E-letter: Briefs

AMERGINT Technology has acquired Tethers Unlimited, Inc. (TUI), the company announced Wednesday. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. This acquisition comes on the heels of AMERGINT’s acquisition of Raytheon […]

Crowley Maritime has contracted to install Inmarsat‘s Fleet Xpress on a majority of its vessels. Crowley Maritime owns, operates, and manages a fleet of close to 200 vessels including conventional […]

Virgin Galactic saw a net loss of $60 million in the First Quarter (Q1) of 2020, as reported in its results released on Tuesday. This net loss was less than […]

ICEYE has demonstrated interferometric capabilities from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites under 100 kg in mass, saying it is the first to do so. With an actively maintained 18-day ground […]

PSSI Global Services is suing the FCC over its plan to reallocate the C-band spectrum for 5G services, arguing the order approved in February will “destroy” its special event satellite […]

L3Harris Technologies shared its First Quarter (Q1) 2020 results on Tuesday, reporting $4.6 billion in revenue, up 168% from Q1 2019 GAAP. Net income was $194 million, a 20% decrease […]

Spacecom and ST Engineering iDirect have demonstrated VSAT return capabilities on the AMOS-17 satellite, the partner companies announced Tuesday. They reported the demonstration resulted in an “exceptionally” wide return link […]

Space Angels is changing its branding structure and will now be led by its Space Capital brand. Space Angels, the space economy angel investment platform, was founded in 2007, and […]

On Friday May 1, Virgin Galactic and The Spaceship Company completed the first SpaceShipTwo test flight from Spaceport America in Las Cruces, New Mexico. This was the first time the spaceship […]

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. has been awarded a contract for satellite bandwidth utilization services for the U.S. Space Force (USSF). Kratos plans to provide continuous monitoring services of […]

Astroscale has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with a professor at Northumbria University Newcastle in England to investigate end-of-life standards and practices from industries like oil and nuclear energy. The […]

ThinKom Solutions recently completed a series of interoperability tests demonstrating its core antenna technology’s capability with a Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite network. ThinKom used its Ku3030 phased-array antenna subsystem and […]

The GPS Innovation Alliance (GPSIA) has announced Lockheed Martin as the newest member of the organization. Lockheed Martin joins member companies John Deere, Garmin, Trimble, and Collins Aerospace as well […]

The European Commission approved the previously announced combination of Canal Digital, Telenor Group’s satellite pay-TV business, with Viasat Consumer, Nordic Entertainment Group’s satellite pay-TV and broadband-TV business, into a new […]

L3Harris has received $95 million from the U.S. Army to continue delivering AN/PRC-158 two-channel, software-defined manpack radios, which will be utilized in the service’s Integrated Tactical Network evaluation in late […]

Telesat released its First Quarter (Q1) financial results on Thursday, reporting $150 million in consolidated revenue, a decrease of 6% compared to the same time period in 2019. Q1 net […]

Thuraya and SCOTTY Group have secured line-fit offerability for the Thuraya Aero mobile connectivity solution on Airbus H145 and H135 helicopters, the companies announced Thursday. Thuraya Aero is an In-Flight […]

Two Cobham SATCOM land satellite terminals have received Inmarsat type approval, the companies announced Thursday. The low-profile vehicular Cobham Explorer 323 BGAN terminal and the auto-point “fly-away” Cobham Explorer 6075LX […]

NASA has announced that Blue Origin, Dynetics, and SpaceX will design and develop human landing systems for the Artemis program, which aims to return humans to the surface of moon […]

For the latest Thursday Morning Conversation, Via Satellite went all the way to Hong Kong to talk to Tom Choi, executive chairman at Airspace Internet Exchange. We find out what […]

Northrop Grumman released its First Quarter (Q1) 2020 results on Wednesday, reporting a sales of $8.6 billion, a 5% increase from the same time period in 2019. Net earnings increased […]

Cameroon-based Songhai Labs and Switzerland-based SatSure have partnered to launch a platform to fuel innovation in African agriculture and agtech markets, the companies announced on April 25. Songhai Labs, a […]

NanoAvionics will build a 12U nanosatellite bus for an in-orbit demonstration of NASA’s Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3), the company announced Wednesday. This a result of a contract between […]

Boeing‘s First Quarter (Q1) results released Wednesday showed the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic hitting the aerospace industry, as the company is still reeling from the financial effects of the […]

Guatemala’s first satellite, a cubesat known as Quetzal-1, was deployed by Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) from the ISS on Tuesday. The mission’s primary objective is to test a multispectral […]

SEAKR Engineering, Inc. has been awarded as the prime contractor for Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Pit Boss contract to further expand its contractual work supporting the Blackjack program. […]

Iridium released its First Quarter (Q1) 2020 revenue results on Tuesday, reporting $145.3 million in total revenue, a 9% increase from the same time period in 2019. The company’s Q1 […]

  Viasat Inc. has shipped more than 200 production units of its advanced Move Out / Jump Off (MOJO) Link 16 expeditionary tactical gateway system to U.S. and international military […]

Lockheed Martin has received a $5.8 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for the first phase of satellite integration on the Blackjack program, the company announced […]

A team led by L3Harris Technologies engineers has designed a ventilation support system to help patients combat COVID-19 as part of the U.S. government’s Hack-A-Vent Innovation Challenge.  The team’s i3 […]