LEO Constellations

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida – MTN Satellite Communications (MTN) has secured a landmark agreement to become one of the first authorized maritime resellers for Amazon Leo, the low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite broadband network formerly known as Project Kuiper. Announced on Feb ...

Dispatch from SmallSat Symposium. For the past decade, the commercial space sector has benefited from a benign era defined by a quiescent sun and the protective magnetosphere of Low Earth Orbit (LEO). This stability allowed companies to prioritize speed and ...

At the SmallSat Symposium in Silicon Valley on February 10, 2026, Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) unveiled the Hyperion mission, a pivotal demonstration intended to move its HYPER in-orbit relay constellation from concept to operational reality. By transposing its world-leading terrestrial ...

On February 2, 2026, SpaceX officially announced the acquisition of xAI, merging Elon Musk’s aerospace empire with his artificial intelligence venture in a deal that values the combined entity at approximately $1.25 trillion. The move creates a vertically integrated "innovation ...

The pursuit of efficient solar energy harvesting presents a stark contrast between terrestrial and orbital environments. While terrestrial solar farms are the backbone of current renewable infrastructure, Low Earth Orbit (LEO) arrays offer a high-intensity, uninterrupted alternative that fundamentally shifts ...

HAWTHORNE, California – In a move that significantly expands its orbital footprint, SpaceX submitted an application to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Friday, January 30, to deploy a massive constellation of up to one million satellites dedicated to space-based ...

By Evan Grey, Legal Contributor, SatNews The primary battleground for space supremacy has shifted. While the world watches the launchpads, the decisive contest is unfolding inside the filing processes of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). In the final week of ...

Twenty years ago, Wall Street laughed at an online bookstore trying to rent out its excess server capacity. They called it AWS. Today, Amazon isn't trying to win the space race for the headlines; they are trying to win the ...

In a statement released via X, Michael Nicolls, Vice President of Starlink Engineering, announced a significant reconfiguration of the Starlink constellation, confirming plans to lower approximately 4,400 satellites from 550 km to 480 km throughout 2026. The maneuver, which affects ...

the successful completion of an end-to-end 5G NB-IoT link between its Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellation and standard terrestrial chipsets from Nordic Semiconductor ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — American Airlines Group Inc. has entered preliminary discussions with Amazon to utilize the tech giant’s low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite network for in-flight Wi-Fi, according to a report by Bloomberg. The talks, confirmed by American Airlines ...

WASHINGTON — Congressional negotiators have authorized a significant funding increase for the U.S. Space Force’s proliferation strategy, rejecting a service-proposed pause on the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) next generation of data transport satellites. In the compromise version of the Fiscal ...

A Long March-8A carrier rocket carrying the 14th group of low-orbit internet satellites blasts off from the Hainan commercial spacecraft launch site in south China's Hainan Province, Dec. 6, 2025. SatNews December 9, 2025 — Deploying assets ranging from the ...

MADRID — The race to provide seamless, global air traffic management (ATM) from orbit accelerated today as Startical, the joint venture formed by Indra and the Spanish air navigation service provider Enaire, with its operational "Startical Constellation". Following successful validation ...

The SpaceX Transporter-15 rideshare mission successfully launched on Friday, November 28, 2025, from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, carrying 140 small satellites into a sun-synchronous orbit.  The mission, the 19th dedicated smallsat rideshare flight for SpaceX, deployed a diverse manifest of ...

BICS, a Proximus Global company, and Starlink have entered into a strategic partnership, appointing BICS as the preferred IPX provider in Europe for Starlink’s direct-to-cell satellite connectivity services. The collaboration enables Starlink to leverage the IPX network to connect mobile ...

OQ Technology has achieved a major technological milestone using its LEO satellite constellation to successfully deliver Europe’s first direct-to-mobile (D2M) emergency broadcast message from space — transmitted directly to standard smartphones without any hardware or software modifications. This milestone makes ...

As France accelerates its digital transformation, reliable connectivity has become essential for ambulances, firefighters, and public-service teams. Yet France still has the widest urban–rural connectivity gap in Europe: 5G availability reaches 22% in cities but just 13.5% in rural areas, ...

Janus Henderson Group (NYSE: JHG; “Janus Henderson”) and Voyager Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: VOYG) are reporting that the former will make a strategic investment in Starlab Space, which develops next generation commercial space stations. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in Houston, ...

As low Earth orbit Positioning Navigation and Timing (LEO-PNT) initiatives advance, Europe is moving forward with ESA’s Celeste In-Orbit Demonstrator (IOD). Thales Alenia Space, prime contractor of one of the two consortia developing the IOD, has selected Anywaves with the ...