Focus: North America

SpaceX successfully launched a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station today, carrying Telesat‘s new Telstar 18 Vantage high throughput satellite (HTS). Built by SSL, a Maxar...

The United States Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) officially awarded global communications company Viasat an eight-year, firm-fixed price contract to provide U.S. government senior leader and VIP aircraft with in-flight broadband...

DigitalGlobe, a Maxar Technologies company, received a renewal award for the Global Enhanced GEOINT Delivery (Global EGD) contract from the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). Global EGD provides U.S. government...

Cubic‘s Mission Solutions (CMS) business division received orders worth more than $55 million to deliver its inflatable satellite communication and networking systems to the U.S. Army. These orders will satisfy...

SES‘ SES-14 satellite, positioned at 47.5 degrees West, is now serving Latin America, the Caribbean, North America, North Atlantic, and West Africa. The all-electric satellite, which has both C- and...

Optisys is an aerospace company that specializes in the use of metal 3D printing to design and manufacture highly integrated antenna structures. By using 3D printing techniques, the company hopes...

NASA has contracted SSL to perform a study exploring how commercial habitats in space, like the International Space Station (ISS), could be used to build satellites and “unlock new capabilities and business...

Earth station weather protection solutions provider Walton De-Ice won a contract to provide de-icing systems to a major U.S. teleport. US Electrodynamics (USEI) will add Walton’s Plenum Hot-Air De-Icing systems to...

Arthur Faverio, the co-founder and former president of Miteq, passed away on Aug. 19 at the age of 78. Faverio was a respected satellite engineer and entrepreneur with more than...

The first of the U.S. Air Force‘s  GPS III satellites is making its way to the launch pad. On Aug. 20, Lockheed Martin shipped the U.S. Air Force’s first GPS III...