Focus: Europe

Eutelsat has terminated contracts with Russian satellite operator, RSCC for the RSCC-owned and operated Express AT1 and AT2 satellites. Eutelsat said this termination was down to the failure of RSCC’s […]

German tech startup Airmo has raised €5 million (~$5.8 million) in its seed round of funding, the company announced on Thursday. Airmo markets a proprietary sensor for detecting methane leaks […]

SSC Space is bringing a new optical ground station (OGS) into service at its site in Santiago, Chile. It will enable free-space laser communication between satellites and the ground, strengthening […]

A long-awaited rocket launch from the U.K. has moved a significant step closer. Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) has delivered its first and second stages of the RFA ONE launch vehicle […]

LOT Polish Airlines has started in-flight connectivity (IFC) serve on the first Boeing 787 Dreamliner plane, supplied by Viasat‘s Amara service. The Polish airline confirmed March 6 that the IFC […]

Eutelsat has completed its 5 billion euro ($5.8 billion) refinancing plan with the final step of a 1.5 billion euro ($1.7 billion) bond issuance, the company announced Friday. The company […]

LONDON — Virgin Galactic expects to start flying the next generation of its suborbital spaceship, the Delta Class, by the end of the year, Sir Richard Branson said this week during […]

Orange is taking another step forward in the direct-to-device (D2D) arena with partnership deals signed with AST SpaceMobile and Satellite Connect Europe, a European joint venture between AST SpaceMobile and […]

Deutsche Telekom will leverage SpaceX’s Starlink Mobile V2 constellation for direct-to-device (D2D) services to close coverage gaps in 10 European countries, it said in a statement Monday. The agreement would […]

Pan-European connectivity provider Open Cosmos announced ConnectedCosmos on Monday, a name for its incipient Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation designed as a sovereign connectivity backbone for European governments and companies. In […]

Germany and Luxembourg-based sensing company Airmo will partner with satellite manufacturer EnduroSat to put its methane emissions monitoring technology into orbit, with the first satellite of a projected 12-satellite constellation […]

Luxembourg-based connectivity provider OQ Technology is receiving 25 million euro ($29.5 million) of debt financing from the European Investment Bank to accelerate development and rollout of its satellite connectivity network. […]

European smallsat manufacturer GomSpace reported a record year of revenue in 2025, growing revenue by 72% compared to 2024.  The company reported 442 million Swedish krona ($49 million) in revenue […]

Revenue for the Airbus Defence and Space business increased 11% year-over-year in 2025, driven by growth across its three business units: military aircraft, space, and connected intelligence.  Airbus reported financial […]

Thales Alenia Space will build a central ground support platform for EU space services like EGNOS, Galileo, Copernicus, and GOVSATCOM/IRIS². The EU Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA) recently signed […]

SatVu has closed a 30 million pound ($40 million) funding round bringing its total equity funding to 60 million pounds ($80 million). The U.K.-based thermal intelligence company has two satellites […]

Arianespace inaugurated a new configuration for the Ariane 6 rocket, placing 32 Amazon Leo satellites into Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) on Thursday. The mission marked the first in a series of […]

Update — U.K. rocket company Skyrora is considering purchasing Orbex assets. The company said in a Feb. 12 statement it may invest up to 10 million pounds ($13.7 million) to […]

Satellite communications provider Eutelsat will receive a 975 million euro loan in French export credit financing to fund the Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites it recently ordered from Airbus Defence and […]

constellr has raised 37 million euros ($44 million) through a new Series A funding round to advance its thermal intelligence capabilities. The round was led by Alpine Space Ventures and […]

Shipping and logistics company CMA CGM will employ Eutelsat’s OneWeb Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) services across nearly half of its 650-vessel fleet, using Marlink’s XChange NextGen platform to combine with existing […]

German manufacturer Morpheus Space said it received a $15 million investment to expand production of its in-space propulsion system from a space-based venture capital firm and the European Union’s investment […]

Helsinki-based satellite manufacturer ReOrbit is planning a satellite network called Space Cloud, capable of secure data movement and processing, in collaboration with Google Cloud. Space Cloud is designed to use […]

Spanish telco MasOrange will trial Starlink’s Direct-to-Cell service under a new agreement with SpaceX announced Monday.  The Spanish regulator, the State Secretariat for Telecommunications and Digital Infrastructure, granted approval for […]

Telespazio and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) are joining forces to modernize Telespazio’s FOC-1A antenna, which has been operational at the Fucino Space Centre in Italy since 1967. The objective […]

OHB Hellas and Parsimoni are teaming up to develop a secure, sovereign in-orbit software platform in a major new space software initiative. It will combine OHB Hellas’ Orbital HPC hardware […]

Skynopy, a French space startup, has won a major deal in the ground satellite services arena. Airbus Defence and Space has tapped the company to support the enhancement of the […]

Planet Labs has secured an enterprise-scale agreement with the Surveying and Mapping Authority of the Republic of Slovenia (GURS) for satellite data to support agriculture, urban planning, and disaster management.  […]

The first two satellites in Open Cosmos‘ Ka-band satellite constellation have launched, just one week after the company announced it secured Liechtenstein’s high-priority Ka-band spectrum. This represents the first activation […]

Swissto12’s HummingSat small Geostationary Orbit (GEO) program has secured 73 million euro ($84.8 million) in financial support from European Space Agency (ESA) member states to accelerate development.  The additional ESA […]