E-letter: News Feed

The satellite industry is moving into new use cases beyond traditional use cases around communication, intelligence, and navigation, as the industry grows and hundreds more satellites are launched to space […]

Space debris removal company Astroscale secured two significant endorsements of its long-term sustainability solutions within its home nation of Japan — its first collaborative partnership agreement with a launch service […]

The Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC) new Director General Alexey Volin gave some of his first public remarks this week since taking the helm of Russia’s state-owned satellite operator. Volin […]

French state-owned news television network France 24 has renewed a multi-year service agreement with Asia Satellite Telecommunications (AsiaSat) for capacity on AsiaSat 5. This agreement will continue distribution of France […]

Anuvu, formerly Global Eagle, plans to launch a constellation of small satellites in Geostationary Orbit (GEO), called MicroGEO, in partnership with Astranis.  Anuvu announced Tuesday that the companies are targeting […]

Sales at Lockheed Martin’s Space division rose 10% in the second quarter of 2021 compared to the same time last year. According to the company’s Q2 2021 results reported on […]

The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded Avio a contract to develop a new version of the Vega launch vehicle, Vega-E. The contract, announced July 23, is worth 118.8 million […]

Rupert Pearce, who was CEO of Inmarsat for almost ten years, has a new role in the finance sector. Pearce announced July 26 that he is collaborating as a venture […]

Satellite operator Intelsat has delivered Intelsat 2Ku in-flight antenna systems designed for the A321neo aircraft to Airbus, the manufacturer of the A321neo model. Airbus installed the 2Ku systems at its […]

There is a remarkable silence in Washington D.C. political circles surrounding a question that nobody expected to be asking in late July — Why hasn’t U.S. President Joe Biden nominated […]

Comtech Telecommunications has named Meketa Investment Group Managing Principal Judy Chambers to its board of directors after confirming the retirements of current board members Edwin Kantor, Ira Kaplan and Robert […]

Space and airborne laser communication equipment supplier Mynaric will enter India’s elusive, yet lucrative aerospace market after signing an MoU with JR Aerospace, a newly established Indian investment and technology […]

One of the Asia’s biggest satellite pay-TV operators has unveiled new hardware that works without a satellite dish. Astro, the leading DTH player in Malaysia announced July 22, that it […]

Ground segment players all believe that the COVID-19 pandemic has made them more customer- and service-focused, rather than just focused on selling hardware, according to executives from Comtech EF Data, […]

Space and digital engineering solutions provider Redwire successfully demonstrated the ability to simulate hybrid space architectures in support of advanced mission planning for the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, the […]

Satellite internet services provider Isotropic Networks extended its multi-year strategic partnership with RF-over-fiber (RFoF) technology provider ViaLite and has ordered new RFoF L-Band satcom links for their location in Alaska. […]

AT&T is leaving the satellite pay-TV business in Latin America. The company announced yesterday that Grupo Werthein, a private Argentinean company, is acquiring a 100% stake in Vrio, a company […]

SES has won a new capacity deal which sees one of Germany’s most famous media brands become a TV channel for the first time. The company announced that WeltN24, a […]

For this week’s Thursday Morning Conversation (TMC), we talk to Wind River’s Regional Sales Director Michael Mehlberg about all things cybersecurity and space. Wind River is one of the key […]

Gilat Satellite Networks entered into a strategic agreement with Pacific Dataport (PDI) to deliver Gilat SkyEdge II-c multi-service platform in support of  PDI’s expansion of ubiquitous broadband coverage in Alaska. […]

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) awarded an Indefinite-Delivery / Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) contract to ground based mobile satellite technology developer Kymeta to provide its u8 terminal and Kymeta Connect service […]

OrbComm is bringing its latest IoT innovation to the agriculture market. It announced July 20 that it had launched a wireless Tractor ID sensor, which aims to enable trailer pairing […]

e-GEOS, an Italian Space Agency (ASI- 20 percent) and Telespazio (80 percent) company, and ImageSat International (ISI), are partnering to jump into the market with their own new Earth Observation […]

Canadian data processing and analytics company EarthDaily Analytics Corp. (EDA) says it will start building a new constellation of nine Earth observation satellites this month and plans to have them […]

Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation operator Iridium Communications grew its total billable subscribers 19% year-over-year during its second fiscal quarter of 2021 (Q2 21), driving growth across all of its service […]

AsiaSat has made a play in the maritime sector by launching a brand new connectivity service targeting maritime customers in in the Asia Pacific region. Its new managed connectivity service, […]

SES Government Solutions (GS) has won a new deal with the U.S. Space Force in Greenland, the company announced July 19. The operator’s U.S.-based government business will support the Thule […]

Blue Origin successfully launched its founder, Jeff Bezos, his brother Mark, aerospace pioneer Wally Funk and Dutch teenager Oliver Daemen into space at 9:13 a.m. EDT Tuesday morning on its […]

Blue Origin and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos isn’t nervous about his historic, multi-generational ride on his reusable suborbital New Shepard rocket’s first crewed mission, scheduled for 9 a.m. EDT tomorrow, […]

Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation operator OneWeb has hired Nadia Hoosen as its new chief legal officer and group company secretary. She will serve as a member of OneWeb’s executive committee […]