E-letter: Briefs

Viasat opened a new office in Brasilia, Brazil and relocated its São Paulo office to a larger facility in the Itaim Bibi district. The São Paulo office puts Viasat in...

Iceye and Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) signed an extended cooperation agreement to provide Near Real-Time (NRT) Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data services for government and commercial customers. The newly signed...

Kratos Defense and Security Solutions received a $7.5 million award to enhance the U.S. Enterprise Management and Control (EM&C) architecture with a Satellite Situational Awareness (SSA), Common Operating Picture (SA-COP)....

Speedcast International was awarded a new multi-year contract with an oil and gas engineering services customer for fully managed internet services and IT support across the company’s base in Iraq....

Latin American-based Axesat and German-based CETel are combining to form AXESS Networks (AXESS), a new leading global player in the enterprise satellite communications industry. Pairing Axesat‘s commercial strategy and its presence...

Hughes Network Systems, launched HughesNet in Mexico, its flagship high-speed satellite internet service. The introduction of HughesNet marks the expansion of Hughes’ presence in Mexico, where the company offers commercial...

Viasat  and Ubix, a wholesale satellite internet and telecommunications company, are collaborating  with the Mexican government to connect government buildings, federal clinics and schools across Mexico, under the “Internet para...

Spire Global received more than $40 million in new funding from strategic partners including ITOCHU, Mitsui, and Scottish Investment Bank and financial investors led by the GPO Fund, Perennial Value...

Eutelsat Communications revealed its ELO constellation project, targeting the Internet of Things (IoT) market. The ELO constellation aims offer global IoT coverage enabling objects to transmit data, regardless of their location....

U.K.-based Spacebit signed a joint agreement with Astrobotic to begin commercial and scientific lunar exploration with the first mission in 2021 on the Peregrine lunar lander. Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander...