E-letter: Briefs

QinetiQ’s space business formally opened new cleanroom facilities and secured a new three-year contract with the European Space Agency (ESA). The $9.9 million (9 million euros) contract with The European […]

Astrobotic and Bosch revealed the launch of SoundSee to the International Space Station (ISS). As part of a research collaboration with NASA, the lunchbox-sized SoundSee module will assist astronauts by […]

Garmin was honored with wins in two categories in the 2019 DAME Design Awards, an annual competition that celebrates marine equipment design. The Garmin Force trolling motor and the GPSMAP […]

Airbus, The European Space Agency (ESA), and Eutelsat presented the new multibeam active antenna payload today at Airbus in Madrid. Airbus’ ELSA+ (ELectronically Steerable Antenna+) is a first for commercial satellite […]

U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) awarded L3Harris Technologies an initial $86 million full-rate production order for Falcon IV AN/PRC-163 two-channel handheld tactical radios that will provide Special Operations Forces (SOF) […]

Comtech Telecommunications entered into an agreement to acquire UHP Networks, a provider of  satellite ground station technology solutions, for a purchase price of approximately $40 million. Founded in 2005, UHP is […]

Gilat Satellite Networks achieved the fastest ever modem speeds of 1.2 Gbps total throughput over Telesat‘s Phase 1 Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite. Gilat’s technology aims to open opportunities for new telecommunications […]

Capella Space was awarded a contract with the U.S. Air Force to apply Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data to the military branch’s virtual reality software for the purpose of simulating […]

Blue Sky Network, an Iridium Satellite Communications partner, revealed that theHawkEye ADT has received Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) certification with an approved model list supplemental type certificate (AML-STC) for Boeing […]

Firefly Aerospace revealed this past summer the Dedicated Research and Education Accelerator Mission (DREAM), a global competition to host academic and educational payloads as rideshare participants on the inaugural flight […]

Eutelsat Communication‘s Konnect satellite, built by Thales Alenia Space, is now undergoing final preparation prior to being shipped to the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana, for a launch […]

NASA has added five American companies to the pool of vendors that will be eligible to bid on proposals to provide deliveries to the surface of the Moon through the […]

Peraton was awarded a contract to develop the Satellite Ground Terminal Prototype for the U.S. Army. Performance of the 20-month contract, awarded by the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile […]

Raytheon is designing Pit Boss, an autonomous mission management system for The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s (DARPA’s) Blackjack satellite constellation, with prime Scientific Systems Company. The Blackjack constellation will […]

T-Mobile CEO John Legere is stepping down. The wireless operator announced that its Board of Directors has named Mike Sievert as CEO, effective May 1, 2020. Currently President, COO and […]

Inmarsat received formal confirmation from its launch partner, Arianespace, that the company’s GX5 satellite will be launched from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana on Nov 22. The […]

Gilat Satellite Networks selected SES for the development and deployment of a global multiple application Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) platform for its O3b mPOWER Medium-Earth Orbit (MEO) communications system. […]

Kepler Communications and Cobham formed a strategic partnership aimed at eliminating barriers to the adoption of data services over Kepler’s Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) network. Under the new arrangement, organizations can […]

The C-Band Alliance (CBA) filed its Treasury Contribution Proposal today with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The contribution proposal states that if the FCC adopts the CBA proposal, the CBA […]

Airbus space engineers are currently testing the Copernicus Sentinel-6A satellite at the Space Test Center of Industrieanlagen-Betriebsgesellschaft mbH (IABG) in Ottobrunn — near Munich, Germany — to prove its readiness […]

BlackSky, a provider of geospatial intelligence, satellite imaging, and global monitoring services, secured a $50 million senior secured loan from Intelsat. The transaction results in an industry first, creating a […]

Luokung Technology, a Chinese spatial-temporal big-data processing technology company, revealed that Geely Technology Group and Acuitas Capital have made strategic investments in Luokung through the purchase of preferred shares and common […]

Eutelsat Communications signed a multiyear contract with Orao Telecom Congo for video capacity aboard one of its satellites located at 7 degrees East. In a first for the African continent, […]

Orbital Insight completed a $50 million Series D financing. The funding round was co-led by Sequoia Capital and Clearvision Ventures, with participation from new investors Invicta Growth, Bunge Ventures, Chevron […]

Gilat Satellite Networks was awarded a $10 million five-year project for 3G/4G backhaul services in Peru. The infrastructure and network that Gilat recently started to operate is the basis for […]

EchoStar Mobile revealed the launch of the new Hughes 4500 S-band terminal to provide connectivity over satellite networks for mobile, land, and maritime network applications. EchoStar Mobile is a subsidiary […]

Arabsat has signed a three-way deal with Sudan-based VSAT service provider, Sudasat and ST Engineering iDirect to bring better connectivity services to people in the Sudan. The agreement will see […]

Thuraya’s ambitions in the aero sector have been boosted thanks to a successful demonstration today. In partnership with SCOTTY, a developer of beyond line-of-sight (BLOS) satellite communication solutions based in […]

Isotropic Systems has successfully demonstrated bi-directional high-speed connectivity with a Ka-broadband satellite. The company believes this demonstration proves its optical beam-forming technology is capable of all electronic scanning and tracking […]

Kepler and Cobham SATCOM have formed a strategic partnership for high-capacity satellite data service delivery, the two companies announced Nov. 13. The goal of the partnership is to eliminate barriers […]