Focus: Europe

The European Space Agency (ESA) awarded Spire Global a contract to design an aircraft surveillance system. It is a 16 million euro phased contract for a project called EURIALO, which […]

BT, OneWeb and the U.K. government have teamed up to deliver high-speed, low-latency internet connectivity to Lundy Island, North Devon in the United Kingdom. The partnership was announced July 21. […]

Thales Alenia Space signed new contracts with the European Space Agency (ESA) for the ground mission segment for Galileo Second Generation (GSG) and for system engineering activities, and two contracts […]

Thorium Space is fast becoming a flagship company in the Polish space market. The company has a diverse approach and its technology focuses on ground terminals and beam-forming payloads. Thorium […]

Goonhilly Earth Station will support three upcoming lunar and deep space missions with organizations in India and the U.S., as it looks to showcase its capabilities as a commercial deep […]

Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) has signed a new deal with a university and a company in Latvia. The company announced July 13 that it will partner with Ventspils University of […]

GSMA and the European Space Agency (ESA) signed a new memorandum of intent to strengthen partnerships between mobile and satellite industries to collaborate on technologies that bring the two solutions […]

GMV will provide a cybersecurity system for UAVs in Galacia, Spain. It has signed a 1.6 million euros ($1.7 million) contract with the regional government of Galicia’s Galacian Innovation Agency, […]

Thales Alenia Space has a new initiative to support startups with a new industry accelerator called the Space Business Catalyst, announced July 4. There are two locations, based in Toulouse, […]

EchoStar has seven new partnerships to develop and sell IoT solutions with API-K, Cyric, DalesLandNet, Dryad, Galaxy1, ProEsys, and Symes. These EchoStar customers will use its mobile IoT network to […]

Arianespace launched its final Ariane 5 mission on Wednesday evening from French Guiana, marking the end of an era for the workhorse rocket. With the final launch, Europe does not […]

Cailabs will host Astrolight’s laser communications terminal on an upcoming satellite mission, the companies announced June 28. Astrolight’s lasercom terminal ATLAS-1 will demonstrate pointing, acquisition, and tracking capabilities at gigabit […]

Airmo, another climate and space-based start-up, has closed a pre-seed funding round of 5.2 million euros ($5.69 million). The company announced the funding round June 27. This pre-seed round will […]

The European Space Agency (ESA) awarded GMV a contract worth more than 200 million euros ($218 million) to develop the ground segment for in-orbit control and validation of the Galileo […]

The European Union (EU) has added nine startups to contribute data to the Copernicus project. Each startup will receive a 5 million euro contract to provide additional data to Copernicus.  […]

Eutelsat is exiting the European retail broadband business. The operator is selling its activities here to an unnamed private operator, Eutelsat announced June 15. The divestiture includes affiliate Bigblu Operations […]

Reflex Aerospace signed Media Broadcast Satellite (MBS) as its first commercial customer, and will fly a payload for MBS on its first satellite.  Reflex announced on Tuesday that MBS will […]

Luxembourg’s Parliament approved funding for a new program for the country to acquire services from SES’s O3b mPOWER for 10 years.  Thursday’s news marks the approval of the Medium Earth […]

Orbex and Arianespace have formed a new partnership as the two launch providers look at how possible future co-operation between the two companies could help their respective customer requirements. The […]

It could be another two to three years before another rocket launches from Spaceport Cornwall after the failed Virgin Orbit mission, says outgoing leader Melissa Quinn, who recently announced she […]

Arctic Space Technologies will construct a satellite network portal (SNP) for OneWeb, a hyperscale satellite ground station installation at the Arctic Space Technologies’ Space Center in Piteå in Northern Sweden. […]

German space startup Reflex Aerospace has booked a slot on a SpaceX mission to launch its demonstration satellite in fall 2024. Reflex also expanded its seed funding round with a […]

Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) has won a new 2.26 million euros ($2.46 million) contract from the European Space Agency (ESA), the company announced May 15. This contract is for the […]

Tesat has joined SES’s team for the Eagle-1 quantum key distribution (QKD) satellite. SES announced last week that Tesat will develop and integrate the quantum key payload.  Tesat will manufacture […]

The Italian Space Agency (ASI) awarded a 235 million euro ($256 million) contract for an in-orbit servicing demonstration mission to a consortium of space companies led by Thales Alenia Space. […]

A task force for the Ariane 6 rocket provided an update on the vehicle’s progress toward first flight on Friday, reporting vehicle assembly is not expected to start until November […]

Scotland has reached a key milestone with construction beginning on the Sutherland Spaceport, formerly known as Space Hub Sutherland. It will be the first vertical launch spaceport to be built […]

Some of the biggest players in Europe’s space industry are coming together to bid on the European Union’s Iris² constellation. A group of manufacturers and satellite operators — Airbus Defence […]

BlackSky Technology reseller Telespazio Ibérica plans to offer a rapid emergency imagery service to a regional government in Spain, BlackSky announced on Tuesday. The deal will support the Government of […]

PARIS — Speaking at the Cysat event in Paris, France, Greg Wyler, founder and CEO of E-Space, said that gateways are the biggest security vulnerability in today’s satellite networks. “We […]