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Gulf Space Technology Public Company Limited (GST), formerly Thaicom, selected Kratos Defense & Security Solutions to upgrade its ground infrastructure ahead of the THAICOM-10 satellite launch. Kratos will deliver the […]

All eight of the Globalstar satellites launched in August have completed initial functional tests and begin the process of orbit-raising, manufacturer MDA Space confirmed on Tuesday.  Two of the satellites […]

Skylo is set to enter the South Korean connectivity market through a new agreement with KT SAT to distribute its standards-based, satellite IoT services.  Under the agreement announced Wednesday, KT […]

Gilat Satellite Networks lowered its annual outlook as delays to satellite launches and in-flight connectivity (IFC) deliveries impacted the company’s revenue in the third quarter.  Gilat slashed its growth forecast […]

Es’hailSat has made an interesting move in the area of artificial intelligence, signing an MoU with Qatar Mobility Innovations Center (QMIC), a national research and innovation center owned by Qatar […]

Anduril Industries‘ first satellite on orbit, launched in July, is designed to demonstrate space domain awareness missions, the company said on Tuesday. “You can’t fight in space if you can’t […]

The U.S. midterms have dramatically shifted the balance of power in Washington. With Democrats taking control of Congress, President Trump now faces a legislature with both the power and appetite […]

Rocket Lab is seeing strong demand for its launch business, hitting a record backlog of 117 missions across Electron, Neutron, and HASTE hypersonic suborbital launches. During the third quarter, Rocket […]

Japanese synthetic aperture radar (SAR) provider Synspective ordered 10 launches on Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket, planned through 2030.  This is a new customer for Firefly, which plans to launch the […]

The recent Starlink and Starshield disruptions in Ukraine put satcom access in the center of international news. Ukrainian forces experienced a slowdown in access to Starlink and Starshield that impacted […]

Application programming interfaces, or APIs, are the “Rosetta Stone” of IT, letting different software programs talk to each other and users to authenticate across different systems. APIs are also one […]

NASA awarded a batch of contracts for developing a future Moon Base for lunar transportation services, a rover, and communications capabilities.  NASA named eight companies to its Commercial Lunar Payload […]

Planet Labs (Planet) has made a significant move in the launch services arena thanks to a new major multi-launch agreement with Stoke Space Technologies. Under a new, multi-launch agreement, Planet […]

AST SpaceMobile and Rakuten have formed a new joint venture to provide direct-to-device (D2D) services in Japan.  This comes as the Japanese government selected a Rakuten proposal for the J-LEO […]

U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command (SSC) said on Thursday that it has awarded an up to $450 million contract to Viasat for a Space Data Network-Backbone (SDN-B) Mission Operations Center […]

LEAP a Colorado-based company, has signed a deal as it looks to develop better international launch capabilities. It plans to develop recurring launch operations at a launch site in Sutherland, […]

Viasat reported modest 3% revenue growth in its second fiscal quarter of 2027, as double-digit growth in the defense segment was largely offset by declines in communications revenue.  Along with […]

When Rocket Lab said that it would push back the first flight of its Neutron rocket until 2027, investors reacted as you might expect. The company’s shares fell by around […]

CesiumAstro raised its second round of capital this year to value the company at more than $4.5 billion as it plans to build its own satellite constellation called Synchronicity for […]

AST SpaceMobile is taking launch access into its own hands, with plans to build its own 20-ton rocket to deploy its direct-to-device constellation, using engines from Firefly Aerospace.  The company […]

In the age of AI-powered hacking, keeping the U.S. military’s vital space-based capabilities functioning through enemy cyberattacks will require the Pentagon and its contractors to fully embrace autonomous on-orbit cyber […]

Growth in aviation and defense pushed SES’s Networks segment 6% revenue growth in the third quarter on a like-for-like (LFL) basis, as overall revenue grew by a modest 4.2% year-over-year.  […]

KT SAT will lead a secure maritime connectivity project for the government of South Korea, working with ST Engineering iDirect, tech company Waldo, and Intellian.  Under the project, ST Engineering […]

DARPA awarded Redwire a $20 million contract to fly a second Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) test as part of its Otter program, Redwire announced Thursday.  The new award funds […]

Branding that associates the Golden Dome missile shield personally with President Trump, alongside its expected $1 trillion price tag, partisan disputes, and Democratic election victories on Capitol Hill may well […]

NASA awarded contracts to Viasat, SES, and Astranis for Ka-band space relay capability concepts, as part of the Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) program’s Communications Services Project (CSP).  Viasat received […]

SES reports it has demonstrated bi-directional optical communications link between ground and space with its meoSphere pathfinder onboard the K2 Space Gravitas satellite.  During the mission, SES sent video messages […]

SpaceX has tapped Qualcomm Technologies to provide terrestrial base stations for the integrated satellite and terrestrial network it plans to build for Starlink Mobile.  Under the deal announced Wednesday, Qualcomm […]

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has made payload fairings for its rockets, including Falcon 9, at SpaceX’s Hawthorne, California plant, and now competitor United Launch Alliance (ULA) is bringing its fairings build […]

RESTON, Va. — The new Cyber Protection Office at the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), the secretive agency that builds and operates the nation’s spy satellites, has a staff of 600-plus […]