E-letter: Briefs

Viasat has now reached the 50,000 sites mark in Brazil, a market in which it has been operating since 2018. Viasat announced this milestone July 27. While Viasat’s customers are...

Axess Networks signed a multi multi-year, multi-million agreement to serve its mining sector users with SES’s smart mining service via O3b mPOWER.  SES’s smart mining service — Onshore Energy &...

AST SpaceMobile has signed a five-year 5G deal with Nokia to jointly work to expand universal coverage with AST SpaceMobile connectivity and Nokia hardware. The companies have been collaborating for...

President Biden nominated Lt. Gen. B. Chance Saltzman to be the U.S. Space Force’s next Chief of Space Operations, succeeding Gen. John “Jay” Raymond, who is projected to retire later...

Thales Alenia Space is partnering with Italian startup Miprons to develop a satellite propulsion system that uses water as fuel. Miprons, based in Rome, has a proprietary technology for a...

Satellite IoT company Astrocast has signed a deal with IoT company Soracom to provide a solution that integrates satellite and cellular IoT connectivity. Under the agreement announced Wednesday, Soracom will...

Revenues at Boeing Defense, Space & Security fell 10% in the second quarter of 2022, and the segment recorded a $93 million charge on the Commercial Crew program for NASA. ...

Ball Aerospace signed an MoU with well-known data storage company Seagate Technologies to collaborate on data processing and storage technology in space, the company announced July 26. Through this collaborative...

SES has won a new deal in the cruise sector, a key target vertical for the company. SES announced Tuesday that it has signed a new agreement to provide high-speed...

Iridium Communications grew income in the second quarter of 2022 by 17% compared to the same time period last year, boosting commercial and government service revenue, along with subscriber equipment...