E-letter: Briefs

Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) is designing a low cost 35 kilogram lunar communications satellite mission called DoT-4, targeted for a 2021 launch. DoT-4 aims to provide the communications relay back...

Seakr Engineering has been awarded a contract to define requirements and build digital processing system prototypes for protected satellite communications for the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center....

The U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) awarded Colorado Springs-based CACI NSS a $63,267,131 fixed-price-incentive firm-target modification contract to upgrade, maintain, and support its consolidated Air Force...

Hughes Defense Systems has subcontracted GetSAT’s MilliSAT L/W terminal as the beyond line of sight (BLOS) SatCom component for the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) Airborne Communications network, supporting Intelligence, Surveillance and...

Speedcast has partnered with MYTV Broadcasting (MYTV) to work on a three-year project that aims to switch Malaysia’s Direct to Home (DTH) television network from analog to digital. MYTV, a...

The Ethiopian Space Science and Technology Institute (ESSTI) announced that the nation’s first satellite — a weather monitoring spacecraft — will be launched next year from anunnamed site in China....

Inmarsat signed agreements with five major Air Navigation Services Providers (ANSPs) in support of the Iris program, which aims to modernize Air Traffic Management (ATM) across Europe. DFS (Germany), ENAIRE...

Arianespace successfully launched the Mohammed VI – B Earth observation satellite on Tuesday at 10:42 p.m. local time from the Guiana Space Center (CSG). The satellite was developed for Morocco by...

China launched its Shiyan-6 Earth observation satellite, along with four nanosatellites. The satellites were carried on a Long March-2D rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at...

CropIn Technology Solutions, an agriculture technology startup, has raised $8 million (INR 58 crores) in a Series B financing from Chiratae Ventures and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Strategic...