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Intermap Technologies revealed a new contract with Zipline to deliver geospatial Elevation-as-a-Service to support their expanding medical operations in Africa, including on-demand emergency response to COVID-19 outbreaks. The subscription contract […]

NovelSat will incorporate its satellite access waveforms into Envistacom’s Transport Virtualization Ecosystem (TVE). Envistacom announced Thursday it will deliver an open-architecture ecosystem which helps enable virtualized applications such as advanced […]

Welcome to another of Via Satellite’s Thursday Morning Conversations. This time we are off to Texas to talk to Tara Bamburg, manager of  Inflight WiFi and Entertainment at Southwest Airlines. […]

Viasat removed internet speed limits delivered to the aircraft across all of its business aviation Ka-band service plans. Additionally, the company has doubled its minimum committed internet speed to the […]

Satellite-connected Internet of Things (IoT) technology company hiSky has begun early field trials of a new “Smartellite” Ku-band satellite terminal that it has been developing over the course of a […]

Comtech Telecommunications Corp.’s acquisition of Gilat Satellite Networks looks to be in trouble as Comtech has filed a complaint against Gilat alleging its business has taken a major hit, and […]

Antenna Research Associates (ARA) has completed its acquisition of AQYR Technologies to broaden its business with AQYR’s satcom ground terminals. The newly acquired company will operate as a wholly-owned subsidiary of […]

The European Space Agency (ESA) has selected Airbus Defence and Space for major Copernicus environment missions, the agency announced Wednesday. Copernicus is the biggest provider of Earth Observation (EO) data […]

NASA and Boeing’s major reviews of the company’s uncrewed Orbital Flight Test in December 2019 has concluded with 80 recommendations. The December flight test experienced an intermittent space-to-ground communication issue, […]

T-Mobile has opened up its T-Mobile Home Internet pilot to residents of three Michigan counties, in a move that aims to put other Internet Service Providers (ISPs) on notice. The […]

Viasat has launched high-speed internet service for residential customers in Brazil. Viasat said in a Tuesday release it expects to be the only satellite Internet Service Provider (ISP) that will […]

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has recently awarded Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. approximately $30 million in contract awards for Command, Control, Computing, Communication, Combat, Intelligence, Surveillance, and […]

Hungarian space and satellite company C3S is partnering with automated driving technology company AImotive to adapt AImotive’s technology to create a prototype hardware platform for Artificial Intelligence (AI) onboard satellites.  […]

The U.S. Air Force’s collaboration with Texas-based Hypergiant Industries will to lead to a Chameleon Constellation of 24 to 36 Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) enabled cube satellites able […]

Gilat Satellite Networks new aero modem, Taurus, was selected to support In-Flight Entertainment and Connectivity (IFEC) services for China’s Qingdao Airlines, Gilat announced Tuesday. The service is provided by China […]

Luc Riesbeck is a space policy research analyst at Astroscale U.S., and wants to make our orbits a safer place.  Riesbeck started their career with an undergraduate degree in international […]

L3Harris Technologies has launched a satellite that is the latest in a demonstration series of end-to-end small satellites for a classified U.S. Air Force constellation. A representative for the company […]

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. subsidiary Comtech Xicom Technology has received a $1.5 million contract from a major satellite service provider for Ka-band Gateway Traveling Wave Tube Amplifiers (TWTAs), Comtech announced Monday. […]

The United Kingdom is set to take a significant equity share in OneWeb in a groundbreaking deal. On Friday, July 3, OneWeb announced the U.K. government through the Secretary of […]

Exolaunch signed launch agreements with NanoAvionics to launch two 6U nano-satellites aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rideshare missions. Under the contract, Exolaunch will provide launch, integration and deployment services to the […]

Rocket Lab’s “Pics Or It Didn’t Happen” mission on July 4 failed when the Electron vehicle experienced an anomaly after stage separation. The vehicle was lost, and payloads for Canon […]

Yona Ovadia has stepped down from his position as CEO of Gilat Satellite Networks. The Israeli satellite networking company confirmed that its CFO and Chief Integration Officer Adi Sfadia will […]

Sky Perfect JSAT (JSAT) is considering a long-term play in several new markets, including the Earth Observation (EO) and data analytics markets, JSAT Executive Officer and Group President of Global […]

This week’s Thursday Morning Conversation (TMC) goes all the way to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to talk to Masood Mahmood, the CEO of Yahsat, one of […]

A bankruptcy court has approved Intelsat’s request for an employee incentive plan worth $17 million, despite an objection from the U.S. Trustee overseeing the case.  The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for […]

Optus has awarded Airbus Defence and Space a contract for a fully reconfigurable telecommunications satellite based on Airbus’ new OneSat product line. This is Airbus’ first satellite order from Optus, […]

Hispasat extended its European and American maritime market partnership with solutions provider Syntelix for another two years, the Spanish telecommunications satellite operator announced July 2. Syntelix said it would use […]

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issued four, six-month contracts to Ball Aerospace for studies related to mission, spacecraft, and instrument concepts for future operational weather architectures and Earth […]

Relativity Space and 6K, which develops microwave plasma technology, have launched a sustainability partnership to create a closed-loop supply chain to process scrap materials.  In a Tuesday announcement, the companies […]

Viasat Inc. and Indigenous companies in Australia’s Northern Territory have opened a ground station facility in Alice Springs. The facility was built, project-managed, and owned by Indigenous companies, the Centre […]