Focus: Asia-Pacific

Vestaspace Technology, an Indian small satellite manufacturing company, released plans on Tuesday to launch a constellation of 35 or more satellites across India with the intention of building 5G speed...

Astroscale Holdings Inc. has opened a Series E funding round and secured Japanese data center provider I-NET Corp. as its first investor, the company announced Monday. Astroscale hopes to close...

Phase Four has reached an agreement with Marubeni Corporation as an exclusive representative of its Maxwell line of satellite engines in Japan. Phase Four also said in a Monday announcement...

In a world where enterprises can rent not just additional computing power, but their entire IT network, Tokyo-based startup Infostellar is using that model by offering ground-station-as-a-service for the emerging...

Inmarsat is working to ensure emergency responders can aid during the COVID-19 pandemic through its Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) and IsatPhone 2 services. The satellite operator has enabled its...

Airbus Defence and Space will develop and manufacture the thermal infrared instrument for the TRISHNA climate monitoring satellite for the French Space Agency (CNES), the organizations announced Monday.  TRISHNA, (Thermal...

Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd (ST Engineering) said that its Aerospace and Electronics sectors have received about $1.1 billion in new contracts in the First Quarter (Q1) of 2020.   The Aerospace...

Rocket Lab has signed a deal with Japanese satellite company Synspective to launch its first satellite, the companies announced Tuesday. Rocket plans to launch Synspective’s StriX-α Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)...

Chinese state media Xinhua.net reported Thursday that a Long March-3B rocket mission carrying Indonesian communications satellite Palapa-N1/Nusantara Dua failed.  According to Xinhua, abnormal conditions in the third stage caused the...

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. has announced that its Arizona-based subsidiary, Comtech EF Data Corp. received $1.6 million in orders for satellite ground station equipment from what it calls world’s largest Mobile...