Rachel Jewett

Planet recently performed AI-driven object detection directly onboard a Pelican-4 satellite, using the satellite’s onboard Nvidia Jetson Orin module.  Planet shared details on Tuesday of the recent tech milestone. On […]

The Artemis II crew has now officially traveled farther from Earth than any previous human mission. On Monday afternoon at approximately 1:56 p.m. EDT, the crew surpassed the Apollo 13 […]

The White House released its fiscal 2027 budget proposal on Friday, which called for a “historic increase” in defense spending and fully funding the Golden Dome missile defense initiative, while […]

L3Harris and Comtech have recently released a new multi-orbit, tactical satcom embeddable modem, which works with certain L3Harris terminals.  The partners said the new C2 modem announced March 31 will […]

This year, Iridium is rolling out Iridium NTN Direct, which CEO Matt Desch says will make Iridium the first narrow-band satellite IoT service that is standardized and global. Iridium was […]

Canadian telco Northwestel has signed on for a multi-year contract for capacity from Telesat’s Lightspeed constellation to provide broadband services.  Northwestel operates in Canada’s North, which includes Nunavut, the Northwest […]

Bloomberg and CNBC reported Wednesday that SpaceX has confidentially filed for its initial public offering (IPO).  A confidential filing allows a company to submit draft IPO registration to the SEC […]

Arianespace is in the midst of its launch campaign for Amazon Leo after conducting the first launch for its largest customer in February. The next mission is planned for April […]

Delta Air Lines has turned to Amazon to expand its in-flight connectivity offerings, announcing plans to roll out Amazon Leo IFC service starting with 500 planes in 2028. Delta becomes […]

ST Engineering iDirect has named CTO Sridhar Kuppanna as CEO to succeed Don Claussen in leading the company.  Claussen had served as ST Engineering iDirect CEO for about three years. […]

Starcloud, a space startup working to deploy satellites to serve as orbital data centers, raised $170 million in a Series A round announced Monday that values the company at $1.1 […]

In this “Live in the Booth” interview during SATShow Week, AST SpaceMobile President and Chief Strategy Officer Scott Wisniewski talks about the recently launched BlueBird 6 satellite, the company’s recent […]

With multiple active conflicts happening throughout the world and geopolitical concerns rising across the board, commercial satellite leaders say these developments put the importance of satellite communications in stark light […]

Kymeta is working toward releasing the first prototypes this year of its multi-band, multi-orbit single aperture user terminal in development.  Called the KuKa 8 Series, Kymeta says it is the […]

After divesting its maritime business and paying down its debt in 2025, Spire Global has set a large revenue growth target for 2026 of 50%, CEO Theresa Condor told investors […]

Portal Space Systems and Paladin Space are teaming up to offer regular, commercial debris removal missions.  The partners are pitching what’s called Debris Removal as a Service (DRAAS), a recurring […]

In a new filing to the FCC, Ligado defended its request to host an L-band payload on AST SpaceMobile satellites, saying the proposal will work within Ligado’s existing L-band coordination […]

Satellogic detailed plans for its next-generation ‘Merlin’ satellites, designed to provide one-meter resolution. The company said that Merlin will be differentiated by its ability to provide daily mapping of the […]

Every year, SATShow Week brings together the newsmakers of the satellite industry all in one place. Now with GovMilSpace in its second year, the program features more military speakers and […]

Heading into SATShow Week, Via Satellite interviewed the executives of some of the companies featured in our ’10 Hottest Companies in Satellite’ for 2026 to get their takes on some of the […]

Telesat’s Lightspeed Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation won’t enter service until 2028 due to delays with the ASICs that power the satellites’ onboard processors.  The constellation was targeted to enter service […]

Computing giant Nvidia announced new chips for space missions on Monday, geared toward applications like orbital data centers, geospatial intelligence and autonomous space operations. A number of space companies — Aetherflux, […]

In less than seven years of operation, Lite Coms has established itself as a large player in the U.S. military VSAT market, with nearly 10,000 VSAT terminals deployed. At the […]

As a young electrical engineer at RCA Corporation, Shey Sabripour was inspired by the company’s legacy of contributing to space missions, and he wanted to make his own mark by […]

After Amazon asked the FCC to deny SpaceX’s request to build an orbital data center constellation, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr criticized Amazon’s own constellation deployment in a public post on […]

Viasat and Space42 have shared more details about the Equatys direct-to-device (D2D) joint venture, including that Equatys will be supported by up to 2,800 satellites.  Equatys has been pitched as […]

Telesat is moving forward for new landing stations for Telesat Lightspeed in Saskatchewan and Quebec with land leases and purchases announced Tuesday.  Telesat has acquired land in Estevan, Saskatchewan and […]

Emile de Rijk started Swissto12 with a simple goal — to make access to Geostationary Orbit (GEO) faster and more affordable. In order to achieve that, the company had to […]

The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has awarded Hughes Network Services a contract focused on resilient, hybrid satellite networks. The award announced Monday is through the AFRL’s Rapid Architecture Prototyping […]

LOT Polish Airlines has started in-flight connectivity (IFC) serve on the first Boeing 787 Dreamliner plane, supplied by Viasat‘s Amara service. The Polish airline confirmed March 6 that the IFC […]