Focus: Europe

The European Space Agency (ESA) awarded D-Orbit with a General Support Technology Program (GSTP) contract to develop a precise, in-orbit cubesat deployer. The approximately $3 million dollar (2.6 million euros) contract...

Thales Alenia Space signed a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to lead the Fluorescence Explorer (FLEX) satellite mission. FLEX was selected in 2015 as ESA’s eighth Earth Explorer mission,...

Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) completed the build of the platform for Eutelsat Quantum, the first Geostationary Orbit (GEO) telecommunications satellite that will be fully reconfigurable in orbit. The Eutelsat Quantum satellite...

European media and entertainment company Sky has invested in Synamedia, an independent video software provider, joining majority shareholder Permira as a shareholder in the company. Both Sky and its parent company Comcast are long-time Synamedia...

For its 11th and final launch of the year, Arianespace‘s Soyuz medium-lift launcher lifted off from Guiana Space Center (CSG) in French Guiana at 1:37 p.m. local time today. Arianespace...

Spire Global’s most recently launched satellites are the first satellites in the world to use Galileo GNSS signals to measure radio occultation (GNSS-RO) profiles in a production capacity for the weather...

The Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) in London ruled in favor of Inmarsat and Ofcom. The CAT handed down its judgment dealing with Viasat’s challenge to Ofcom’s January authorization of Inmarsat’s U.K....

Eurobroadband Infrastructure (EBI), a subsidiary of Eutelsat, is launching a preferred partner program for the distribution of capacity on its KA-SAT satellite. The program aims to revitalize the distribution of...

NHK, Japan’s national broadcaster, partnered with Eutelsat Communications to launch the world’s first 8K network; BS8K. The live broadcast took place on Dec. 2 from the Vatican where images were...

The Slovenian Center of Excellence for Space Sciences and Technologies (SPACE-SI) chose Arianespace to launch its NEMO-HD microsatellite. It will be launched on the Vega launch vehicle, as part of...