E-letter: Briefs

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded Northrop Grumman Systems  a $7,304,322 firm-fixed-price and cost-reimbursement modification to its contract for Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) sensor sustainment. The DMSP has […]

The Mission-Critical Technologies group of Comtech Telecommunications has been awarded $1.6 million in additional funding to its sustainment contract to provide ongoing sustainment services for the AN/TSC-198A SNAP (Secret Internet […]

Ligado Networks has received more than $100 million in new investments for its work to build 5G Internet of Things (IoT) networks, the company announced Thursday. This funding comes after […]

SpaceX has received approval from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for suborbital flight tests of its Starship rocket prototype from the test site in Boca Chica, Texas.  The approval, issued […]

Rocket Lab has set a new launch window starting June 11 for its 12th Electron launch, dubbed “Don’t Stop Me Now,” which was postponed from March due to COVID-19 restrictions. […]

Comtech Telecommunications and its subsidiaries won two contracts to provide U.S. government and military satellite service, the company announced May 28. Comtech’s Mission-Critical Technologies group  was awarded a $12.5 million […]

This week’s Thursday Morning Conversation takes us to Los Angeles where we catch up with Relativity Space CEO and Co-Founder Tim Ellis, who talks about everything from the niche German […]

SpaceX and NASA will have to wait a few more days to make history, as unfavorable weather conditions prevented the Crew Dragon mission to the International Space Station (ISS) from […]

In March, Russian state satellite operator RSCC announced that it was disconnecting the Ka-band transponders on its Express-AM6 satellite due to degradation of the spacecraft. The satellite originally entered service […]

Direct-to-Home (DTH) satellite provider Cignal TV has contracted Hughes Network Systems to provide HughesNet broadband service to its two million subscribers in the Philippines, Hughes announced May 27. Cignal TV […]

Satellite operator Viasat reported record-breaking revenue increases and subscriber growth, and dropped a surprise revelation that it was scrapping its planned Medium-Earth Orbit (MEO) constellation for a new Low-Earth Orbit […]

SES and Intelsat both elected on Tuesday to clear a portion of the C-band spectrum in the United States in line with the FCC’s accelerated timeline in order to receive […]

Vestaspace Technology, an Indian small satellite manufacturing company, released plans on Tuesday to launch a constellation of 35 or more satellites across India with the intention of building 5G speed […]

Virgin Orbit ended the launch demonstration of its small satellite air-launched LauncherOne rocket early on Monday, when an anomaly occurred early in the first stage of the rocket’s flight. Much […]

The U.S. Space Force has completed the preliminary design reviews for two potential mission payloads for the Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (Next-Gen OPIR) satellites that will become the U.S. military’s […]

Texas-based AI startup Hypergiant Industries has officially launched a software platform that supports autonomous satellite operations for commercial and government entities. The Hyper-Intelligent Vehicle Enhancement (H.I.V.E.) fleet operations platform aims […]

Eutelsat has inked a multi-year contract with Travel Africa Network to broadcast its first African travel channel in HD from the HOTBIRD video hotspot, the operator announced May 22. Operating […]

The U.S. Navy selected Viasat and Data Link Solutions (DLS) to participate in a five-year contract worth a potential $999 million contract for each company to produce, retrofit and sustain […]

Satellite operator Iridium and manufacturer Lockheed Martin have joined several private industry groups in signing a petition asking the FCC  to reconsider its recent order to allow Ligado Networks to rezone […]

Intelsat has deployed Intelsat CellBackhaul, an end-to-end managed service aimed at helping Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) provide 4G and 5G broadband across the United States and especially in rural areas, […]

Skyrora recently completed a full static fire test of a mobile launch complex with a Skylark L rocket — a milestone that the U.K. smallsat launch company said shows the vehicle […]

Roccor, a small satellite market hardware supplier, has created a deployable L-band antenna that it says makes the reception and transmission of Link 16 signals via spacecraft possible. This development, […]

This week’s Thursday Morning Conversation takes us to Virginia where we talk to the very definition of a cybersecurity influencer, Bob Gourley, CTO and co-founder of OODA. Bob will be […]

The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) has issued a call-to-action statement urging U.S. government agencies, academic institutions, and industry leaders to collaborate on a plan to ensure U.S. leadership […]

Luxembourg-based data-as-a-service company Kleos Space has been contracted to provide Radio Frequency (RF) geolocation intelligence data to the Utah State University Space Dynamics Laboratory‘s (SDL) Micro-Satellite Military Utility (MSMU) project […]

Alga Microwave, a subsidiary of Canadian wireless technology developer Baylin Technologies, has received a $2.5 million C-band 5G filter purchase order from an unnamed U.S.-based satellite network provider, the company […]

Intellian successfully completed sea trials for its v85NX antenna and received type approval from Telenor to provide Ka-band service from the operator’s Thor 7 satellite, both companies confirmed. The Intellian […]

SpaceX’s Senior Vice President of Production and Launch, Zachary Dunn, is moving to Relativity Space as the company’s vice president of Factory Development, Relativity announced Monday. Eric Berger of Ars […]

The U.S. Space Force has awarded Northrop Grumman a $2.3 billion contract for early hardware procurement to build two satellites for missile warning in polar orbits under the Next-Generation Overhead Persistent […]

The U.S. Department of Commerce released new regulations on Tuesday that are intended to improve the licensing process for private U.S. satellite remote sensing operations, in order to increase openness […]