E-letter: Briefs

Hispasat and PLD Space have agreed to work together to define the technical features and analyzing compatibility to launch services on board MIURA 5 launcher. This agreement that these companies […]

Rakuten and Vodafone are the lead investors in a just-announced space-based cellular broadband network called SpaceMobile from AST & Science. AST & Science plans to create a constellation of Low-Earth-Orbit […]

AE Industrial Partners, a private equity firm specializing in aerospace and defense, has acquired smallsat manufacturer Adcole Maryland Aerospace (AMA) from Adcole Corporation, a portfolio company of Artemis Capital Partners. […]

On the same day that SES delivered its 2019 financial results in which revenue was below expectations, the company also announced it is considering separating its Networks business.  The company […]

PredaSAR Corporation, a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) company, has completed a $25 million seed financing round, led by Miami-based investor, Rokk3r Fuel. PredaSAR also named retired U.S. Air Force Maj. […]

Optus said it has successfully launched a 2300MHz and 3500MHz spectrum 5G dual-band production network through a partnership with Ericsson and Samsung, calling the network the world’s first. The dual-band […]

ORLANDO, Fla. – SpaceX has managed to bring the unit cost down to build its Starlink broadband internet satellites, but needs to do the same for its forthcoming Starship launch vehicle to […]

Relativity Space is now moving to a huge new facility in California as it looks to continue its growth. The company announced Friday that it has secured a new headquarters […]

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions was awarded an $11.5 million contract from an unnamed government customer to build an advanced space radio monitoring system to help regulate and protect satellite […]

Hughes Network Systems and Telecomunicaciones de México (TELECOMM) will deploy Express Wi-Fi Hotspots in as many as 4,000 rural communities in Mexico, the operator announced Feb. 28. TELECOMM, a decentralized […]

Thaicom has migrated its customers from the Thaicom 5 satellite to Thaicom 6 and other satellites, the company announced Thursday. The company said the migration and service restoration were completed […]

African multi-service telecommunications operator Orange said it will be the first telco to adopt O3b mPOWER, SES’s Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) satellite communications system. The operator, which is present in […]

Iridium Communications has announced that its Iridium Certus 700 service is commercially available. The company said that when Iridium Certus was first launched in early 2019, it provided L-band upload […]

Telesat released its financial results for the three-month and one-year periods that ended Dec. 31, 2019. For 2019, the Canadian satellite operator reported consolidated revenue of $911 million, which was […]

The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded L3Harris Technologies a more than $14.6 million modification to a previously awarded contract issued by the Naval Information Warfare Systems Command.  This $14,693,123 […]

Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellations were named among 10 Breakthrough Technologies for 2020 by MIT Technology Review in its March/April print issue. Other technologies named include Artificial Intelligence (AI) -designed […]

Northrop Grumman Corporation and its SpaceLogistics LLC subsidiary have successfully docked two commercial satellites in orbit, a historic first. The Mission Extension Vehicle-1 (MEV-1) was docked to the Intelsat 901 […]

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions reported its Fourth Quarter (Q4) 2019, reporting $185.1 million in revenue, a 12.6% increase over Q4 2018. The company reported Q4 2019 net income of […]

Iridium released its financial results for the Fourth Quarter (Q4) of 2019 on Tuesday, reporting a Q4 net loss of $107.9 million, but also Q4 total revenue of $138.9 million, […]

Microlab rolled out a portfolio of 5G Ultra-Wideband (UWB) products for sub-6 GHz deployments. The Wireless Telecom Group company said these products cover all existing commercial wireless bands, as well […]

Spacecom, which operates the AMOS satellite fleet, and Get SAT report that using AMOS-17’s steerable Ka-band High Throughput Satellite (HTS) beams and Get SAT’s miniaturized Micro-SAT satcom terminals, they have […]

Flyht Aerospace Solutions has received a $1.77 million purchase order for Software as a Service (SaaS) features FLYHTHealth and FLYHTMail from the airline Azur Havacilik A.S. (Azur), which is based […]

Eutelsat has selected Satellite Mediaport Services (SMS Teleport) to provide back-up teleport-based broadcast satellite services for its EUTELSAT 8 West B satellite. SMS Teleport said it is providing Eutelsat with […]

Hispasat has signed an agreement with mobile network operator Claro Argentina to provide internet to 250 rural communities through a cellular backhaul service by satellite. Hispasat will provide the capacity […]

A group of telecommunications, technology, aviation, and aerospace companies including Airbus Defence and Space and Softbank Corp., announced a partnership on Friday called the HAPS Alliance, to promote the use […]

Exotrail has signed a contract with AAC Clyde Space, to equip its customer Eutelsat with propulsion solutions for its ELO 3 and ELO 4 spacecrafts. Exotrail plans for the contract […]

Huawei presented its 5G products and solutions in London on Thursday, claiming that the Chinese technology firm is supporting 41 telecom operators in their 5G commercial releases.  Yang Chaobin, President […]

Tarana Wireless Inc. announced on Thursday that in January, it received $24 million of follow-on preferred equity with commitments for $36 million of additional preferred equity through October 2020, fully […]

Comtech Xicom Technology has received a contract valued at more than $8.8 million for Ka-band Solid-State amplifiers for an In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) satcom application. Comtech Xicom Technology is a California-based […]

In its financial results released Thursday for the Fourth Quarter (Q4) that ended on Dec. 31, 2019, Echostar reported $499 million in revenue. This was an increase of about $45 […]