E-letter: Briefs

Telesat saw a 30% revenue decline in the second quarter of 2025 with its GEO business, while the operator is working on opportunities for its upcoming LEO constellation, particularly in...

NASA awarded six companies contracts to provide studies of orbital transfer vehicles (OTV) to explore future applications of OTVs for NASA missions. Arrow Science and Technology, Blue Origin, Firefly Aerospace,...

NBN Co will offer a residential broadband service in Australia with Amazon’s Project Kuiper, under a new deal between the two companies announced Tuesday.  NBN is a state-owned enterprise in...

A new player is entering the Ground Station as a Service (GSaaS) market. Global Invacom Holdings Limited (GIHL) has jointly founded eNexus Space Data, to deliver a GSaaS offering. Led...

The UK Civil Aviation Authority has granted Skyrora a license to launch its suborbital rocket from the SaxaVord Spaceport.  The approval, announced Tuesday, allows Skyrora to launch up to 16...

SES Space & Defense has been awarded a $89.6 million contract from the U.S. Army for commercial satcom services. The five-year Sustainment Tactical Network (STN) contract announced Monday is for...

Redwire is crystalizing its ambitions for space medicine with a new subsidiary, SpaceMD. The new venture will focus on Redwire’s work to grow seed crystals in orbit for pharmaceutical development —...

Satellite data is set to play a pivotal role in boosting agricultural productivity in Kenya. SatSure Analytics, an Earth Observation (EO) data refinery platform operator, has partnered with Kenya Agricultural...

RTX company Blue Canyon Technologies is adding to its spacecraft bus lineup with the Saturn-400, designed for more complex missions.  The Saturn-400 spacecraft is designed to offer increased payload capacity,...

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy told investors that Amazon is planning to bring Project Kuiper into commercial beta service later this year or early next year, highlighting interest from enterprise and...