Thaicom, the Asian satellite and space tech company, has announced that its subsidiary IPSTAR India has obtained an authorization to provide satellite services over Thaicom satellites in India from the […]
Archives for December 2024
Forrester’s Digest: UK to test-remove OneWeb satellite from space
Japan’s UK subsidiary of its Astroscale is getting itself ready with its Critical Design Review of a ‘space tug’ which is planned to remove a OneWeb satellite from its low […]
Space Data Association signs the Zero Debris Charter
The Space Data Association (SDA) and the European Space Agency (ESA) decided last month to strengthen their cooperation on space safety and sustainability — the SDA signed the Zero Debris […]
Horizon Microtechnologies receives ESA Spark funding for space applications
Horizon Microtechnologies has secured funding from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) SPARK program administered by the Center for Satellite Navigation Hesse GmbH, CESAH — this funding marks a significant milestone […]
SES’s 7th + 8th O3b mPOWER satellites arrive at Cape Canaveral
SES’s seventh and eighth O3b mPOWER satellites arrived at Cape Canaveral earlier this month, where they will be readied for launch by SpaceX in December. Both of these O3b mPOWER […]
ESA launches Copernicus Sentinel-1C aboard Vega-C from French Guiana
The third Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite, Sentinel-1C, has launched aboard a Vega-C rocket, flight VV25, from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. The rocket lifted off on 5 December 2024 at 22:20 […]
Rocket Lab sets the launch window for Synspective satellite deployment
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) has announced a launch window for an upcoming Electron mission to deploy the latest satellite in Synspective’s growing Earth Observation (EO) constellation. The “Owl […]
SpaceX sends off SiriusXM SXM-9 on Thursday from Kennedy
On Thursday, December 5 at 11:10 a.m. ET, Falcon 9 launched the SiriusXM SXM-9 mission to geosynchronous transfer orbit from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. […]
Viasat supports multi-domain resilient network for AUKUS Maritime autonomous systems experiment
Viasat, Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT) collaborated to integrate commercial solutions to successfully support the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and AUKUS (United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom) during the Autonomous […]
Vodafone £16.5 billion merger with Three approved
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has decided Vodafone’s £16.5 billion (€19.9bn) merger with Three – creating the UK’s biggest mobile network with 27 million customers – should be allowed […]