Rather than being classed as red tape, regulation can play an enabling role to support satellite start-up companies in the satellite industry. Where regulation includes a credible licensing process,it strengthens investor and customer confidence, stimulates innovation, and encourages growth. By the same token, excessive regulation, which is poorly tailored to the satellite industry and lacking…

The U.K. is in the middle of a space revolution. It has made a series of high profile announcements this year, including the capability to launch rockets, which will take the U.K.’s space capability to the next stage. The question is — while there is a lot of hyperbole around these announcements, will it ultimately…

Radiant Solutions was awarded a contract worth $92 million on a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase III contract with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). Radiant Solutions is tasked to rapidly develop, prototype, and deploy Machine Learning (ML) and crowdsourcing capabilities to augment a wide variety of NGA missions. NGA exercised the 2019 contract option year and…

Viasat, in partnership with MDA, a Maxar Technologies company, plan to establish a repair, maintenance, and upgrade service facility for Viasat's Link 16 military communication terminals in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The Halifax facility will be strategically located near the largest east coast bases of the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) and Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF),…