E-letter: News Feed

Aalto HAPS (AALTO) has broadened its reach into one of the largest markets in Asia. The company signed an MoU with PT Dayamitra Telekomunikasi Tbk (Mitratel), an Indonesian digital infrastructure telecoms company […]

Dcubed has closed its Series A funding round, a funding round that oversubscribed by 26%. The German space startup will use the funding to scale the current production of satellite […]

Impulse Space has two new offerings to help satellites reach Geostationary Orbit (GEO). The company announced Tuesday it will offer a rideshare program to GEO for small satellites using its […]

GHGSat has contracted Space Flight Laboratory to build two additional greenhouse gas monitoring satellites for the company’s constellation.  The satellites, announced Monday, will be based on the SFL 15-kg NEMO […]

Orbit Fab has received a critical approval from the U.S. Space Force that its refueling interface is approved for military services.  The company announced Monday that its RAFTI (Rapidly Attachable […]

The FCC, led by Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, is working to develop a “single network future” in which satellite connectivity will help make terrestrial “dead zones” a thing of the past.  […]

The FCC granted AST SpaceMobile an initial license to launch and operate its first five satellites. AST SpaceMobile is now authorized to launch and operate V-band, S-band, and ultra high frequency […]

Satellite manufacturer and operator Muon Space raised a $56.7 million Series B funding round, led by Activate Capital. Muon Space announced the round on Monday, which also included Acme Capital […]

Viasat has started service on the first ViaSat-3 satellite, which suffered an anomaly after it was launched last year. ViaSat-3 F1 is now available for aviation customers operating over North […]

On-board propulsion is one of the biggest decisions that satellite operators make in the process of designing their spacecraft. The decision impacts the cost, weight, and capability of a satellite. […]

Axiom Space will partner with various partners as it looks to send three astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) on Axion Mission 4 (Ax-4), the company’s next commercial human […]

Booz Allen Hamilton deployed a generative AI large language model (LLM) in space onboard the International Space Station (ISS) National Lab, the company announced Aug. 1. The LLM was uploaded […]

The U.S. Space Force (USSF)’s Space Systems Command (SSC) awarded rideshare integrator SEOPS a contract to integrate six payloads on the upcoming Rideshare 2024-Blaze mission.  For the Blaze mission, SEOPS […]

Atlas Space Operations onboarded the NASA TROPICS mission to its ground segment network to improve data collection for the mission within a rapid timeline of four weeks, the company announced […]

In the face of increasing natural disasters due to climate change, restoring communication swiftly is crucial for effective disaster recovery. Satellite systems, like those provided by SES, play a vital […]

Ursa Major, one of the upstart developers of rocket motors and engines, surprised the industry on Thursday by appointing former Maxar Technologies CEO Dan Jablonsky as its new top executive, […]

Orbit Communication Systems is working with Viasat on multi-purpose satcom terminals for airborne platforms, the companies announced Wednesday. The terminals will be designed for a range of mission aircraft, rotary […]

Satellite data provider Umbra is expanding its business from selling imagery collected by its synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites, to selling the satellites to customers. Umbra announced its new Mission […]

Satellite operator SES reported strong momentum in its Networks business, particularly in the Government and Mobility sectors, as it reported its first half 2024 financial results on Aug. 1.  Overall, […]

Boeing on Wednesday wrapped up its search for its next top executive, naming long-time aerospace and defense industry veteran and executive Robert “Kelly” Ortberg as president and CEO, effective Aug. […]

Significant charges in the Space business impacted Airbus in its second quarter financial results, as CEO Guillaume Faury detailed changes to the Space business on July 30 to deal with […]

Northrop Grumman completed the preliminary design review for the 74 satellites it is building for the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 2 Beta and Tranche 2 Alpha configurations.  Northrop Grumman is […]

SES’s defense subsidiary received a multi-year contract worth $46.8 million to provide managed satellite services to the U.S. Air Force Air Combat Command (ACC). SES Space & Defense announced the […]

Methane-tracking satellite operator GHGSat has completed an evaluation process to join NASA’s Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition program (CSDA). This will make GHGSat’s methane emissions data available for scientific research and […]

Planetary Systems AI (PSAI) has been selected to participate in the U.S. Space Systems Command’s Space Domain Awareness (SDA) Tools Applications and Processing (TAP) lab.  The SDA TAP Lab is […]

United Launch Alliance (ULA) launched the USSF-51 national security mission for the U.S. Space Force on Tuesday — marking the final national security mission on an Atlas V rocket as […]

Astroscale Japan’s ADRAS-J mission recently completed a controlled fly-around of a rocket upper stage in orbit, taking pictures of the object. Astroscale reports this is the world’s first attempt to […]

Global launch services company Rocket Lab USA confirmed Monday that it completed integration and testing of two spacecraft it built for The University of California Berkeley’s Space Science Laboratory and […]

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) issued a pilot project award to geospatial analytics company SynMax and its Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) platform, Theia. SynMax announced Monday that the pilot program […]

French startup Skynopy, which hopes to make connectivity-as-a-service a commercial reality, could close a number of deals this year ahead of expectations. The company, which is led by CEO Pierre […]