E-letter: Briefs

Inmarsat is rolling out an upgraded narrowband L-band network called Elera for Internet of Things (IoT) service using capacity from its soon-to-launch I-6 satellites.  Elera will use capacity from two...

South Korean manufacturing and technology company Hanwha has joined OneWeb’s ownership consortium with a $300 million investment for an 8% share in the company. This investment brings OneWeb’s total equity...

Mynaric has finalized its deal with SpaceLink for Optical Inter-Satellite Link (OISL) terminals at up to $28 million, the company announced Thursday. The agreement was previously announced in May of...

The government of Canada has agreed to invest an additional $1.44 billion Canadian dollars in Telesat‘s Lightspeed constellation if the operator meets Canadian capital and operating expenditures requirements tied to...

Rocket Lab has signed a deal with in-space manufacturing company Varda Space Industries to produce three Photon spacecraft that will integrate with the company’s “space factories.”   Varda Space is working...

OneWeb has signed an MoU with northern Canada telco Northwestel for broadband connectivity. Under the agreement announced Wednesday, the companies will work together to deliver new connectivity services to remote...

Stockholders of Stable Road Acquisition Corp the special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) merger with Momentus on Wednesday. Momentus will begin trading on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol...

SpaceLink will collaborate with Blue Marble Communications to accelerate the development of advanced optical terminals for SpaceLink’s data relay network, and then purchase more than $10 million in terminal hardware...

The U.S. Space Force has awarded the first on ramp of the Orbital Services Program (OSP)-4 to three emerging smallsat launch providers: ABL Space Systems, Astra Space, and Relativity Space....

Gilat Satellite Networks grew its revenue by nearly half in the second quarter of 2021 compared to last year. The Israeli satellite networking tech company reported $56.9 million in revenues...