At Airline Passenger Experience (APEX) Expo 2018 in Boston last week, many airline Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) spoke to the importance of the connected aircraft, and the impact it has on their overall strategy. While they did not necessarily talk about satellite technology, it is clear that connectivity will be at the heart of the…

United Launch Alliance's (ULA) selected Blue Origin's BE-4 engine for Vulcan Centaur's booster stage. The Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)-fueled booster will be powered by a pair of BE-4 engines, each producing 550,000 pounds of sea level thrust. As previously announced, ULA has selected Aerojet Rocketdyne's RL10 engine for the Centaur upper stage, Northrop Grumman solid rocket…

Lockheed Martin opened an innovation center at its Missiles and Fire Control (MFC) facility in Orlando, Florida. The company expects the center to aid in the creating new patents and winning new contracts. This is the second of its kind at MFC. In less than a year's time, the Innovation Center in Dallas, Texas, has helped…

ThinKom Solutions and Telesat will jointly develop a Ka-band enterprise user terminal for Telesat’s planned Low Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation of satellites. As an initial step in the process, ThinKom’s ThinAir Ka2517 phased array antenna system, which is currently in production for commercial and government In-Flight Connectivity (IFC), will be used for over-the-air testing on…