E-letter: Briefs

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has proposed accelerated relocation payments for satellite operators that could total up to $9.7 billion as incentive to quickly clear part of the C-band spectrum for...

Intelsat has reportedly hired law firm Kirkland & Ellis to consider a possible Chapter 11 bankruptcy if U.S. regulators don’t increase the company’s compensation for C-band spectrum, Bloomberg Law reports....

L3Harris Technologies has passed the preliminary design review in the U.S. Air Force‘s Navigation Technology Satellite-3 (NTS-3) project. The review defines the spacecraft’s path to delivery and allows the program...

Firefly Aerospace has signed a launch agreement with Satlantis, which will use the Firefly Alpha launch vehicle to deploy its constellation of Earth Observation (EO) and remote sensing satellites starting...

SpaceX is now accepting bookings for rideshare launches for small satellites.  Customers can now book a mission online by selecting their desired orbit, earliest launch date, and payload mass. SpaceX bills...

Speedcast’s Board of Directors has accepted the resignation of CEO PJ Beylier in light of a disappointing preliminary 2019 Full-Year (FY19) financial result for the remote communication and IT solutions...

Aerkomm subsidiary Aircom Pacific has agreed to provide Hong Kong Airlines with both its AirCinema and AERKOMM K++ In-Flight Entertainment and Connectivity (IFEC) solutions. Hong Kong Airlines plans to install...

Kinéis, a French IoT connectivity provider, has raised 100 million euro, reaching its capital target. Collecte Localisation Satellites (CLS), French National Centre for Space Studies (CNES), Bpifrance via the fund...

Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) is designing and building the first fully operational nanosatellite in Kepler Communications’ next-generation constellation of communications satellites. SFL is also helping Kepler to set up a...

Intelsat has selected Maxar Technologies to build Intelsat 40e, a next-generation geostationary communications satellite. Maxar also will integrate NASA’s Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) payload with the Intelsat 40e...