On Monday, January 6 at 3:43 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 launched 24 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit to add to the constellation, from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape […]
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ICEYE closes million$$ extension to existing growth funding round
ICEYE has closed a $65 million extension of the company’s earlier growth funding round of $93 million that was announced in April 2024. The funding round extension included participation from […]
Starlink vs AST SpaceMobile: Tortoise or Hare?
SpaceX’s Starlink has managed to launch 349 of its Direct-To-Cellular (D2C) satellites in less than a year. While this is an admirable achievement the fleet is currently only able to […]
Rocket Lab sets the launch window for Synspective satellite deployment
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) has announced a launch window for an upcoming Electron mission to deploy the latest satellite in Synspective’s growing Earth Observation (EO) constellation. The “Owl […]
Mechanical issue delays ESA’s Vega-C’s launch of Sentinel-1C to Thursday
Update: launch postponed to Thursday 5 December 2024. Due to a mechanical issue preventing the withdrawal of the mobile gantry, the launch chronology has been stopped. The earliest targeted launch […]
Umbra selected for NRO’s Strategic Commercial Enhancements Stage III
Umbra has been awarded the Stage III option of the National Reconnaissance Office‘s (NRO) Commercial Radar Capabilities contract — this contract, part of the NRO’s Strategic Commercial Enhancements (SCE) initiative, […]
China set to build next-generation BeiDou system
China is planning to develop its next-generation BeiDou system, which will be technologically more advanced and functionally more powerful, and offer higher quality services. Three experimental satellites of this navigation […]
Eseye + Sateliot join forces for global IoT via seamless satellite-terrestrial integration
Eseye has partnered with Sateliot to deliver reliable and global 5G from space IoT solutions using advanced LPWAN satellite technology. The partnership aims to enable seamless and ubiquitous global connectivity […]
Yafa Medya TV channels on Es’hail-2
Es’hailSat, the Qatar Satellite Company, has expanded its channel offerings by incorporating two new channels, Tayba and Al Tanasuh TV, into its video distribution lineup at the 26° East orbital […]
Boeing delivers advanced O3b mPOWER satellites to SES
Boeing [NYSE: BA] teams have successfully delivered the 7th and 8th O3b mPOWER satellites to SES. These satellites, featuring Boeing’s advanced software-defined communications payload, are being transported to Cape Canaveral […]