Focus: North America

Rocket Lab plans to develop a U.S. launch site for its Electron rocket at one of four U.S. spaceports — Cape Canaveral, Wallops Flight Facility, Pacific Spaceport Complex, and Vandenberg...

Telesat has made a key technology move as it looks to build out its Low Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation. The Canadian operator has signed a memorandum of understanding with General...

The U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) will aggressively seek commercial satellite industry partnerships to meet nearly all of its future needs for the Protected Tactical Satcom...

CGIAR (formerly the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research) will leverage DigitalGlobe’s Geospatial Big Data platform (GBDX) to answer agricultural questions across the globe by using machine learning at scale....

Planet and Airbus have signed an agreement that will see the two companies developing a suite of new geospatial solutions.  The two companies will provide customers with a comprehensive range...

Iridium has announced that COMSAT, Gilat Telecom, Globecomm, MetOcean Telematics, NSSLGlobal, Trace Systems and Wireless Innovation, have officially been added as Iridium Certus service providers for land-mobile applications. Designed for...

Northrop Grumman has contributed to an advanced weather satellite that enables improved weather prediction capabilities, leading to more accurate and timely forecasts, watches and warnings. The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite...

Leading up to 2009, there were lofty visions about what satellite communications would provide for the U.S. government: The Air Force’s Transformational Satellite Communications System (TSAT) was underway, with the...

Spaceflight and Virgin Orbit have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for a mission to Low Earth Orbit (LEO) in 2019. Virgin Orbit’s Cosmic Girl, a dedicated 747-400 carrier aircraft,...

SpaceX has secured a $130 million firm-fixed-price contract from the U.S. Air Force for launch services to deliver the Air Force Space Command-52 (AFSPC-52) satellite using it’s Falcon Heavy rocket....