Technology

Year 2017 wasn’t so big on large commercial satellites, with a surprisingly small number of Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) orders placed over the 12-month period. GEO orders the following year...

Speedcast International won the 2019 ACOMMS Award for Vendor Innovation for the company’s Sigma Gateway platform, beating other fellow finalists Ericsson and Nokia. Hosted by the Communications Alliance of Australia, the...

ThinKom is offering a way for people to replace big, expensive dish farms. The company recently revealed its new Multi-Beam Phased-Array Gateway solution, which is described as an “array of arrays” —...

Astrome, a space start-up, launched an Initial Coin Offering (ICO). Astrome’s French subsidiary created the SpaceWave (SPW) token — which tokenizes all of the data services from SpaceNet, Astrome’s upcoming satellite...

Spire Global and insurance analytics provider Concirrus revealed a new data collaboration. Both businesses aim to strategically collaborate to develop products and value for their clients. “This multi-billion-dollar market faces higher risks...

Millennium Space Systems, New Zealand-based launch provider Rocket Lab, and TriSept, one of the commercial space industry’s original rideshare and mission management service providers, have partnered to send small satellites...

Seakr Engineering was granted a Canadian patent for an advanced Radio Frequency (RF) processing Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) technology. Seakr’s Canadian patent CA 2,953,837 “Integrated Mixed-Signal ASIC with Analog...

Rocket Lab revealed plans to recover and re-fly the first stage of its Electron launch vehicle. The move aims to enable Rocket Lab to further increase launch frequency by eliminating the...

Kratos Defense and Security Solutions was selected by the PSN Consortium, led by Indonesian satellite operator Pasifik Satelit Nusantara (PSN) to deliver a unified ground station monitoring solution to support the...

SES will create an open, standards-based network automation and service orchestration platform, built on Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) and powered by Amdocs’ Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) technology. SES is the...