E-letter: Briefs

Get SAT and Inmarsat have demonstrated and deployed a Dual SAT terminal solution for U.S. government agencies, the companies announced on Monday. The solution employs Get SAT’s micronized Milli SAT LM […]

MDA will design and manufacture space-based L-band navigation antennas as part of a hosted payload on the MEASAT-3d satellite, which is currently being built by Airbus. The navigation antennas will […]

Mission operators at NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, have lost contact with the Asteria CubeSat, which studies planets outside our solar system. The last successful communication with Asteria […]

According to the ITU’s The State of Broadband 2019 report released in late September, the world achieved greater than 50% global broadband Internet penetration in 2019 — a major milestone. […]

The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has adopted ATSC 3.0 as a recommended digital broadcast standard, the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) announced on Thursday.  According to ATSC, this standard paves […]

Mozambique’s National Institute of Meteorology (INAM) has begun using a satellite system provided by China, according to Xinhua. INAM announced on Friday that the new system will allow for more […]

The global GPS market size is expected to reach $128.7 billion by 2025,  according to a new report from KBV Research. This estimate shows a market growth of 20.3% CAGR […]

KVH Industries and Kongsberg Digital have installed their first joint maritime IoT system on an active working vessel, the companies announced Thursday. The team installed a KVH Watch VSAT antenna […]

Airgain has released its CENTURION Next 9-in-1 5G antenna platform. The company claims its antenna platform delivers 5G performance and is the first in its class to provide full support […]

Gracenote, a Nielsen company, is providing global Over-the-Top (OTT) guide offerings for on-demand video streaming services in Europe. Gracenote aims to use its experience powering linear broadcast Electronic Program Guides […]

Geoforce will acquire the assets of Trakopolis’ subsidiary Trakopolis SaaS. Based in Calgary, Alberta, Trakopolis SaaS provides global traceability solutions. Geoforce, which is headquartered in Plano, Texas, plans to integrate […]

Nasdaq has delisted ordinary shares from Ability, a provider of tactical communications intelligence solutions, and suspended trading in the shares on Dec. 26. Nasdaq had previously informed Ability that it did […]

Elon Musk tweeted a simulation of what a crewed flight to the International Space Station on SpaceX’s Dragon will look like, forecasting a crewed flight during 2020.  “Crew Dragon should […]

L3Harris Technologies has been awarded a $100 million maximum U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) satellite contract to support U.S. Special Operations Command, DoD announced on Dec. 23.  The contract is […]

Maxar Technologies has agreed to sell MDA for $765 million to a consortium of financial sponsors led by Northern Private Capital, Maxar announced on Dec. 30. The company expects to […]

Boeing revealed Monday in a news release that CEO Dennis Muilenburg had resigned from his position as CEO and Board director. The board named current Chairman, David Calhoun, as CEO […]

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has designated Mitsubishi Electric as the prime contractor of the new satellite for Innovative Satellite Technology Demonstration-2, Mitsubishi Electric announced on Sunday.  Mitsubishi Electric aims […]

Astraea has released EarthAI Notebook, a tool for analyzing geospatial data. The company says that EarthAI Notebook is a fully hosted and managed JuypterLab Notebook designed to analyze raster data […]

Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft landed at White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico on Sunday, bringing an end to NASA‘s Orbital Flight Test, which missed its objective to dock with […]

Satellogic, an integrated geospatial analytics company, revealed Thursday that the company has $50 million in funding from new and existing investors. Existing investors, including Tencent and Pitanga, contributed approximately 40% […]

Hispasat and the Hispatec Group, which specializes in agricultural software, revealed Friday that they have signed an agreement to promote the use of new technologies in the agricultural sector in […]

The government of Luxembourg and Canadian technology company NorthStar Earth and Space signed a letter of intent on Thursday to create a Centre of Excellence for Clean Space in Luxembourg. […]

Amazon announced on Wednesday that it is leasing and renovating a new headquarters for its Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation initiative Project Kuiper in Redmond, Washington. According to Amazon, the new […]

NASA has selected United Launch Alliance (ULA) to provide launch services for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-T (GOES-T) mission, the agency announced on Wednesday. The GOES-T mission aims to provide […]

Inmarsat Government has ordered a Multi-Purpose Terminal (MPT) 46WGX from Orbit Communications Systems, the companies announced on Thursday. The order comes after the two companies signed a co-development agreement in […]

Elbit Systems has received $33 million in payment as full and final settlement under a settlement agreement with Hughes Network Systems, relating to litigation in the U.S. Federal Courts for […]

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded Centurum Information Technology a $89.9 million single award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, performance-based service contract utilizing cost-plus-fixed-fee task orders. The contract is for satcom services […]

GomSpace (GS) and Lockheed Martin Space will develop and deliver a GS 6U nanosatellite to Orbital Micro Systems (OMS) in the United Kingdom, the companies announced Wednesday, Dec. 18. The […]

Hughes Network Systems has added the VMware SD-WAN powered by VeloCloud platform to its HughesON Managed SD-WAN portfolio for enterprise customers. The company said the addition of the VeloCloud platform further […]

Growers Edge announced a partnership with CropX on Tuesday, Dec. 17, that the companies say will reduce risk and sustainably improve yields for farm operations. The companies aim to develop […]