Rachel Jewett

Airbus HAPS Connectivity Business has signed a letter of intent with Japan’s Space Compass to serve the Japanese market with mobile connectivity and Earth observation with the Zephyr HAPS platform. […]

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) awarded Inmarsat Government a $410 million contract for satellite communications to support the U.S. Army Blue Force Tracker (BFT) network. BFT provides friendly force […]

BlackSky more than doubled its revenue in the third quarter of 2022 compared to the same time last year, posting 113% revenue growth, driven by increased demand from U.S. and […]

Telesat progressed in financing discussions for its Lightspeed constellation during the third quarter and the company is still “bullish” on the opportunity for the constellation, Telsat CEO Dan Goldberg said […]

Japanese synthetic aperture radar (SAR) company Synspective will now distribute its SAR solutions in North America, through a new distribution partnership with Frontier Precision.  Frontier Precision, based in North Dakota, […]

Maxar Technologies expects for its first batch of WorldView Legion satellites to launch in January 2023, the company reported last week in its third quarter financial results. Maxar plans to […]

Intelsat has ordered Intelsat-45 from Swissto12, based on the HummingSat product line, which is smaller than typical satellites in Geostationary Orbit (GEO).  This deal makes Intelsat the first commercial customer […]

“Our adversaries are coming after us in cyberspace,” U.S. Space Force Col. John Smail did not mince words in a Nov. 4 CyberSatGov keynote.  The U.S. needs to be ready […]

Hughes Network Systems broadband business continues to shed subscribers, as the company is constrained on satellite capacity awaiting the launch of the Jupiter-3 satellite. Hughes parent company EchoStar Corporation released […]

Inmarsat has tapped Rocket Lab to develop and manufacture an L-band radio for NASA’s Communications Services Project (CSP). Rocket Lab announced the deal for its Frontier-L radio on Nov. 3, […]

RESTON, VA — The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is close to finishing a request for proposals to acquire commercial hyperspectral satellite data and hopes to release an RFP by the […]

FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel proposed an effort to reorganize the FCC, creating a new Space Bureau to better support the rapidly developing commercial satellite industry.  The proposed changes would split […]

RESTON, VA — The United States is in a new Cold War era. It may be a bold statement, but it is one that the vast majority of attendees at […]

Multiple Asian defense forces have selected ST Engineering iDirect’s Evolution platform for both fixed and mobile military broadband needs, the company announced Tuesday.  An unnamed Asian ministry of defense (MoD) […]

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded Spire Global a contract to design a satellite to carry sensors to measure the ionosphere. The contract is part of DARPA’s Ouija […]

SpaceX launched a Falcon Heavy rocket on Tuesday morning in a mission for the U.S. Space Force — the first Falcon Heavy mission in more than three years.  The Falcon Heavy […]

Startup SpaceLink, which was working to offer in-space data relay services, is winding down operations as parent company Electro Optic Systems (EOS) is reorganizing and will no longer fund the […]

Telstra has expanded ground stations in Perth and Merredin, Western Australia with additional antennas to support Inmarsat’s I-6 F1 satellite, the company announced Monday. Telstra has added a second 9-meter […]

Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) installed a solar panel park at its satellite station facility in Santiago, Chile. The company has a goal to reach zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2040, […]

Virgin Orbit will launch satellites for Spire Global, including three satellites dedicated to the NorthStar Earth & Space space situational awareness (SSA) constellation, in mid-2023.  NorthStar is using Spire’s space […]

Revenue was nearly flat for L3Harris Space & Airborne Systems segment in the third quarter of 2022, while its Communication Systems segment saw a modest increase in revenue of 4% […]

Airbus posted a 27% revenue increase in the third quarter of 2022, driven by higher commercial aircraft deliveries. Total revenue in Q3 was $13.3 billion.  Airbus reported results on Friday, […]

SatixFy Communications is now a publicly traded company after completing its special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) merger with Endurance Acquisition Corp. The satellite technology company began trading on Friday on […]

Beyond Gravity announced a contract from United Launch Alliance (ULA) to supply 38 payload fairings for its Vulcan rockets for launches for Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellites. This follows after Beyond […]

Space continues to be the fast-growing segment for Northrop Grumman, and the company expects growth to continue. In Northrop Grumman’s third quarter results posted on Thursday, the Space segment reported […]

Amazon is ramping up activity on its Project Kuiper constellation, acquiring a new 172,000-square-foot facility in Washington state for satellite production.  The company is moving into the second phase of […]

SES signed a multi-year capacity renewal with Claro Brasil through Embratel to support connectivity in at least eight cities with O3b mPOWER network. Embratel is the corporate solutions division of […]

Iceye is working with partners New Light Technologies (NLT) and Bana Solutions (Bana) to give flood insights to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), covering four recent major flood events. […]

As the satellite industry moves into a multi-orbit era with numerous constellations in Non-Geostationary Orbit (NGSO), it faces the unchanging reality that spectrum is a finite resource. The FCC, tasked […]

Mission Space signed an MoU with Sidus Space to partner on space weather intelligence data collection. Luxembourg-based startup Mission space is working to monitor space weather. It will deploy its […]