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CACI International on Monday said it has agreed to acquire ARKA Group for $2.6 billion in cash, a deal that would make it a major player in high-end imaging payloads for classified […]

Hughes Network Systems has released a new product family of ruggedized cases for its transportable terminals for Eutelsat’s OneWeb network. The electronically steerable antenna terminals are now available with transportable […]

Hungarian company 4iG Space and Defence has signed a definitive investment agreement with Axiom Space to invest $100 million in the commercial space station company, over two investments.  4iG SDT […]

As space is no longer a supporting domain, but recognized as a decisive, warfighting one, U.S. Space Force leaders, defense primes, and commercial partners are working to ensure the U.S. […]

Forecasts on the arrival time for quantum computing vary greatly – from “it will be here in a decade” to “it’s already here.” There is consensus on the fact that […]

York Space Systems reports the Polylingual Experimental Terminal (PExT) payload completed more than 100 communication activities over 48 days of mission operations after it was launched in July.  The PExT […]

Ovzon will provide satcom services to an undisclosed European NATO nation under a new contract announced Dec. 19 worth 240 million Swedish krona ($25.2 million). The contract includes satellite networks […]

Lockheed Martin, Rocket Lab USA, Northrop Grumman, and L3Harris Technologies are to build 72 satellites for Tranche 3 of the U.S. Space Force’s Space Development Agency’s (SDA) Tracking Layer under more […]

HawkEye 360 on Thursday said it has acquired Innovative Signals Analysis (ISA) in a deal that is financially accretive, adds government customers and strengthens its platform for generating insights from the […]

For the fourth year in row, we bring you Spotify Wrapped in Space: The Satellite Industry’s 2025 Playlist. We asked space industry executives to share their most-listened to track of […]

President Donald Trump issued an executive order on space policy on Thursday that affirmed the priority to land Americans on the Moon by 2028, called for the development of nuclear […]

A Rocket Lab Electron rocket carrying the Pentagon’s Space Test Program (STP) S30 mission lifted off from the Virginia Spaceport Authority’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at Wallops Island, Virginia, on Thursday, according […]

Moody’s Ratings downgraded the credit assessment of SES from ba1 to ba2 on Dec. 17, citing weaker pro forma results for the first nine months of 2025 and the high integration […]

The German Armed Forces has awarded a new joint venture between Rheinmetall and Iceye a contract to deliver an exclusive constellation, valued at approximately 1.7 billion euro ($2 billion).  Data […]

Revenue for Spire Global was down nearly 56% year-over-year in the third quarter of 2025, which the company attributed to divesting its maritime business and the U.S. government shutdown shifting […]

OQ Technology has taken a technology step that it believes will rapidly expand its global addressable IoT device ecosystem for satellite connectivity. The company has certified Nordic Semiconductor’s low-power nRF9151 […]

Leonardo DRS conducted an on-orbit test of its multi-channel software-defined radio (SDR) with integrated advanced cryptography.  The SDR, called the eXtended Crypto Module3-Space (XCM3-Space), was launched aboard the Mercury satellite […]

Airtel Africa plans to bring Starlink Direct to Cell to its customers under a new partnership announced Tuesday. The telco will be the first mobile network operator in Africa to […]

The Senate voted to confirm Jared Isaacman as NASA Administrator on Wednesday afternoon. Isaacman takes the helm of NASA after an interesting journey to the role in which is initial […]

ST Engineering iDirect is working with Capgemini to develop a 5G non-terrestrial network (NTN) satellite base station that will enable integration between satellite and terrestrial networks. The companies announced Tuesday […]

Indonesia’s national satellite operator PT Telkom Satelit Indonesia (Telkomsat) has signed an MoU with Space42 to explore direct-to-device (D2D) collaboration with the Equatys joint venture.  Telkomsat is the first satellite […]

Iceye has teamed up with a major water utility company in the U.K., as it looks to improve its flood and wastewater management capabilities. It is working with Severn Trent, […]

Cailabs is working to bring transportable optical ground stations to market through a new agreement with DataPath to integrate its optical instruments onto DataPath’s transportable ground stations. Cailabs has signed […]

Beeline Kazakhstan, VEON’s digital operator in Kazakhstan, has completed the first Starlink Direct-to-Cell call in Central Asia. The call was conducted in the Akmolinskaya region of Kazakhstan. It was done […]

Latin American airline group Abra Group has selected SES’s in-flight connectivity (IFC) service to be rolled out on more than 100 aircraft, SES announced Monday.  Colombian airline Avianca, part of […]

Viasat has integrated the Global Xpress satellite fleet from Inmarsat, its Ka-band satellites, and partner satellites into a unified Ka-band network for government and military users, the company announced Monday. […]

ORLANDO, Fla. — The U.S. Space Force’s Space Rapid Capabilities Office (RCO) is preparing a request for proposals (RFP) around agile space capabilities, but it is held up due to […]

Space-based cloud service provider Satlyt has entered into a strategic partnership with Parsimoni, creator of SpaceOS, a secure unikernel-based operating environment for satellite payloads, to explore technical and commercial interoperability […]

GMV‘s subsidiaries in the U.K. and Portugal were awarded a contract under the European Space Agency’s NAVISP program to develop BEACON, an advanced beamforming antenna and receiver system designed to […]

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis appointed Sidus Space founder and CEO Carol Craig to the Canaveral Port Authority Board of Commissioners. Craig will serve the remainder of the term previously held […]