SES acquiring Intelsat
SES S.A. (“SES”) and Intelsat S.A. (“Intelsat”) have agreed to the former acquiring the latter through the purchase of 100% of the equity of Intelsat Holdings S.a.r.l. for a cash consideration of $3.1 billion (2.8 billion euros) and certain contingent ...
ULA’s Atlas V Starliner’s first human launch of NASA astronauts Wilmore and Williams to ISS
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket will launch on May 6, 2024 at 10:34 p.m. EDT Boeing’s Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 Starliner spacecraft with two NASA astronauts, Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita (Suni) Williams on the Crew Flight ...
Koonibba set to host one of the largest commercial rockets ever to launch from Australian soil
Australia will take another step forward as a space faring nation with a 11.5-metre-tall single stage rocket set to launch from Southern Launch’s Koonibba Test Range on Thursday — this launch is for German rocket manufacturer HyImpulse who transported their ...
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Satcom Global enhances AuraNow VSAT coverage via a new Intelsat agreement
Satcom Global and Intelsat (PDF) recently announced a new global agreement, driving expansion and further enhancing the global Ku-band network behind the flexible and scalable AuraNow VSAT solution. Vessels with AuraNow on board will now benefit from the combination of ...
Bright Ascension + Nominal Systems announce partnership
Bright Ascension Ltd. and Nominal Systems have signed an MoU that is the start of a collaborative effort between the two companies to integrate their respective systems and offerings in order to provide and enhance the end-customer value proposition. As ...
SpaceX ‘two-fer-two’ with second Florida launch in two days as Starlink soars on Sunday
Photo captured by Satnews from SpaceX video stream. On Sunday, April 28 at 6:08 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 launched 23 Starlink small satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida ...
Arlula’s EO application now hosted on Saber Astronautics’ Space Application Marketplace
Saber Astronautics has integrated Arlula’s Earth Observation (EO) Data Application into Saber’s Space Application Marketplace (SAM), a significant milestone marking the first time third-party EO data is available on the Space Cockpit platform. Originating from Australia, Arlula allows users from ...
SpaceX ready for the second Florida launch this weekend first Galileo and then Starlink smallsats
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral that marked the 300th Falcon booster landing on April 23. Photo by Satnews captured from SpaceX video stream. SpaceX is targeting Sunday, April 28 for a Falcon 9 launch of 23 Starlink satellites ...
Gravitics Awarded USSF contract for Tactically Responsive (TacRS) space development
Gravitics, Inc. has been awarded a $1.7 million Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Direct-to-Phase II contract from SpaceWERX. In partnership with Space Systems Command’s Space Safari Program Office, this effort will focus on a new mission area for Gravitics, TacRS. Under ...
Hughes opens a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility + private 5G incubation center
Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES), an EchoStar company (Nasdaq: SATS), has opened a cutting-edge manufacturing facility and private 5G incubation center in Germantown, Maryland. The Hughes Manufacturing Facility (EXM) produces U.S.-made hardware that powers the networks on which people, enterprises, ...
SpaceX’s update for Galileo L12 Mission the first of two Florida launches this weekend
SpaceX is targeting Saturday, April 27 at 8:34 p.m. ET for a Falcon 9 launch of the European Commission’s Galileo L12 mission to medium Earth orbit from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. If needed, there ...
Red Cat passes field testing with Doodle Labs vs. EW tech in Ukraine
Red Cat Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: RCAT) has successfully passed electronic warfare (EW) testing in Ukraine with Doodle Labs. The successful test is part of a continuous innovation cycle that began in May of 2023 with a partnership between the companies for the ...
AFWERX Director discusses role of tech startups, quick innovation in Great Power Competition
AFWERX, the Department of the Air Force’s innovation arm, met with technologists, startups and venture capitalists at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, earlier this year to discuss national and global security challenges and the role AFWERX plays in acquiring ...