E-letter: Briefs

SES Government Solutions (GS) has won a new deal with the U.S. Space Force in Greenland, the company announced July 19. The operator’s U.S.-based government business will support the Thule […]

Blue Origin and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos isn’t nervous about his historic, multi-generational ride on his reusable suborbital New Shepard rocket’s first crewed mission, scheduled for 9 a.m. EDT tomorrow, […]

Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation operator OneWeb has hired Nadia Hoosen as its new chief legal officer and group company secretary. She will serve as a member of OneWeb’s executive committee […]

Forsway and KenCast are looking to boost their position in the broadcast market thanks to a new combination of the two companies’ products and technology. Under the terms of a […]

Malaysian satellite operator Measat has moved customers off of its Measat-3 satellite after it suffered an anomaly in late June. The company issued a statement on July 17 confirming the […]

One of India’s most successful and iconic business leaders is coming to speak at the SATELLITE 2021 conference in September. Sunil Bharti Mittal, the founder and chairman of Bharti Enterprises, […]

Kongsberg Defense & Aerospace has been boosted by a new contract win that will see the company deliver technology to the new Radar Observation System for Europe (ROSE) satellite as […]

Software-defined technology developer Innoflight will deliver key avionics for four satellites produced by L3Harris Technologies under the terms of a new contract the two organizations announced July 15. L3Technologies represents a […]

Avanti Communications continues to make progress in Africa’s connectivity market after signing a partnership agreement that could help connect 400 million people in rural sub-Saharan Africa with mobile broadband services. […]

Honeywell’s plans in the aviation arena have been boosted by the news that it has received a technical standard order (TSO-C159) certification from Transport Canada Civil Aviation (TCCA) for its […]

Montréal-based greenhouse gas satellite monitoring startup GHGSat closed its Series B funding round, netting $45 million from an investment group that included the government of Québec (through its Investissement Québec […]

SES has signed a three-year capacity deal with iSAT Africa to provide 4G mobile service in East Africa via the O3b mPOWER satellite constellation. Financial terms of the deal were […]

Spire Global will continue to participate in NASA’s Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition (CSDA) program after signing a $6 million contract extension. Spire announced the contract on July 14.  The CSDA […]

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged the Momentus special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), its sponsor, the sponsor’s CEO, the company, and founder Mikhail Kokorich for misleading claims about […]

The Russian government is inching closer to its goal of offering a global satellite connectivity service after state-operated Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC) signed a cooperative agreement on Wednesday with […]

Satellite executives highlighted the importance of working with global governments to bridge the digital divide and provide connectivity to remote areas. Satellite connectivity is known to be an attractive option […]

Amazon has acquired a team of wireless internet experts from Facebook’s satellite connectivity group in recent months. The news was first reported by The Information, and a Facebook company spokesperson […]

In this week’s Thursday Morning Conversation, Via Satellite managing editor Rachel Jewett joins as host to chat with Swarm CEO Sara Spangelo. Rachel and Sara spoke on June 29, just […]

Intelsat is dropping the name Gogo from the Commercial Aviation division that it retired last year, the company announced July 13.  Intelsat announced the move to acquire Gogo’s Commercial Aviation […]

ThinKom Solutions is developing a new phased-array user terminal designed to operate in higher millimeter-wave frequency bands to work with next-generation satellite constellations in  Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) and Medium-Earth Orbit […]

The European Space Agency (ESA) is investing approximately 90 million euros ($106 million) into a developmental contract with ArianeGroup that will give its Ariane 6 rocket a new kick stage. […]

A number of major European organizations and companies have joined forces to bring the next level of cybersecurity to the European satellite arena in a new project. The aim is […]

Palo Alto-based space supercomputing systems developer Ramon.Space will partner with LEOcloud to develop satellite-hosted cloud edge computing capabilities for commercial, government, and military markets, the two companies announced Monday. Ramon.Space […]

A record number of satellites were launched into orbit in 2020, according to the Satellite Industry Association’s (SIA) State of the Satellite Industry Report. By the end of 2020, there […]

Spacecom has signed an extension deal worth $14 million with D.B.S. Satellite Services, which operates Yes DTH in Israel. Yes will continue to lease capacity from the AMOS-7 and AMOS-3 […]

Sweden has announced details to bring a next generation low-cost Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) terminal to market. A collaboration involving Satcube along with Chalmers University of Technology, Gapwaves, and Forsway Scandinavia […]

NASA has finalized its contract with Northrop Grumman to develop the living quarters for astronauts working on the Gateway, the planned in-orbit moon outpost. NASA announced July 9 the firm, […]

Space-based cellular broadband network AST SpaceMobile‘s U.K. business opened a new headquarters on Friday at the Space Park complex in Leicester, England. The new headquarters is part of Leicester’s $138.8 […]

Hellas Sat has successfully completed a live demonstration of 5G satellite backhauling capabilities in Greece. The demonstration was organised in partnership with KT-SAT, ST Engineering iDirect, Thales Alenia Space, and […]

Inmarsat‘s new CEO Rajeev Suri urged the space industry to achieve a “Net Zero” space sustainability equivalent and address what he called “the ever more congested Low-Earth Orbit (LEO)” during […]