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ViaLite has released new technology that enables users to see what is happening at the antenna end of smaller Satcom and GPS receiver applications, the company announced Aug. 3. The […]

ABL Space Systems was awarded two U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) contracts worth $44.5 million, and completed a funding round valued at $49 million. Additionally, the company began testing its RS1 […]

Arianespace will have to wait a little longer for its post-COVID-19 comeback. The French launch company was forced to scrub its Ariane 5 VA253 mission on Friday after detecting a […]

The FCC granted Amazon approval on Thursday to build out Project Kuiper, its planned constellation of 3,236 satellites in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) that will deliver low-latency broadband internet. Along with […]

LeoLabs, a commercial provider of Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) mapping and Space Situational Awareness (SSA) services, revealed that its next space radar will be located in Costa Rica. According to a […]

  Representatives from Telesat and SpaceX dug into their companies’ plans for constellations in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) and how they can provide backhaul in Via Satellite’s Cell Backhaul Digital Week […]

The U.S. Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) selected Ball Aerospace to develop a prototype of a new multi-band, low-observable satellite communications antenna to be installed on the U.S. Navy‘s newest stealth […]

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) authorized nearly $20 million in funding for Viasat to expand rural broadband in Pennsylvania, the Commission announced July 17. Viasat will be paid $19,945,120 over […]

Virgin Galactic has hired Disney executive Michael Colglazier as the company’s new CEO. Colglazier has decades of experience at Disney, and was most recently president and managing director of Disney […]

Northrop Grumman Corporation launched a spacecraft for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) on Wednesday on its Minotaur IV launch vehicle. The launch took off from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in […]

OWG, a new Canadian airline focusing on tropical destinations, selected Skytrac‘s satellite communications technologies to enable numerous capabilities onboard their fleet of upgraded Boeing 737-400 aircraft. Onboard the fleet of […]

The Federal Communications Commission’s chairman, Ajit Pai, says he’s proposing approval of Amazon’s plan to put more than 3,200 satellites into Low-Earth Orbit for a broadband internet constellation known as Project Kuiper … […]

Antenna Research Associates (ARA) has completed its acquisition of AQYR Technologies to broaden its business with AQYR’s satcom ground terminals. The newly acquired company will operate as a wholly-owned subsidiary of […]

T-Mobile has opened up its T-Mobile Home Internet pilot to residents of three Michigan counties, in a move that aims to put other Internet Service Providers (ISPs) on notice. The […]

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has recently awarded Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. approximately $30 million in contract awards for Command, Control, Computing, Communication, Combat, Intelligence, Surveillance, and […]

Hispasat extended its European and American maritime market partnership with solutions provider Syntelix for another two years, the Spanish telecommunications satellite operator announced July 2. Syntelix said it would use […]

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issued four, six-month contracts to Ball Aerospace for studies related to mission, spacecraft, and instrument concepts for future operational weather architectures and Earth […]

DISH signed a multi-year agreement with a U.S.-based cloud services company it hopes will help advance its mission to launch a standalone 5G network. Altiostar is the developer of a […]

Hispasat revealed on June 24 that it won a contract with Artel to embed the U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center’s Pathfinder 2 mission on its Amazonas Nexus […]

NXT Communications (NXTCOMM), a new wireless connectivity company in Atlanta, has opened a new 10,000-square-foot production facility that will produce their electronically steered antennas to help meet worldwide demand for […]

Virgin Galactic successfully completed its second SpaceShipTwo Unity test flight on Thursday from Spaceport America in New Mexico with pilots Mark ‘Forger’ Stucky and Michael ‘Sooch’ Masucci on board. Nicola […]

Relativity Space, a Los Angeles-based space startup using 3D-printing and Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques to build launchers, has signed a Right of Entry agreement (RoE) with the U.S. Air Force’s […]

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a Small Business Technology Transfer study contract to York Space Systems, in conjunction with Metropolitan State University of Denver (MSU Denver). The project […]

Virgin Galactic signed a Space Act Agreement with NASA’s Johnson Space Center to encourage commercial participation in orbital human spaceflight to the International Space Station (ISS) while enabling the development […]

Maxar Technologies today announced that it was selected by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to develop an analytics system for characterizing and tracking the behavior of vehicles in […]

Astranis has reached a testing milestone that it said is a major step in its path to offering low-cost broadband internet service from microsatellites in Geostationary Orbit (GEO). The company […]

The U.S. Space Force Commercial Satellite Communications Office (CSCO) awarded Peraton task order CTC0331, a $56 million contract under the Future Commercial Satcom Acquisition (FCSA) program. The newly awarded contract […]

SES has selected Northrop Grumman and The Boeing Company, to deliver four new satellites as part of the company’s accelerated C-band clearing plan.  The satellite operator announced Tuesday that Northrop […]

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine Friday selected Commercial Crew Program Manager Kathy Lueders to be the agency’s next associate administrator of the Human Exploration and Operations (HEO) Mission Directorate. Since 2014, […]

SpaceX successfully lofted three high-resolution imaging SkySats from Planet and a batch of its own Starlink communications satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket this past weekend on June 13. The […]