A ‘No Go’ for the SpaceX 10th Starlink Mission
SpaceX stood down from the planned Saturday, July 11th launch attempt of the company's tenth Starlink mission to allow more time for checkouts. The team is working to identify the next earliest launch opportunity and will announce a new target ...
Satnews Perspectives Video Interview with Daniel L. Jablonsky, President and CEO, Maxar Technologies
Daniel L. Jablonsky was appointed to the role of President and Chief Executive Officer of Maxar Technologies and to the Company’s Board of Directors on January 13, 2019. Previously, Mr. Jablonsky had served as President of DigitalGlobe since October 2017, ...
Ka-Band Speed Limits for IFC Services Expunged by Viasat
Viasat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT) has removed internet speed limits delivered to the aircraft across all of its business aviation Ka-band service plans. Additionally, the company has doubled its minimum committed internet speed to the aircraft for the same Ka-band service ...
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UPDATE: iRocket’s USAF is for Fully Reusable, Autonomous, Small Rockets — Flight-Ready in Less Than 24 Hours
A rendering of iRocket's Shockwave launch vehicle, lifting off from Spaceport Oklahoma to support a National Security Mission for the Department of Defense. iRocket signed a Phase II RAPID Other Transaction Agreement contract with the U.S. Air Force. The award ...
Comtech Telecommunications’ $2.2 Million of Follow-on Contracts for Military SATCOM TWTAs
During Comtech Telecommunications Corp.'s (NASDAQ: CMTL) fourth quarter of fiscal 2020 the company was awarded contracts valued at more than $2.2 million for Ka-band high-power traveling wave tube. The Santa Clara, California-based subsidiary, Comtech Xicom Technology, Inc., is part of ...
USGIF’s 2020 Lundahl-Finnie Lifetime Achievement Award Goes to The Honorable Susan M. Gordon
The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) announced this year's recipient of the Foundation’s Arthur C. Lundahl-Thomas C. Finnie Lifetime Achievement Award — The Honorable Susan M. Gordon. She was recognized as part of USGIF’s virtual GEOConnect Series Main Stage ...
NovelSat + Envistacom Partner for Incorporation of Satellite Access Waveforms
Envistacom, LLC, has announced that NovelSat will incorporate the company's high-performance satellite access waveforms into Envistacom’s Transport Virtualization Ecosystem (TVE). Envistacom will deliver an open-architecture ecosystem that will enable virtualized applications, such as advanced communications waveforms, encryption, data analytics, and ...
Design a New Logo for the EU Space Program
Artistic rendition of a Galileo satellite on-orbit. Image is courtesy of the agency. The European GNSS Agency, the operational arm of the European Commission for the EU Space Program, is on the hunt for forward thinking graphic designers and visual ...
AFWERX and AFRL Award Descartes Labs with SBIR Contract
Descartes Labs has been awarded a U.S. Air Force Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Direct to Phase II contract through AFWERX and the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) Space Vehicles Directorate and Information Directorate. The Air Force will gain the ...
Astroscale Adds to their U.S. Management Team
Astroscale U.S. Inc., (“Astroscale U.S.”) has named Becky Yoder has joined the Astroscale U.S. management team — she is serving as the SVP for Finance and Business Operations as of June 2020. Yoder joins Astroscale with more than 25 years ...
Comtech EF Data Has an South East Asian MoD Selecting Their SCPC Modems and Switches
Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (NASDAQ: CMTL) has revealed that, during the company's fourth quarter of fiscal 2020, their Tempe, Arizona-based subsidiary, Comtech EF Data Corp., which is part of Comtech's Commercial Solutions segment, received a $1.1 million order for satellite ground ...
SSPI’s New Leaders on Board of Directors, Thomas Van Den Driessche of ST Engineering iDirect and Nicole Robinson of SES
The Board of Directors of Space & Satellite Professionals International has appointed Thomas Van Den Driessche, President and Chief Commercial Officer of ST Engineering iDirect, as its new Chair, and Nicole Robinson, Senior Vice President for Global Government at SES, ...
ST Engineering iDirect Expands VIVACOM’s Broadcast Offerings
ST Engineering iDirect has further strengthened the firm's long-standing relationship with telecom provider VIVACOM with a new agreement to supply MCX7000 modulators to facilitate additional broadcast offerings in Eastern Europe and Africa. VIVACOM, the largest telecommunications provider in Bulgaria, will use the MCX7000, a dense ...
