E-letter: Briefs

Jordi Hereu is now president of Hispasat after the company’s board of directors approved the appointment on Oct. 8. Sociedad Estatal de Participaciones Industriales (SEPI), which holds 7.41% of Hispasat’s […]

RigNet, Inc. has received a multi-year contract with what it calls one of the “largest contractors” in the offshore drilling industry to provide fully managed communications services and global satellite […]

Shipping company PACC Ship Managers Pte Ltd. (PaccShip) has renewed its contract with Satcom Global Ltd, for Aura VSAT (Very Small Aperture Terminal) service for three years. Satcom Global has […]

AeroVironment, Inc. has demonstrated mobile broadband communication in a recent test of Sunglider, a solar-powered High-Altitude Pseudo-Satellite (HAPS). In the Sept. 21 test, the Sunglider broadband communication demonstration linked teams in […]

Exolaunch has signed a long-term launch agreement with SpaceX to secure capacity on Falcon 9 missions as part of SpaceX’s SmallSat Rideshare Program. Exolaunch announced Wednesday it will manifest microsatellites […]

This week’s Thursday Morning Conversation (TMC) goes back to France to talk one of the most exciting new companies in the European space sector. We talk to ThrustMe CEO and […]

Boeing and the U.S. Space Force revealed Wednesday that the Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS)-11+ communications satellite successfully completed the Preliminary Design Review (PDR). This was the first all-digital PDR, which […]

The Brooke Owens Fellowship revealed Wednesday, through a press release posted to their Twitter account, the introduction of the Patti Grace Smith Fellowship. This fellowship will provide Black undergraduate students […]

Momentus will become a publicly traded company through a merger with special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), Stable Road Acquisition Corp. In a Wednesday announcement, Momentus said the combined company will […]

Aerojet Rocketdyne has opened a new, 17,000 square-foot large solid rocket motor manufacturing facility in Camden, Arkansas. Aerojet Rocketdyne said in a Tuesday release that the large solid rocket motors […]

The UK Space Agency launched its first ever UK Space Census on Wednesday to survey the diversity of the U.K. space sector and inform future space policy. The census will […]

Cobham Satcom and Kepler Communications performed connectivity trials on Kepler’s Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) network with Cobham’s SAILOR 600 VSAT Ku-band antenna system, demonstrating downlink rates of 150 Mbps and uplink […]

SpaceX launched a batch of 60 Starlink satellites early Tuesday morning. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the satellites took off from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in […]

The Space Development Agency (SDA) has awarded L3Harris Technologies and SpaceX contracts worth a total of  $342.8 million for the development of the Wide Field of View (WFOV) program to […]

Satellogic revealed Friday the public launch of the Global Consortium of Geospatial Imagery. European Space Imaging, a supplier of global imagery in Europe and North Africa, joins as a founding […]

GHGSat revealed Tuesday that ABB will deliver the payloads for GHGSat’s next three methane detecting satellites. This is part of GHGSat’s plan to have a constellation of 10 spacecraft in […]

OneWeb’s sale to the U.K. government and Bharti Global Limited has been approved. On Oct. 2, the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York confirmed OneWeb’s […]

ManSat revealed on Monday that Katherine Gizinski was appointed as group CEO. Previously the group’s CCO, Katherine will continue to work closely with ManSat founder Chris Stott, in his new […]

Northrop Grumman revealed Monday that the Cygnus cargo spacecraft, also know as the S.S. Kaplana Chawala, will remain docked to the International Space Station (ISS) for approximately three months. The […]

South Korean telecommunications company KT SAT conducted its first public demonstration of a satellite-5G hybrid router transmission technology at the SatelliteAsia 2020 exposition on Thursday. The company said the router is […]

Environmental sensing solutions Intellisense Systems received Phase II financing from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to continue its development of a stand-alone field-deployable sensor for remote satellite measurements of […]

Boeing has confirmed that it is the third manufacturer to receive a development contract to build a satellite payload prototype and communications architecture for the U.S. Space Force’s Evolved Strategic […]

Sencinet, a new fully-managed network service provider serving the Americas, officially commenced operations Thursday, activating an integrated satellite infrastructure comprised of two fiber networks, four data centers, and five teleports […]

Kymeta’s u8 terminal has received FCC commercial authorization, the company announced Tuesday. This approval comes as Kymeta prepares to launch the product in the Fourth Quarter (Q4) of 2020. The […]

Speedcast has reached a long-term agreement with Nokia to deploy Nokia’s private wireless network for its mining and energy enterprise customers. By integrating the Nokia Industrial Private LTE 4.9G network, […]

Swissto12 revealed Wednesday that it has delivered a large batch of waveguide signal interconnects to Thales Alenia Space for the Eutelsat KONNECT Very High-Throughput Satellite (VHTS) program. Swissto12 has worked […]

The FCC moved Wednesday to make 100 megahertz of mid-band spectrum in the 3.45-3.55 GHz band available for 5G deployment. The mid-band spectrum is primarily military use, and the U.S. […]

Indian satellite service provider Nelco has reached an agreement to offer Telesat’s Telesat LEO satellite connectivity in India. Nelco and Telesat announced Wednesday they will collaborate on terrestrial facilities, commercial […]

Alaska Aerospace Corporation revealed on Tuesday the signing of a Memorandum of Agreement (MOU) with India-based AgniKul Cosmos. The MOU is for the test launch of the Agnibaan launch vehicle from […]

Swarm Technologies on Tuesday revealed details and pricing of its hardware and network services. More than 200 companies have already signed up for early access to join the Swarm network […]