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Europe is rapidly redefining its approach to space security and defense. Join us for an in-depth webinar exploring the strategies, investments, and initiatives reshaping the European space defense landscape. Across […]

Companies unnamed by U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command (SSC) have received six Commercial Augmentation Space Reserve (CASR) purchase agreements under the ACCESS contract for space domain awareness (SDA), the […]

On April 4, Planet Labs told customers it would withhold imagery of Iran and the surrounding conflict zone indefinitely, retroactive to March 9. The company said the U.S. government had […]

Four Senate Democrats are seeking insights from SpaceX on the degradation of the company’s military Starshield system for Ukraine. On Oct. 14, Ukrainian officials reported a lack of access to Starshield […]

By crawling through hundreds of Telegram channels, cybercriminal forums, and other open sources, 407 cyber operations against the space sector were identified in 2025, accounting for more than one attack […]

For decades, satellite communications operated separately from terrestrial networks, relying on proprietary infrastructure and vertically integrated architectures. That separation limited interoperability and scale. Today, those boundaries are beginning to dissolve. […]

The need for a qualified and prepared talent pool is becoming one of the commercial space industry’s major challenges. Many jobs in the industry require specialized skills and years of […]

The last year in space has garnered unprecedented new interest from the who’s who of international finance, smashing funding records for individual companies and marketwide as Silicon Valley has learned […]

As Russia begins deploying its military RASSVET constellation, internal political fractures and slow-moving bureaucracy are leaving Europe completely reliant on the U.S. for security in orbit. And things won’t change […]

What role can Poland play in the European and global space market? Does its space sector have the capabilities to become a partner not only supplying technologies and subsystems, but […]

The proposed EU Space Act could become one of the most important developments in Europe’s space economy. For the first time, it would establish EU-wide rules on the safety, resilience […]

Today, Europe is on the move to establish a resilient ecosystem of sovereign launch capabilities on European territory and beyond, by working through partnerships. But Europe needs to plan its […]

The White House on Tuesday nominated U.S. Space Force Lt. Gen. David Miller for his fourth star as the head of U.S. Space Command (SPACECOM). Miller would replace Gen. Stephen […]

Northrop Grumman said on Monday that it has delivered 21 satellites to Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif., for Tranche 1 of the U.S. Space Force Space Development Agency’s Transport Layer […]

The Defense Innovation Unit and U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) have awarded True Anomaly and Northrop Grumman Geosynchronous High-Resolution Optical Space-Based Tactical Reconnaissance (GHOST-R) prototype contracts to deliver “lower-cost” reconnaissance satellites […]

PARIS — Space launch competitors think it’s time for a new model of pricing in the launch market. Against the backdrop of SpaceX winding down the Falcon 9 launch program, […]

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — The United States has orbital space weapons, Air Force Secretary Troy Meink said on Monday. “What’s becoming even more important as we move forward is sensing […]

PARIS – SES is targeting big milestones for 2026 and beyond as its portfolio grows to include manufacturing capabilities, sovereign space in Europe, and a direct-to-device partnership. CEO Adel Al-Saleh […]

The Pentagon’s Silicon Valley-based Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) is looking for domestic and foreign company proposals for an artificial intelligence (AI) system to understand and predict space threats. “Today’s space […]

Stoke Space on Tuesday said it has raised $1 billion in a new funding round that will help support the first launch of its Nova rocket in early 2027 and continued […]

Autonomous systems, ubiquitous sensors, and AI-optimized targeting are positioned to transform tomorrow’s warfighting domain, where the ability to see, decide, and act first may rest with constellations in orbit rather […]

Talk to space industry aficionados about their vision of the not so distant future and you’ll hear about a world of science fiction turned reality. Fleets of orbital data centers […]

Viasat celebrates its 40-year anniversary in 2026, alongside Via Satellite. The enormous changes in the last four decades begat enormous opportunity, and fortunately Viasat has been able to convert opportunities […]

Happy 40th Birthday to Via Satellite! In 2025, ~4,500 satellites were launched into space globally – a greater than twenty times increase compared to an average, annual launch cadence 40 […]

In 1977, the Ariane development program was progressing smoothly, with the goal set at the beginning of 1973 to execute the first qualification flight during 1979. The initial qualification program […]

When Mark asked me to contribute to Via Satellite’s 40th anniversary edition, I was honored. I also had an uncomfortable realization: I’ve been working in wireless communications for roughly as […]

When I first entered the commercial space industry in 2012, we spent a lot of time explaining why small satellites mattered and the concept of disruptive innovation: a technology that […]

Forty years is a long time in any industry. In the satellite sector, it is almost a lifetime. When Via Satellite began chronicling this industry four decades ago, satellite was […]

When humans set their sights on the Moon more than a half-century ago, no one could have predicted how far government would take that vision — or how much farther […]

Smaller space companies want to see how the “commercial first” mantra of Pentagon acquisition reform translates into programs of record. The Space Force contends that its nine, new program acquisition […]