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Richard Branson’s California-based satellite launch company, Virgin Orbit, has added two highly respected space industry veterans to its executive leadership team. The company announced Thursday that it hired former ILS […]

SpaceX launched an additional batch of 60 Starlink satellites early on Thursday morning to build up its satellite constellation to deliver low-latency broadband internet service from space. A Falcon 9 […]

Viasat has pushed back the launch of its first ViaSat-3 satellite, and does not expect to launch the satellite until early 2022. CEO Rick Baldridge said during the company’s Third […]

Thales Alenia Space is going to be taking part in a 5G demonstration in Asia, the company announced Thursday. It will partner with South Korean operator KT SAT, subsidiary of […]

L3Harris Technologies is the latest company to join the GPS Innovation Alliance (GPSIA), an industry group that advocates for the promotion, protection and enhancement of GPS in the U.S. and […]

Thales has won a new In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) deal with Qatar Airways, one of the Middle East’s largest airlines. The company announced Tuesday that Qatar Airways will use its AVANT […]

NASA has established a new position of senior climate advisor to work with the Biden administration on climate science objectives. The agency said in a Wednesday announcement that the senior […]

If you ever share an Uber or taxi with Iridium CEO Matt Desch, and Ed Sheeran comes on the radio (satellite radio, of course), be prepared to dust down your […]

Jeff Bezos, the multi-billionaire founder of Amazon, said he will spend more time with his Blue Origin launch company after he steps down as Amazon’s CEO in the 2021 third […]

SpaceX’s latest test of its Starship rocket came to an explosive ending on Tuesday. The 10 km high-altitude test of Starship Serial Number 9 (SN9) was livestreamed from Boca Chica, […]

Umbra, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery startup, has raised $32 million in equity financing, the company announced Jan. 30. The financing was led by the family office venture fund of […]

Gilat Satellite Networks’ subsidiary Wavestream has won a new amplifier contract in the Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) arena worth over $50 million, the company announced Feb. 1. Wavestream received an award […]

Launch company Astra announced plans to go public on Tuesday through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC). Under the deal, a merger with Holicity Inc. would make […]

Omnispace, the Washington, D.C. startup that wants to provide 5G connectivity from space, has received $60 million in equity financing from a consortium of investors led by Fortress Investment Group, […]

Khristian Jones is a senior aerospace engineering student at Wichita State University, and one of the co-founders of the Patti Grace Smith Fellowship. The Patti Grace Smith Fellowship, an official […]

ABS is partnering with Telemedia, a broadcasting and teleport service provider in South Africa, to improve its service offerings to customers in the Middle East and Africa region (MEA). ABS […]

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency has awarded L3Harris Technologies a $121 million contract to build space flight hardware to demonstrate the company’s solution for the Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space […]

Orbitare has reached a deal with Spire Global to deploy its personal satellite communication network, Spaceloop, on Spire’s nanosatellite constellation. Orbitare will send two in-orbit demonstrations of Spaceloop to orbit […]

Global satellite operator Eutelsat has won a multi-year contract to deliver Ka-band satellite broadband services to Zimbabwe’s state-owned internet service provider, TelOne (Pvt) Limited. Starting in March, Eutelsat broadband division […]

SES has a signed a five-year deal with Tototheo Maritime, a Cyprus-based maritime communications company, to bring data connectivity services to Tototheo’s customers. This will be done via SES Networks’ Skala […]

The past year will be known as a year of strife and great difficulty for the maritime satellite communication market, as a number of key applications have been greatly affected […]

L3Haris Space and Airborne Systems and Communications System segments drove revenue increase for the company in 2020, along with Integrated Mission Systems, while Aviation Systems experienced a decline due to […]

The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating SpaceX over whether the company discriminates against non-U.S. citizens in its hiring practices and said Elon Musk’s company is stonewalling a subpoena for information, court documents […]

Mobile satellite operator Inmarsat and and wireless and broadband technology provider Addvalue have entered into a collaborative partnership with Analytical Space (ASI) to support its rollout of a Low-Earth Orbit […]

Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) is looking to broaden its business in Asia. The company announced Thursday that it had formed a new subsidiary, SSC Space Thailand, targeted at the Asian-Pacific […]

The Space Systems segment of Northrop Grumman Corporation led the company in sales increases for both the Fourth Quarter (Q4) of 2020, and for the full year. In Q4, Space […]

The SiriusXM satellite built by Maxar Technologies that launched in January is under evaluation after certain payload units have failed, the company reported in a Wednesday filing to the Securities […]

HawkEye 360 is at an inflection point in its work to bring commercial Radio Frequency (RF) geolocation data to market, as its second-generation cluster is now in-orbit and being prepared […]

Momentus‘ founding CEO Mikhail Kokorich has resigned amid the company’s efforts to go public, due to regulatory concerns with his status as a Russian citizen. The company announced Jan. 25 […]

Despite The Boeing Company‘s COVID-19 and 737 MAX aircraft-related woes, it’s Defense, Space & Security division posted a 2020 Fourth Quarter (Q4) revenue increase of 14% year-over-year. The division brought […]