E-letter: Briefs

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) next miniature satellite will be its first able to change orbit, the agency announced. Thanks to a compact thruster resembling a butane cigarette lighter, the...

SSL announced that the Restore-L mission to provide satellite servicing in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) has completed an extensive NASA review called the Mission Preliminary Design Review (PDR) and is...

Honeywell and Karamba Security announced the two companies are collaborating to showcase an end-to-end automotive cybersecurity solution for monitoring and securing vehicle communications and reducing exposure to cyber threats resulting...

Blue Origin announced that its New Shepard vehicle flew again for the seventh time on Dec. 12. Known as Mission 7 (M7), the flight featured the company’s next-generation booster and the...

The United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), has now adopted the main technical principals of enhanced aircraft Automatic Dependent Surveillance (ABS) via...

Sitael and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) have signed the prime contract for the Platino program, which aims to develop a new generation of multi-purpose 200kg small satellites for multi-mission...

All Media Baltics’ pay TV subscribers will be able to watch the broadcaster’s channel package in HD quality, including its original premium TV channels, from 5 degrees east, following a...

What Stratolaunch Systems Corp. (SSC) claims is the “world’s largest aircraft” has completed its first low-speed taxi test. Scaled Composites, a Northrop Grumman subsidiary, is constructing and testing the Stratolaunch...

Arianespace has signed a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to launch the Characterising Exoplanet Satellite (CHEOPS), which is its upcoming exoplanet mission as part of ESA’s science program....

Now in its new GOES-East position, the  GOES 16 satellite has officially joined the  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) operational observation network, providing forecasters with sharper, more defined images...