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The U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) successfully transferred the second GPS III system to Space Operations Command on March 23, the center said March 24. The […]

SpaceX got a key government license last week, federal filings reveal, as the company clears a regulatory hurdle that moves it closer to offering a new high-speed internet service from […]

Fire at vast scale poses enormous challenges. More than 18 million hectares, an area the size of the Netherlands, have been affected across Australia by this season’s emergency-level wildfires. Along […]

With 2019 having drawn to a close, it is timely to look back to identify those developments of greatest significance for the satellite industry for past year. 2019 was an […]

The creation of the U.S. Space Force was a response to the growing use of space by more nations around the globe – and the potential threat that some pose […]

When Oliver Juckenhöfel began his career in the satellite industry in the mid-1990s, commercial and governmental organizations were heavily focused on launching satellites in the most efficient way possible. The […]

3D printing – once the domain of nerdy hobbyists – is gaining momentum across multiple industries including the satellite sector thanks to the efforts of NASA to advance 3D printing […]

NASA has certified Rocket Lab’s Electron launch vehicle, which the company said provides confidence for NASA’s low cost scientific, educational and technology demonstration small satellites. Rocket Lab said the certification […]

U.S military personnel may be largely restricted to their local areas for the next two months, but the new Space Force will continue to perform mission-critical activities such as launches, […]

Rocket Lab has reached an agreement to acquire Sinclair Interplanetary, a Toronto-based satellite hardware company, the small satellite launch company said March 16. “By combining the experience and capabilities of both companies, Rocket […]

The Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) has announced three companies will build prototypes for the U.S. Space Force’s Protected Tactical Satellite (PTS) Communication program as Lockheed Martin and Boeing […]

When your only option is success, choose Leonardo DRS, the #1 SATCOM Integrator for the U.S. Government and a leader in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) for defense, intelligence and […]

5G over satellite is coming. Last December, the satellite and telecoms industries, through the overarching 3rd Generation Partnership Project standards development organization, committed to the future convergence of terrestrial and […]

With the terrestrial wireless industry’s planned introduction of new mobile phones networks such as LTE, Wi-Max, and 5G, C-band frequencies will now be shared amongst a wider range of services. […]

ORLANDO, Fla. – SpaceX has managed to bring the unit cost down to build its Starlink broadband internet satellites, but needs to do the same for its forthcoming Starship launch vehicle to […]

In the weeks since Boeing flew its astronaut capsule on an ill-fated demo flight, questions about the company’s testing procedures prior to the mission have started to emerge — putting […]

SpaceX’s roadmap to Mars now includes the Port of Los Angeles. The Los Angeles City Council approved a permit Tuesday that allows the Elon Musk-led company to use a site […]

U.S. satellite broadband provider Hughes Network Systems may have to shut its Indian operations due to unpaid levies owed to the government, which could put thousands of banking services at […]

The U.S. Space Force has completed a new service vision for enterprise satellite communications that seeks to eliminate traditional stovepipes for system acquisition and allow for rapid employment of new […]

Intelsat has debuted FlexMove, an end-terminal managed service that it said allows people to connect to the Internet, private data networks, and cloud services from virtually anywhere in the world, […]

While addressing the Assembly Hall of Paulskirche in Frankfurt, Germany in 1963, an important moment for post-WWII Trans-Atlantic Cooperation, President John F. Kennedy said, “Change is the law of life, […]

While disruption has had a long history with the space industry, we’ve never seen innovation at the pace we’re seeing today. The industry is seeing new investment vehicles to fund […]

The space industry is in the midst of multiple disruptions with the evolutionary developments that have revolutionary impacts. Most activity, as of now, is focused on Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) missions […]

The past 10 years have been the decade of New Space and commercialization of the space sector. The amount of private capital plowed into space has ballooned from some $200 […]

As Inmarsat constantly seeks to serve the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) with the most resilient, flexible, secure, and capable mobile satellite communications, we have arrived at a time of […]

The first U.S. Space Force budget request allocates two-thirds of its proposed funding to research-and-development efforts in recognition of Pentagon priorities to build resilient architectures and new capabilities to challenge […]

Speedcast Government is supporting a United Nations agency and an independent national electoral committee in Niger, Africa, to prevent electoral fraud. Speedcast Government has been asked to provide satellite internet […]

 Keeping cargo crew and cruise passengers connected has become a given, not a luxury. Whether considering the welfare of officers out at sea for months and months, or holidaymakers […]

 LEO, MEO, GEO and soon O3b mPOWER… In this episode of SES’ Satellite Stories, Morten Hansen, VP of Commercial Maritime & Energy Sales at SES, looks at how connectivity […]

 What does O3b stand for? Why does SES prefer MEO to LEO? And what inspired the engineering and technical development behind SES’ upcoming next-generation network O3b mPOWER? Stewart Sanders, […]