Rachel Jewett

Vodafone PNG, based in Papua New Guinea, has committed to purchase wholesale bandwidth from Kacific Broadband Satellites Group‘s Ka-band satellite Kacific1 for mobile backhaul use. The bandwidth will primarily be […]

The European Space Agency (ESA) signed an agreement this week with Europe’s intelligent transportation system organization ERTICO to explore how space-based technologies can support future smart road systems such as […]

NASA and Boeing have pushed back the first Starliner flight test with astronauts to February 2023, the agency announced Thursday. The flight was previously expected in December of this year.  […]

SpaceX and T-Mobile are collaborating to enable satellite direct-to-cell connectivity with the second generation of Starlink satellites. Such a service would close gaps in cellular networks in rural and remote […]

NASA placed a $1.7 million call order with BlackSky to evaluate the company’s imaging data services for Earth science research. The call order was issued under a five-year Commercial Smallsat […]

HawkEye 360 has signed a two-year Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) to demonstrate its technology to the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC). The CRADA will explore […]

Intelsat is entering the in-flight connectivity (IFC) market in India through an agreement with Nelco, a satcom service provider in India. Intelsat announced Thursday that the service is currently available […]

Ground software as a service company Atlas Space Operations closed a $26 million Series B funding round, led by Mitsui & Co., Ltd. Atlas announced the round on Thursday.  Other […]

Satellite technology company SatixFy Communications and special purpose acquisition company Endurance Acquisition Corp. reduced the equity valuation of SatixFy to $365 million. The SPAC partners announced the change in filings […]

Speedcast recently signed deals with aviation services provider Bristow Group and Algerian satellite services provider Algérie Télécom Satellite (ATS).  Bristow Group signed a multi-year contract to upgrade more than 40 […]

Greg Wyler-founded startup E-Space has added to its executive team, hiring Gunjan Murarka as CFO and Dalibor Djuran as chief satellite systems engineer.  Murarka joins E-Space from smallsat manufacturer LeoStella, […]

FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr further criticized the agency’s recent decision to strike funding for SpaceX’s Starlink constellation as part of the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF), saying the decision “plainly […]

Space companies recognize the need for a diverse workforce and diverse perspectives around the table — yet acknowledge the industry has a way to go on this issue.  “There’s so much […]

The U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command’s Wide Field of View (WFOV) Testbed is online and the bus checkout is complete, Millennium Space Systems announced Monday. The U.S. Naval Research […]

Planet Labs will support operators SES and Telesat as a subcontractor on their space relay projects for NASA. Planet will work with the operators on the Communication Services Project (CSP) […]

Sierra Space and Blue Origin have completed the system definition review (SDR) with NASA for the Orbital Reef commercial space station. The SDR establishes the functional baseline of the project, […]

Intelsat has lost the ability to command its Galaxy 15 satellite after an anomaly caused by a space weather event. The anomaly caused the loss of commanding links, which is […]

Swedish company Ovzon is targeting launch of its Ovzon 3 satellite between December 2022 and February 2023, the company said in its second quarter financial report on Aug. 18.   Delayed […]

Inmarsat Government has received a follow-on contract worth up to $578 million to provide satcom services to the U.S. Navy Military Sealift Command over a 10-year period. The  indefinite-delivery, indefinite […]

Benchmark Space Systems is rolling out a satellite collision avoidance kit — ColA — that the propulsion company says is an affordable, plug-and-play safety accessory for microsat and ESPA-class satellites.  […]

A bipartisan group of eight senators sent a letter to the FCC this week, asking the commission to reconsider Ligado Networks license modification request due to potential GPS interference.  Ligado […]

Japanese satellite operator Sky Perfect JSAT signed a launch service contract with SpaceX to launch its Superbird-9 satellite on the Starship rocket. This is the first public announcement of a […]

Mynaric has hired former SA Photonics exec Mustafa Veziroglu as president and a member of its management board. Veziroglu will oversee development, qualification, and serial production of Mynaric’s laser communications […]

Benchmark Space Systems is rolling out a satellite collision avoidance kit — ColA — that the propulsion company says is an affordable, plug-and-play safety accessory for microsat and ESPA-class satellites. The […]

The U.S. Space Force awarded Orion Space Solutions a contract worth up to $44.5 million to develop three spacecraft for its Tetra-5 Space Vision program. Orion Space announced the award […]

Omnispace inked a partnership with Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart), a wireless subsidiary of Philippine telco PLDT. The partnership announced Wednesday will see the companies demonstrate the capabilities of space-based 5G […]

Capella Space, a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data company, announced the next-generation of its satellites called Acadia, which will offer higher resolution and be equipped with optical inter-satellite links.  The […]

The DIFI Consortium has released an updated version of its interoperability standard, which the group says makes a path for interoperability at the digital interface/radio frequency (IF/RF) layer. The standard […]

Virgin Orbit reported just $5,000 in revenue for the second quarter of 2022, as the company’s most recent launch on July 5 fell on the first day of the third […]

Private aviation company Airshare has selected Viasat’s in-flight connectivity (IFC) for new aircraft deliveries, Viasat announced Tuesday. Airshare’s business model offers “fractional ownership” of private jets, in which customers buy […]