E-letter: Briefs

The U.S. Space Force has completed a new service vision for enterprise satellite communications that seeks to eliminate traditional stovepipes for system acquisition and allow for rapid employment of new […]

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has completed a new satellite production facility at the company’s Kamakura Works in Kamakura, Japan. Between this facility and existing facilities, Mitsubishi Electric’s plans to increase annual […]

The National Weather Service (NWS) has selected ERT and subcontractor Hughes Network Systems to upgrade and expand managed satellite and wireless services at NWS locations in the contiguous United States, […]

DISH Network Corporation reported its Fourth Quarter (Q4) 2019 revenue totaled $3.24 billion, a decrease of 2.1% from the $3.31 billion in revenue for 2018 Q4. Net income attributable to […]

Arianespace successfully launched a dual-satellite Ariane 5 mission from Ariane Launch Complex No. 3 (ELA 3) French Guiana on Tuesday. The mission placed JCSAT-17 for the Japanese operator Sky Perfect […]

Blue Origin opened its rocket engine production facility in Huntsville, Alabama on Monday. The company plans for this 350,000 square-foot engine manufacturing facility to conduct high rate production of the […]

Intelsat has debuted FlexMove, an end-terminal managed service that it said allows people to connect to the Internet, private data networks, and cloud services from virtually anywhere in the world, […]

Gilat Satellite Networks said its first-to-flight Electronically Steered Antenna (ESA) terminal has achieved what it calls an industry-first with In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) over Non-Geostationary (NGSO) satellites. The company said the […]

The Seamless Air Alliance has published what it is caling the first-ever standard for In-Flight Connectivity (IFC). The standard – Seamless Release 1.0 – establishes a Modular Platform Architecture for […]

Made In Space has selected small satellite manufacturer and mission services provider Blue Canyon Technologies (BCT) to support the development of the spacecraft platform for the company’s upcoming Archinaut One […]

Virgin Galactic Holdings has relocated SpaceShipTwo, VSS Unity, to its commercial headquarters at Spaceport America’s Gateway to Space building in New Mexico. VSS Unity, attached to the carrier aircraft, VMS […]

Calian Group has been selected by a global satellite communications operator to provide and install new Radio Frequency (RF) satellite ground systems. Calian SED, a global supplier of communication systems […]

Eutelsat released its financial results for the first half of its 2019/20 Fiscal Year (FY), and First Half revenues of its verticals were down 4.9% like-for-like compared to 2018. The […]

Hughes Network Systems is among the companies receiving support from FCC to expand deployment of rural broadband. The FCC has authorized more than $240 million in funding over ten years […]

Astranis has finished a $90 million financing round led by Venrock, with significant participation from existing investor Andreessen Horowitz. The company said it is building the first of its kind […]

  Channel network and content distributor AfricaXP has signed multi-year agreements with Eutelsat Communications for Ku-band capacity on two Eutelsat satellites, positioned at 16 degrees East and 7 degrees East. […]

President Trump issued an executive order Wednesday that the federal government will take steps to ensure that Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) services like GPS are not disrupted or manipulated, […]

Spaceflight Industries is selling its satellite rideshare launch business Spaceflight to Mitsui & Co., in partnership with Yamasa Co. Spaceflight Industries plans to leverage the capital from this agreement to […]

Astroscale Holdings has been selected as the commercial partner for Phase I of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) first debris removal project, calling it a “groundbreaking” step by Japan […]

The SES Board of Directors has appointed Sandeep Jalan as CFO, effective on May 6. Sandeep succeeds Andrew Browne who stepped down in October 2019. He was most recently the […]

Thaicom has nearly finished migrating customers from Thaicom 5 after the satellite suffered a technical anomaly. The company has asked its satellite television broadcast customers to migrate their television platforms […]

NewSpace Networks, an aerospace software and investment company is working to raise $200 million to transform the industry from hardware-focused to software-centric. The company plans to do this through a […]

ADVA has launched a centralized GNSS monitoring and assurance tool that uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) for comprehensive predictive maintenance. ADVA said the customer-owned tool enables users […]

Telit has partnered with Sternum, the multilayered cybersecurity solution to provide real-time embedded protection for Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Telit said Sternum’s solution can be built into its xE910 […]

A judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York refused a request to block T-Mobile’s proposed acquisition of Sprint. In the ruling, Judge Victor Marrero […]

The first U.S. Space Force budget request allocates two-thirds of its proposed funding to research-and-development efforts in recognition of Pentagon priorities to build resilient architectures and new capabilities to challenge […]

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying the Solar Orbiter lifted off from Space Launch Complex-41 in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Sunday at 11:03 p.m. EST. Solar Orbiter […]

Lockheed Martin has delivered its third next-generation GPS III satellite to the U.S. Space Force ahead of an expected April launch. Last week, Lockheed Martin shipped the GPS III space […]

Comtech EF Data, a subsidiary of Comtech Telecommunications that is based in Tempe, Arizona, was selected by Bansat S.A. to supply satellite communications ground equipment to support the Aeronautica Civil […]

Sourcewater, a digital platform for oilfield water intelligence, has debuted DirtWork Alert, which enables Sourcewater clients to see new Permian Basin oilfield development on the ground as soon as it […]