Focus: North America

Iridium Communications announced that Comsat has signed an agreement to become the Iridium Certus service provider for U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) users. This long-term deal will allow Comsat to...

Just as the early railroads transformed the American West and spurred an economic boom across our then young nation, commercial activity in space is blossoming. Expansion of these activities, especially...

Vector and Open Cosmos announced an agreement to reserve five orbital launches between 2019 and 2023 on the Vector-R launch vehicle. The announcement comes in advance of Vector’s first orbital...

As worldwide security growth moves to more than $96 billion in 2018, research firm Gartner is predicting an increase of 8 percent from 2017 for cybersecurity investment. Organizations are spending more on...

Iridium Communications announced that Marlink, Speedcast, Applied Satellite Technologies (AST), and Satcom Global are the initial global maritime launch partners for Iridium Certus, a global L-band satellite network. The first regional...

Lockheed Martin has chosen CommAgility to supply integrated software and hardware for a yet-disclosed satellite communications project. CommAgility is supplying a customized version of its SmallCellPHY software, which is a...

The Antenna Systems Division (ASD) of Communications & Power Industries (CPI) has introduced a GSA-39KaXY ground antenna providing the high pointing accuracy and reliability to support High-Altitude Pseudo-Satellite (HAPS) applications,...

STS Global announced a new partnership with the Swedish satellite company Satcube. Under this agreement, STS Global will promote and distribute the company’s Satcube Ku satellite terminal product in the...

Last week, we published a new, exclusive interview with Telesat CEO Dan Goldberg talking about the operator’s plans for 2018, particularly around Low Earth Orbit (LEO). So, for our throwback...

Intelsat announced three new leadership appointments expected to drive product development, innovation and growth for the organization and its customers. Under the new structure, Jean-Philippe Gillet will lead the broadband...