E-letter: Briefs

Konnect Africa, a subsidiary of Eutelsat Communications, Schoolap and Flash Services has committed to providing high speed internet to several thousand schools across the Democratic Republic of Congo as part […]

SEAKR Engineering has been selected to join Lockheed Martin’s team to help design and build a prototype payload for the U.S. Space Force’s Protected Tactical Satellite Communications, or PTS, program. […]

DISH Network is providing 20 MHz of AWS-4 and all of its 700 MHz spectrum to AT&T at no cost for 60 days in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Last […]

  Northrop Grumman has received a $48.2 million single award, Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) contract from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) for the procurement of Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) to […]

The Board of Directors of Spacecom, which operates the AMOS satellite fleet, has appointed Dan Zajicek as new CEO, effective April 1, the company announced Thursday. Zajicek has been the […]

SatSignature has deployed what it calls the world’s first spectrum analyzer-in-the-cloud service, offering constant global satellite spectrum monitoring, recording, and analysis in web-based subscription packages. The company, which announced the […]

Lynk Global said that it has reached the first-ever milestone of successfully connecting a satellite in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) to a mobile phone on Earth, and has sent a text […]

NASA has awarded L3Harris Corporation the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) Engineering Development Unit Telescope contract, the Agency announced Monday, March 16. The cost-plus, fixed-fee, 36-month contract has a total […]

SpaceX launched yet another batch of 60 Starlink satellites on Wednesday morning and used a first stage booster for the fifth time, but did not successfully land that booster — […]

Intelsat has selected SpaceX as its launch partner for IS-40e, which is set to launch in 2022. The Geostationary (GEO) satellite, which will be manufactured by Maxar Technologies, is set […]

Rocket Lab has reached an agreement to acquire Sinclair Interplanetary, a Toronto-based satellite hardware company, the small satellite launch company said March 16. “By combining the experience and capabilities of both companies, Rocket […]

MPIQC Inc., which provides electronic contract manufacturing solutions and services, is moving into its new U.S. base at the Space Life Science Lab (SLSL) in Exploration Park in the Cape […]

Phase Four has received a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract by Air Force tech accelerator AFWERX, to adapt its Maxwell in-space propulsion system for defense users. The […]

Lockheed Martin has named board American Tower Corporation CEO James Taiclet as president and CEO, effective June 15. Tacilet, 59, has been on Lockheed Martin’s board since 2018, and will […]

Launch campaigns at the Guiana Space Center (CSG) in French Guiana have been suspended because of Covid-19, and the need to fully implement the measures from the French government, Arianespace […]

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Space Foundation has postponed the 36th Space Symposium, which was scheduled for March 30 through April 2 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The Space Foundation announced […]

DISH Network is providing its entire portfolio of 600 MHz spectrum to T-Mobile at no cost for 60 days, the company announced Monday, in response to the spread of COVID-19. […]

Hughes Network Systems has received a Data Link Modernization (DLM) contract by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) to provide advanced satellite communications systems for the U.S. Army‘s MQ-1C Gray Eagle […]

NanoAvionics is opening a new sales and engineering support office in Columbia, Illinois, which will be the first satellite factory in Illinois and the Midwest. The Columbia facility is the […]

Speedcast International Limited has launched a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) solution that it said blends satellite, LTE, wireless, and fiber technologies. The solution is designed for onshore and offshore […]

Spacebridge has delivered a solution for 2G/4G mobile cellular backhaul over satellite network to a Mobile Network Operator (MNO) in Africa. The company said the solution will service unserved remote […]

The Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) has announced three companies will build prototypes for the U.S. Space Force’s Protected Tactical Satellite (PTS) Communication program as Lockheed Martin and Boeing […]

Capella Space has signed a deal with Rocket Lab to launch one of the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites in its Whitney Constellation, calling it the first-ever SAR satellite to […]

Sen, a British space company working to provide real-time Ultra-High Definition (UHD) video of Earth, has signed a multi-million euro contract with NanoAvionics to build the first five nano-satellites of […]

Arabsat is using Atos’ satellite monitoring solution to mitigate interferences in its satellite services, the satellite operator announced Thursday. Atos SkyMon carrier monitoring system (CMS), is operational at Arabsat’s ground […]

The FCC released its final report and order on repurposing C-band spectrum for 5G on Tuesday, slightly shifting the amounts that satellite operators can receive in accelerated relocation payments to […]

SpaceLogistics, a wholly owned subsidiary of Northrop Grumman Corporation has been selected by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as its commercial partner for the agency’s Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous […]

Get SAT has announced that its Micro SAT and Milli SAT terminals are compatible with SES’s O3b MEO-based solutions to provide versatile data communications of up to 10 Mbps for […]

Isotropic Systems is licensing patented core components of its multi-beam antennas to aeronautical and defense system integrators in order to accelerate customized designs, certifications, and deployments of next-generation terminals aboard […]

Maxar Technologies’ financial results for the Fourth Quarter (Q4) capped off a year of revenue decline as the company reported revenues of $410 million for Q4, down about 2% compared […]