E-letter: Briefs

Aetherflux, the company started by former Robinhood co-founder Baiju Bhatt, has rebranded as Cowboy Space and expanded its focus to orbital data centers and associated launch infrastructure. Cowboy Space announced […]

Planet Labs Germany has won a significant new contract with a major government in Europe. The Greek government has signed a 2-year, 7-figure agreement with Planet that will include numerous […]

Globalstar grew revenue 17% year-over-year in the first quarter of 2026, which Globalstar reported as the operator is now in a process to be acquired by Amazon.  Globalstar provided a […]

Rocket Lab hit record quarterly revenue in the first quarter of 2026 and shared momentum for the upcoming Neutron launch vehicle as well as a robotics acquisition and work on […]

Skyroot Aerospace, the Indian launch startup, has secured another $60 million in funding. The company is one of the rising stars in India’s  space economy and becomes the nation’s first […]

HawkEye 360 raised $416 million in its initial public offering (IPO) on Thursday, becoming the second space company to go public this year.  The signals intelligence company began trading on […]

Spire has opened a new satellite manufacturing facility in Munich the company says has the capacity to produce up to 100 satellites per year. The facility is designed for end-to-end […]

MDA Space posted 32% year-over-year revenue growth in the first quarter of 2026 and more than 40% growth for its satellite manufacturing business, driven by work for Telesat Lightspeed and […]

Telespazio France will distribute multi-orbit terminals built by French terminal developer Greenerwave to the European defense market under a new agreement between the companies announced Wednesday.  Under the agreement, Telespazio […]

Verizon has made a significant expansion in its satellite fleet for disaster response as it moves toward a “satellite-everywhere” failover strategy, a representative for the telco told Via Satellite.  Verizon […]

Satellite manufacturer Astranis has raised $300 million in a new Series E funding round and secured up to $155 million in a credit facility to accelerate satellite production for its […]

Swissto12 has struck a key new partnership deal in Germany which could bring exciting new media broadcast capabilities to Geostationary (GEO) satellites. It will work with German high-performance space subsystem […]

Anduril Industries has named a team of collaborators for its recent award to prototype technologies for space-based interceptors, and will work with Impulse Space, Inversion Space, K2 Space, Sandia National […]

Telesat’s GEO business declined 25% year-over-year in the first quarter of 2026, as the operator works toward the launch of its Lightspeed constellation.  CEO Dan Goldberg said this decline in […]

AURORA, Colo. — The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) has awarded new contracts for Earth sensing data to three companies under its Strategic Commercial Enhancements (SCE) effort, adding additional satellite companies […]

Global semiconductor company STMicroelectronics — a supplier to SpaceX and other space companies – expects to earn more than $3 billion from its space business over the next three years.  Remi […]

Lockheed Martin is contributing to a recently announced partnership between Seagate Space and Firefly Aerospace to develop sea-based launch. The three companies will collaborate on an offshore launch platform for […]

Vantor on Monday said it has received a $70 million award from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) for the first option year of a program that gives the agency and vetted […]

SpaceX launched 45 payloads on a mission to loft a South Korean Earth Observation (EO) satellite early Sunday morning, with a number of rideshare customers onboard as well. The primary […]

Loft is to play a key role in an ambitious next-generation Earth Observation (EO) constellation project in France. It is to partner with Magellium Artal Group after winning a multi-year […]

Fielding more systems for orbital warfare has been the top priority of the White House’s nominee to succeed Chief of Space Operations Gen. B. Chance Saltzman. The Trump administration on […]

Sateliot has signed an agreement with Telefónica España to use its satellite IoT connectivity to expand Telefónica’s network in remote areas, as well as security and defense uses.  Sateliot, based […]

Skynopy has signed a new partnership deal with the French Space Agency (CNES). The partnership aims at optimizing frequency allocation for the ground stations operated by Skynopy in France. The […]

York Space Systems has moved to acquire terminal developer All.Space in a $355 million deal to make York a “complete communications ecosystem.”  All.Space is a leading terminal developer and manufacturer […]

The FCC on Thursday voted to adopt a new framework for Equivalent Power Flux Density (EPFD), which governs spectrum-sharing between GEO and NGSO systems. EPFD limits have been a hot-button […]

The Department of the Air Force (DAF) in the U.S. has unveiled plans to tap into top AI talent. This has direct implications to the government’s space strategy as the […]

Canada has canceled its contract with Spire Global to build a constellation of wildfire-monitoring satellites called WildFireSat. Yet the government remains committed to the space-based wildfire monitoring program, and looks […]

SpaceX launched the final ViaSat-3 satellite on Wednesday morning to complete Viasat’s trio of high-capacity Geostationary Orbit (GEO) satellites.  The heavy-lift mission launched on a Falcon Heavy from the Kennedy […]

Orbcomm has closed a $460 million refinancing that the company says will support growth initiatives and large-scale customer deployments and expand its platform.  As part of the package announced Wednesday, […]

True Anomaly on Tuesday said it raised $650 million in a new funding round that will be used to hire employees and scale its capabilities to meet customer demand for […]