Focus: Europe

Viasat believes the cyberattack on its KA-SAT network last month that affected modems across Ukraine and Europe was “deliberate” and intended to interrupt service, the company said in a report […]

Skyrora has opened a new rocket engine testing facility in Scotland, the company announced March 15. The site allows Skyrora to concentrate its launch development operations for the purpose of […]

Satellogic is working with geospatial and AI analysis software company Astraea to distribute Earth observation data directly to the Ukrainian government, allied governments, and humanitarian organizations on the ground for […]

The European Space Agency (ESA) awarded Astroscale’s U.K. and European subsidiary an 800,000 euro ($879,000) contract to lead a collision avoidance study. The study is part of the Collision Risk […]

Virgin Orbit will launch the first satellite developed in Wales on the launcher’s first mission out of Spaceport Cornwall in the United Kingdom this summer. Space Forge, which is based […]

OneWeb’s board of directors voted to suspend all launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, and Arianespace is suspending Soyuz launches as the companies rejected steep demands from the Russian […]

Update on March 3: OneWeb’s board of directors has voted to suspend all launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the company said in a statement early Thursday. An upcoming […]

Intergovernmental agency the European Space Agency (ESA) is implementing sanctions its member states have imposed on Russia, ESA announced Monday.  “We are assessing the consequences on each of our ongoing […]

Viasat is investigating a partial network outage on its European KA-SAT network that may be the result of a cyber event, the company confirmed to Via Satellite in a statement […]

Pulse Power and Measurement (PPM) is teaming up with a leading U.K. university as its looks to develop what it calls a new approach to technology used in the radio-over-fiber […]

Global connectivity provider Orange has been a valuable customer for satellite operators as it builds its seamless mobile network in various regions around the world. Recently, Orange and its Senegalese […]

Eutelsat Communications‘ fiscal performance in the first-half of its 2021-2022 financial year (H1) will result in a delay in the company’s return to growth strategy, as revenues fell in some […]

OneWeb has beefed up its distribution capabilities in the United Kingdom and Northern Europe thanks to a new distribution partnership with Clarus Networks Group. Clarus will deliver OneWeb’s high-speed, low-latency […]

Eutelsat Communications secured a multi-year contract extension with Marlink on Wednesday that builds off of a global maritime partnership agreement both companies signed in 2019. The extension will see Eutelsat […]

Viasat is opening a Real-Time Earth (RTE) facility in Sweden in partnership with Arctic Space Technologies to bring polar capabilities to its ground-station-as-a-service (GSaaS) network. Arctic Space Technologies, which offers […]

Spaceport Cornwall is publishing a “Sustainability Impact Report and Action Plan” as it prepares for Virgin Orbit’s planned launch from the spaceport this summer. The spaceport shared details of the […]

GMV has won a new contract from the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, known as Eumetsat, the company announced Feb. 8. The contract is for the provision […]

Maxar Technologies has extended its satellite capacity agreement with European Space Imaging and Space Imaging Middle East, strategic imagery partners that serve customers in Europe, Northern Africa and the Middle […]

The United Kingdom unveiled its first-ever Defence Space Strategy (DSS) on Tuesday, with a commitment to invest 1.4 billion pounds ($1.95 billion) to boost national interests in space, including building […]

Isar Aerospace has won a 10 million euro ($11.32 million) prize from the European Commission (EC), the company announced Jan 25. Isar won the EC’s EIC Horizon Prize “Low-Cost Space […]

GMV has won a new contract for the Spanish Centro para el Desarrollo Tecnológico Industrial (CDTI) to develop a coordinated scheduling software for planning and tasking the activities of the […]

It is the start of a crucial year for the United Kingdom’s blossoming space industry. The U.K. government has set out to build a strong and vibrant industry over the […]

German space company OHB and its subsidiary LuxSpace entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with OQ Technology (OQ) to collaborate on a satellite-based IoT upstream and downstream service for […]

Loft Orbital contracted Airbus for more than 15 satellite platforms based on the Airbus Arrow platform, which serves the OneWeb constellation. The agreement brings together a traditional space manufacturer and […]

After announcing a deal with the Repsol Foundation to develop  technologies that will be applied to the reforestation sector to offset CO2 emissions, Hispasat plans to expand its joint satellite […]

Hispasat has signed a new climate-related deal in Spain in the area of reforestation. The Spanish operator announced Jan. 12 that it is partnering with the Repsol Foundation to develop […]

Arqit Quantum has received a contract to bring its Federated Quantum System Project (FQS), which uses satellites to distribute quantum keys to data centers, to Australia.  Arqit is based in […]

In another development that moves the United Kingdom closer to having native launch capabilities, a local government in Scotland is planning for a spaceport in Prestwick, Scotland.  Local government South […]

Arianespace has received launch contracts for four additional Galileo satellites, and two PLATiNO satellites, the French launcher announced Thursday.  This launch order for four Galileo satellites from the European Union […]

Satellite hardware company Ovzon has secured a $9.8 million contract for 14 months of Satcom as a Service (SaaS) for the Italian Fire and Rescue Service. The service will equip […]