Focus: North America

Comtech Telecommunications has closed its acquisition of UHP Networks, a satellite ground station technology company based in Canada. Comtech set its sights on UHP Networks for the company’s implementation techniques...

Space industry research and consultancy firm Bryce Space and Technology is changing its name to BryceTech. The company, founded in 2016 by Carissa Christensen, said the new name better aligned...

The government of Québec will invest 400 million Canadian dollars ($316 million) in Telesat‘s new Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation, Lightspeed. In return, Canadian satellite operator Telesat will invest CA$1.6 billion...

Houston-based startup Axiom Space has successfully raised $130 million in Series B funding to support its goal of building the world’s first commercial space station. The company said that it...

Telesat has selected Thales Alenia Space as the prime contractor to manufacture the Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation it is calling Lightspeed. The agreement between Telesat and Thales is worth $3...

SpaceX Founder Elon Musk said he will take the company’s Starlink satellite connectivity business public once it is able to predict positive cash flow “reasonably well.” The billionaire space entrepreneur,...

How satellite will play a role in the 5G communications environment around the globe is a key challenge for the satellite industry as it looks to combine with terrestrial players...

L3Harris Technologies is the latest company to join the GPS Innovation Alliance (GPSIA), an industry group that advocates for the promotion, protection and enhancement of GPS in the U.S. and...

HawkEye 360 is at an inflection point in its work to bring commercial Radio Frequency (RF) geolocation data to market, as its second-generation cluster is now in-orbit and being prepared...

The FCC will start the assignment phase of the 5G auction of C-band spectrum on Feb. 8, the commission announced Tuesday. In this phase, bidders that won generic spectrum blocks...