E-letter: Briefs

SES has announced two new Asia based deals in the last 24 hours. It is teaming up with SoftBank to deliver live sporting events into Japan. The deal was announced...

Spire Global has appointed its first ever Vice President of Weather. Dr. Kevin Petty will take on the new role for the company and will oversee Spire’s weather solutions worldwide,...

HawkEye 360 has received a $10 million contract from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), turning a pilot program for commercial Radio Frequency (RF) data into a long-term contract.  Under the...

Satellogic and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have detailed how AWS cloud infrastructure supports Satellogic, in a case study on how the cloud and space work together. Clint Crosier, director of...

Air France will install Intelsat‘s 2Ku high-speed satellite In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) service on 60 of its new A220-300 aircraft. Intelsat is equipping the aircraft now and will be ready to...

Inmarsat has signed a new deal in the maritime area for its new Fleet LTE service. The company announced Sept. 28 that Solstad Offshore — one of the largest offshore...

United Kingdom space companies applauded the country for releasing the first-ever national space strategy this week. The strategy sets out ambitions for a “Galactic Britain,” with goals to establish launch...

David Micha joined Intelsat as president of government subsidiary Intelsat General in February of this year, after decades at L3 Technologies and the combined company L3Harris. In his first interview...

PPM Systems has released new RF components for its satellite and defense customers, the company announced Sept. 26. The company has unveiled a series of high power broadband diplexers, plus...

Totum reports it has demonstrated a bidirectional communication between a fully integrated system-on-a-chip and a Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite. The company claims this is the first operation of indoor direct-to-satellite...