BlackSky 7 Enters Commercial Operations
BlackSky has announced a planned business combination with Osprey Technology Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: SFTW) the their BlackSky 7 satellite completed the commissioning process and has now entered full commercial operations, all within two weeks of the satellite's launch. This latest ...
Northrop Grumman’s MEV-2 Successfully Docks With IS-10-02 Satellite For On-Orbit Servicing
On April 12, Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) and the company’s wholly-owned subsidiary, SpaceLogistics LLC, successfully completed the docking of the Mission Extension Vehicle-2 (MEV-2) to the Intelsat 10-02 (IS-10-02) commercial communications satellite to deliver life-extension services — the docking ...
Pioneering Earth Imaging Mission Involves Planet + New Carbon Mapper Organization + NASA JPL + California + More…
Carbon Mapper, a new nonprofit organization, and its partners – the State of California, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA JPL), Planet, the University of Arizona, Arizona State University (ASU), High Tide Foundation and RMI – have announced a pioneering program ...
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Intelsat’s Subsidiaries + Sister Companies At The Root Of Bankruptcy Court Headaches
Intelsat has dozens of inter-related subsidiary and sister companies. These associated business are creating significant headaches for its bankruptcy court, Intelsat’s many debtors and arch-rival SES. SES, and some bond holders, are arguing that Intelsat is deliberately using these sister ...
Russia Exiting ISS + Will Build Their Own Space Station
The news agency Sputnik is reporting that Russia will exit the International Space Station (ISS) initiative in 2025 and will inform its international partners about that decision, this according to Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yury Borisov. According to the Rossiya ...
NSR’s Global Space Economy Report Now Available
The NSR Global Space Economy (NGSE) report is the industry benchmark for evaluating trends and opportunities in the satellite and space markets. NSR’s GSE report establishes the key growth drivers in this evolving sector, with SATCOM alone representing a $500 ...
Intelsat Getting Tough + Musk’s Millions
The avalanche of legal filings and motions in the increasingly bitter dispute between SES and Intelsat over the division of C-band ‘incentives’ from the FCC is simply immense. April 14th saw another flood of documents, but one stood out, which ...
DARPA Awards General Atomics Contract to Design Nuclear Thermal Propulsions Systems
To date, the SNAP-10A reactor has been the only U.S. nuclear power reactor launched into space, for which General Atomics was directly involved in nuclear fuel testing and characterization... General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) announced today that the Defense Advanced ...
Thales Alenia Space’s New Key Contract To Develop Galileo’s Second Generation
Thales Alenia Space, has been selected by the European Space Agency (ESA), on behalf of the European Commission in the Horizon 2020 Satellite Navigation Program (HSNAV), to develop the Advanced Orbit Determination and Time Synchronization (ODTS) Algorithms Test Platform (A-OATP) ...
KVH’s AgilePlans® Is Faster, More Expansive and Flexible For Smaller Commercial Vessels
KVH announces a solution, AgilePlans® Regional, is designed for fishing vessels, workboats, and smaller commercial vessels now features data speeds as fast as 6 Mbps down/2 Mbps up and worldwide coverage providing vessels that typically work in regional waters with greater ...
Strategic Partnership Instituted Between Satcom Global + AnsuR Technologies
Satcom Global has signed a strategic partnership with software specialist AnsuR Technologies (AnsuR) — this collaboration will enable Satcom Global to support their maritime and remote-land based communications customers with access to innovative, visual technology across the globe. AnsuR develops ...
Blue Origin’s New Shepard Successfully Launches The NS-15 Mission
Blue Origin's New Shepard NS-15 launch. Image is courtesy of the company. Blue Origin successfully completed their 15th consecutive mission to space and back on April 14 and conducted a series of simulations to rehearse astronaut movements and operations for ...
Keysight Technologies Reveals Their Satellite + Aerospace Channel Emulation Toolset
Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS) has announced their Keysight S8825A Satellite and Aerospace Channel Emulation Toolset. This offering delivers advanced channel emulation capabilities that can speed deployment of non-terrestrial networks (NTN) vital to many new 5G services. The delivery of ...
