E-letter: News Feed

The commercial reality of a space port in Scotland has taken a new, positive step with the Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE). In recent days, the company revealed its latest […]

OneWeb revealed the successful test of its six satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). All satellites delivered high-speed, low-latency services, with speed of more than 400 Megabits per Second (Mbps) which […]

Atlas Space Operations revealed its support for Amazon Web Services (AWS) Ground Station within the Atlas Space Operations Freedom Network. The collaboration aims to provide customers an expanded network of satellite […]

Comtech Telecommunications revealed that during the fourth quarter of fiscal 2019, its Command and Control Technologies group was awarded $4.2 million in rapid innovation funding from the U.S. Army for […]

Kratos Defense and Security Solutions was awarded a follow on Task Order (TO) by the U.S. Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division (NAWCTSD). Valued at approximately $15.1 million, it was […]

Intellian signed a strategic partnership in satellite communications with Hyundai Global Service (HGS), a subsidiary of Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) group, on July 15. Both companies will expand HGS’ Integrated […]

The C-Band Alliance (CBA) put up a fight for its 5G spectrum allocation plan at a U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce hearing yesterday, as critics cast […]

Speedcast International will deliver Ku-band Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) services for 17 SK Offshore and Marine (SKOM) vessels, the chartering division of one of Malaysia’s largest Offshore Support Vessel (OSV) […]

BEI Precision Systems and Space Company delivered the Encoder/Motor Assembly for Raytheon‘s Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) J4 payload. “The delivery enables Raytheon to continue the buildout of this […]

UbiquitiLink, a commercial space startup providing mobile connectivity, raised $5.2 million in Seed 2 round financing from Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund and Blazar Ventures. This brings the […]

What’s the proper dividing line between what government does and what business does? This is not a political question — it is meant in the context of the space industry. […]

Goonhilly Earth Station opened its new data center and launched a managed High Performance Computing (HPC) platform for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) computing on demand. Goonhilly’s goal is to […]

Kleos Space, a space-powered Radio Frequency Reconnaissance data provider, completed all acceptance reviews and the satellites are mission-ready awaiting transport to RocketLab’s Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand. The satellites […]

Hughes Network Systems was awarded a National Association of State Procurement Officials (NASPO) ValuePoint contract to deliver HughesNet for Business to state agencies and eligible political subdivisions. Under the agreement, Hughes […]

Seakr Engineering is building digital Radio Frequency (RF) processors for Saturn Satellite Networks‘ small Geostationary Orbit (GEO) satellite known as “NationSat.” Saturn focuses on building small geostationary satellites, and is […]

NASA awarded a $73.7 million contract to Made In Space to demonstrate the ability of a small spacecraft, called Archinaut One, to manufacture and assemble spacecraft components in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). […]

An increase in U.S. government and military spending on launch services, combined with a sharp spike in small satellite activity and the emergence of commercial space travel and tourism will […]

Galileo, the European satellite navigation system, has been suffering a major outage since Friday, reports BBC News. The system’s status page currently lists all 22 of its satellites as either […]

Speedcast revealed a joint service offering with In Aria! Networks and Telespazio. Relying on a combination of In Aria! Networks’ redundant video contribution over Internet Protocol (IP) gateways integrated with the Speedcast […]

Russia’s Roscosmos successfully launched a Proton-M carrier rocket on July 13, carrying the Spektr-RG space telescope. The rocket lifted off from launch pad N81 at Baikonur cosmodrome at 3:30 p.m., […]

Maxar Technologies began production on a Legion-class Geostationary Orbit (GEO) satellite for Ovzon, a company located in the United States and Sweden that works to increase mobile broadband connectivity in […]

Richard Branson-backed space startup Virgin Orbit has completed a key step along its path to launching satellites for commercial customers. The company held a successful “drop test” of its LauncherOne […]

Spire Global and Teqplay are collaborating to bring new technology to the maritime market. Teqplay delivers information to the maritime industry to help companies reduce operational costs, increase asset utilization, and reduce […]

Intermap Technologies received a task order for $3.2 million to provide high-resolution terrain elevation models, related imagery, multi-sensor/multi-frequency source data, and feature layer extraction for a government customer. In addition, the company will […]

Connectivity to the ground is in short supply for today’s remote sensing satellites even as the data they collect from the Earth’s surface can predict extreme weather, protect ships from […]

A military spy satellite has come crashing down to earth after the failure of its launch rocket, sending the expensive payload into the Atlantic. The European Vega rocket had been launched from French […]

Viasat has launched Community Wi-Fi trials in Brazil. According to Viasat, the Community Wi-Fi hotspot initiative is focused on providing high-speed, affordable, satellite broadband connectivity to people where internet connections are […]

Spire Global Luxembourg will launch its open source Data Lake. The Spire Data Lake is accessible free of charge to all start-ups, research institutes, and public agencies in Luxembourg. These […]

Get Sat revealed its Nano SAT-H: a very small and lightweight Ka-band satcom terminal with an integrated Block Upconverter (BUC). The new satcom terminal meets the requirements of military, defense, and […]

Northrop Grumman was awarded a lucrative multi-spacecraft contract by Space Norway to build and deliver its Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission (ASBM) system. Northrop Grumman will design, manufacture, and integrate two satellites in […]