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In-Space Missions has signed a new partnership deal in Asia, as it looks to bounce back after the recent Virgin Orbit launch failure in the United Kingdom, which it had […]

Azercosmos will provide capacity that will enable satellite internet services to governmental organizations in Africa. The company announced Jan. 24, that it has signed a new deal with CommCarrier Satellite […]

The United States Marine Corps (USMC) has awarded Viasat a contract for managed satcom service. Viasat announced the award Jan. 24.  The contract comes after a pilot and follow-on service […]

ST Engineering iDirect has delivered its IoT solution to ARSAT, Argentina’s state-owned telecommunications company. The IoT solution will enable a number of use cases like fleet tracking, farming data, and […]

The Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL) space vehicles directorate is seeking innovative industry solutions to bolster domestic capacity to build high-performance Strategic Radiation Hardened (SRH) and non-volatile memory (NVM) devices […]

Rocket Lab launched from the East Coast on Tuesday evening, in a milestone launch for the company that had been long delayed.  An Electron rocket launched  “Virginia Is For Launch […]

Astroscale has appointed Andrew Faiola as its new commercial director for its U.K. and European subsidiary Astroscale Ltd, the company announced Jan. 24. He starts the role immediately. Headquartered in […]

Lockheed Martin’s Space segment reported a slight dip in net sales in 2022 compared to 2021, amid a year in which full company sales were slightly down.  Lockheed Martin reported […]

Alaska Airlines is upgrading its Embraer E175 regional jets with Intelsat’s in-flight connectivity (IFC). The deal announced Tuesday will expand Alaska’s IFC services with Intelsat to include regional jets.  Alaska […]

Japanese space startup Warpspace has signed an order for a small number of Mynaric Condor Mk3 terminals. Warpspace plans to use the terminals to establish a commercial optical data relay […]

The government of Canada is making space launch a priority, announcing a series of measures on Friday to license commercial space launch from the country.  Transport Canada, the nation’s federal […]

The UK Space Agency announced 50 million pounds ($62 million) in new funding for the nation’s satellite communications industry. The funding announced Monday is part of the European Space Agency […]

Thales Alenia Space signed a deal to lead the European Space Agency’s TeQuantS project to develop quantum technologies for cybersecurity applications and future quantum information networks. Under the program, Thales […]

The Space Development Agency (SDA) has renamed its proliferated Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation as the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture, or PWSA.  SDA announced the change on Monday, changing the name […]

SES has extended a relationship with a key mining company in Africa. It has signed a new deal with Ivanhoe Mines which will see the Kamoa-Kakula Copper Project in the […]

Tim Peake, one of the most well-known names in the U.K. space industry, is to step down from the active European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut corps and assume an ambassadorial […]

The past year saw huge advancements in the space industry. We witnessed landmark achievements such as the discovery of the earliest galaxies seen to date, and the release of the […]

Arianespace has appointed Steven Rutgers to serve as its next chief commercial officer. Rutgers joins Arianespace from IoT startup Hiber, where he was vice president of sales.  He has a […]

Intellian and OneWeb recently demonstrated Intellian’s flat panel user terminal on OneWeb’s commercial network. The companies reported the terminal achieved the maximum download and upload speeds supported by the OneWeb […]

Last year was the “most difficult investment environment since the Great Recession,” Space Capital said in its 2022 space investment report, but the firm is also optimistic and said 2022 […]

Satellite IoT startup Sateliot is working with industrial IoT company Sensefinity for cargo tracking. The companies said they are launching technology with 1,000 smart containers connected via satellite.  Sensefinity will […]

Slingshot Aerospace awarded HawkEye 360 a contract for radio frequency (RF) data to support a Slingshot program for the U.S. Space Force‘s Space Systems Command (SSC). Slingshot supports SSC with […]

Eutelsat Communications has decommissioned the Eutelsat 5 West A satellite after more than 20 years in operation. The operator re-orbited the satellite to more than 400 km above Geostationary Orbit […]

Held in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, COP-27 came with its lot of successes and disillusions, among which a lost opportunity to address the pressing issue of curbing the use of fossil […]

The U.K. government is looking to tap into the space-based defence capabilities of Airbus Defence and Space in a major new partnership deal. The company, one of the U.K.’s leading […]

SpaceX launched the sixth GPS III satellite for the U.S. Space Force on a Falcon 9 mission early Wednesday morning. The Lockheed Martin-built satellite is part of the military’s work […]

Cruise ship titan Carnival Corporation has signed a deal for SpaceX’s Starlink Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite internet service and is already rolling out Starlink on Carnival Cruise Line and AIDA […]

It was a busy year for Comtech and the company’s CEO, Ken Peterman. In this conversation with Via Satellite’s Mark Holmes, Peterman discusses some of the company’s core initiatives; trends in the […]

Satellite payload manufacturer Swissto12 is receiving funding from the European Space Agency (ESA) Ministerial Council for its HummingSat satellite product line. The company announced Jan. 19 that the HummingSat Partnership […]

SES has completed a 5G backhaul demonstration in the Middle East, the company announced, Jan. 16. It has been working with and du from Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (EITC), a […]