Focus: North America

Lockheed Martin has purchased a block of launches on ABL Space Systems RS1 rocket of up to 26 vehicles through 2025, and up to 32 additional launches through 2029. Financial […]

The impact of COVID-19 on Intelsat‘s business became much clearer in the operator’s 2020 end-of-year financial results, in which it reported $912 million in full year losses and a drop […]

Leaf Space, the Italian Ground Segment-as-a-Service (GSaaS) startup, plans to expand in the United States. A spokesperson for the company recently told Via Satellite the company is vetting several locations […]

Omnispace acquired a new strategic partner in its quest to build and operate a Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite-powered 5G network. The Washington D.C.-based operator reached a collaborative agreement with Lockheed […]

NASA has struck an agreement with SpaceX that the agency hopes will prevent collisions involving its Low-Earth orbit (LEO) spacecraft, the International Space Station (ISS) and SpaceX Starlink satellites. The […]

Maxar Technologies and Busek Co. successfully completed an end-to-end hot fire test for NASA as part of an effort that could lead to the first electric propulsion-powered crewed space mission […]

RigNet saw its overall Full Year 2020 revenues decrease 14.4% compared to 2019, due to a continued economic slump in the energy sector. But, the company is beginning to see […]

Relativity Space has been awarded its first launch contract with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), the company announced Monday. The contract is a Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) […]

SpaceX launched another batch of 60 Starlink satellites early on Thursday morning as it increases the service area of its Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation. This week, SpaceX launched in beta […]

Gogo reported signs of a recovering aviation market in its full-year (FY 2020) financial disclosure. The In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) provider reported a 17% increase in revenue from its Third Quarter […]

SpaceX successfully launched another 60 Starlink satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center early Thursday. This is the 20th batch of satellites that SpaceX has put […]

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 […]

Spanish operator Hispasat announced on Tuesday that it has renewed and expanded a multi-year, multi-transponder satellite capacity contract with Israel’s Gilat Satellite Networks. Under the terms of the agreement, Hispasat will […]

The latest Starlink satellites launched on Jan. 24 are equipped with laser links, and all Starlink satellites launched next year will be equipped with laser inter-satellite links, Elon Musk, SpaceX […]

On Dec. 31, the U.S. Air Force ended its Launch Services Agreements (LSAs) with Northrop Grumman and Blue Origin and paid out $787.2 million to the companies – $531.7 million to Northrop […]

German rideshare provider Exolaunch was a part of SpaceX’s Transporter-1 mission on Sunday, the largest rideshare mission to date, carrying 143 satellites in total. Exolaunch brought 30 satellites along for […]

SpaceX launched Transporter-1, the first mission in its dedicated smallsat rideshare program on Jan. 24, carrying 143 satellites total — 133 commercial and government spacecraft and 10 Starlink satellites. This […]

Mapbox, the mapping and location cloud service that aims to power future automated vehicle and enterprise networks, has added 135 million square kilometers of satellite Earth imagery from Maxar Technologies […]

California-based launch and internet service provider SpaceX sent a new batch of Starlink internet satellites into orbit aboard a Falcon 9 rocket launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday […]

SES will deliver satellite capacity to Nunavut in northern Canada, through a multi-year agreement with with SSi Canada, the developer-operator of Qiniq broadband, and SSi Mobile services in Nunavut. Under […]

The FCC’s C-band auction has set a new FCC auction record at the end of its first phase, grossing $80.9 billion. This far exceeds previous estimates for the auction, which […]