E-letter: Briefs

According to SES‘ annual market research, SES increased the households it served by more than 4 million to over 355 million in 2018. The results showed an increase in SES’ technical...

Hughes Network Systems was awarded a two-year Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) by the U.S. Army for the third phase of the Blue Force Tracking (BFT-3) program. Under the agreement,...

Maxar Technologies revealed that Vulcan signed a multi-year EarthWatch subscription, a cloud-based product for viewing, streaming, and downloading Maxar’s geospatial data. Vulcan will use this product for projects including detecting...

Trimble launched Farmer Core, a new entry-level Trimble Agriculture (Ag) Software subscription that helps enable farmers to connect all aspects of their farm operation. Available online and on any mobile device,...

Gogo and Phasor revealed that their development partnership has achieved its initial core-technology performance objectives and will progress to the productization phase. During the next phase, the technology will be packaged...

GHGSat, a private company which owns and operates a satellite for monitoring Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions from industrial sources, revealed that its second satellite will be known as Iris. The...

Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) and Oxford Space Systems (OSS) have been awarded National Space Technology Program funding to develop a stowage-efficient Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) payload. This new technology aims...

Kleos Space signed a collaborative, non-binding, Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Israeli based end-to-end geospatial intelligence company ImageSat International (iSi) to explore opportunities to use Kleos’ maritime Radio Frequency (RF) activity-based...

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) successfully launched its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C45) from Satish Dhawan Space Center (SDSC) SHAR in Sriharikota, India at 9:27 IST on Apr. 1....

TIM Brasil selected Gilat Satellite Networks‘ satellite backhaul solution to enable 4G services to unserved areas in Brazil, such as highways and small towns, as well as to the agribusiness Internet...