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Maxar Technologies signed a joint statement of strategic intent and cooperation with the Australian Space Agency. Under the statement, Maxar and Australian Space Agency will investigate collaboration in areas of […]

Telenor Group and Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group) today announced the formation of a new company that combines Canal Digital and Viasat Consumer (satellite pay-TV and broadband-TV operations). This will […]

Blue Origin revealed a national team to offer a Human Landing System for NASA’s Artemis program to return Americans to the lunar surface by 2024. Blue Origin signed teaming agreements […]

Lockheed Martin reported its Third Quarter (Q3) 2019 financial results, in which it saw net sales increase in its Space segment, and overall. The company reported overall net sales of […]

Addvalue Innovation delivered the first flight model of the company’s Inter-satellite Data Relay System (IDRS) terminal to Capella Space. Addvalue’s IDRS system, developed in tandem with Inmarsat, aims to provides […]

Iridium Communications revealed that Intellian is the newest manufacturer of Iridium Certus maritime terminals. Intellian is introducing the C700 terminal which aims to enable a variety of applications including safety, […]

Hughes Europe and Telespazio have signed a contract to boost services they offer to European customers. The companies announced the new deal Oct. 18. The agreement will enable the companies […]

SES has entered into a contract agreement with Indonesian media group Surya Citra Media (SCM), and its satellite direct-to-home TV provider Nex Parabola to provide exclusive HD coverage of the UEFA Champions […]

Sandia National Laboratories aims to play a key role in satellite cyber protection. The organization has announced a new seven-year mission campaign to develop the science, technology and architecture needed […]

Kleos Space is getting ready for a very busy year. The space-powered Radio Frequency Reconnaissance data-as-a-service (DaaS) company announced today that its Kleos Scouting Mission will launch on a PSLV […]

On the first ever all-female spacewalk, NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir ventured outside the International Space Station (ISS) today at 7:38 a.m. EDT, to replace faulty equipment on […]

Solar Orbiter, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) flagship mission to study the Sun has completed all tests and is set to be flown to Cape Canaveral ready for its launch […]

Seakr Engineering selected Rambus‘ 28G Multi-protocol LR SerDes PHY and the CryptoManager Root of Trust for its next-generation Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) and Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) designs. The […]

Globalstar revealed that the new Sat-Fi2 Remote Antenna Station (RAS), which aims to expand the capabilities of the Sat-Fi2 Satellite Hotspot by incorporating remote antenna enabling use in any vehicle, […]

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) gave Swarm Technologies approval to launch 150 satellites. According to the FCC document, Swarm will be able to “construct, deploy, and operate a constellation of 150 […]

According to the former CIO and Digital Strategy Lead for one of the world’s largest multinational energy companies, digital transformation represents both the top opportunity and business risk for the […]

NASA and Boeing initiated a contract for the production of 10 Space Launch System core stages and up to eight Exploration Upper Stages to support the third through the twelfth […]

Rocket Lab successfully launched its ninth Electron mission, deploying a single spacecraft to orbit for satellite manufacturer Astro Digital. The mission, named “As The Crow Flies,” lifted off from Rocket […]

Quintillion Networks and Atlas Space Operations revealed plans for North America’s highest latitude ground station, to be located 250 miles inside of the Arctic Circle in Utqiagvik, Alaska. Upon its […]

NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate awarded Blue Canyon Technologies (BCT) a $4.9 million contract to develop a technology that allows BCT’s spacecraft buses to perform autonomous navigation on-board, without any additional […]

Marlink and Intelsat agreed to a multi-year renewal and expansion of their partnership to provide broadband services to maritime vessels around the world. The multi-year agreement will deliver additional throughput […]

Iceye revealed that its recently developed Spotlight imaging mode is now commercially available to its customers around the world. Iceye Spotlight imaging enables one-meter radar imaging from the company’s satellite […]

Spire Global revealed the company’s first product from Spire Aviation, with the launch of their new AirSafe API. Spire Aviation’s AirSafe product uses Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) technology […]

Comtech Telecommunications revealed that during its first quarter of fiscal year 2020, its Mission-Critical Technologies group, which is part of Comtech’s Government Solutions segment, was awarded a contract with a […]

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has reportedly filed paperwork with the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) on behalf of U.S. launch company SpaceX for the operation of 30,000 additional SpaceX Starlink […]

The U.S. Navy‘s Naval Undersea Warfare Center awarded Serco the sole awardee for an Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) contract to deliver system engineering technical services for the Submarine High Data […]

In the face of dwindling Returns on Assets (ROA) due to the inexorable slide in broadband connectivity pricing ($/Mbps/pcm), and the prospect of further swathes of space capacity being launched […]

Dymon signed a joint agreement with Astrobotic to send the first Japanese lunar rover onboard the Peregrine lunar lander to the Moon in 2021. Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander will be […]

Ursa launched China Macro, a new oil storage product for portfolio managers, macro funds, long-term investors and market analysts. Ursa currently uses its satellite radar technology, specifically Synthetic Aperture Radar […]

How important are precision agriculture and global food and water supply monitoring applications to our future? Via Satellite’s On Orbit podcast takes a look at the numbers: The world’s population […]