Rachel Jewett

IoT company Soracom has added satellite connectivity to its global IoT platform through a partnership with Astrocast. The launch of native support for satellite allows customers to bring their own […]

Viasat is selling its Link 16 Tactical Data Links (TDL) business to L3Harris Technologies in a nearly $2 billion divestiture that the companies say sharpens Viasat’s core focus and deepens […]

Redwire Corporation announced a deal Monday to acquire QinetiQ Space NV (“Space NV”) for 32 million euros ($31 million). Space NV, based in Belgium, is owned by QinetiQ Group plc […]

Firefly Aerospace successfully reached orbit and deployed customer payloads with its Alpha rocket early Saturday morning. This successful mission inaugrates a new vehicle into the smallsat launch market.  The mission […]

NASA and SpaceX plan to study using the Dragon crew spacecraft to boost the Hubble Space Telescope into a higher orbit with the Dragon spacecraft, at no cost to the […]

The FCC on Thursday adopted a new rule that requires satellite operators in Low-Earth Orbit to dispose of their satellites, calling it an important step in space safety and orbital […]

DES MOINES, IOWA — John Deere issued an RFP to the satellite industry on Thursday, soliciting a satellite service and terminal that can provide always-on connectivity to its agricultural machines. […]

Leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives Science, Space, and Technology Committee have asked the FCC to postpone making a decision on an order concerning orbital debris in Thursday’s meeting. […]

Astroscale has opened a new satellite manufacturing facility and operations facilities at the Harwell Science & Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire in the United Kingdom. The new facility, dubbed Zeus, covers […]

Kayhan Space, along with Astroscale U.S. and UT-Austin have been awarded a U.S. Space Force contract to develop a solution that will enable in-space service, assembly, and manufacturing. The contract […]

World Satellite Business Week (WSBW) was back in force this year in Paris. Sessions and happy hours were packed, and many commented on the number of new faces at the […]

Celestia UK won a European Space Agency (ESA) contract to develop a PNT solution based on Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellations for 5G networks and applications. The contract, worth 800,000 […]

IoT company floLive is partnering with satellite IoT company Skylo to extend its network with Skylo’s non-terrestrial network (NTN) IoT connectivity.  floLive operates a global “hyperlocal” IoT data network that […]

United Launch Alliance (ULA) launched a national security satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office over the weekend, in the final Delta IV Heavy mission from the West Coast. The NROL-91 […]

Satellite IoT company Sateliot announced a partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Monday to build a cloud-based 5G service for narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) via satellite. Sateliot said that using […]

The National Oceanographic and Oceanic Administration (NOAA) is funding nine awards totaling $13.8 million to industry and federal agencies to produce new concepts for instrument technologies, ground systems and other […]

The European Space Agency has awarded CAES multiple contracts to develop what it calls the first user selectable CPU (central processing unit) for space applications.  CAES announced Sept. 22 that […]

Satellite hardware startup Somewear Labs Raises $13.7 million in its Series A round, which was led by a group of over a dozen current and former CEOs chaired by David […]

Marlink is the latest service provider to add SpaceX’s Starlink to its service portfolio. Marlink and subsidiary OmniAccess signed on as global authorized Starlink integrators for maritime and enterprise customers, […]

The European Space Agency (ESA) announced Thursday that SES will lead a consortium of 20 companies to develop and launch a secure quantum key distribution (QKD) satellite in 2024 for […]

A Rocket Lab Electron rocket is currently en-route to Virginia, and the launcher plans to hold its first mission from Wallops Island by the end of the year. Rocket Lab […]

Arabsat has tapped SpaceX for launch once again, selecting the Falcon 9 rocket to launch its 7A satellite, the companies announced Wednesday. Arabsat 7A is a software-defined satellite that Thales […]

Open Cosmos is preparing to launch the first satellites of a newly-announced OpenConstellation, meant to democratize access to satellite imagery through a shared infrastructure.  The OpenConstellation, announced Wednesday, will first […]

Redwire is joining a project between Bradford Space and Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) to develop a commercial orbital debris removal service. Redwire announced Wednesday it will bring its space robotics […]

Virgin Orbit is expanding its plans for spaceports around the globe to Australia. On Tuesday, the smallsat launcher announced an MoU with Australia’s Wagner Corporation to work toward providing launch […]

The U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) renewed its contract with Maxar Technologies for the Global Enhanced GEOINT Delivery (G-EGD) program. The G-EGD program, started in 2011, provides unclassified imagery to […]

Voyager Space has chosen Ohio State to host the Earth-based component of the George Washington Carver Science Park, a research park in space.  The George Washington Carver Science Park is […]

Arianespace signed an agreement with Italian company SAB Launch Services (SAB-LS), which specializes in launch services for small satellites, to serve as an Arianespace partner to provide end-to-end services for […]

Planet announced Monday that its hyperspectral satellites with the Carbon Mapper Coalition will have 30-meter resolution and cover more than 400 spectral bands. The company said these hyperspectral Tanager satellites […]

The U.K. government approved the Viasat/Inmarsat business combination on Friday under the National Security & Investment Act. This is one step in Viasat’s necessary approvals from the U.K. government and […]