Rachel Jewett

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 […]

CesiumAstro demonstrated its Ka-band active phased array terminal with SES and Hughes Network Systems, connecting to a satellite in Geostationary Orbit (GEO).  Cesium performed the tests in June and July in […]

One year after being acquired by Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace, smallsat manufacturer NanoAvionics is on the cusp of signing constellation contracts, CEO Vytenis Buzas told Via Satellite in a recent […]

Rocket Lab officially opened a new engine development center in Long Beach, California, in the facility acquired out of Virgin Orbit’s bankruptcy proceedings.  The new manufacturing complex is more than […]

E-Space completed a U.S. Department of Defense contract with a demonstration at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, the company announced Wednesday.  The announcement was light on details, E-Space said it […]

The U.S. Army recently ordered $48.6 million worth of modems from Comtech, the company announced Tuesday. The contract is for Enterprise Digital Intermediate Frequency Multi-Carrier (EDIM) modems. The EDIM modems […]

The FCC took its first space debris enforcement action on Monday, fining Dish Network $150,000 for failure to properly deorbit its EchoStar-7 satellite. Dish admitted liability as part of the […]

NASA has selected seven companies to provide commercial data for the agency’s Earth science research as part of the Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition Program (CSDA).  NASA announced Tuesday that Airbus […]

Cruise company Holland America Line is more than halfway through updating the internet on its fleet of 11 ships to SpaceX’s Starlink service. Holland America announced Monday that it expects […]

The Vega C rocket is not expected to return to flight until the fourth quarter of 2024, the European Space Agency announced Monday.  Vega C failed during its second mission […]

The Japanese government awarded Astroscale Japan an award worth up to $80 million for a debris inspection mission. The award announced Monday is a small business innovation research (SBIR) award […]

United Launch Alliance (ULA) set an Oct. 6 launch date for Amazon’s Project Kuiper prototype satellites. The encapsulated payload arrived at ULA’s integration facility at Cape Canaveral on Thursday.  The […]

NASA extended its blanket purchase agreement (BPA) with Planet, placing multiple orders totaling $18.5 million through 2024, Planet announced Friday.  The BPA is part of NASA’s Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition […]

Astroscale is ready to launch its ADRAS-J mission, which will conduct a close approach and orbit around a piece of space debris. The spacecraft is ready, but a launch window […]