E-letter: Briefs

The U.S. Space Force’s Space Development Agency (SDA) wants companies to submit proposals by Jan. 19 for a four to eight satellite constellation to detect/track hypersonic and other advanced missiles...

ULA’s Vulcan Centaur rocket won’t debut until early 2024, after it encountered routine issues during the first wet dress rehearsal. ULA announced Thursday that it fixed the issues, ran a...

Starlink continues to make progress in the in-flight connectivity arena. Air New Zealand has become the latest major airline to start working with Starlink. It will work with Starlink to...

Intellian Technologies debuted the OW130L satellite terminal for Eutelsat OneWeb customers, the company announced Tuesday. The dual parabolic terminal is particularly suitable for customers requiring high-capacity connectivity, such as those...

Europe’s meteorological satellite agency Eumetsat has awarded Spire Global a contract to provide radio occultation (RO) data. Spire will provide the data in near-real time, and it will be distributed...

SES Space & Defense has won a five-year deal with the United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM) to deliver global video and audio programming. USAGM awarded the five-year Global...

Edge computing startup Armada emerged from stealth mode on Monday with plans to bridge the digital divide by offering mobile data centers and software that can control Starlink deployments.  Armada...

True Anomaly raised a $100 million Series B funding round, the company announced Tuesday. The company builds spacecraft and software to address space domain awareness, and said this funding will...

AvL Technologies has appointed Jerry Ivester as its new Chief Commercial Officer, the company announced Dec. 8. He replaces Tony Wilkey who is retiring after 15 years with AvL. Ivester...

Scottish space software technology provider Bright Ascension appointed Patricia Druken as its new COO and Laura Calder as its new CFO as it is getting set to launch its end-to-end...