SpaceX Launches Their 16th Starlink Mission
On Tuesday, November 24, at 9:13 p.m. EST, SpaceX launched its 16th Starlink mission from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, pushing 60 smallsats to orbit via the firm's Falcon 9 launch vehicle. The Falcon ...
Rocket Lab To Shoot Synspective’s StriX-a Smallsat To Orbit
Rocket Lab has announced Japanese Earth-imaging company Synspective as the customer for Rocket Lab’s 17th Electron launch and the company's seventh mission of the year. The Rocket Lab Electron rocket liftoff with their most recent mission, "Return to Sender." The ...
Telesat + Loral Space & Communications To Merge
A reconstruction between Loral Space & Communications and Canada’s Telesat has been under assorted discussion for years, and years, and then some... The complications around any merger were made especially challenging by joint cross-holdings between Loral and Telesat, and then ...
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Slingshot Aerospace Garners $8 Million In Series A Funding
Slingshot Aerospace, Inc. has raised $8 million in Series A funds for a total raised of $17.1 million to date — the round is led by ATX Venture Partners, and includes additional investments from Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed ...
RBC Signals Gains Creative Destruction Lab Selection
HRJERK Nanosatellites RBC Signals has been selected by Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) to participate in the non-profit’s program for promising early-stage science and technology companies. Creative Destruction Lab selects companies from around the world, via a stringent vetting process, for ...
New Directional Coupler Introduced by KRYTAR
KRYTAR, Inc. has announced a new Directional Coupler operating in the frequency range of 0.5 to 8.0 GHz offering Nominal Coupling of 30 dB in a compact package. KRYTAR’s new directional coupler, Model 158030, is uniquely designed for systems applications where ...
The Satnews Team Wishes Everyone a Happy Thanksgiving
The team at Satnews wishes everyone celebrating Thanksgiving an enjoyable holiday with whoever joins you at your table. The Satnews offices will be closed Thursday, November 26 through Friday, November 27 for Thanksgiving ...
Wavestream Collects Multi$$$ Order From The US Government for Comms Program
Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (NASDAQ, TASE: GILT) has announced that its subsidiary, Wavestream, has received a multi-million-dollar order from the United States Government for a military communication program contract. With this award, Wavestream achieves an industry record shipment milestone by ...
SES’ Satellites’ Agility Achieved With ARC and Kythera Space Solutions
The following is from SES's Blog. For the last year, SES has been talking about improving the satellite user experience and greatly increasing automation — making it more accessible and intuitive to utilize satellite communications. This initiative involves working with ...
Relativity Space Receives $500 Million In Funding
Relativity Space has closed a $500 million Series D equity funding round, which was led by Tiger Global Management with participation from new investors Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC, Baillie Gifford, ICONIQ Capital, General Catalyst, XN, Senator Investment Group, ...
Gilat’s Temporary CEO Is Now Officially Appointed
Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (NASDAQ, TASE: GILT), provider of satellite networking technology, solutions and services, officially announces their CEO, Adi Sfadia, who has temporarily filled the slot since July. Previous to that, Adi was Gilat's CFO for the last five ...
Resolve Optics Contributes To Sen’s Satellite UHD Video Streaming Project
Resolve Optics has supplied video streaming specialists, Sen (Didcot, UK), with radiation hard lenses for their satellite-based, Ultra-High Definition (UHD) video cameras. Sen launched its first set of UHD video cameras into space in 2019 and successfully demonstrated the excellent ...
End-To-End Cubesat Solution Developed By WORK Microwave + IQ Spacecom
WORK Microwave has announced one of the first end-to-end solutions for cubesat missions, thanks to a new collaboration with IQ Spacecom, a provider of satellite radio solutions. By combining WORK Microwave's AX-60 IP modem (photo above) with IQ Spacecom's XLink ...
