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Virgin Orbit, the small satellite launch company backed by billionaire Richard Branson, has signed an initial agreement to develop small satellite launch capabilities for the UK’s Royal Air Force (RAF). […]

What’s the proper dividing line between what government does and what business does? This is not a political question — it is meant in the context of the space industry. […]

Galileo, the European satellite navigation system, has been suffering a major outage since Friday, reports BBC News. The system’s status page currently lists all 22 of its satellites as either […]

Richard Branson-backed space startup Virgin Orbit has completed a key step along its path to launching satellites for commercial customers. The company held a successful “drop test” of its LauncherOne […]

Connectivity to the ground is in short supply for today’s remote sensing satellites even as the data they collect from the Earth’s surface can predict extreme weather, protect ships from […]

A military spy satellite has come crashing down to earth after the failure of its launch rocket, sending the expensive payload into the Atlantic. The European Vega rocket had been launched from French […]

Amazon is seeking government permission to launch 3,236 broadband satellites that would cover nearly all of the United States and much of the rest of the world. Amazon subsidiary Kuiper […]

After reading an interesting Via Satellite article, “Satellite Manufacturing in a State of Transition,” it brought to mind the dynamics that set the industry on the creative manufacturing path we’re on […]

Starlink satellites were launched in a large stack on a Falcon 9 rocket. Photo: SpaceX/Forbes says that three of its 60 controversial Starlink satellites have failed in orbit, as the […]

With consumer expectations constantly evolving in a saturated market, pay TV operators need a reliable and efficient way to broadcast high quality content, keeping the viewer engaged when they’re away […]

Three months ago, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a surprise announcement that India successfully took down a redundant satellite with an Anti-Satellite (ASAT) missile from Earth. A new report […]

When it comes to NewSpace investment, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) serves as the industry’s ultimate market insider and growth champion. Consider this: Nearly 7 out of every 10 U.S. venture-backed […]

The U.S. Army is crafting its first-ever tactical space layer strategy, said one service member involved in the strategic development June 11. “Right now, we are looking at producing a […]

  Lockheed Martin is playing guinea pig for a new “space sustainability” rating scheme designed to show how well satellites comply with best operational practices such as debris mitigation. “It’s […]

Machine Learning (ML) could help the U.S. military harness Precision, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) data it can already access to detect spoofing or jamming efforts more quickly, a Marine Corps […]

Speedcast International and XipLink formed a strategic partnership to develop technologies to help maximize efficiencies in data transfer across wide area networks (WAN). As the technology convergence between the network and […]

The governments of South Korea and Japan are each in the midst of building up their respective position, navigation and timing (PNT) satellite constellations to provide more accurate service to […]

On a windy April day in England, a team of 17-year-old students from Allestree Woodlands School in Derby awaited the 20 second launch forming the climax of their six-month engineering […]

At the 2019 SATELLITE Show in May, which drew 16,000 or so attendees, it was impossible to miss Blue Origin’s life-size New Glenn photos plastered to the rectangular columns outside […]

Six global launch providers are drawing the same conclusion as they address a panel audience on a muggy spring afternoon in Washington, D.C.: Not all of their rockets will be […]

The U.S. Army is working to update its standards for developing new Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) capabilities that will incorporate more science-and-technology efforts and help the service weed out […]

American Airlines, the world’s largest airline by fleet size and passenger traffic, has finished rolling out satellite-based broadband Wi-Fi to its entire mainline narrowbody fleet of more than 700 aircraft […]

When the future U.S. Space Command is stood up, the Air Force Space Command’s Joint Forces Space Component Command (JFSCC) two main mission areas will be reborn under the new […]

Investigators will examine whether a secretive spy satellite program designed to snoop on other satellites is being properly managed, the Pentagon’s Office of the Inspector General said Wednesday. The probe […]

The future form, fit and function of commercial airplane antennas that enable high speed internet connectivity for passengers and pilots will be lower in profile with little to no moving […]

Shareholders of London-based satellite operator Inmarsat decided in mid-May that the company will be sold to Triton Bidco, a newly formed private consortium. Satellite industry analysts believe going private could provide […]

AT&T Inc.’s DirecTV and Dish Network Corp., suffering the steepest subscriber losses in the pay-TV industry, are open to a merger and both companies believe such a deal could pass […]

At its re:Mars conference, Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos took the stage today to be “interviewed” by Jenny Freshwater, Amazon’s director of forecasting. As any AWS machine learning tool could have […]

Colorado Springs-based Braxton Technologies has won a five-year contract worth up to $100 million from the Air Force Space Command to develop software to control multiple satellites and ground stations. […]

The recent launch of Russia’s Roscosmos Soyuz 2-1b rocket from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome witnessed some dramatic events after the rocket was struck by a bolt of lightning as it made […]