Focus: Europe

Orolia has announced that its atomic clock solutions have been selected for Galileo’s Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). Each satellite will carry two Rubidium atomic clocks and two passive Hydrogen […]

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is already in force, making it paramount for all satellite companies to understand their obligations, the implications and the risks. The GDPR may be seem like an EU-centric directive, but it could still impact companies based in all parts of the world...

Iceye, an Earth observation company providing synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) data, has announced $34 million Series B funding led by return investor True Ventures and supported by Draper Network VC funds […]

The twin Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO) satellites, developed and built by Airbus, are closer to continuing the climate record established by the predecessor GRACE mission of 2002–2017, […]

The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded Teledyne e2v, a division of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated, with the second phase of a €42 million ($47 million USD) contract to produce high-end […]

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 […]

During Eutelsat’s third quarter results, issued May 14, the main subject of conversation was the revenues in the “other” category — usually a footnote in many results. Eutelsast’s revenues are […]

A new distribution contract between Telekom Srbija and SES Video has launched a new TV package across Europe via the orbital position 23.5 degrees east. Under the new multi-year agreement, […]

Following its recent 8.4 million pounds ($11.4 million) contract win from the European Space Agency (ESA), Goonhilly Earth Station (GES) has secured its second phase investment of 24 million pounds ($32.6 million). […]

Sener will design, manufacture and test devices for the assembly of the Biomass satellite, a mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) under the Earth Explorer program. The program’s objective is […]

A potential 200 million euro ($2.39 million) contract between the European Space Agency (ESA) and Airbus in Portsmouth will be moved to the European continent because of Brexit, the managing director […]

Eutelsat Communications and TVN, a broadcaster in Poland and part of Discovery, have signed a multi-year, multi-transponder agreement, renewing capacity at the Hotbird position. This renewed capacity will support TVN’s […]

Telefonica’s wholesale business unit, Telefonica International Wholesale Services, has completed the final stage of the automation and simplification of all its operations across some of its most demanded services, including […]

U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May has asked experts to look into options for a British satellite navigation system to rival the European Union’s (EU) Galileo project, amid a row over […]

The European Space Agency (ESA) and an SES-led consortium are developing a system that will allow the generation of encryption keys from space, as well as their secure transmission to […]

Inmarsat’s first quarter results issued today were very much a mixed bag with encouraging performances in mobility areas, such as maritime and aviation, but perhaps less so in government. For […]

RBC Signals, global communication services provider for Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite operators, has announced a partnership with C-Core, a Canadian research and development company. As part of the agreement, C-Core, […]

French space agency CNES has chosen the Space Alliance, formed by Telespazio and Thales Alenia Space, to extend the fiber-optic communications system (STFO) at the Guiana Space Center (CSG), Europe’s […]

They say timing is everything and, just as Steve Collar begins his term as CEO of SES, the operator appears ready to turn things around. SES, which announced its first […]

Year after year, traffic orbiting the Earth is increasing while space debris poses an ever-greater threat for satellites and crews of space vehicles. To combat this problem, the European Space Agency (ESA) […]

The seventh Sentinel satellite from the European Earth observation program Copernicus has been placed into space following the successful launch on April 25. The 1,150kg Sentinel-3B satellite was carried into […]