E-letter: Briefs

Myriota will take part in a new project by the Australian government involving satellite, the company announced Wednesday. It will be involved in the SASAT1 Space Services Mission to deliver […]

Satellite manufacturing, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, and Johnny Cash. Via Satellite’s Thursday Morning Conversation this week goes to France to talk to Jean-Marc Nasr, head of Space Systems […]

In this episode, Maxime Puteaux, principal advisor at Euroconsult, gives us the rundown of satellite trends in 2020, as well as what he sees happening in the decade ahead. Puteaux […]

SES will deliver satellite capacity to Nunavut in northern Canada, through a multi-year agreement with with SSi Canada, the developer-operator of Qiniq broadband, and SSi Mobile services in Nunavut. Under […]

Update: On Tuesday, Jan. 19, the FCC denied a request to stay the Ligado decision. “[The] order imposed stringent conditions in order to protect incumbent users, including GPS services and […]

Virgin Orbit successfully deployed 10 payloads for NASA’s Launch Services Program (LSP) during the California-based company’s second demonstration of its LauncherOne spacecraft on Sunday, Jan. 17. The LauncherOne was deployed […]

Globalstar has signed an agreement to supply satellite services to Ceres Tag, a direct-to-satellite animal tracking platform. The Ceres Tag is a smart ear tag that weighs just over one […]

SoftBank Group has made an investment into the new iteration of OneWeb, the company announced Jan. 15. This marks SoftBank re-investing into OneWeb, after the former majority investor pulled out […]

Welcome to our first big satellite operator round-up of the year, as the industry looks to begin 2021. While the COVID-19 pandemic showing no signs of abating, the satellite industry […]

Exotrail had a successful first cubesat mission equipped with ExoMG Hall-effect electric propulsion technology, the company reported Jan. 12. The company completed an in-orbit demonstration mission launched to Low-Earth Orbit […]

OneWeb has adjusted its plans for the size of its Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation down from a 48,000-satellite constellation to roughly 7,000, the company announced Wednesday.  In May, while the […]

Intuitive Machines has selected SpaceX to launch its NASA-backed IM-2 Polar Mission to the Moon on a Falcon 9 rocket no earlier than 2022, the company announced Wednesday.  NASA awarded […]

Blue Origin successfully launched its New Shepard suborbital rocket on Thursday, testing upgrades to its crew capsule. This was the 14th New Shepard mission for Blue Origin, the commercial launch […]

Airbus revealed Thursday that it has successfully completed the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) for the Skynet 6A project. The project now has permission to move into the next phase, which […]

The U.S. Air Force has picked Redstone Arsenal, Alabama as the “preferred location” for U.S. Space Command’s headquarters, pending a final decision in 2023 after the completion of an environmental […]

Rockets, “Beat Bobby Flay” (a cooking show for the uninitiated), French 1980s pop music, “The Crown,” “The Marvelous Mrs Maisel”— all topics for our first Thursday Morning Conversation of 2021, […]

SES revealed Tuesday that Southern Cross Cables Limited (SCCL) will use SES Networks’ connectivity services to upgrade its undersea Southern Cross cable network. This project will help improve communications between […]

Eutelsat has taken on a eight-year, $243 million (200 million euro) financing agreement from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to back investments related to the procurement and launch of the […]

L3Harris Technologies has successfully completed a technology demonstration to Multi-Band Multi-Mission (MBMM) phased array ground antenna system under a Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) contract. L3Harris announced Tuesday that the antenna system […]

Viasat has reached a distribution agreement with Sky Brasil, the largest satellite pay TV operator in Brazil, for its satellite internet service. In the agreement announced Tuesday, Sky will sell, […]

Globe Telecom awarded Gilat Satellite Networks a multi-million dollar managed service contract for cellular backhaul over satellite, as part of a significant project expansion between the two companies. The exact dollar […]

Azercosmos revealed Monday that it has formed a partnership agreement with Belgian satellite service provider SatADSL. Under the new agreement, SatADSL will provide internet access using its cloud-based Service Delivery Platform […]

NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) have signed an MOU to support commercial space activities. Under the MOU signed Jan. 8, the FAA and NASA have agreed to collaborate […]

ThinKom’s K- and Q-band phased-array antenna have been tested and proved to meet or exceed performance metrics to operate with the frequency-hopping waveform of the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) […]

The FCC has granted SpaceX permission to launch ten Starlink satellites into Polar Orbit. In an FCC order issued Jan. 8, the commission granted SpaceX the ability to deploy and […]

Hughes Network Systems revealed last Friday the launch of Hughes Express Wi-Fi in Chile. Each Hughes Express Wi-Fi hotspot uses Hughes’ satellite connectivity and Facebook Connectivity’s Express Wi-Fi platform.  Hughes […]

European Space Agency (ESA) Director General Jan Woerner has decided to step down from his position at the end of February, a few months before the end of his term, […]

Globalstar revealed Jan. 7 that business partner Nokia entered into an agreement with Tideworks Technology to deploy Globalstar’s Band 53 spectrum at the Port of Seattle, Terminal 5. This deployment is […]

SpaceX successfully launched the TURKSAT 5A satellite on Thursday evening in its first launch of 2021. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the satellite took off from Space Launch Complex 40 […]

Arianespace reported $1 billion euro ($1.2 billion) in sales in 2020, approximately the same level of sales as 2019, in a year-end update released Thursday. The European launcher also reported […]