E-letter: News Feed

While markets such as India and Philippines continue to show strong growth, there is little doubt that satellite pay-TV is facing huge challenges across Asia as Over-the-Top (OTT) competition begins […]

Intelsat has reportedly hired law firm Kirkland & Ellis to consider a possible Chapter 11 bankruptcy if U.S. regulators don’t increase the company’s compensation for C-band spectrum, Bloomberg Law reports. […]

L3Harris Technologies has passed the preliminary design review in the U.S. Air Force‘s Navigation Technology Satellite-3 (NTS-3) project. The review defines the spacecraft’s path to delivery and allows the program […]

Firefly Aerospace has signed a launch agreement with Satlantis, which will use the Firefly Alpha launch vehicle to deploy its constellation of Earth Observation (EO) and remote sensing satellites starting […]

SpaceX is now accepting bookings for rideshare launches for small satellites.  Customers can now book a mission online by selecting their desired orbit, earliest launch date, and payload mass. SpaceX bills […]

Speedcast’s Board of Directors has accepted the resignation of CEO PJ Beylier in light of a disappointing preliminary 2019 Full-Year (FY19) financial result for the remote communication and IT solutions […]

Aerkomm subsidiary Aircom Pacific has agreed to provide Hong Kong Airlines with both its AirCinema and AERKOMM K++ In-Flight Entertainment and Connectivity (IFEC) solutions. Hong Kong Airlines plans to install […]

Kinéis, a French IoT connectivity provider, has raised 100 million euro, reaching its capital target. Collecte Localisation Satellites (CLS), French National Centre for Space Studies (CNES), Bpifrance via the fund […]

Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) is designing and building the first fully operational nanosatellite in Kepler Communications’ next-generation constellation of communications satellites. SFL is also helping Kepler to set up a […]

Intelsat has selected Maxar Technologies to build Intelsat 40e, a next-generation geostationary communications satellite. Maxar also will integrate NASA’s Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) payload with the Intelsat 40e […]

Princess Cruises, a brand of the Carnival Corporation, will become the first global cruise ship fleet with early access to SES‘s O3b mPOWER network, offered for its Princess MedallionClass, the […]

Skyrora, a Scotland-based satellite launch firm, has completed an eco liquid-fuel rocket engine ground test. The tests, a week of static horizontal firings conducted in Fife, compared the behavior of […]

Comtech Telecommunications announced Monday, that its Mission-Critical Technologies group, which is part of Comtech’s Government Solutions segment, was named as one of the awardees to compete under the Global Tactical […]

In the wake of natural disasters, functioning communications services and infrastructure can mean the difference between life and death. Flooding, seismic activity, wildfires, high winds, downed trees — even recovery […]

Rocket Lab launched its first mission of the year — dubbed “Birds of a Feather” — on Friday at 02:56 UTC from the company’s Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand’s […]

Speedcast Government is supporting a United Nations agency and an independent national electoral committee in Niger, Africa, to prevent electoral fraud. Speedcast Government has been asked to provide satellite internet […]

Labsphere has begun constructing a commercial global satellite and airborne calibration network called FLARE. The company is combining Raytheon’s SPARC mirror technology, which it licenses, with its own technology in […]

Tethers Unlimited (TUI) has delivered what it calls the first mesh network inter-satellite crosslink solution for small satellites. The SWIFT-LINQ network is a software app that runs on TUI’s SWIFT […]

Northrop Grumman’s Innovation Systems division posted a 2019 Fourth Quarter (4Q) sales increase of $138 million to a total of $1.59 billion, a 9% jump from the same period last […]

Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems (SAS) enjoyed a 7% increase in fourth quarter (4Q) 2019 net sales to $2.018 billion, compared to $1.88 billion in the fourth quarter 2018, with […]

C-COM Satellite Systems and reseller partner Isotropic Networks have completed the integration of the iDirect iQ 200 modem with C-COM’s iNetVu antenna controllers. The new modem is compatible on all C-COM […]

Get SAT and Hellas Sat have demonstrated satcom capabilities on Hellas Sat’s network. The companies said in a Thursday announcement that their partnership offers capability enhancements on Hellas Sat 4 […]

Renesas Electronics has deployed a single-chip synchronous buck and low dropout (LDO) regulator. It targets low-power FPGAs, DDR memory, and other digital loads for spaceflight payload applications. The company said […]

Earlier this month, OneWeb and SatixFy announced a significant deal where the two companies announced plans to add a digital technology pathway payload that will include a full digital payload […]

General Dynamics Mission Systems division, which includes the General Dynamics SATCOM Technologies business, reported $1.3 billion in Fourth Quarter (4Q) revenue, a 2.5% increase from the same three-month period ending […]

Spanish satellite operator Hispasat will broadcast Radiotelevisión Española (RTVE) channels in Latin America as the result of a new, multi-year contract renewal it secured with both the network and technology […]

Boeing Defense, Space & Security provided no silver lining for the overall company in its comparatively rough Fourth Quarter (4Q) and Full Year 2019 financial report. On Wednesday, The Boeing […]

Comtech Telecommunications has agreed to acquire Israeli ground segment company Gilat Satellite Networks in a transaction that could produce a “dominant” force in the cellular backhaul market. Comtech announced Wednesday […]

SpaceX launched its fourth set of Starlink satellites on a Falcon 9 from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, on Wednesday at 9:06 […]

Speedcast has received a 12-month cellular backhaul contract with what it calls the second largest mobile operator in Mexico, but did not give the operator’s name. The company said its […]