Technology

The Fourth Industrial Revolution has been getting a lot of hype. What does it really mean for the satellite industry?

Speedcast International, provider of remote communication and IT services, and Plug and Play, a global innovation platform and startup accelerator, have announced a strategic partnership focused on the advancement of...

Red Hat, a provider of open source solutions, has announced that Hong Kong-based international airline Cathay Pacific is using Red Hat solutions and services to transform its legacy infrastructure into...

At the SATELLITE 2018 Conference & Exhibition, I joined a panel to discuss Space Situational Awareness (SSA), something that was particularly pertinent given a certain incident that week involving a...

The European Space Agency (ESA) and an SES-led consortium are developing a system that will allow the generation of encryption keys from space, as well as their secure transmission to...

MDA, a Maxar Technologies company, has signed a multi-million-dollar contract with Nanowave Technologies, a designer and manufacturer of advanced microwave, millimeter-wave and electro-optic multi-function modules and subsystems. MDA will provide satellite components...

Airbus Aerial and DroneBase, a global drone operations company, have announced a partnership to deliver a multi-source data service solution for aerial imagery and data from a single provider. This...

Fred Krupp, president of Canada’s Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), gave a recent TED talk about the organization’s plans to launch a satellite in orbit that will gather data about the...

French space agency CNES has chosen the Space Alliance, formed by Telespazio and Thales Alenia Space, to extend the fiber-optic communications system (STFO) at the Guiana Space Center (CSG), Europe’s...

Year after year, traffic orbiting the Earth is increasing while space debris poses an ever-greater threat for satellites and crews of space vehicles. To combat this problem, the European Space Agency (ESA)...