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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 […]

DISH signed a multi-year agreement with a U.S.-based cloud services company it hopes will help advance its mission to launch a standalone 5G network. Altiostar is the developer of a […]

PredaSAR is working to build a constellation of 48 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites, and the company’s Executive Chairman and Co-Founder Marc Bell said the Earth Observation (EO) startup will […]

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the newest GPS III satellite, Space Vehicle 03 (SV03), for the U.S. Space Force (USSF) from Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex-40 in Florida on […]

Yahsat announced Tuesday that its Board of Directors has appointed Andrew Cole as CFO. Cole will assume the position on July 1. He succeeds Balakrishnan Doraisamy, who is retiring after […]

Space Communication Technologies (SCT) selected SpaceBridge to supply an High Throughput Satellite (HTS) Multiple Spot Beam (MSB) Broadband Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) Network. The network incorporates SpaceBridge’s ASAT System […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Tuesday launched a new business segment dedicated to serving the aerospace and satellite industry. The new AWS Aerospace and Satellite Solutions division will be led […]

Hispasat revealed on June 24 that it won a contract with Artel to embed the U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center’s Pathfinder 2 mission on its Amazonas Nexus […]

MDA and Burloak Technologies, a division of Samuel, Son & Co., on Monday revealed a five-year agreement to partner for additively manufactured parts and components for space-bound satellite antenna applications. […]

NXT Communications (NXTCOMM), a new wireless connectivity company in Atlanta, has opened a new 10,000-square-foot production facility that will produce their electronically steered antennas to help meet worldwide demand for […]

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has selected L3Harris Technologies to conduct four studies on the agency’s next generation of Earth Observation (EO) satellite architecture. The studies will assess […]

The U.S. Space Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) has awarded Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. a $222.5 million contract to maintain the Defense Support Program (DSP) satellites.  DSP satellites […]

The satellite industry is sometimes difficult to understand. OneWeb recently filed for bankruptcy, letting go of most of its staff, but not long after filed for an expansion of their […]

Thaicom and CAT Telecom revealed a joint satellite business venture to help strengthen Thailand’s telecommunications infrastructure and to support the growth of the digital economy industry and satellite industry. CAT […]

Aerkomm, a development stage service provider of In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) and Entertainment solutions for the airline industry, revealed that its wholly owned subsidiary, Aircom Pacific, entered a cooperation agreement with […]

Intelsat has extended its partnership with African telecom group Liquid Telecom to connect more than 2,000 additional Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) terminals across the continent. The two companies have […]

Virgin Galactic successfully completed its second SpaceShipTwo Unity test flight on Thursday from Spaceport America in New Mexico with pilots Mark ‘Forger’ Stucky and Michael ‘Sooch’ Masucci on board. Nicola […]

Eutelsat has estimated its full cost to clear the C-band and relocate its U.S. customers at $170.9 million. Of that, $150 million is allocated for a single satellite replacement, and […]

We are back in Canada this week for another great Thursday Morning Conversation. This time we talk to one of the most well-known faces in the industry, Dan Goldberg, president […]

Five industry groups have joined protests against the FCC’s approval of Ligado’s L-band network plan in April. The group, Keep GPS Working Coalition was founded by the Association of Equipment […]

Capella Space signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). The CRADA gives Capella access to NGA researchers for deeper insight into problems […]

NXT Communications (NXTCOMM), a new mobile connectivity company in Atlanta, announced today that it has completed design of a low-cost, flat-panel satellite antenna for the commercial and defense aviation markets. […]

Maxar Technologies has agreed to acquire Saab’s share of the two companies’ joint venture Vricon, Inc., in a $140 million cash deal. Maxar’s Tuesday evening announcement said this will allow […]

Relativity Space, a Los Angeles-based space startup using 3D-printing and Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques to build launchers, has signed a Right of Entry agreement (RoE) with the U.S. Air Force’s […]

An appeals court has denied a request for stay on the FCC’s C-band auction brought by a group of regional satellite operators. On Tuesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for […]

The United States Trustee overseeing Intelsat’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy case has decided against forming an equity committee of common shareholders at this time.   In a letter to the ad hoc […]

As airlines slowly begin flying again, many are starting to look at the In-Flight Entertainment and Connectivity (IFEC) technologies they have been investing in from a different perspective than prior […]