Focus: Europe

Firefly Aerospace, a Texas-basedsmall- to medium-satellite launch vehicle developer, has opened a new research and development center in the city of Dnipro, Ukraine. The new center will be named FireFly...

SES will be broadcasting an 8K television signal via its satellite system for the first time during its annual SES Industry Days, taking place today and tomorrow in Luxembourg. Relying...

Kudelski Group, a provider of digital security, and u-blox, a Switzerland-based global player in positioning and wireless communication technologies for the automotive, industrial and consumer markets, have announced the signing...

Russian fishing fleet operator Dobroflot Group is set to deploy an Internet of Things (IOT) solution for fuel monitoring from Orange Business Services. The solution helps to optimize fuel consumption, analyzing weather and...

BridgeSat has announced a set of agreements to provide space laser terminals and data services to Iceye, a commercial microsatellite Synthetic-Aperture Radar (SAR) constellation. BridgeSat’s low-cost terminals and associated ground services...

The SpaceDataHighway system, a public-private partnership between the European Space Agency (ESA) and Airbus, has achieved 10,000 successful laser connections. The reliability rate has reached 99.8 percent, and during the...

Cobham Satcom’s Explorer 8100 Auto-Acquire, Drive-Away Antenna System, with its Dynamic Pointing Correction technology, has been installed on the U.K.’s broadcast solutions provider Timeline TV’s new 4K-uplink RF2 broadcast truck....

Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) has commercially launched its new high-speed in-flight Wi-Fi service on its short- and medium-haul routes between Scandinavia and Europe. The new in-flight Wi-Fi system is powered by Viasat,...

Orbital Tracking has reported financial results for the three months ended March 31, showing the company’s wholly owned subsidiaries, Global Telesat Communications and Orbital Satcom, having achieved combined revenue growth of...

U.K. air traffic management service provider NATS has invested in Aireon, the company working on a space-based air traffic surveillance service for the aviation industry. Through a network of 66 Low...