E-letter: Briefs

Redwire Corporation will supply Terran Orbital with spacecraft components and solutions for satellite manufacturing, under a three-year supplier agreement announced Thursday. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.  Satellite...

Rocket Lab completed its final mission of 2021 early on Thursday, launching two satellites for BlackSky from Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula. Dubbed ‘A Data With Destiny,’...

SpaceX launched a NASA mission early Thursday that will measure supernova remnants and supermassive black holes in the universe.  A Falcon 9 rocket carrying NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE)...

The Senate voted 68-31 on Tuesday confirming Jessica Rosenworcel as FCC chair. Rosenworcel is the first woman to hold the position and is now confirmed for a five-year term.  The...

Israeli satellite IoT company hiSky has completed a $30 million Series A financing round, led by ST Engineering’s venture capital arm. hiSky announced the round on Wednesday, led by ST Engineering...

Inmarsat is participating in a test project to deliver the first U.K.-generated satellite navigation signal. Inmarsat announced Dec. 7 that it is working with the European Space Agency (ESA), Goonhilly...

Australian satellite IoT company Fleet Space Technologies is ramping up plans after a recent capital raise, and has reached an agreement with the South Australian government to build a satellite...

SES Government Solutions has been involved in a series of trials with the U.S. Army that have tested commercial satellite constellations in multiple orbits, as well as services and ground...

The U.S. Space Force’s Space Test Program-3 (STP-3) mission got spaceborne in the early morning hours of Dec. 7 after a 5:19 a.m. launch aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas...

Weather forecasting company Tomorrow.io is going public through a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) merger that will fund its plans for a satellite constellation.  Tomorrow.io announced Tuesday that it will combine...