E-letter: Briefs

Rocket Lab launched its first mission of the year — dubbed “Birds of a Feather” — on Friday at 02:56 UTC from the company’s Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand’s...

Speedcast Government is supporting a United Nations agency and an independent national electoral committee in Niger, Africa, to prevent electoral fraud. Speedcast Government has been asked to provide satellite internet...

Labsphere has begun constructing a commercial global satellite and airborne calibration network called FLARE. The company is combining Raytheon’s SPARC mirror technology, which it licenses, with its own technology in...

Tethers Unlimited (TUI) has delivered what it calls the first mesh network inter-satellite crosslink solution for small satellites. The SWIFT-LINQ network is a software app that runs on TUI’s SWIFT...

Northrop Grumman’s Innovation Systems division posted a 2019 Fourth Quarter (4Q) sales increase of $138 million to a total of $1.59 billion, a 9% jump from the same period last...

Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems (SAS) enjoyed a 7% increase in fourth quarter (4Q) 2019 net sales to $2.018 billion, compared to $1.88 billion in the fourth quarter 2018, with...

C-COM Satellite Systems and reseller partner Isotropic Networks have completed the integration of the iDirect iQ 200 modem with C-COM’s iNetVu antenna controllers. The new modem is compatible on all C-COM...

Get SAT and Hellas Sat have demonstrated satcom capabilities on Hellas Sat’s network. The companies said in a Thursday announcement that their partnership offers capability enhancements on Hellas Sat 4...

Renesas Electronics has deployed a single-chip synchronous buck and low dropout (LDO) regulator. It targets low-power FPGAs, DDR memory, and other digital loads for spaceflight payload applications. The company said...

General Dynamics Mission Systems division, which includes the General Dynamics SATCOM Technologies business, reported $1.3 billion in Fourth Quarter (4Q) revenue, a 2.5% increase from the same three-month period ending...