Intelsat revealed on Monday Intelsat Cloud Connect, a new capability that's part of the company's global managed networking services. The capability allows enterprises to access their cloud applications anywhere at any time, even where traditional terrestrial connectivity infrastructure is unavailable. Intelsat’s Cloud Connect helps solve enterprise access limitations by providing a private gateway between a…

Former NASA Administrator Dan Goldin has joined microsatellite developer Astranis as a senior advisor and chair of its new Technical Advisory Board. In addition, Astranis also announced Thursday it has completed the Critical Design Review (CDR) for its first commercial program, a satellite for Pacific Dataport Inc. in Alaska.  “I am joining Astranis because this…

The University of Colorado Boulder and Lockheed Martin are working on a smallsat mission called Janus to capture the first-ever closeup look at binary asteroids. In 2022, the Janus team will launch two identical spacecraft that will travel millions of miles to individually fly close to two pairs of binary asteroids, which are pairs of…

Satellite in-space transportation provider Momentus and LunaSonde on Thursday revealed a launch service agreement to fly a demo cubesat (Gossamer) to Sun Synchronous Orbit (SSO) in Q1 2021, with further options to fly a constellation of 3U cubesats to SSO in the future. LunaSonde is a radar satellite remote sensing startup that provides subsurface imaging…