Focus: Smallsats

OneWeb successfully raised $1.25 billion in new capital in its largest funding round to date. This brings the total funds raised to $3.4 billion. This round was led by SoftBank Group,...

KeyW Holding chose Spire Global‘s hosted payload service to validate several of KeyW’s next-generation technologies. Spire’s hosted payload service will also enable KeyW to rapidly deploy larger constellations, as appropriate....

Mitt Hettich has been named the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of LeoStella, a joint venture created by Thales Alenia Space and Spaceflight Industries.  The company aims to help meet the growing...

“I want to be an astronaut when I grow up.” How many times have you heard this? In every group of children, spanning the decades, there always seems to be...

OneWeb successfully launched its first six broadband satellites aboard a Soyuz launch vehicle from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana. Lift-off occurred on Feb. 27 at 21:37 pm UTC....

D-Orbit signed a contract with Planet for the launch and deployment of six Dove-series satellites. Under the contract, D-Orbit will launch and deploy the satellites during the first commercial mission of...

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) will launch two orbital missions based on the NanoAvionics M6P nanosatellite bus. Among the features of the M6P bus is a pre-integrated design that aims to shortes...

Swarm Technologies is making quite a buzz in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). With seven satellites already orbiting and 150 planned total, the ambitious company has made big financial strides in...

Infostellar and Teledyne Paradise Datacom (Paradise) revealed the interoperability of Infostellar’s ground station sharing platform, StellarStation, with the QubeFlex Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite modem — a flagship product of...

Ball Aerospace successfully completed the first communication demonstration between Telesat‘s Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Phase 1 satellite and Ball’s fully electronically-steered flat panel antenna at Telesat’s Allan Park ground station...