E-letter: Briefs

Riyadh Air has signed a partnership deal with Neo Space Group (NSG) to equip Riyadh Air’s Airbus A321 fleet with NSG Skywaves – the company’s in-flight connectivity (IFC) solution. NSG...

Canadian space companies Telesat and MDA Space announced separate MoU’s with Korean tech company Hanwha Systems on Monday to explore collaboration with Korea’s plans for a sovereign Low-Earth Orbit defense...

Planet Labs has secured an enterprise-scale agreement with the Surveying and Mapping Authority of the Republic of Slovenia (GURS) for satellite data to support agriculture, urban planning, and disaster management. ...

Oman’s largest oil and gas conglomerate, MB Group, has ordered an Astranis MicroGEO satellite to provide dedicated communications in Oman.  Astranis announced the deal on Monday in Oman with leaders...

In 2022, U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command got guidance from Frank Calvelli, then the Space Force’s service acquisition executive (SAE), to move to fixed-price contracts, limit non-recurring engineering costs,...

Spire Global has secured a new weather intelligence deal in the energy/utilities sector. AiDash, a provider of vegetation, storm, and ignition risk intelligence and SatelliteFirst grid monitoring solutions, has tapped...

South Korean aerospace manufacturer LIG Nex1 has selected L3Harris Technologies to provide the imaging payload for the GEO-KOMPSAT-5 weather satellite.  L3Harris will provide its new 18-channel L3Harris GEO-KOMPSAT Meteorological Imager...

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) will evaluate Aalyria’s Spacetime network orchestration software as a candidate for a future “network of networks” concept under a new selection announced Thursday. ...

Tomorrow.io announced plans for a new weather monitoring constellation on Thursday called DeepSky, designed to provide faster refresh for global and regional weather models, improve prediction of extreme weather events,...

The first two satellites in Open Cosmos‘ Ka-band satellite constellation have launched, just one week after the company announced it secured Liechtenstein’s high-priority Ka-band spectrum. This represents the first activation...