E-letter: Briefs

Swedish satellite operator Ovzon has debuted a new mobile satellite terminal in a small form factor, the Ovzon T8. The terminal is designed for mobility across air, land, and sea, […]

Aircraft Interiors Expo (AIX) was another opportunity for satellite companies to make the case for in-flight connectivity (IFC) to airlines. Via Satellite rounds up some of the significant announcements involving […]

Canadian space domain awareness (SDA) company NorthStar Earth & Space plans to go public through a SPAC deal announced Friday that values the company at $300 million.  NorthStar integrates ground-based […]

The European Space Agency has selected Toronto-based Kepler Communications as prime contractor for HydRON Element 3, the third part of a sovereign optical communications constellation, the company announced this week […]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Boeing and its subsidiary Millennium Space Systems are rolling out a new mid-class satellite platform called Resolute — designed to give more capability than a traditional small […]

Slingshot Aerospace released Portal, an artificial intelligence-based platform for satellite data monitoring and analysis this week. The software combines Slingshot’s data flows with external sources into its analytics engine, which […]

Lonestar gave a launch date for “the world’s first commercially operational space-based sovereign data storage platform,” dubbed StarVault, in a statement on Wednesday. The company said demand for off-planet data […]

Rocket Lab on Tuesday said it closed its acquisition of optical communications terminal (OCT) supplier Mynaric AG for $155.3 million, $5.3 million more than the original deal terms announced in […]

Airbus will equip 20 of Delta Air Lines‘ upcoming A350-1000 aircraft with a multi-orbit in-flight connectivity (IFC) solution co-developed by Delta and satellite operator Hughes under the terms of a new […]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — To meet the Defense Department’s appetite for orbital warfare capabilities, Lockheed Martin is self-funding two next-generation space dominance efforts for rendezvous and proximity operations (RPO) and command […]

California-based satellite ground-systems technology company ThinKom unveiled a new multi-orbit electronically steered antenna (ESA) for aircraft on Monday. Named the ThinAir Nexus, the new ESA is designed for ease of […]

Toronto-based MDA Space presented MDA Midnight, an on-orbit servicing platform, at Space Symposium on Monday morning. Midnight is designed for rendezvous and proximity operations (RPO) use to detect, identify, counter, […]

Anthropic has announced an ambitious new project as it looks to play a key role in securing the world’s most critical software. It is teaming up with Amazon Web Services, […]

The Artemis II crew splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego on Friday, wrapping up a historic nearly 10-day mission that marked the first crewed […]

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said Amazon’s satellite constellation is scheduled to launch service in mid-2026, in a letter to shareholders on Thursday.  Jassy did not share a more specific timeframe […]

BryceTech, one of the leading space research firms, has released its 2025 Year in Review tracking the launch market. It shows a market moving towards small satellites, and underlines the […]

EnduroSat and Shield Space have joined a strategic partnership to jointly operate space defense missions, EnduroSat said on April 8. The companies’ combined technologies could allow them to deliver on-orbit […]

Commercial satellite operator and spatial intelligence provider Vantor on Thursday introduced two new classes of electro-optical imaging satellites that packaged together offer its customers high-resolution imagery and frequent revisit rates around the […]

U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) said on Wednesday that it has awarded 14 companies more than $1.8 billion in firm fixed price “Andromeda” contracts for the Geosynchronous Reconnaissance […]

Neo Space Group (NSG), the fast-growing Saudi space company, has appointed Haithem Mohammed Mojil Alfaraj as its new CEO. Alfaraj replaces Martijn Blanken, who has led the company since its inception […]

The FCC is set to vote later this month to update satellite spectrum-sharing rules between Geostationary (GEO) and Non-Geostationary (NGSO) satellite systems. If adopted, the Report and Order would replace […]

Italy and Argentina are to continue their collaboration in the space data arena. e-GEOS, a joint venture between the Italian Space Agency and Telespazio, has signed a multi-year co-operation deal with […]

Hungarian company 4iG Space and Defense Technologies has signed with Northrop Grumman to develop the nation’s first communications satellite under a deal announced Tuesday.  Northrop Grumman will build HUGEO — a […]

Starfish Space on Tuesday said it has raised about $110 million in a Series B round that will be used to execute orbital servicing missions already on contract, boost production of […]

The Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) will test an All.Space Hydra 4 multi-band, multi-orbit mobility terminal to inform short-term satcom architecture decisions.  The Hydra 4 mobility terminal is designed to deliver […]

Planet recently performed AI-driven object detection directly onboard a Pelican-4 satellite, using the satellite’s onboard Nvidia Jetson Orin module.  Planet shared details on Tuesday of the recent tech milestone. On […]

The Artemis II crew has now officially traveled farther from Earth than any previous human mission. On Monday afternoon at approximately 1:56 p.m. EDT, the crew surpassed the Apollo 13 […]

The White House released its fiscal 2027 budget proposal on Friday, which called for a “historic increase” in defense spending and fully funding the Golden Dome missile defense initiative, while […]

L3Harris and Comtech have recently released a new multi-orbit, tactical satcom embeddable modem, which works with certain L3Harris terminals.  The partners said the new C2 modem announced March 31 will […]

This year, Iridium is rolling out Iridium NTN Direct, which CEO Matt Desch says will make Iridium the first narrow-band satellite IoT service that is standardized and global. Iridium was […]