E-letter: News Feed

NASA awarded SpaceX five additional crewed flights to the International Space Station through 2030, as part of its Commercial Crew Program. With this award, SpaceX has been awarded 14 total […]

Firefly Aerospace has named Bill Weber as its new CEO after Tom Markusic stepped away from the role in June. Web was previously CEO of cyber and geospatial satellite firm […]

Intelsat engineers have shut down the Galaxy 15 payload after losing command of the satellite in August. An Intelsat spokesperson told Via Satellite that Galaxy 15 is no longer transmitting […]

Satellite IoT company OQ Technology closed a 13 million euro ($13 million) Series A funding round led by Wa’ed Ventures, the venture capital arm of Saudi oil and gas company […]

In this week’s Thursday Morning Conversation, Mark Holmes discusses the results of a recent industry survey by ST Engineering iDirect in partnership with Via Satellite. Looking to the future, learn about […]

Two SES C-band satellites — SES-20 and SES-21 — have been delivered and mated ahead of their upcoming launch.  The Boeing-built satellites were delivered to Cape Canaveral last week. The satellites are set […]

Wireless technology company Wyld Networks has signed a strategic partnership with Miromico AG to collaborate on sensor-to-satellite LoRaWAN terminals for IoT applications. Miromico, based in Switzerland, works on IoT as […]

The U.S. Air Force has awarded rocket propulsion company Ursa Major funding for development of its Hadley engine. The contract is under the U.S. Air Force Tactical Funding Increase (TACFI) […]

Cobham Satcom has introduced two new maritime Ka-band antenna systems for Telenor Satellite’s THOR 7 VSAT services, the company announced Aug. 30. The one-meter Sailor 1000 XTR Ka and 65-centimeter […]

Royal Caribbean Group plans to implement SpaceX’s Starlink broadband connectivity service on all Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity Cruises, and Silversea Cruises ships.  Starlink deployment will begin immediately and is set […]

SES expanded the leadership team for subsidiary SES Government Solutions (SES GS), hiring Ben Pigsley as senior vice president for Defense Networks and Jim Hooper, senior vice president for Space […]

Consulting and Technology company Accenture is making a strategic investment in hyperspectral satellite imagery startup Pixxel. Terms of the investment were not disclosed in Tuesday’s announcement.  Pixxel is based in […]

Space startup Outpost, which is developing technology for returnable and reusable satellites, has raised a $7.1 million Series Seed round. Moonshots Capital led the oversubscribed funding round announced Tuesday.  The […]

SpacePath Communications (SpacePath) is debuting a new Ka-band amplifier, the company announced Aug. 30. The STA45385P is designed for Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) and Medium-Earth Orbit segment and has compact form […]

On this episode of the On Orbit podcast, Orbital Sidekick Founder and CEO Dan Katz joins us to talk about the souped-up Global Hyperspectral Observation Satellite (GHOSt) constellation his company […]

Intelsat signed a contract with Brazilian pay-TV group Box Brazil to distribute six channels on Intelsat 14, located at 45 degrees West. This follows after Intelsat introduced an antenna seeding […]

Maritime Launch Services is now approved to begin construction of a spaceport in Nova Scotia, with the intention of building Canada’s first commercial spaceport. Maritime Launch is a Canadian-owned commercial […]

Airbus OneWeb Satellites [AOS], which manufactures satellites for the OneWeb constellation, signed a deal with Astra Space to integrate its engines into the Arrow small satellite portfolio.  The Monday announcement […]

NASA scrubbed the much-anticipated first flight of its Space Launch System rocket on Monday after a series of problems with the rocket and the fueling procedures could not be resolved […]

Vodafone PNG, based in Papua New Guinea, has committed to purchase wholesale bandwidth from Kacific Broadband Satellites Group‘s Ka-band satellite Kacific1 for mobile backhaul use. The bandwidth will primarily be […]

The fiscal year 2022 defense appropriations law provided $550 million for the Space Development Agency (SDA) to accelerate development of the Tracking Layer to support U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, and an L3Harris […]

The European Space Agency (ESA) signed an agreement this week with Europe’s intelligent transportation system organization ERTICO to explore how space-based technologies can support future smart road systems such as […]

NASA and Boeing have pushed back the first Starliner flight test with astronauts to February 2023, the agency announced Thursday. The flight was previously expected in December of this year.  […]

Saudia is on track to start flying Airbus A321 aircraft upgraded with Falcon 300 terminals to enable Inmarsat‘s GX Aviation in-flight connectivity (IFC) service early next year. The Saudi Arabian […]

SpaceX and T-Mobile are collaborating to enable satellite direct-to-cell connectivity with the second generation of Starlink satellites. Such a service would close gaps in cellular networks in rural and remote […]

NASA placed a $1.7 million call order with BlackSky to evaluate the company’s imaging data services for Earth science research. The call order was issued under a five-year Commercial Smallsat […]

HawkEye 360 has signed a two-year Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) to demonstrate its technology to the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC). The CRADA will explore […]

Intelsat is entering the in-flight connectivity (IFC) market in India through an agreement with Nelco, a satcom service provider in India. Intelsat announced Thursday that the service is currently available […]

Ground software as a service company Atlas Space Operations closed a $26 million Series B funding round, led by Mitsui & Co., Ltd. Atlas announced the round on Thursday.  Other […]

Speedcast recently signed deals with aviation services provider Bristow Group and Algerian satellite services provider Algérie Télécom Satellite (ATS).  Bristow Group signed a multi-year contract to upgrade more than 40 […]