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Thales Alenia Space has signed a contract with prime contractor Ball Aerospace to supply communications equipment for NASA’s NEO Surveyor mission, a telescope designed to hunt asteroids and comets. Thales Alenia […]

LeoLabs and Secure World Foundation (SWF) released a joint statement on Wednesday to respond to the accumulation of derelict objects in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) like spent rocket bodies.  LeoLabs and […]

Maritime service provider KVH Industries is stepping away from hardware manufacturing to focus on its position as a hardware-agnostic multi-orbit connectivity provider. This comes after KVH added Starlink and Eutelsat […]

Finnish hyperspectral startup Kuva Space is working to break into the U.S. market, recently hiring former Iceye US CEO Jerry Welsh to lead the company’s expansion in the U.S. The company […]

Eutelsat has revealed details of a large backhaul rollout in Australia. Working with the Australian telco, Telstra, the operator has launched the largest rollout of Eutelsat OneWeb LEO backhaul in […]

SpaceX detailed a plan on Feb. 12 to deorbit 100 Starlink satellites that are part of the early version 1 design. The satellites are currently working, but the Starlink team […]

Viasat had integrated a managed satcom solution on a U.S. Navy Military Sealift Command (MSC) ship as part of a contract to provide service to 105 ships. Viasat announced the […]

Direct-to-device satellite connectivity company Skylo Technologies has raised $37 million in funding, co-led by Intel Capital and Innovation Endeavors. New investors BMW i Ventures, Next47, Samsung Catalyst Fund, and Seraphim […]

Space sustainability is becoming an undisputed necessity. However, not everyone agrees yet on the how, nor does everyone believe in the viability of a commercial market for space safety, security […]

Ovzon has landed a new deal for its T7 mobile satellite terminal. The company recieved a contract with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), which will represent the first delivery […]

Aalyria recently conducted a demonstration of its Spacetime network orchestration software platform, integrating assets from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and commercial satellite operators and companies. Its software orchestrated […]

LeoLabs secured an additional $29 million in funding for its catalog of Low-Earth Orbit objects (LEO). The company said this latest financing will enable LeoLabs to scale up its insight […]

A group of satellite operators debuted a new industry organization on Friday — the Mobile Satellite Services Association (MSSA), focused on promoting the direct-to-device (D2D) ecosystem. Its founding members are […]

Maxar Intelligence has named former Google and Apple executive Arvind Srinivasan as the company’s new chief technology officer.  At Google, Srinivasan oversaw the commercialization of the Google Maps Engine cloud […]

Synspective is teaming up with the National Remote Sensing Department of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of Vietnam and Fujitsu Vietnam to help with natural disaster preparedness, natural resource […]

An orbital debris removal research project by Astroscale Japan Inc. is to launch later this month or in early March aboard an Electron rocket by Rocket Lab. The Rocket Lab Electron, carrying Astroscale’s […]

BlackSky Technology shared more details this week about a recent $50 million deal to supply subscription imagery and analytics to the Indonesian Ministry of Defense (MoD). In this deal, the […]

It’s not every day that the FCC proposes an entirely new rule section to address an emerging technology. But it may be a signal of the technology’s potential when it […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is starting a new Space Accelerator, a mentorship opportunity designed to foster India-based startups focused on space technology. AWS announced the program on Wednesday and said […]

SpaceX launched NASA’s satellite mission to study ocean health, air quality, and the effects of climate change into orbit early Thursday morning. After being rescheduled twice due to weather conditions, […]

Es’hailSat and Nilesat have signed an MoU to work more closely together. The partnership brings Qatar’s and Egypt’s biggest satellite companies together to work on a variety of projects. This […]

Sponsored By: The launch of JUPITER™ 3 on July 28, 2023, from Kennedy Space Center marked the beginning of a new era of connectivity. The largest commercial communications satellite ever […]

Sateliot has secured a new partnership with EWT (Endangered Wildlife Trust), a South African NGO to safeguard vultures in the region. The collaboration aims to deploy 5G IoT sensors on […]

Intelsat has made an investment into Israel-based satellite technology firm hiSky, along with a strategic collaboration agreement. hiSky announced the investment on Feb. 5. Along with the investment, Intelsat CTO […]

Viasat plans to initiate service soon with the first ViaSat-3 satellite, which has just a fraction of its planned capacity due to an issue with an antenna on board. The […]

After a 16-year working life, the second European Remote Sensing Satellite (ERS-2) is making its final descent into Earth’s atmosphere. ERS-2 returned information that influenced the perception of climate change […]

Slingshot Aerospace announced Feb 7. it is appointing Tim Solms, former executive at Dun & Bradstreet, Microsoft, Dell and VMware, as their new CEO. Solms will also have a seat […]

The Global Satellite Operators Association (GSOA) and the European Space Agency (ESA) are looking to collaborate further as they aim to ensure satellite’s role in future 5G and 6G networks. […]

Satellite network management startup Quindar raised an additional $6 million in seed extension rounds from FUSE with the continued investment from Y-Combinator and Funders Club, the company announced in late […]

The U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command awarded Lockheed Martin a firm-fixed-price contract valued at $66 million for risk reduction activities and early design work for the Mobile User Objective […]