E-letter: Briefs

Raytheon Intelligence & Space has been awarded a $13.1 million contract for a U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory program aimed at connecting military jets to emerging commercial satellite internet constellations...

Hughes Network Systems announced Tuesday its Artificial Intelligence (AI) for IT operations (AIOps) solution for enterprise Wide Area Networks (WANs) is commercially available. The solution is integrated into the company’s...

Viasat has expanded its residential internet service to 14 additional states in Brazil, the satellite operator announced Tuesday. This development comes after Viasat launched its Brazil residential service in seven...

Dr. Fred Kennedy, the inaugural director of the Space Development Agency (SDA), has been appointed president of Momentus, the in-space satellite transportation company announced Tuesday. The appointment was effective Monday. ...

The Scouting Mission for Luxembourg-based data-as-a-service company Kleos Space is set to launch on the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) PSLV-C49 Mission, targeted for early November. The PSLV-C49 Mission will...

NovelSat and Spacecom have demonstrated high capacity satellite transmission with spectral efficiency of 10.5 bit/Hz over the AMOS-17 High Throughput Satellite (HTS) using NovelSat DUET CEC (carrier-echo-cancellation) band reuse technology,...

Astra made its first orbital launch attempt on Sept. 12, and Rocket 3.1 failed to make it to orbit. Astra said it appears that that early in the flight, the...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has hired Peter Marquez as head of Space Policy. Marquez was the director of space policy on the National Security Council under President George W. Bush...

The University of Colorado Boulder and Lockheed Martin are working on a smallsat mission called Janus to capture the first-ever closeup look at binary asteroids. In 2022, the Janus team...

Satellite in-space transportation provider Momentus and LunaSonde on Thursday revealed a launch service agreement to fly a demo cubesat (Gossamer) to Sun Synchronous Orbit (SSO) in Q1 2021, with further...