LEO Constellations

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 ...

Four PocketQubes will be deployed by PocketQube broker, Alba Orbital, in collaboration with SEOPS as part of the Transporter-15 rideshare mission with SpaceX. The PocketQube standard was first developed in 2009 at Morehead State University (MSU) and Kentucky Space to ...

Collaboration for rollout in Saudi Arabia and select markets in the Middle East and Africa AST SpaceMobile, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASTS) and stc group have signed a 10- year commercial agreement to enable direct-to-device satellite mobile connectivity across Saudi Arabia and ...

By Chris Forrester There were apologies all around because of the US government shut-down meant that actual military personnel at the Silicon Valley Space Week’s Milsat Symposium on October 29 at Mountain View, were thin on the ground this year ...

By Chris Forrester Dr Tim Farrar, president of TMF Associates, moderated the popular Direct-To-Devices session at the Silicon Valley Space Week held at Mountain View on October 28. The popularity of the panel, part of the SVSW’s Satellite Innovation segment, ...

AAC Clyde Space has begun integration of the first satellite in its VIREON™ constellation. This phase involves assembling the spacecraft and verifying that the onboard systems work together as designed. The constellation is designed to deliver actionable, high-quality data to ...

Muon Space has engaged in an agreement with SpaceX’s Starlink to integrate the firm’s mini laser terminals into Muon’s high-performance Halo™ satellite platform. Starlink’s mini lasers are designed to achieve link speeds of 25 Gbps at distances up to 4,000 ...

Sidus Space (NASDAQ: SIDU) has executed a Commercial Pathfinder Mission Agreement with Lonestar Data Holdings, Inc. (“Lonestar”) for the design and integration of Lonestar’s high-capacity Digital Data Storage Payload, featuring edge processing capabilities, onto LizzieSat®-5, a LEO satellite within Sidus’ ...

UC Davis graduate students Ayush Patnaik (left) and Adam Zufall (right) working on a payload that will travel into space this fall. The payload is a digital twin that will use AI software to measure the activity and predict the ...

Eutelsat’s Q1 numbers (it has a trading year that ends on June 30th) shows overall revenues down by 2.2 per cent YoY at €293 million. The division with the largest fall in revenue is Video, and which still accounts for ...

Model of a LEO satellite with optical wireless communication device, photo courtesy of SoftBank Communication to and from space certainly rides at the top of nearly everyone’s ‘to do’ lists these days and Kiyohara Optics, ArkEdge Space, NICT and SoftBank ...