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 ...
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 ...
Rocket Lab readies back-to-back launches for NASA’s climate change research mission
NASA’s PREFIRE mission requires two satellites to be deployed to precise orbits one after the other, demonstrating Electron’s highly responsive launch capability. Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) global provider in launch services and space systems, announced it is preparing ...
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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 ...
Cobham Satcom SAILOR XTR VSAT contract agreement with China TranTech
Cobham Satcom and China TranTech (China TranComm Technologies Co., Ltd.) have signed a strategic contract which includes the largest delivery of SAILOR XTR Ku VSAT antennas to the Chinese market so far, supported also by an extensive training and global ...
GL Communications’ NetSurveyorWeb™ comprehensive network surveillance system
GL Communications Inc., a provider in telecom test and measurement solutions, revealed their advanced network monitoring and surveillance system, NetSurveyorWeb™. Customized for IP, Wireless, and TDM networks, this platform provides comprehensive solutions to fulfill your monitoring requirements in any environment ...
UK’s Independent Regulatory Horizons Council unveils new recommendations for future regulation of space technologies
The United Kingdom's (UK) Regulatory Horizons Council (RHC) – an independent committee, sponsored by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology – has published a report on the future regulation of space technologies. The report includes 40 recommendations for the ...
NGO constellations redefine the HTS market — a Novaspace report
Non-geostationary orbit constellations redefining the High Throughput Satellites market landscapeHTS capacity demand doubled in 2023; expected to surpass 50 Tbps by 2032. Significant and ongoing transformations in the High Throughput Satellites (HTS) market are confirmed in the 7th edition of ...