LEO Constellations

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 ...

Kymeta Corporation and Innovative Rocket Technologies Inc. (iRocket) have engaged in a strategic collaboration to further develop, integrate and test Kymeta’s new, conformal, multi-orbit technology within iRocket’s missile interceptors. As the Pentagon increases its reliance on commercial providers for defense ...

Portal Space Systems has introduced Starburst, an ESPA-class rapid-maneuverability spacecraft, and confirmed Starburst-1 will launch on SpaceX’s Transporter-18 in Q4 2026 for the company’s first free-flying mission with live payloads—this mission will demonstrate rendezvous and proximity operations (RPO), rapid re-tasking, ...

Speedcast has successfully integrated and deployed Starlink’s Global High Throughput Service (HTS) for offshore energy customer COSL Drilling Europe. This latest enhancement to COSL’s fleet of state-of-the-art, semi-submersible drilling rigs marks nearly a decade of partnership with Speedcast. COSL Drilling ...

Amazon LEO is a simple nod to the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellation that powers the network. Seven years ago, Amazon set out to design the most advanced satellite communications network ever built. The company’s vision was simple: There ...

Voyager Technologies, Inc. [NYSE: VOYG] and Infleqtion have announced a strategic partnership to advance dual-use quantum technology in LEO and beyond—this collaboration marks a major milestone in the growing convergence of the quantum and aerospace industries and follows Infleqtion’s plans ...

Impulse Space's LEO Express 3 will be the third flight for Mira, the company’s high-thrust, highly maneuverable spacecraft—this will be the first mission for the upgraded vehicle design. Building on the successful LEO Express 1 and 2 missions, LEO Express ...

VEON Ltd. (Nasdaq: VEON) has announced that Beeline Kazakhstan, the firm’s digital operator in Kazakhstan, is partnering with Starlink Direct to Cell to make essential connectivity accessible across Kazakhstan, including in remote areas that have not been covered by terrestrial ...

ICEYE’s Tactical Access is the only commercial SAR service providing guaranteed imaging slots, sub-hour delivery, and sovereign in-country processing – ensuring defense and intelligence organizations receive critical imagery when and where it’s needed. ICEYE has launched their Tactical Access, a ...

The research with Institute of Science, Tokyo, reveals DMU41 is well suited to LEO missions After announcing a research partnership in April of 2024, Silicon Sensing and the Institute of Science, Tokyo, have now completed a test program evaluating the ...