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CanarySat Satellite Services, the new Arquimea-backed satellite operator emerging from Spain’s Canary Islands, unveiled Magec, its advanced Ka-band, Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation last week during SATShow Week. Magec, a planned network […]

Bloomberg and CNBC reported Wednesday that SpaceX has confidentially filed for its initial public offering (IPO).  A confidential filing allows a company to submit draft IPO registration to the SEC […]

Measat Global (Measat) has appointed John Loke as its new Chief Technology Officer. Loke will play a key role in overseeing the company’s digital evolution and regional strategy, with the […]

Arianespace is in the midst of its launch campaign for Amazon Leo after conducting the first launch for its largest customer in February. The next mission is planned for April […]

Faced with the game-changing advent of vertically integrated Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) megaconstellations like Starlink and Amazon Leo, ground segment hardware and service providers are having to rethink both their technology […]

Delta Air Lines has turned to Amazon to expand its in-flight connectivity offerings, announcing plans to roll out Amazon Leo IFC service starting with 500 planes in 2028. Delta becomes […]

BlackSky Technology on Tuesday said a $99 million contract it received from the Air Force Research Laboratory in early March that will accelerate the design and development of a large […]

ST Engineering iDirect has named CTO Sridhar Kuppanna as CEO to succeed Don Claussen in leading the company.  Claussen had served as ST Engineering iDirect CEO for about three years. […]

Two of the Middle East’s biggest satellite companies have signed a partnership deal to provide better connectivity services in region. Es’hailSat, the Qatar satellite company, and EgyptSat have signed multi-year […]

Starcloud, a space startup working to deploy satellites to serve as orbital data centers, raised $170 million in a Series A round announced Monday that values the company at $1.1 […]

Members of the Waveform Architecture for Virtualized Ecosystems (WAVE) Consortium, an IEEE standards body, achieved the first instance of standardized waveform virtualization using field-programmable gate array (FPGA) acceleration in the […]

SpaceX launched 119 payloads into Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) at 4:02 a.m. PT on Transporter-16, a dedicated smallsat rideshare mission, from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Monday morning. The […]

In this “Live in the Booth” interview during SATShow Week, AST SpaceMobile President and Chief Strategy Officer Scott Wisniewski talks about the recently launched BlueBird 6 satellite, the company’s recent […]

SpaceBridge launched a its new Estella’s UniHub, a new compact all-in-one VSAT hub platform. The solution aims to simplify satellite network deployment alongside high performance, efficiency, and scalability. SpaceBridge made […]

Bridgit Mendler detailed how she and the team at Northwood Space are working to solve the “gnarly problem” of satellite ground infrastructure by developing an end-to-end ground system built for […]

AvL Technologies CTO Chris Rose shares his perspective on the evolution of tactical fly-away systems in this interview from the AvL booth during SATShow Week. “A lot of the missions […]

The majority of SATShow attendees polled at the start of Wednesday’s General Session indicated that the space industry’s outlook was too uncertain to assess, while others considered the current climate […]

Qorvo Director of Satcom & Systems Engineering Ryan Jennings talks with Via Satellite during SATShow Week about Qorvo’s radio frequency (RF) solutions, ranging from phased arrays onboard LEO satellites to […]

Nations are seeking stronger control over their own communications architectures. But how to define what sovereign space means, and what it can do within a more geopolitically complex space infrastructure, […]

The way the commercial space sector is financed needs to catch up with the huge advances industry has made in its capabilities, venture capitalists at a SATShow business panel said […]

In this SATShow Week interview, Kepler Communications Chief Revenue Officer Beau Jarvis talks about the company’s approach to solving the problem of downlinking data collected in space down to Earth. […]

Airlines have been embracing inflight connectivity (IFC) as a standard competitive offering for their passengers for over 20 years. But as the demand increases, IFC developers are diving deeper into […]

The role of governments as an investor and market creator will be the dominant trend to watch in the growth of the space economy in India and the Asia Pacific […]

Comtech Satellite & Space President Daniel Gizinski talks first delivery of Comtech’s Digital Common Ground 7000 series modems, with live multi-orbit demonstrations during SATShow. In this interview, he also talks […]

U.S. Office of Space Commerce Director Taylor Jordan announced the office’s proposal of a revamped mission authorization process for novel space activities in a keynote address during SATShow Week on […]

For the Golden Dome missile defense system, getting data about ballistic or hypersonic missile launches from sensors to the fusion engine which provides 3D tracking and finally to the interceptors […]

With multiple active conflicts happening throughout the world and geopolitical concerns rising across the board, commercial satellite leaders say these developments put the importance of satellite communications in stark light […]

“Really, really busy.” That’s how launch providers described manifests for the next two years during a conversation on heavy-lift launch competition at SATShow on Tuesday. SpaceX is looking at a […]

Despite fierce competition for capital and increasingly divided world politics, the direct-to-device (D2D) connectivity market has something going for it: demand is booming. SES CEO Adel Al-Saleh said in a […]

The Space Development Agency (SDA) was stood up to move fast and disrupt traditional space acquisition while leveraging commercial practices to enable a higher rate of satellite production. After launching its […]