Focus: Asia-Pacific

Germany’s Media Broadcast Satellite (MBS) signed a launch deal with South Korean launch startup Innospace for two missions to Low-Earth Orbit (LEO). Innospace will launch two missions with its HANBIT launch...

Maxar Intelligence entered into a partnership with Taiwan’s Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation (AIDC) to deploy Maxar’s Raptor software suite across Taiwan’s unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) industry, the company announced Friday....

A realistic appraisal of China’s potential in space requires us to suspend the natural but distortive habit of projecting our own views onto another. This is one of the great...

Japanese pay-TV satellite operator SKY Perfect JSAT signed a technology partnership agreement with Harmonic to utilize its software-based XOS Advanced Media Processor in the enhancement of JSAT’s playout and delivery...

Iceye has appointed Yasuhiro “Pete” Tsukahara as its new CEO of Iceye Japan. With the establishment of Iceye Japan and the appointment of Tsukahara, Iceye is targeting a more prominent...

Satellogic has a new strategic partnership with satellite data analytics company Suhora that gives Suhora exclusive rights to market Satellogic’s imagery and data in India and Nepal. Satellogic announced the...

DE-CIX has announced it will integrate SpaceX’s Starlink into its interconnection ecosystem in India, and it is the first internet exchange operator in India to do so. This comes as...

Sky Perfect JSAT is joining an R&D project to demonstrate satellite-based quantum key distribution (QKD) led by Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT).  The project is part...

Sumitomo Corporation of Americas has invested into Ursa Space Systems to help the company serve customers across Asia, particularly in the Japanese market. The firm is the largest subsidiary of...

Starlink services are now available in Kazakhstan, a country with a population of around 20 million people. Starlink announced availability in the country on Aug. 13. This comes after the...