Technology

Singapore Technologies Engineering announced today that its electronics arm, Singapore Technologies Electronics (ST Electronics), secured SG$464 million ($331 million) worth of contracts in the first quarter of 2017 for rail […]

Thales Alenia Space has sent South Korea the third of three panels making up the communications payloads on the two GEO KOMPSAT 2 (Geostationary Earth Orbit Korea Multi-Purpose Satellite) satellites […]

HawkEye 360, which is developing a space-based Radio Frequency (RF) mapping and analytics system, announced the addition of J. Beau Jarvis to the executive management team as Chief Revenue Officer […]

The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Microwave Imager (GMI), designed and built by Ball Aerospace for NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, is entering its fourth year of service. Designed as a […]

Raytheon has completed an upgrade and final testing of the data transport and processing system for the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Common Ground System (CGS), which provides weather and […]

Planet and FarmShots have collaborated to provide John Deere Operations Center users access to Planet’s global imaging capacity, allowing farmers to view up-to-daily imagery of their fields. FarmShots analyzes satellite […]

Quintech Electronics and Communications announced that a U.S. government media agency has procured Quintech’s Xtreme 256 matrix switch and distribution equipment for expansion of its satellite network capacity. According to […]

Vectron International announced the company has entered into an agreement with Furuno to provide Furuno’s Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) receivers and timing modules in North America. Furuno’s Opus timing […]

Thuraya Telecommunications and Swiss NewSpace startup Else announced they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) paving the way for a strategic alliance between the two organizations. The agreement will […]

Roccor announced it has finalized an agreement with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Space Vehicles Directorate to license patents of High Strain Component (HSC) technology. The patents will […]

Sierra Wireless announced it has completed the acquisition of substantially all of the assets of GlobalTop Technology’s Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) embedded module business for total cash consideration of […]

Advantech Wireless announced it has received follow up orders from military customers for its X-Band line of Gallium Nitride (GaN) technology-based Solid State Power Amplifiers (SSPAs) and Block Up Converters […]

NASA is investing in 22 early-stage technology proposals that have the potential to transform future human and robotic exploration missions, introduce new exploration capabilities, and significantly improve current approaches to […]

By the mid-21st century, businesses in nearly every industry on the planet will have to leverage Big Data to stay competitive, according to a panel of experts at the 33rd […]

Mitsubishi Electric announced that it will invest approximately 11 billion yen ($99.4 million) to construct a new facility for the production of satellites at company’s Kamakura Works facility in Kamakura, […]

Globalstar announced it will launch a new compression service for the satellite industry. The effort will include rolling out compression services developed by Yippy to Globalstar’s subscribers as well as […]

Astronics, through its subsidiary Astronics AeroSat, announced its latest aircraft antenna system, the FliteStream F-310. It provides Ku-band High-Throughput Satellite (HTS) connectivity with new technology that minimizes service interruptions when […]

Iridium reseller Rock Seven is debuting a miniature plug-and-play, two-way satcom system with integrated antenna. RockBlock 9603 is a smaller variant of the RockBlock MK 2 Internet of Things (IoT) […]

A Remote Interface Unit, an aluminum electronic enclosure designed to hold avionic circuits, will be the first 3-D printed part certified for use on a Lockheed Martin military satellite. The […]

VT iDirect announced that Kevin Steen has been named the company’s new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Mary Cotton, as retiring CEO, will serve on VT iDirect’s Board of Directors as […]

Spaceflight Industries has revealed BlackSky Spectra, its on-demand satellite imagery service which enables customers to discover archive images and task new images from 13 high-resolution imaging spacecraft through a web […]

Rocket reusability, Earth observation and big data promise to be hot topics at the 33rd Space Symposium, taking place in Colorado Springs, Colorado this week. Commercial Spaceflight Federation (CSF) President Eric Stallmer […]

Space Systems Loral (SSL) announced completion of the Systems Requirements Review (SRR) for the Restore-L project to demonstrate satellite servicing in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). As announced on December 9, […]

Lockheed Martin has introduced iSpace — intelligent Space — to provide defense, civil, commercial, and international customers with sensor data processing, space domain awareness, command and control, and battle management […]

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions announced that Frank Backes has been named vice president of business development for Kratos satcom products and federal satellite solutions. Backes was most recently chief […]

Comtech Telecommunications announced that during its third quarter of fiscal 2017, a U.S. military integrator awarded its Santa Clara, California-based subsidiary, Comtech Xicom Technology, a follow-on contract for more than […]

VT iDirect announced another successful Over-the-Air (OTA) test of its Digital Video Broadcasting-Satellite Second Generation Extension (DVB-S2X) technology. The company conducted the test on the SES 4 satellite over C-band […]

ViaSat has announced that its ViaSat KG-142, a 100 Gbps type 1 Ethernet encryptor, is now National Security Agency (NSA)-certified. Building on ViaSat’s Internet Protocol (IP) encryption heritage, the ViaSat […]

Northern Sky Research (NSR) predicts that into 2025, launch rates for Situational Awareness (SA) initiatives will grow at a 21 percent Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR). The satellite industry has […]

ViaSat has chosen McObject’s eXtremeDB to implement a new physical layer satellite debugging application known as the Data Metric Aggregation System (DMAS). The application ingests metrics feeds from satellite ground-system […]