E-letter: Briefs

The Board of Directors of Spacecom, which operates the AMOS satellite fleet, has appointed Dan Zajicek as new CEO, effective April 1, the company announced Thursday. Zajicek has been the...

SatSignature has deployed what it calls the world’s first spectrum analyzer-in-the-cloud service, offering constant global satellite spectrum monitoring, recording, and analysis in web-based subscription packages. The company, which announced the...

The 2019 World Radiocommunications Conference (WRC-19) left the satellite industry filled with concerns over an uncertain future, as the need for broadband internet grows and multiple competing industries and nations...

Agility was one aspect of New Space that On Orbit guests could agree on, as they put the hotly debated term under the microscope during a live podcast recording at...

Space investments by billionaire “geeks for space,” such as Paul Allen and Jeff Bezos, have brought attention to the burgeoning commercial space startup sector. But now the field of investors...

Lynk Global said that it has reached the first-ever milestone of successfully connecting a satellite in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) to a mobile phone on Earth, and has sent a text...

NASA has awarded L3Harris Corporation the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) Engineering Development Unit Telescope contract, the Agency announced Monday, March 16. The cost-plus, fixed-fee, 36-month contract has a total...

SpaceX launched yet another batch of 60 Starlink satellites on Wednesday morning and used a first stage booster for the fifth time, but did not successfully land that booster —...

Intelsat has selected SpaceX as its launch partner for IS-40e, which is set to launch in 2022. The Geostationary (GEO) satellite, which will be manufactured by Maxar Technologies, is set...

Rocket Lab has reached an agreement to acquire Sinclair Interplanetary, a Toronto-based satellite hardware company, the small satellite launch company said March 16. “By combining the experience and capabilities of both companies, Rocket...