E-letter: Briefs

Engineers at California-based Global Eagle Entertainment recently completed network simulations evaluating the efficiency of their In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) terminal’s ability to operate over Telesat’s Lightspeed Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) network. According...

Inmarsat has signed a maritime deal with Japan Radio Company (JRC), which has joined Inmarsat’s group of certified application providers (CAP) offering applications via Inmarsat’s dedicated Fleet Connect bandwidth. Inmarsat’s...

The pandemic’s effect on the mobility market affected Telesat’s first quarter results as it moves forward with plans for its Lightspeed constellation.  On Friday, Telesat reported $190 million Canadian dollars...

Momentus has received a draft National Security Agreement (NSA) from the U.S. government that is a step toward approvals the company needs to go public in the U.S.  The company...

Tokyo-based Earth observation company Axelspace completed a successful Series C fundraising campaign that netted 2.58 billion Japanese Yen ($23.8 million) from investors including The Space Frontier Fund, Japan Co-Invest III...

Mynaric has appointed industry veteran Tim Deaver as its new vice president of Strategic Solutions. The company announced the appointment May 14. Deaver had previously been director of National Security...

SoftBank is slowing rebuilding its position with OneWeb by entering into a new cooperative agreement to combine the Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation operator’s services with SoftBank’s Digital Transformation (DX) platform....

The first partnership has been announced under the United Kingdom-Australia Space Bridge, a program launched earlier this year by the Australian Space Agency and UK Space Agency to boost investment...

KBR has won a new contract worth $51.2 million from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to deploy an antenna network that will monitor space weather. Under the contract,...

Momentus special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) merger has received an extension to its closing date. Shareholders of the SPAC, Stable Road Acquisition Corp., voted to approve extending the business combination...