E-letter: News Feed

Eutelsat Communications secured a multi-year contract extension with Marlink on Wednesday that builds off of a global maritime partnership agreement both companies signed in 2019. The extension will see Eutelsat […]

The Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC) now has 400 vessels as part of its VSAT marine network, the company announced Feb. 16. The company’s services are now used on 373 […]

Hughes Network Systems said Tuesday that it successfully completed a three-month pilot program for a new “Community LTE” service that provided broadband connectivity to five villages in Brazil. To provide […]

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) rolled out a new Spectrum Coordination Initiative on Tuesday to improve U.S. government coordination on spectrum management and […]

Gilat Satellite Networks reported 32% revenue growth in 2021 compared to 2020, in the company’s full year 2021 financial results published Tuesday. Revenue was $218.9 million, compared with $165.9 million […]

Yahsat’s dedicated government arm Yahsat Government Solutions (YGS) has won a nearly $250 million contract from the UAE government. Yahsat announced the deal, Feb. 14. YGS will provide managed services […]

Satellite service provider Anuvu has signed a capacity increase with Telesat for additional Ka-band capacity over the Southeastern U.S., the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico, and Central America. Anuvu announced […]

Members of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee are circulating two pieces of draft legislation that seeks to modernize the FCC’s satellite licensing rules. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., and […]

SES is looking to making an impact in the broadband market in India, and has formed a JV with Jio Space Technology (Jio). SES said the joint venture, announced Feb. […]

Lockheed Martin on Sunday evening, just before kickoff at the Super Bowl, said it has terminated its agreement to acquire rocket propulsion supplier Aerojet Rocketdyne following the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s […]

A number of law firms have filed or announced intent to file shareholder class action lawsuits against Astra Space, after a critical analyst report and the company’s launch failure on […]

At the end of last year, ST Engineering iDirect announced a new collaboration with Microsoft. Through this partnership, ST Engineering iDirect will leverage the Azure software radio tools to enable […]

SpaceX Chief Engineer Elon Musk gave an update on Thursday on the Starship rocket, the massive rocket SpaceX is building to develop a human presence on Mars and deploy Starlink […]

Inmarsat is making a new play in the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) market. It has teamed up with Australian company Harvest Technology Group (Harvest) to offer HD streaming to UAVs […]

Astrocast will deliver an end-to-end IoT solution for asset tracking and monitoring with UnaBiz, an IoT service provider, the company announced Feb. 9. As part of this partnership, UnaBiz will […]

Arianespace launched a batch of OneWeb satellites on Thursday afternoon in its first launch of 2022. An Arianespace Soyuz rocket took off from the Guiana Space Center, in Kourou, French […]

Astra’s mission for NASA on Thursday afternoon failed after the rocket experienced an issue during flight, sending the company’s stock tumbling.  Astra’s Rocket 3.3 took off from Space Launch Complex […]

Gilat Satellite Networks has signed agreements with global satellite operators Intelsat and SES to provide its new SkyEdge IV very-high throughput satellite (VHTS) platform in support of new satellites. SES […]

A number of satellite operators and NASA submitted comments to the FCC this week, taking issue with SpaceX’s proposed modifications to its second generation Starlink constellation (Gen2).  SES, Viasat, OneWeb, […]

Up to 40 of SpaceX‘s Starlink satellites are expected to fall out of orbit thanks to some inopportune timing: The company launched the satellites directly into a solar storm. A […]

Viasat is opening a Real-Time Earth (RTE) facility in Sweden in partnership with Arctic Space Technologies to bring polar capabilities to its ground-station-as-a-service (GSaaS) network. Arctic Space Technologies, which offers […]

Satellite service provider Marlink has expanded its long-term partnership with SES for dedicated capacity on the O3b mPOWER constellation. SES and Marlink announced the multi-year, multi-million-euro deal on Wednesday.  Marlink […]

Kleos Space and Satellogic are partnering to bring together Kleos’ radio frequency (RF) data and Satellogic’s satellite imagery, the companies announced Wednesday.  Under the partnership, Kleos’ RF data will be […]

Spaceport Cornwall is publishing a “Sustainability Impact Report and Action Plan” as it prepares for Virgin Orbit’s planned launch from the spaceport this summer. The spaceport shared details of the […]

German optical communication technologies company Tesat-Spacecom (Tesat) is expanding its footprint into the United States to provide optical communications terminals (OCTs) to U.S. government and commercial customers. Tesat announced Tuesday […]

Tokio Marine Holdings (Tokio Marine), a multinational insurance holding company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, has made a strategic investment in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data provider Iceye and will start […]

Lynk Global reports that recent pre-commercial tests on its fifth satellite in orbit connected the satellite to thousands of unmodified devices, including cell phones and IoT devices.  Lynk said in […]

Five organizations joined the standards group working to promote interoperability between ground communications in the satellite industry. The Digital IF Interoperability Consortium (DIFI) announced Monday that ViaLite Communications, Swedish Microwave […]

GMV has won a new contract from the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, known as Eumetsat, the company announced Feb. 8. The contract is for the provision […]

LATAM Airlines Group plans to bring Intelsat’s in-flight connectivity (IFC) services to its Airbus fleet of up to 160 narrow body aircraft. This includes the A320ceo and A320neo variants, based […]