E-letter: Briefs

AvL Technologies produces satellite communications antennas and positioners. The company’s antennas serve a variety of use cases including vehicle mounts and manpack antennas for the U.S. military. Todd Brown, AvL […]

OneWeb, which recently signed a strategic agreement with AT&T in the U.S. has now signed another key deal in North America. A new Canadian distribution partner, Galaxy Broadband, will deliver […]

An all-civilian crew dubbed Inspiration4 is currently orbiting the Earth in a major milestone for commercial spaceflight. SpaceX launched the crew of Inspiration4 on a Falcon 9 rocket on Wednesday […]

Raytheon Technologies on Tuesday said it has agreed to acquire SEAKR Engineering in a deal that strengthens its space business with a suite of space electronics products. Terms of the deal, […]

Making a jump to have its own in-house capabilities to design and manufacture satellites, Britain’s BAE Systems on Tuesday said it has acquired another United Kingdom-based company, In-Space Missions, which is currently […]

SES is seeing encouraging take-up of its cloud-based services. The operator announced Sept. 15 that since the first quarter of this year, more than 60 channels have adopted SES’s cloud […]

Via Satellite’s Thursday Morning Conversation (TMC) series continues featuring companies who were recently on our anticipated 10 Hottest Satellite Companies list. This week we talk to Walter Berger, now co-CEO […]

NASA has awarded five companies contracts to mature sustainable lunar landing concepts as part of its Artemis program, the agency announced Tuesday.  Dynetics, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Blue Origin, and […]

Kacific Broadband Satellites is working to bring a new internet service dedicated to businesses in the markets where it operates. It is launching a service called GigWiFi, a service that […]

Capella Space has launched its Open Data Program to make its Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data publicly accessible, the company announced Tuesday.  This program makes SAR data — which can […]

Arianespace successfully launched the tenth batch of OneWeb satellites on Tuesday.  A Soyuz rocket operated by Arianespace and its Starsem affiliate took off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at […]

Stephen Bennett, former senior vice president at Blue Origin, has taken the role of Kepler Communications COO, the company announced Tuesday. Bennett is an aerospace industry veteran who has also […]

SpaceX resumed Starlink launches on Monday, launching a batch of 51 Starlink satellites to Polar Orbit, equipped with optical inter-satellite links. The Falcon 9 rocket took off at 8:55 p.m. […]

Spire Global is making its first acquisition after going public, with an agreement to acquire exactEarth for $161.2 million. ExactEarth provides satellite-AIS data services, which is used to track ships. […]

Hiber, the Dutch satellite Internet of Things (IoT) company, has signed a breakthrough deal with one of the world’s largest oil companies. It will provide Shell with integrity monitoring solutions […]

Space-based geospatial intelligence company BlackSky is now trading on the New York Stock Exchange after completing its special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) merger on Sept. 9. BlackSky Holdings completed its […]

Gilat Satellite Networks has won another broadband-related contract in Latin America. It announced on Monday that it has received a $12 million service award for recurring revenues from broadband services […]

Virgin Galactic has delayed its next test flight “Unity 23” with the Italian Air Force until mid-October due to a component issue.  In a statement issued Monday, Virgin Galactic said […]

NASA has awarded SpaceX a $152.5 million contract to launch the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-U (GOES-U) mission. The total cost includes the launch service and other mission-related costs. The GOES-U […]

Hughes Network Systems has agreed to distribute OneWeb capacity to its customers in two agreements announced Thursday, Sept. 9 at SATELLITE 2021 for the United States and India. The distribution […]

Yahsat has selected Cobham Satcom to deliver a mobile broadband system, including ground infrastructure and products, to operate as part of Yahsat’s next-generation Thuraya 4-NGS system. Under the contract announced […]

SpaceLink has signed on as the second customer for Mynaric’s recently announced next-generation optical communications terminal, the CONDOR Mk 3. Mynaric and SpaceLink announced Thursday, Sept. 9 that they have […]

The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded the U.K. branch of D-Orbit a contract to develop debris removal technology, the company announced Wednesday, Sept. 8. The ESA contract is worth […]

Launch integrator TriSept Corporation has developed a satellite software solution to provide security controls for commercial and government spacecraft, the company announced Tuesday, Sept. 7. This is the first cybersecurity […]

OneWeb and Kymeta have tested the Kymeta u8 antenna with OneWeb’s Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellation. The companies reported Tuesday, Sept. 7 that in demonstrations in Toulouse, France, the single […]

Eutelsat Communications has selected the Hughes Network Systems Jupiter System Series 3 to enable services on the new KONNECT Very High-Throughput Satellite (VHTS). The companies announced the award Tuesday, Sept. […]

Khalid bin Ahmed Balkheyour has resigned as CEO of Arabsat, and the company’s board of directors has assigned Dr. Badr bin Nasser Al-Suwaidan to head the organization. The Arabsat board […]

Rocket Lab has started construction on a new facility that will increase production of reaction wheels to fulfill growing demand from satellite constellation customers. The company said this expansion comes […]

Omnispace and Vulcan Wireless have tested voice and data communication between the company’s on-orbit satellite and military communications radios, the companies announced Thursday.  Omnispace used the existing on-orbit satellite from […]

HiSky plans to demonstrate its Smartellite terminals with a Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) nanosatellite hosted by Spire Global dubbed “Ella1.” The United Kingdom Space Agency (UKSA) and the European Space Agency […]