Focus: Asia-Pacific

AsiaSat has made a significant acquisition in the media arena. It has fully acquired Lightning International Limited, a content distribution and media solutions company based in the U.K. and Hong...

OneWeb is partnering with major Australian telco Telstra as the two companies get ready to deliver one of the world’s largest rollouts of OneWeb Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) backhaul for a...

Fleet Space Technologies has completed a successful Series C funding round, raising a further $50 million Australian dollars ($33.14 million), the company announced May 24. The new funding has been...

Measat has made a significant broadband commitment to Malaysia’s military personnel. The company announced May 17 that it will be providing its CONNECTme NOW satellite broadband services for free under...

OneWeb has signed a new deal to bring broadband connectivity to the Philippines, one of Asia’s biggest markets. It announced May 3 that it will partner with NOW Corporation, a...

Imagery startup Synspective and regional operator Thaicom are partnering to jointly offer synthetic aperture radar (SAR) for disaster response in Thailand.  The two companies announced Tuesday they plan to offer...

Welsh space company Space Forge has a new MoU with Australia’s Southern Launch to explore potential satellite return technologies at Southern Launch’s Koonibba Test Range, the companies announced Monday.  Space...

Inmarsat is working to restore services from its I-4 F1 satellite after the satellite experienced an outage late on Sunday. This satellite provides L-band coverage in the Asia-Pacific region.  Inmarsat...

L3Harris Technologies will provide Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) next-generation Geostationary (GEO) imaging and sounding instruments to monitor and predict severe weather events. L3Harris has a legacy of providing these space-based weather...

Axelspace, a Japanese Earth observation provider and smallsat manufacturer, has raised new funding and is partnering with new Japanese venture Space Compass on its Space Integrated Computing Network.  Axelspace announced...