E-letter: Briefs

Virgin Orbit’s revenue was up in 2021, but the company’s net loss increased as well. The smallsat launcher released its first-ever, full year financial results on March 29, after becoming...

Intelsat is establishing a new satellite video neighborhood in Brazil by “seeding” antennas at more than 200 cable headends in Brazil. The satellite operator is working in cooperation with local...

Comtech Telecommunications has won a new contract with SES to supply O3b mPOWER 5.5 meter gateways, small gateways, and user terminals, SES announced March 30. The antenna hardware comes in...

Lockheed Martin is partnering with SpiderOak Mission Systems to develop and test a zero-trust cybersecurity platform for the space data supply chain. The companies announced an agreement on Tuesday to...

Earth imaging startup Pixxel has raised $25 million in a Series A funding round led by Radical Ventures. Pixxel announced the funding on Monday and said it will expedite production...

Boeing on Monday said that Leanne Caret, president and CEO of the company’s $26 billion Defense, Space and Security business, will retire later this year and be succeed by Ted...

Synspective, a Japanese synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite data and solutions provider, has raised another $100 million in financing. The company announced the Series B funding round on March 29....

Terran Orbital completed its SPAC merger and began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Monday.  This completes the special purpose acquisition (SPAC) merger with Tailwind Two Acquisition Corp....

SES has ordered a third software-defined Geostationary (GEO) satellite from Thales Alenia Space, the operator announced Monday.  SES-26 will be a Ku- and C-band satellite to replace SES’s NSS-12 satellite...

One of the world’s leading telcos Orange is teaming up with AST SpaceMobile to test its space-based cellular broadband network. The two companies announced the non-binding MoU on March 25....