E-letter: Briefs

Members of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee are circulating two pieces of draft legislation that seeks to modernize the FCC’s satellite licensing rules. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., and...

SES is looking to making an impact in the broadband market in India, and has formed a JV with Jio Space Technology (Jio). SES said the joint venture, announced Feb....

Lockheed Martin on Sunday evening, just before kickoff at the Super Bowl, said it has terminated its agreement to acquire rocket propulsion supplier Aerojet Rocketdyne following the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s...

A number of law firms have filed or announced intent to file shareholder class action lawsuits against Astra Space, after a critical analyst report and the company’s launch failure on...

SpaceX Chief Engineer Elon Musk gave an update on Thursday on the Starship rocket, the massive rocket SpaceX is building to develop a human presence on Mars and deploy Starlink...

Inmarsat is making a new play in the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) market. It has teamed up with Australian company Harvest Technology Group (Harvest) to offer HD streaming to UAVs...

Astrocast will deliver an end-to-end IoT solution for asset tracking and monitoring with UnaBiz, an IoT service provider, the company announced Feb. 9. As part of this partnership, UnaBiz will...

Arianespace launched a batch of OneWeb satellites on Thursday afternoon in its first launch of 2022. An Arianespace Soyuz rocket took off from the Guiana Space Center, in Kourou, French...

Astra’s mission for NASA on Thursday afternoon failed after the rocket experienced an issue during flight, sending the company’s stock tumbling.  Astra’s Rocket 3.3 took off from Space Launch Complex...

Gilat Satellite Networks has signed agreements with global satellite operators Intelsat and SES to provide its new SkyEdge IV very-high throughput satellite (VHTS) platform in support of new satellites. SES...