E-letter: Briefs

SpaceX will launch AST SpaceMobile’s BlueWalker 3 test satellite from Cape Canaveral, Florida during the week of August 15, according to an AST SpaceMobile statement posted Monday. BlueWalker 3, which...

OneWeb has released initial findings from its first OneWeb Connected Passenger Report, a survey of passenger attitudes toward air travel and inflight connectivity (IFC) in the post-pandemic landscape. Some see...

Satellite operator Eutelsat has just been granted ISO 14001 certification for its teleport in Turin, Italy, the company announced June 10. Issued by Bureau Veritas, a leader in certification services,...

Ball Aerospace awarded Rocket Lab a subcontract to manufacture the solar array panel for NASA’S GLIDE heliophysics mission. Ball Aerospace is building the spacecraft for NASA based on its Ball...

Te Pūnaha Ātea Space Institute (TPA-SI) at the University of Auckland, New Zealand ordered two nanosatellite platforms from NanoAvionics to support educational and technology demonstration missions. The order, announced June...

Mangata Networks reached an agreement with Cobham Satcom to deploy multiple Cobham 4.0M Tracker gateway antennas globally to support ​​Mangata’s initial ground stations. Mangata said this agreement represents the company’s...

Inmarsat and the European Space Agency (ESA) recently signed a new contract to globalize the Iris air traffic modernization program. Iris, developed in a public-private partnership launched by ESA, is...

U.K.-based Satellite Vu will provide climate change data from its thermal monitoring satellites to the United Kingdom real estate market through a partnership with Landmark Information Group.  Satellite Vu and...

The United States joined the Space for Climate Observatory (SCO), this week an initiative for international coordination on climate change monitoring. Dr. Richard Spinrad, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)...

Kepler Communications has selected Tesat-Spacecom optical inter-satellite links for its next generation of satellites. The Tesat constellation laser communication terminals, ConLCT80, will be installed on Kepler’s first tranche of Aether...