Focus: North America

SpaceX has promised to redesign its upcoming mega-constellation of internet satellites so that they cannot hurt anyone on Earth. In a meeting with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) last week, […]

Orbital Insight launched its refinery outage product, a daily data feed that detects maintenance activity changes up to three days before existing reporting services. This product aims to help energy sector […]

Fifty years after the first moon landing, an American triumph that gripped the world, China marked the start of 2019 with its own lunar achievement. Chang’e-4, a Chinese probe, landed […]

Defense officials want to test a neutral particle-beam in orbit in fiscal 2023 as part of a ramped-up effort to explore various types of space-based weaponry. They’ve asked for $304 million […]

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV rocket carrying the WGS-10 satellite for the U.S. Air Force successfully lifted off from Space Launch Complex-37 on March 15 at 8:26 p.m. EDT. […]

Viasat recently revealed that its KOR-24A Small Tactical Terminal (STT) was selected by the Canadian Department of National Defense in Sept. 2018 to support its Army’s Airspace Coordination Center Modernization […]

Michigan was a major force in the early Space Age, when Chrysler made rockets that carried astronauts and General Motors built the electric buggies they used to explore the moon. […]

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV rocket is in final preparations to launch the tenth Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) satellite for the U.S. Air Force. The launch is planned […]

Team TBG was awarded a contract in support of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s (NOAA) Professional and Technical (ProTech) Services Oceans Domain. ProTech is a suite of contracting vehicles organized into […]

In exploring whether to move forward with a managed services model for satellite communications acquisition, certain circles of government leadership have expressed some reservation, which essentially reflects uncertainly or even […]

IDirect Government received Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) certification for the company’s 9-Series Defense portfolio of satellite routers and line cards operating on Evolution 3.4 software. The 9-Series Defense products underwent evaluation […]

Ball Aerospace was selected to continue work on the Space Evaluation and Analysis Capability (SEAC) testbed for the second phase of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and Defense Advanced […]

Spire Global revealed that Paul Damphousse joined the company to lead national security business development for Spire Federal in Washington. Damphousse served in the U.S. Marine Corps for 22 years […]

Orbital Micro Systems (OMS) revealed that the first satellite in its Global Environmental Monitoring System (GEMS) constellation has been delivered to NanoRacks for launch integration. Housed in an AAC Clyde […]

By autonomously docking at the International Space Station, SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule has passed a crucial test as the company prepares to start flying US astronauts to the ISS later […]

Gogo and long-time partner, Alaska Airlines, launched Gogo 2Ku high-speed connectivity and Gogo Vision wireless In Flight Entertainment (IFE) on an A321neo featuring the airline’s redesigned cabin interior. Alaska will have […]

Global law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP revealed its new branding and legal name, Milbank LLP. This change coincides with the move of Milbank’s headquarters from Wall Street […]

Intelsat introduced Mobile Reach Manage, a new end-to-end managed service that enables Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) to quickly and cost effectively deploy their 2G/3G/4G network infrastructure into areas once considered […]

Viasat and Facebook are collaborating to accelerate the deployment of high-speed internet to communities that lack reliable internet, or have no connectivity at all. The collaboration will help accelerate the […]

The U.S. Air Force awarded Intelsat a firm-fixed-price contract modification for commercial satellite communications services. The contract supports Option Period Three on task order GS-35F-0478U/HC1013-16-F-0020 for commercial satcom service. The […]

PSSI Global Services and Sydney Teleport Services (STS) have collaborated to establish a gateway between PSSI International Teleport (PIT) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the STS teleport in Sydney, Australia. This […]

NASA selected Ball Aerospace to build the spacecraft for the Spectro Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx), a medium-class Explorer mission. Ball […]

GOES-17, the second of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) next-generation Geostationary Orbit (GEO) weather satellites, has completed its checkout phase and is now operating in the GOES West […]

SpaceX is looking to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a blanket license to operate up to 1 million fixed earth stations for its Starlink satellite broadband constellation. The application […]

Spaceflight revealed that it will launch two payloads on its first rideshare mission to Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO). The mission is scheduled for no earlier than mid-February 2019 aboard a SpaceX […]

MDA, a Maxar Technologies company, revealed that Canada’s Combat Ship Team was selected by Irving Shipbuilding for the design contract for Canada’s Surface Combatant (CSC) ships. Irving Shipbuilding is the […]

Swarm Technologies is making quite a buzz in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). With seven satellites already orbiting and 150 planned total, the ambitious company has made big financial strides in […]

After establishing an impressive three-decade-long career at legacy aerospace companies Lockheed Martin and Xtar, Robert Cleave found himself in the C-suite at Vector, an Arizona-based new entrant to the U.S. […]

Stanford Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics Simone D’Amico is developing an Artificial Intelligence (AI) system to create a satellite “tow truck,” which would help identify, redirect, and either remove or […]

SSL, a Maxar Technologies company, terminated participation in the Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS) program, a public-private partnership with the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), citing a […]