E-letter: Briefs

Garmin was honored with wins in two categories in the 2019 DAME Design Awards, an annual competition that celebrates marine equipment design. The Garmin Force trolling motor and the GPSMAP...

Airbus, The European Space Agency (ESA), and Eutelsat presented the new multibeam active antenna payload today at Airbus in Madrid. Airbus’ ELSA+ (ELectronically Steerable Antenna+) is a first for commercial satellite...

U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) awarded L3Harris Technologies an initial $86 million full-rate production order for Falcon IV AN/PRC-163 two-channel handheld tactical radios that will provide Special Operations Forces (SOF)...

Comtech Telecommunications entered into an agreement to acquire UHP Networks, a provider of  satellite ground station technology solutions, for a purchase price of approximately $40 million. Founded in 2005, UHP is...

Gilat Satellite Networks achieved the fastest ever modem speeds of 1.2 Gbps total throughput over Telesat‘s Phase 1 Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite. Gilat’s technology aims to open opportunities for new telecommunications...

Capella Space was awarded a contract with the U.S. Air Force to apply Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data to the military branch’s virtual reality software for the purpose of simulating...

Blue Sky Network, an Iridium Satellite Communications partner, revealed that theHawkEye ADT has received Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) certification with an approved model list supplemental type certificate (AML-STC) for Boeing...

Firefly Aerospace revealed this past summer the Dedicated Research and Education Accelerator Mission (DREAM), a global competition to host academic and educational payloads as rideshare participants on the inaugural flight...

Eutelsat Communication‘s Konnect satellite, built by Thales Alenia Space, is now undergoing final preparation prior to being shipped to the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana, for a launch...

NASA has added five American companies to the pool of vendors that will be eligible to bid on proposals to provide deliveries to the surface of the Moon through the...