E-letter: Briefs

A long-awaited rocket launch from the U.K. has moved a significant step closer. Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) has delivered its first and second stages of the RFA ONE launch vehicle […]

LOT Polish Airlines has started in-flight connectivity (IFC) serve on the first Boeing 787 Dreamliner plane, supplied by Viasat‘s Amara service. The Polish airline confirmed March 6 that the IFC […]

The FCC is looking to make more spectrum available for what it calls “weird space stuff” — in other words, to support telemetry, tracking, and command (TT&C) for emerging space applications.  […]

Eutelsat has completed its 5 billion euro ($5.8 billion) refinancing plan with the final step of a 1.5 billion euro ($1.7 billion) bond issuance, the company announced Friday. The company […]

The U.K. government will invest another 30 million pounds in satellite connectivity projects based in the U.K. as part of the Connectivity in Low Earth Orbit, or C-LEO, program. The […]

Vast and Sierra Space, two U.S.-based developers of commercial space stations, announced major funding rounds on Thursday. Vast secured $300 million in Series A equity and $200 million in debt […]

BlackSky has won a seven-figure renewal deal with the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA). It has secured this award under the company’s NGA Luno A Facility Monitoring Delivery Order. According […]

The ninth and tenth satellites in SES’s mPOWER connectivity constellation in Medium-Earth Orbit (MEO) are now operational, expanding the constellation’s capacity, the company announced on Thursday. O3b mPOWER provides connectivity […]

HawkEye 360 has raised a further $23 million to its Series E funding round, with participation from new investors Ghisallo, Principia Growth, and Sixty Degree Capital. Existing investor Strategic Development […]

The FCC is seeking comment on the issue of international market access for U.S. satellite operators, amid concern from FCC Chairman Brendan Carr on the EU Space Act.  The FCC […]

MDA Space reported record revenues again in its fiscal year 2025 briefing on Wednesday, driven by growth in its Satellite Systems division. The Ontario-based company posted $1.63 billion Canadian dollars […]

Marlink has made a move in bringing state-of-the-art LEO based services to its maritime customer base. It is launching a new hybrid connectivity service – Sealink Multi-LEO. It will deliver […]

L3Harris is sticking with Lanteris Space Systems, now owned by Intuitive Machines, as the bus provider for its spacecraft for its work for the Space Development Agency (SDA).  Intuitive Machines […]

EchoStar is still not ready to give more insight into how it plans to deploy capital after it closes the sale of spectrum rights to SpaceX.  Leadership CEO Hamid Akhavan […]

SES’s mid-year acquisition of Intelsat made for a complex full-year financial reporting for the full year 2025. Although the top numbers show SES grew revenue by 34%, a fuller picture […]

Deutsche Telekom will leverage SpaceX’s Starlink Mobile V2 constellation for direct-to-device (D2D) services to close coverage gaps in 10 European countries, it said in a statement Monday. The agreement would […]

Pan-European connectivity provider Open Cosmos announced ConnectedCosmos on Monday, a name for its incipient Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation designed as a sovereign connectivity backbone for European governments and companies. In […]

Aalto has signed a new deal with one of the biggest telcos in Asia. It has signed a deal with Telkomsel that will commit to advance Indonesia’s Stratospace ecosystem, to […]

NASA made a major change to its plan for Artemis missions on Friday, announcing a new Artemis III mission in which a crew capsule will dock with a lunar lander […]

Viasat and Rohde & Schwarz are coming up with a new narrowband non-terrestrial networks (NB-NTN) IoT test plan for connectivity via satellite. The collaboration aims to ensure that chipsets, modules […]

AURORA, Colo. – The U.S. Space Force has suspended launches of the United Launch Alliance‘s (ULA) Vulcan Centaur rocket under the National Security Space Launch (NSSL) program while the service […]

Phantom Space has acquired assets and intellectual property from Vector Launch, including design elements, engineering data, and proprietary technologies, the Tucson-based company announced today. The purchase will be used to […]

SES is helping to bring better connectivity to people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), working with Africa Mobile Network (AMN). Together the companies now support more than 1,100 […]

After acquiring spacecraft manufacturer Lanteris Space Systems, Intuitive Machines is now making a $175 million investment focused on technologies to advance communications and data processing networks.  The company said it […]

Germany and Luxembourg-based sensing company Airmo will partner with satellite manufacturer EnduroSat to put its methane emissions monitoring technology into orbit, with the first satellite of a projected 12-satellite constellation […]

Luxembourg-based connectivity provider OQ Technology is receiving 25 million euro ($29.5 million) of debt financing from the European Investment Bank to accelerate development and rollout of its satellite connectivity network. […]

The issue of quantum computing is becoming more important in the space cybersecurity community, and Space Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Space ISAC) is now launching a new initiative in […]

Iridium has made a further move in the IoT market, launching a new IoT module that integrates Iridium Short Burst Data (SBD) satellite service, LTE-M cellular connectivity, and GNSS positioning […]

Applied Aerospace & Defense has acquired Vestigo Aerospace, which is known for its line of drag sails used to deorbit satellites.  The company’s Spinnaker line of drag sails are designed […]

Northwood Space has named Zak Kirstein as chief revenue officer as the startups works to scale after its recent $100 million funding raise.  Kirstein has been with Northwood for just […]