E-letter: Briefs

The U.S. Navy’s Navy Exchange Service Command (NEXCOM) has awarded Viasat two new contracts to support personal communications at Navy bases in Guam and Poland. Viasat has a continued relationship...

Maxar Technologies has signed contract extensions with three long-standing international defense and intelligence customers, including its second commitment for WorldView Legion capacity. The three agreements total more than $100 million,...

SpaceX capped off 2021 with a Dragon resupply mission to the International Space Station early Tuesday morning. This marked SpaceX’s final launch of 2021 — a year in which the...

Benchmark Space Systems has integrated its non-toxic chemical propulsion system with Spaceflight’s orbital transfer vehicle (OTV) ahead of the SpaceX Transporter 3 rideshare mission.  Spaceflight is the first to use...

Maxar Technologies won a $9.3 million U.S. Department of Defense contract on Monday that will see the company design and deliver two robotic arms to support in-space assembly and servicing...

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) issued a contract to space-based laser communication technology company Mynaric to design a new optical communications terminal under phase zero of the...

Honeywell, SES, and Hughes have demonstrated multi-network, multi-orbit high-speed airborne connectivity for military customers. The companies announced on Monday that airborne demonstrations used Honeywell’s JetWave MCX terminal with a Hughes...

Eutelsat Communications has appointed Eva Berneke as the company’s next CEO. Berneke will be the first woman to take the role. Eutelsat announced Dec. 19 that Berneke will assume her...

Blue Origin Vice President of Global Sales Clay Mowry is leaving Jeff Bezos’ launch company to take a chief revenue officer (CRO) position at Denver-based space exploration company Voyager Space....

President Biden on Dec. 15 nominated Booz Allen Hamilton executive Frank Calvelli, who served as principal deputy director of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) from 2012 to 2020, as the assistant secretary...