E-letter: Briefs

Serco Inc. has received a new, $57 million contract from the U.S. Space Force to manage, operate and maintain the Ground-Based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance (GEODSS) system. The contract has...

Lockheed Martin is doubling the money it is advancing to businesses in its supply chain during the COVID-19 pandemic, Chairman, President and CEO Marillyn Hewson said in an April 3...

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. has announced that its Arizona-based subsidiary, Comtech EF Data Corp. received $1.6 million in orders for satellite ground station equipment from what it calls world’s largest Mobile...

Virgin Orbit plans to build a horizontal launch site in Oita, a coastal prefecture on Japan’s Kyushu Island. The smallsat company announced April 2 it is working with regional partners...

Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL) has recently been issued three U.S. patents for inventions used in researching cold atoms, a factor in precise space-based timing. SDL said its Elemental Alkali-Metal Dispenser,...

Iridium’s partner Globalsat recently carried out the first South American installation of an Iridium Certus mobile satellite system on a regatta yacht belonging to the Argentine Navy.  The installation was...

Richard Victor Dutchik, a well-known and respected satellite systems engineer and consultant, passed away on March 22.  He was 72 years old. Born in Detroit, Michigan, Richard dedicated his entire...

T-Mobile completed its merger with Sprint Corporation, the wireless company announced Wednesday. The new combined parent company T-Mobile US, Inc., will operate under the name T-Mobile.  The new T-Mobile has...

Cubic Corporation has partnered with The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) College of Nursing to test an emergency ventilator device the company is developing to combat ventilator shortages from...

Danish satellite operator Sternula is leading a consortium that plans to develop a network for Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites delivering ice chart data to ships at sea. According to a...