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European nations are focusing on resilience, sovereignty, and assurance in developing their space capabilities, experts from commercial and government space said yesterday during the Defence in Space event in London. […]

Canada’s mobile satellite services (MSS) operator Terrestar Solutions is joining Equatys shared infrastructure approach for direct-to-device (D2D) services under a new MoU announced Wednesday.  Equatys is the D2D venture founded […]

Rendezvous Robotics has shifted its focus to spacecraft that can autonomously build themselves in orbit. The company announced a $20 million seed round on Wednesday, staking a plan to demonstrate […]

The UK MoD has tapped Astroscale to be prime contractor for LEDA, a new defence program that builds on the company’s experience developing capabilities to understand, protect and operate in […]

Cowboy Space set out bold development plans to develop its own rocket, targeting a 2028 debut.  Cowboy Space announced the name “Big Iron” and more details about the rocket late […]

The European Space Agency (ESA) awarded contracts this week to both Airbus and Thales Alenia Space contracts to build two additional Galileo satellites each to enhance the Galileo navigation system.  […]

The FCC granted Amazon approval for the Globalstar acquisition on Tuesday, arguing the transaction will serve the public interest with improved satellite services.  Amazon moved in April to acquire Globalstar […]

Astranis has upgraded to a dedicated Falcon 9 to launch its fourth batch of satellites. It expects to launch six MicroGEO satellites on a dedicated mission in 2028, injected directly […]

ST Engineering iDirect will provide the ground network for the MB Sat-1 sovereign microGEO satellite built by Astranis under a new deal with MBSat, part of Mohammed Al Barwani Group. […]

British low-cost airline EasyJet is adopting in-flight connectivity (IFC) for the first time with a deal to roll out SpaceX‘s Starlink across its modern Airbus fleet.  EasyJet announced Monday that […]

Xona is preparing to start initial beta service for its commercial satellite navigation service in early 2027 after two major milestones this week — a six-satellite launch and a $250 million […]

Speedcast and Soya IT Marine Solutions completed the deployment of upgraded digital connectivity solutions on 41 roll-on/roll-off (RoRo) vessels for global shipping and logistics company, Wallenius Wilhelmsen. Soya IT Marine […]

Solstar Space demonstrated in-space Wi-Fi technology with its Deke Space Communicator during a recent rendezvous and proximity (RPO) mission between a NASA cubesat and a Momentus spacecraft.  The Solstar Deke […]

Companies unnamed by U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command (SSC) have received six Commercial Augmentation Space Reserve (CASR) purchase agreements under the ACCESS contract for space domain awareness (SDA), the […]

Ukrainian space companies will be able to participate in NATO contracts, and help shape its defense and industrial requirements thanks to a major new partnership. Ukraine has joined the NATO […]

On April 4, Planet Labs told customers it would withhold imagery of Iran and the surrounding conflict zone indefinitely, retroactive to March 9. The company said the U.S. government had […]

PlanetiQ is expanding its GNSS-RO data collection with back-to-back rideshare launches in October, as CEO Ira Scharf says there is growing demand for this type of weather data from both […]

Iceye and Nokia are looking to develop a satcom capability for Ukraine, under a new letter of intent with the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine, announced Thursday.  Earlier this month, […]

The UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) National Armaments Director Group (NAD) has tapped CGI to provide technical and project support services for the PICASSO programme. PICASSO is a strategic program […]

Internet connectivity alone is no longer enough for the problems that businesses are trying to solve. This week, Orbius CEO Halldor Sigurdsson joins Via Satellite for a Thursday Morning Conversation […]

AI networking technology startup Atombeam has raised $18.3 million to accelerate adoption of its software targeted for satellite, defense, and commercial links. Atombeam announced the round on Tuesday, increasing the […]

SpaceX’s AI business drove the story in its third quarter results as the AI segment, now renamed “Super Intelligence” (SI), surpassed Starlink connectivity revenue. The Starlink business continued growing, but […]

Eutelsat has made an interesting deal in the European Critical Infrastructure (CI) space. It has signed an expanded capacity deal with EuroSkyPark, a German specialist in secure communications for critical […]

Planet is on a growth streak in 2026, logging revenue growth and sovereign space wins, and opening a new factory in Germany. At the same time, Planet is investing in […]

Nvidia is making a minority investment into German satellite manufacturing startup Reflex Aerospace, announced this week during the Invest in Germany Summit. Reflex said the investment will help expand production […]

Four Senate Democrats are seeking insights from SpaceX on the degradation of the company’s military Starshield system for Ukraine. On Oct. 14, Ukrainian officials reported a lack of access to Starshield […]

SpaceX launched 32 payloads on a Bandwagon rideshare mission to mid-inclination orbit on Tuesday morning.  This was the fifth Bandwagon mission overall, and the only one so far this year. […]

OHB has won a new lunar infrastructure deal from the European Space Agency (ESA). Its subsidiary, OHB System AG, has won a feasibility and preliminary design studies deal for OASIS […]

The FCC has granted Globalstar authority to operate its third-generation satellite constellation, referred to as the C-3 constellation. This constellation will operate in mobile satellite services (MSS) spectrum and provide […]

Over the last few days, a Russian satellite deliberately maneuvered within “extreme proximity” of an Iceye satellite, according to space domain awareness data provider LeoLabs. Russia’s COSMOS 2612 began moving […]