E-letter: Briefs

Spacecom and ST Engineering iDirect have demonstrated VSAT return capabilities on the AMOS-17 satellite, the partner companies announced Tuesday. They reported the demonstration resulted in an “exceptionally” wide return link...

Space Angels is changing its branding structure and will now be led by its Space Capital brand. Space Angels, the space economy angel investment platform, was founded in 2007, and...

On Friday May 1, Virgin Galactic and The Spaceship Company completed the first SpaceShipTwo test flight from Spaceport America in Las Cruces, New Mexico. This was the first time the spaceship...

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. has been awarded a contract for satellite bandwidth utilization services for the U.S. Space Force (USSF). Kratos plans to provide continuous monitoring services of...

Astroscale has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with a professor at Northumbria University Newcastle in England to investigate end-of-life standards and practices from industries like oil and nuclear energy. The...

ThinKom Solutions recently completed a series of interoperability tests demonstrating its core antenna technology’s capability with a Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite network. ThinKom used its Ku3030 phased-array antenna subsystem and...

The GPS Innovation Alliance (GPSIA) has announced Lockheed Martin as the newest member of the organization. Lockheed Martin joins member companies John Deere, Garmin, Trimble, and Collins Aerospace as well...

The European Commission approved the previously announced combination of Canal Digital, Telenor Group’s satellite pay-TV business, with Viasat Consumer, Nordic Entertainment Group’s satellite pay-TV and broadband-TV business, into a new...

L3Harris has received $95 million from the U.S. Army to continue delivering AN/PRC-158 two-channel, software-defined manpack radios, which will be utilized in the service’s Integrated Tactical Network evaluation in late...

Telesat released its First Quarter (Q1) financial results on Thursday, reporting $150 million in consolidated revenue, a decrease of 6% compared to the same time period in 2019. Q1 net...