E-letter: Briefs

Cubic Corporation has partnered with The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) College of Nursing to test an emergency ventilator device the company is developing to combat ventilator shortages from […]

Danish satellite operator Sternula is leading a consortium that plans to develop a network for Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites delivering ice chart data to ships at sea. According to a […]

Orbit Communication Systems Ltd. has received a new order for a multi-band Gaia 5.5 m Gaia ground station. The high-gain dual S/X-band system will be installed in 2020.  Orbit said […]

Myriota Canada, a Canadian subsidiary of the Australian Internet of Things (IoT) nanosatellite connectivity company Myriota, plans to acquire satellite assets from exactEarth Ltd. for about $422,000. A portion of […]

Viasat and Visiontec have expanded their partnership working to bring reliable internet service to residential homes in Brazil. Visat said in a March 31 release that it plans to reach 100% […]

Most Airbus facilities in Spain are working to 3D print visors frames to protect healthcare personnel in the COVID-19 response, the company announced April 1. More than twenty 3D printers […]

The FCC has proposed a $200 million program to support health care providers’ use of telehealth services during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Commission announced March 30. Congress appropriated the $200 […]

  Cobham Aerospace Connectivity has received a contract from the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence’s (MOD) Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) to research advanced anti-jam techniques to protect navigation signals […]

The U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) has awarded Raytheon and L3Harris each contracts to develop protected tactical waveform capable modems, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) […]

AXESS Networks (AXESS), has signed a joint venture agreement with the Saudi Arabian communications provider Middle East Telecommunications (METelecom) to provide end-to-end managed satellite communications solutions for customers operating in […]

Virgin Orbit has developed a new mass-producible bridge ventilator to help in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Virgin Orbit reached out to California Governor Gavin Newsom, who connected the […]

Exotrail has released its cloud-based mission design software, ExoOPS – Mission Design for customers, and announced that Eutelsat is contracted to use the software. Eutelsat Project Manager Antonin Hirsch said […]

Skyrora, a United Kingdom-based smallsat launch company, has restructured its manufacturing division to produce face visors and hand sanitizer to combat coronavirus. The company said it has refocused all of […]

Hughes Network Systems has been awarded a $3.5 million follow-on contract from U.S. Naval Air Systems to enhance airborne communications for U.S. Coast Guard on its HC-27J aircraft. Under the […]

mPower Technology has closed an additional $1.85 million in Series A funding, bringing the company’s total Series A round to $4.35 million, the solar technology company announced on March 24. […]

Iceye has unveiled capability of 25 cm resolution imaging with the company’s current commercial Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) small satellite constellation of three in-orbit spacecraft. The Finnish company said its […]

Lockheed Martin will advance more than $50 million to the small- and medium-sized business partners in its supply chain so that the companies can continue to operate and sustain jobs […]

The U.S. Navy has awarded Lockheed Martin Space Systems a $112.7 million cost-plus-award-fee, firm-fixed-price, Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) contract for Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) space segment sustainment. The Navy announced the […]

Satcom Global’s Aura VSAT (Very Small Aperture Terminal) solution now includes Ku-band hardware from the Intellian NX series of maritime VSAT antennas, including the v85NX, v100NX, and v130NX models, the […]

The FCC has taken steps to assist participants in its Rural Health Care Program as part of its work to ensure that hospitals and health care providers have the resources […]

ACCESS.SPACE Alliance, which represents the small satellite sector and its stakeholders, has called for support for the sector during the Covid-19 crisis. The organization said that since the Covid-19 virus […]

The U.S. Navy has awarded CACI Inc. a $180 million Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite-quantity (IDIQ)  performance based, cost-plus-fixed-fee, level-of-effort contract for special operations communications systems, satellite communications, and network support services. The contract […]

GHGSat is supplying Bloomberg its methane emissions risk predictions data for the Permian Basin in the southwestern United States, the company announced Wednesday.  The risk index is calculated using GHGSat’s […]

Rocket Lab announced on Tuesday that it has paused preparation on its next launch in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The mission was scheduled to lift off from Launch Complex […]

RigNet has been awarded a five-year U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) for Information Technology Professional Services contract. This contract includes three 5-year renewal periods for a […]

The White House named NASA and the National Science Foundation as the federal agencies that will help lead its newly launched COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium. The Consortium’s goal is […]

Nevada-based spacecraft manufacturer Bigelow Aerospace has laid off its entire workforce of 88 employees, effective immediately, after Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak ordered all “non-essential” businesses in the state to close, […]

The Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) has approved the 5G variant of Globalstar’s Band 53, which will be known as n53, the mobile satellite operator announced March 23. Globalstar said […]

Planet has entered into a partnership with Seisan, a custom software solutions and systems integration company specializing in geospatial technologies, to help the data imaging satellite operator expand into new […]

  Arianespace performed its second OneWeb launch in 2020 on Saturday, March 21, launching 34 satellites into orbit aboard a Soyuz launch vehicle. Arianespace and Starsem carried out Flight ST28 […]