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Taiwan’s Video-On-Demand (VOD) industry associations today met with government officials at a roundtable event to share and promote best practices that foster growth while safeguarding consumer interests through self-regulation and […]

Tom Choi is one of the most enigmatic (and some would say controversial) figures in the satellite industry. As the former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of ABS, as well as […]

HawkEye 360, an Allied Minds portfolio company, has raised $9.6 million in the first closing of a Series A-3 financing round (“the transaction”). The round included Razor’s Edge Ventures, Allied […]

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited Maxar Technologies‘ Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec satellite manufacturing facilities on Aug. 9 to view the final phases of construction of the Radarsat Constellation Mission (RCM). Canadian Space […]

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket carrying NASA‘s Parker Solar Probe spacecraft lifted off from Space Launch Complex-37 on Aug. 12 at 3:31 a.m. EDT. NASA selected ULA’s Delta IV […]

XipLink has hired Edson Meira as its new vice president for the Latin America region. XipLink is a company that specialises in Wireless Link Optimization (WAN). Meira most recently held the […]

Eutelsat has sold its interest in its Eutelsat 25b/Es’hail 1 satellite to Es’hailSat in a deal worth 135 million euros ($156.30 million), the company announced yesterday. Eutelsat’s share of the […]

RUAG Space has signed a major new deal with emerging launch provider Rocket Lab, which will see it become Rocket Lab’s preferred supplier to provide a 15” microsatellite separation system […]

Atlas Space Operations believes its new X-Band electronically steered array system could well turn out to be a defining moment for the company. The company yesterday that it has deployed […]

World View has appointed former SSL Chief Technology Officer and Vice President Matteo Genna to lead engineering and manufacturing at the company. Genna will provide executive leadership and direction in […]

The OilComm and FleetComm Conference & Exposition has confirmed two new oil and gas industry speakers for its 2018 program — Shell Technologies‘ Digitalization Lead for Deepwater Technology, Hani Elshahawi and Chevron […]

Maxar Technologies issued a stern response to a report written Aug. 7 by Spruce Point Capital Management’s Ben Axler alleging serious mismanagement of the company by its CEO Howard Lance. Maxar claims the report “contained […]

It is no longer a secret to anyone that the lifestyle and needs of people and companies have drastically changed thanks to technological advances and the need to be more […]

Hughes reported a significant increase in its revenues for the first six months of its 2018 fiscal year, providing its parent company EchoStar with enough momentum to surprise analysts with […]

C-SPAN, the Washington D.C. based suite of public affairs networks, has signed a new, long-term contract for C-band satellite services on Intelsat’s Galaxy 14 satellite, Intelsat announced today. Intelsat will […]

UK Business Secretary Greg Clark has taken his first visit today of the site that will be used for a spaceport in Sutherland, Scotland, the UK Space Agency announced today. […]

Orbcomm has unveiled a new Cloud-based analytics service, the company announced August 8. The analytics service will be focused on the transportation & logistics, supply and chain and heavy equipment […]

Airbus Defense and Space’s first  aircraft of the Zephyr program, the Zephyr S HAPS (High Altitude Pseudo-Satellite), has successfully landed. After taking off July 11 in Arizona, Zephyr S logged a maiden […]

Arianespace has secured a highly important contract with one of most high profile companies in the NewSpace arena. The launch service provider announced today that it had signed a multi-launch […]

RigNet has won a lucrative cyber-security contract with one of Asia’s biggest telcos. It has signed a deal with Singtel to provide its global customers with CyphreLink, a sophisticated satellite and […]

Rocket Lab has won a key new launch contract with a customer in the Middle East. The company has signed an agreement with Circle Aerospace for ten dedicated Electron launches, […]

Dutch Hiber and Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) are teaming up to create a state-of-the-art and reliable ground station infrastructure for Hiber’s Low Power Global Area Network (LPGAN), named Hiberband, the […]

Boeing has taken a significant step into the world of 3D printing, thanks to a key new investment in a company based out of Burlington, Massachusetts. It announced yesterday that […]

Bigger is better. This statement is certainly true in Texas, but it applies elsewhere. In the automotive industry, cars seem to keep growing in size (even Mini got aboard the […]

SpaceX has successfully launched a satellite for one of Asia’s biggest telcos. The company confirmed early this morning that its Falcon 9 had successfully lifted off from Space Launch Complex […]

Lockheed Martin has shipped the fourth Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) military communications satellite to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, where it will be prepared for an October liftoff […]

Inmarsat, which is heavily targeting the aviation market, has released a major new market study on the IFC market looking at customer dynamics and future trends. It has unveiled findings […]

Newtec’s Dialog multiservice platform is being used by global telecommunications provider Milano Teleport to boost its services for the maritime market, Newtec confirmed yesterday. Targeting namely yachts (via the “Orbis Yacht” brand) and cruise liners (with “iSeaglobal”) which both require very high-bandwidth connectivity, especially […]

Aerojet Rocketdyne’s advanced tactical booster program has completed two successful hot-fire tests of a motor that had been conditioned to mimic extreme cold- and hot-soak conditions for air-launch application. The […]

With thousands of new small satellites waiting in line to be launched into orbit, Spaceflight President Curt Blake hopes his rideshare operation can push more operators through the bottleneck. Later […]