E-letter: Briefs

Maxar Technologies will integrate and fly NASA’s Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) instrument on a 1300-class satellite in Geostationary Orbit (GEO). TEMPO will be the first space-based instrument to provide […]

Viasat‘s Real-Time Earth (RTE) service achieved a major milestone by providing ground station service support to General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems‘ (GA-EMS) Orbital Test Bed (OTB) satellite after its successful launch on […]

Speedcast International was awarded a new multi-year, fully-managed communications contract with Color Line, onboard the Color Carrier vessel. Color Line is a Norwegian cruiseferry company, and Color Carrier is the latest addition to the […]

ABL Space Systems, the California-based developer of the RS1 launch vehicle, revealed that it has closed a strategic investment from Lockheed Martin Ventures. The price value of the investment was […]

OneWeb Satellites – a joint venture of OneWeb and Airbus – opened a high-volume, high-speed satellite production facility in Merrit Island, Florida, near the Kennedy Space Center. The 105,500 square foot […]

Raytheon signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the U.K. Ministry of Defense to join Team Artemis Industry, a collaboration between government and industry formed to fast track the launch […]

Cobham Advanced Electronic Solutions (CAES) appointed Thomas Casale as Vice President (VP) and general manager of its Common Network Interface (CNI) and Interconnect Solutions Business Area (CIS), located in Exeter, […]

Dish appointed Kannan Alagappan as Senior Vice President (SVP) and Chief Technology Officer (CTO), reporting to DISH President and CEO Erik Carlson. Alagappan has held technology leadership roles with major telecom […]

Airbus agreed to a five-year contract with the U.K. Ministry of Defense (MOD) to manage test and reference services to support the delivery and assured release of Command, Control, Communications, Computers, […]

NanoAvionics U.K. and Lacuna Space, both based at Harwell Campus Space Cluster, signed a second contract to integrate the Lacuna Space LoRa-based Space Gateway into NanoAvionics’ M6P nanosatellite bus, which will […]

OneWeb revealed the successful test of its six satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). All satellites delivered high-speed, low-latency services, with speed of more than 400 Megabits per Second (Mbps) which […]

Atlas Space Operations revealed its support for Amazon Web Services (AWS) Ground Station within the Atlas Space Operations Freedom Network. The collaboration aims to provide customers an expanded network of satellite […]

Comtech Telecommunications revealed that during the fourth quarter of fiscal 2019, its Command and Control Technologies group was awarded $4.2 million in rapid innovation funding from the U.S. Army for […]

Kratos Defense and Security Solutions was awarded a follow on Task Order (TO) by the U.S. Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division (NAWCTSD). Valued at approximately $15.1 million, it was […]

Intellian signed a strategic partnership in satellite communications with Hyundai Global Service (HGS), a subsidiary of Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) group, on July 15. Both companies will expand HGS’ Integrated […]

Speedcast International will deliver Ku-band Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) services for 17 SK Offshore and Marine (SKOM) vessels, the chartering division of one of Malaysia’s largest Offshore Support Vessel (OSV) […]

BEI Precision Systems and Space Company delivered the Encoder/Motor Assembly for Raytheon‘s Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) J4 payload. “The delivery enables Raytheon to continue the buildout of this […]

UbiquitiLink, a commercial space startup providing mobile connectivity, raised $5.2 million in Seed 2 round financing from Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund and Blazar Ventures. This brings the […]

Goonhilly Earth Station opened its new data center and launched a managed High Performance Computing (HPC) platform for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) computing on demand. Goonhilly’s goal is to […]

Kleos Space, a space-powered Radio Frequency Reconnaissance data provider, completed all acceptance reviews and the satellites are mission-ready awaiting transport to RocketLab’s Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand. The satellites […]

Hughes Network Systems was awarded a National Association of State Procurement Officials (NASPO) ValuePoint contract to deliver HughesNet for Business to state agencies and eligible political subdivisions. Under the agreement, Hughes […]

Seakr Engineering is building digital Radio Frequency (RF) processors for Saturn Satellite Networks‘ small Geostationary Orbit (GEO) satellite known as “NationSat.” Saturn focuses on building small geostationary satellites, and is […]

NASA awarded a $73.7 million contract to Made In Space to demonstrate the ability of a small spacecraft, called Archinaut One, to manufacture and assemble spacecraft components in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). […]

Speedcast revealed a joint service offering with In Aria! Networks and Telespazio. Relying on a combination of In Aria! Networks’ redundant video contribution over Internet Protocol (IP) gateways integrated with the Speedcast […]

Russia’s Roscosmos successfully launched a Proton-M carrier rocket on July 13, carrying the Spektr-RG space telescope. The rocket lifted off from launch pad N81 at Baikonur cosmodrome at 3:30 p.m., […]

Maxar Technologies began production on a Legion-class Geostationary Orbit (GEO) satellite for Ovzon, a company located in the United States and Sweden that works to increase mobile broadband connectivity in […]

Spire Global and Teqplay are collaborating to bring new technology to the maritime market. Teqplay delivers information to the maritime industry to help companies reduce operational costs, increase asset utilization, and reduce […]

Intermap Technologies received a task order for $3.2 million to provide high-resolution terrain elevation models, related imagery, multi-sensor/multi-frequency source data, and feature layer extraction for a government customer. In addition, the company will […]

Viasat has launched Community Wi-Fi trials in Brazil. According to Viasat, the Community Wi-Fi hotspot initiative is focused on providing high-speed, affordable, satellite broadband connectivity to people where internet connections are […]

Spire Global Luxembourg will launch its open source Data Lake. The Spire Data Lake is accessible free of charge to all start-ups, research institutes, and public agencies in Luxembourg. These […]