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The Deloitte Center for Government Insights released a recent report on protecting space assets from cyber threats, with recommendations for companies throughout the space value chain to be on the offensive against cyber threats.  Noting that cyberthreats to space assets aren’t new, the report says the risk has increased in recent years as more digital...

Space robotics startup GITAI USA relocated its headquarters to a new office in Torrance, California that is more than four times the size of its previous location, the company announced Thursday. The new facility includes: a Mission Control Room for the GITAI satellite; a simulated regolith chamber for lunar environmental testing; an endurance test area...

The U.S. Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) purchased Global Broadcast Service (GBS) satellite terminals from PathFinder Digital under the terms of a contract that the company announced on Thursday. PathFinder will supply the NIWC with BAT-GBS-85 terminals that are operable in X-, Ka- and Ku-bands and packaged in two airline checkable transit cases. The GBS...

BlackSky Technology will research advanced optical inter-satellite link terminal applications for the U.S. Navy after winning a competitive contract under the the Navy’s Project Overmatch and the Department of Defense’s Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) initiative. Under the development deal, BlackSky will explore applications hosted on its 3rd generation imaging satellites, and establish...

Rocket Lab USA confirmed Thursday that it finished testing and integration on the second of two Pioneer spacecraft it built for in-space pharmaceutical company, Varda Space Industries. Preparations are now being made for the launch of Varda’s second mission after the company secured launch and reentry permission from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) earlier...

Eutelsat has won a new deal with Inmarsat Maritime, a Viasat company, which will see a more integrated multi-orbit solution bought to the maritime sector. The goal of this will to bring better high-speed, low-latency broadband solutions in maritime. Inmarsat Maritime will use Eutelsat’s OneWeb LEO network for integration into its NexusWave connectivity solution. The...

Iridium announced more details about its direct-to-device ambitions, announcing a service called Iridium NTN Direct that will connect people and things to Iridium’s network using 3GPP standards.  Iridium announced Wednesday that 3GPP accepted the company’s request to extend the functionality of Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) for Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN) into the Work Plan for...

Hawaiian Airlines has completed installing Starlink in-flight connectivity (IFC) across its entire Airbus fleet. The airline is now offering Starlink Wi-Fi free of charge for passengers after completing installation on its fleet of 24 Airbus A330 aircraft.  The airline is also planning to install Starlink on its flagship Boeing 787-9 fleet, but not on its...

Deimos won a European Space Agency (ESA) contract for the first phase of a demonstration of a controlled satellite break-up process.  The award announced Tuesday is a 3 million euro ($3.4 million) deal for the first phase of mission development for DRACO, which stands for Destructive Re-entry Assessment Container Object. The mission’s goal is to...

Planet has released its Forest Carbon Monitoring product, a new quarterly dataset for monitoring forest growth and change. The company said this data will help establish voluntary carbon markets and help governments implement policies to reduce deforestation and sequester carbon.  The company said the product can help customers comply with the new EU Deforestation Regulation...