E-letter: Briefs

Comtech Telecommunications revealed that Rich Luhrs was promoted to President of Comtech Systems — its Orlando, Florida-based subsidiary. Comtech Systems provides transmission products including over-the-horizon microwave and troposcatter systems and...

Virgin Galactic revealed a new contract with the Italian Air Force for a research flight on the company’s SpaceShipTwo system during which Italian researchers will actively conduct experiments while they...

Inmarsat signed a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) for phase two of the Iris air traffic modernization program, which will include flight trials across Europe to assess the...

Houston-based Intuitive Machines selected SpaceX to launch its lunar lander, Nova-C, to the Moon in 2021 on a Falcon 9 rocket. NASA awarded Intuitive Machines the first mission task order...

Aerojet Rocketdyne was awarded a contract worth up to nearly $19 million by the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to mature Axial Upper Stage (AUS) component technologies and analytical tools...

The Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC), in partnership with the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), awarded a sole source, five-year, $1.18 billion Firm-Fixed-Price (FFP) modification of the Delta IV Heavy...

SES revealed that Over-the-Top (OTT) platform Kartina TV will be broadcasting Russian-language TV channels across Western Europe. The content, which soon will be available on a new Free-to-View (FTV) encrypted...

Relativity Space closed a $140 million Series C funding round led by Bond and Tribe Capital. With this $140 million funding round, Relativity is fully funded for its plans to launch...

Raytheon‘s GPS Next-Generation Operational Control System, known as GPS OCX, completed full software and hardware development and entered the system integration and test phase. The milestone keeps GPS OCX, the...

Singapore Technologies Engineering (ST Engineering) completed the acquisition of a 100% ownership in Newtec, following the fulfillment of completion conditions, including the receipt of applicable regulatory approvals. The consideration of...