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Aquarius VSAT Beams Out From Gilat With 5G and LEO/MEO Support

Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (NASDAQ, TASE: GILT) has launched their next generation family of VSATs — Aquarius — supporting 5G networks and LEO/MEO constellations. These ultra-high-performance, multi-orbit VSATs provide more than 2 Gigabits per second of concurrent speeds and support seamless satellite handover. As 5G networks are deployed and customer demands continue to exponentially grow, […]

Near Space Launch and Virginia STEM Students Ready to Send Second Constellation of 30 Small Sats

Co-founder of TSL and Co-Inventor of the CubeSat, Bob Twiggs, stated, “To me, this (First ThinSat launch) was the most exciting day of my career.” Corona or no corona virus, the Virginia middle and high school STEM programs are busy and getting ready to launch a second constellation of 30 small sats on February 20. […]

Dragonfly Aerospace’s Imagers To Pixxel For EO Satellite Constellation

Dragonfly Aerospace has signed a contract for the development and delivery of high resolution electro-optical imagers for Pixxel’s planned satellite constellation. The constellation will follow the upcoming launch of Pixxel’s first satellite ‘Anand’, which also happens to be India’s first private Earth imaging satellite. The planned constellation of satellites will provide global coverage every 24 […]

Northrop Grumman Satellite Demo Goes Swimmingly Well

Northrop Grumman recently developed SharkSat, a pioneering payload to demonstrate on-orbit mission agility and meet demands for rapid development and deployment in space. In January, after completing a three-month stay at the International Space Station hosted aboard the company’s Cygnus spacecraft, SharkSat spent two weeks orbiting the Earth and transmitting valuable telemetry and performance data […]

Musk Vs. Bezos: The Battle Continues

Article by Chris Forrester, Senior Contributor, Satnews Publishers The planet’s two richest individuals, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, are involved in a bitter slanging match over their satellite broadband mega-constellations. Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos and their two rival businesses, SpaceX and Project Kuiper, have lodged almost daily tit-for-tat filings with the Federal Communications Commission […]

GSA’s EGNOS GEO-4 Service To Be Developed + Operated By Eutelsat

The European GNSS Agency (GSA) has selected Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) for the development, integration and operation of its next-generation EGNOS GEO-4 service. The contract agreed between Eutelsat and GSA covers 15 years of service provision and represents a total value of 100 million euros, of which 85 million euros are subject to the […]

Rocket Lab to Launch 100th Satellite and Prepare for Moon Mission by Deploying Next-Generation Photon Spacecraft

Rocket Lab, a launch provider and space systems company, announces their next mission will be to deploy a range of satellites for commercial and government satellite operators, and place a next-generation Photon spacecraft in orbit to build spacecraft heritage ahead of Rocket Lab’s mission to the Moon for NASA later this year.   Scheduled to […]

Partnering Up: Alba Orbital + New Light Technologies

New Light Technologies Inc. (NLT) is partnering with Alba Orbital to provide agencies in and outside of the US with innovative solutions that utilize the first available low-cost, high-resolution satellite nighttime light data. Alba Orbital, headquartered in Scotland, has developed a unique PocketQube Satellite platform developed in partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA). The […]

USSF Awards Analytical Space A $26.4M Contract For Deployment Of Space Data Transport Network

Analytical Space, Inc. (ASI) has been awarded a $26.4 million, three-year contract by the Department of the Air Force’s commercial investment arm (AF Ventures), with joint funding from the Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), as part of the Strategic Financing (STRATFI) program. The award – which will […]