E-letter: News Feed

Executives from SpaceX, Telesat, Iridium and SES gathered virtually at World Satellite Business Week Virtual Edition hosted by Euroconsult on Tuesday, to discuss their different approaches with Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) […]

India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) launched a national Earth Observation (EO) satellite along with nine satellites for international customers on Nov. 7. The mission, PSLV-C49 took off from Satish […]

A Chinese Long March 6 rocket delivered 10 Satellogic satellites to Sun-Synchronous Low-Earth Orbit at 3:18 a.m. UTC on Friday, November 6. It was Satellogic’s first dedicated launch and brings […]

Viasat‘s new CEO Rick Baldridge joined executives from major satellite operators SES, Intelsat, Hughes Networks Systems, and Eutelsat on a virtual executive panel just days after he was named the […]

Telesat and the Canadian government have reached a $462 million (600 million Canadian dollars) agreement to use Telesat’s upcoming Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellation to provide high-speed broadband across all […]

Carolyn Belle has held a variety of jobs in the space industry, but her vision remains the same: a future that focuses on building space-based infrastructure to enable a dynamic […]

Maxar Technologies on Thursday revealed financial results for its Third Quarter (Q3) 2020. The company reported a strong quarter with $436 million in revenue — an increase of $23 million […]

Viasat Chairman and CEO Mark Dankberg, who co-founded the company in 1986 is transitioning into the newly created position as executive chairman of the company. President and COO Rick Baldridge […]

Intelsat’s Third Quarter (Q3) financial results showed revenue at similar levels to the same time period in 2019, despite the pandemic. For the three months that ended September 30, Intelsat […]

SpaceX launched the fourth Global Positioning System (GPS) III satellite on Thursday evening. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Space Launch Complex (SLC)-40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station […]

Hughes Network Systems confirmed in its 2020 Third Quarter (Q3) financial results that it is pushing back the launch of its Jupiter 3 satellite to 2022 due to manufacturing delays.  […]

Hiber revealed Monday the launch of HiberHilo, a subscription-based Internet of Things (IoT) end-to-end solution for oil and gas well integrity monitoring. The company says this is the first subscription […]

SES’s results were a mixed bag on Thursday with good news in terms of overall revenues, but profits seeing a significant fall. In the nine months to the end of […]

Rocket Lab is preparing to attempt to recover a stage of its Electron rocket after launch for the first time, the smallsat launcher announced Thursday. On the upcoming “Return to […]

NASA has formally commented (PDF) on a request by a U.S. company to build a mega-constellation of satellites at an altitude of 720 km above the Earth’s surface, citing concerns about […]

For this week’s Thursday Morning Conversation (TMC), Via Satellite goes back to the Middle East to talk to Thuraya CEO Ali Al Hashemi about a variety of topics. Ali has […]

Viasat’s U.K. subsidiary won a U.K. Ministry of Defence contract to supply Ultra High Frequency (UHF) satellite communications on five new Royal Navy Type 31 frigates. Financial terms of the […]

SES Networks and Colombian satellite internet provider INRED delivered 300 additional broadband hotspots across Colombia, SES revealed Thursday. This is expansion of the work done in 2019 when SES Networks […]

Eutelsat Communications has launched Sat.tv, its enhanced electronic program guide for Free-to-Air (FTA) channels. The service is operating at the 7/8 degrees West position, serving over 56 million homes across […]

ST Engineering iDirect and Gilat have been selected as SES technology partners for the development of its O3b mPOWER system. SES announced Tuesday that the companies will developing the core […]

Lacuna Space completed in-orbit checks on Tuesday for an Internet of Things (IoT) small satellite launched on Sept. 28 by Roscosmos. The satellite payload and mission is a modified IoT […]

German rocket developer Rocket Factory Augsburg AG (RFA) is the first company to join the European Space Agency (ESA) launch support program. RFA announced Monday that it will receive $586,000 (500,000 […]

Airbus on Tuesday revealed that the company will lead the European Space Agency (ESA) contract for the Traceable Radiometry Underpinning Terrestrial and Helio Studies (TRUTHS) satellite mission, phase A /B1, […]

Slingshot Aerospace raised $8 million in Series A funding, the company revealed Oct. 29, bringing its total funding to $17.1 million. This round was led by by ATX Venture Partners, […]

The U.S. Marine Corps has awarded L3Harris Technologies an $88 million program award for Very Small Aperture Terminals (VSAT). Under the firm-fixed-price, Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) contract, L3Harris will supply up to […]

Inmarsat has received a three-year contract with the ESA valued at $26 million (22.4 million euros) that will co-fund the development of a new satellite communications services platform that will […]

Exotrail revealed last Thursday that the French space agency CNES‘ mission design analysis and system engineering teams are now using Exotrail’s EXoOps – Mission Design software. CNES signed a software […]

Gilat Satellite Networks successfully demonstrated carrying 5G traffic over Thaicom’s Geostationary Orbit (GEO) High-Throughput Satellite (HTS), the company revealed last Thursday. Gilat’s cellular backhaul solution is now declared operational and […]

Kacific is actively planning to build its second satellite, Kacific2, the company revealed last Thursday. Plans for Kacific2 include coverage over Indonesia, the Philippines and Papua New Guinea, as well […]

Maxar Technologies was selected by the U.S. Space Force to develop prototype mission data processing applications for the Future Operationally Resilient Ground Evolution Mission Data Processing (FORGE MDP) program, the […]