer […]

Thales Alenia Space signed new contracts with the European Space Agency (ESA) for the ground mission segment for Galileo Second Generation (GSG) and for system engineering activities, and two contracts […]

Skylo has signed another deal with an IoT tech company, partnering with Soracom to provide its satellite IoT through the company’s cloud-based IoT network management. Soracom said this collaboration gives […]

PlanetiQ is beginning to deliver radio occlusion data to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under a previously awarded contract. PlanetiQ announced this week it will begin daily delivery of […]

The second quarter 2023 report from Generation Space by Seraphim found a “cautious return” to space investment after a decline in the second half of last year.  Generation Space reported […]

OneWeb Technologies has signed Stallion Infrastructure Services as a distribution partner to deliver managed satcom service to its customers. Stallion Infrastructure, based in Houston, Texas, provides surface equipment rentals and […]

RDC Aviation, a tech and data services provider for the air transport industry, is a new customer for Spire Global’s aviation data. In a deal announced Tuesday, Spire will supply […]

Lockheed Martin’s Space segment saw a 12% increase in sales in the second quarter of 2023 compared to the same time last year, with higher sales on both national security […]

Africa Mobile Networks (AMN) has selected the Hughes Network Systems’ Jupiter System ground platform to backhaul 2G, 3G, and 4G cellular network traffic in Madagascar and Nigeria. AMN will use […]

Rocket Lab’s latest mission launched Telesat’s new LEO 3 demonstration satellite to orbit, less than two months after the satellite was announced.  Space Flight Laboratory, which built the satellite, confirmed […]

Orbit Communication Systems has signed a deal to integrate its airborne terminals with Viasat’s Ka-band network, which now includes the Global Xpress network following the Inmarsat acquisition.  Orbit said the […]

Gilat Satellite Networks was awarded millions of dollars in orders for a cellular backhaul project in Mexico. The new orders are part of CFE Telecomunicaciones “Internet for All” program, a […]

Is space crowded? While space is infinite, space crowding is an important issue as the satellite industry launches more and more mass to orbit each year. This week, Chiara Manfletti, […]

Japanese synthetic aperture radar (SAR) company Synspective has signed a multi-launch deal with Rocket Lab for two dedicated Electron missions, the companies announced July 13. Including a previously scheduled mission, […]

Fairwinds Technologies awarded Comtech a $30 million contract for its Troposcatter family of systems (FOS) to support U.S. Army tactical communications. Comtech announced the award on July 13.  Fairwinds is […]

BAE Systems completed a stratospheric flight last month of its HAPS vehicle PHASA-35. In a recent 24-hour test, PHASA-35 flew to more than 66,000 feet to reach the stratosphere, and […]

Viasat is dealing with an unexpected anomaly with the reflector on its Viasat-3 satellite that “may materially impact” its performance. The company’s stock plunged after it released the news on […]

United Launch Alliance (ULA) expects to debut the Vulcan Centaur rocket in the fourth quarter of this year, after solving an anomaly discovered during qualification testing in March, CEO Tory […]

GSMA and the European Space Agency (ESA) signed a new memorandum of intent to strengthen partnerships between mobile and satellite industries to collaborate on technologies that bring the two solutions […]

Millennium Space Systems reports it has completed a program design review (PDR) for a U.S. Space Force missile tracking satellite in just four months, the company announced Wednesday. The satellite […]

Keysight Technologies is working with Skylo Technologies to expand its cellular testing expertise to non-terrestrial networks (NTN). The companies announced an MoU on Wednesday to create a certification program for […]

Marine enforcement company OceanMind is expanding its agreement with Spire Global for automatic identification system (AIS) vessel-tracking data. Spire has been providing AIS data to OceanMind since 2019. OceanMind supports […]

Muon Space has been awarded an option to the company’s contract with Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLMC) to collect ionospheric data on the MuSat-2 satellite mission.  Under this […]