Focus: North America

Eutelsat has joined forces with Intelsat and SES on a proposal for the future use of the lower C-band spectrum in the U.S. Intelsat, Intel, and SES were the first...

Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of LinkedIn, has joined the board of directors of Apollo Fusion, a satellite propulsion company, after helping it secure $10 million in Series B financing from...

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...