Making a jump to have its own in-house capabilities to design and manufacture satellites, Britain’s BAE Systems on Tuesday said it has acquired another United Kingdom-based company, In-Space Missions, which is currently designing and building a series of satellites for various customers. The acquisition gives BAE a full lifecycle satellite capability while offering In-Space Missions the ability…

A group of major Swedish technology companies that recently formed a partnership expects to have prototype low-cost satellite terminals for Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) ready for testing and validation in 2022, and then in 2023 expects to launch them into the market. This could be a huge development for the Swedish space industry and put it…

The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded the U.K. branch of D-Orbit a contract to develop debris removal technology, the company announced Wednesday, Sept. 8. The ESA contract is worth $2.6 million (2.2 million euros) as part of ESA’s Space Safety Programme (S2P). D-Orbit will development and perform an in-orbit demonstration of a “Deorbit Kit”…

Dutch satellite industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) company Hiber B.V. has appointed a new CEO. Roel Jansen who joined Hiber as chief commercial officer in March, is now the company’s CEO according to a Tuesday announcement. Jansen was previously vice president of Sales at SurveyMonkey. Jansen replaces Hiber B.V. founder Laurens Groenendijk. This follows after…