Airbus has been awarded the latest phase in the European Space Agency (ESA) TRUTHS mission as part of ESA’s Earth Observation Earth Watch program — the 109.3 million euros contract […]
United Kingdom (UK)
UK aims to join Atlantic Constellation with funding for a new EO smallsat
Recently, the United Kingdom (UK) announced that the nation is joining Portugal and Spain as a member of the Atlantic Constellation and is contributing a new pathfinder satellite designed and […]
Spire is ESA’s newest member in Third Party Mission to promote radio frequency monitoring
The global company Spire, which specializes in using continuous global monitoring to track aircraft, ships and weather patterns using a large constellation of CubeSats, is now an ESA Third Party […]
Skyrora + Spirit to enhance future UK launch capability
Skyrora and Spirit AeroSystems have announced a collaboration on orbital launch capability — the companies celebrated the announcement in Belfast, home to Spirit’s largest UK manufacturing facility. UK-based, launch-vehicle manufacturer […]
AAC Clyde Space EPICHyper-3 + KP Lab’s Intuition-1 smallsats are launched
AAC Clyde Space’s Space Data as a Service (SDaaS) satellite, EPICHyper-3, and the KP Labs Intution-1 smallsats were successfully launched on November 11, 2023, from Vandenberg Space Force Base in […]
Avanti Communications repositions business with a multi-orbit strategy
Avanti Communications (“Avanti”) is engaging in a significant strategic repositioning from that of an operator of satellites in GEO to a global, multi-orbit provider of fully integrated connectivity services and […]
MDA completes acquisition of SATIXFY digital payload division
MDA Ltd. (TSX:MDA) has completed the previously announced acquisition of SatixFy Space Systems UK Ltd. (SSS), the digital payload division of SatixFy Communications Ltd. (NYSE AMERICAN: SATX). The newly acquired division, based […]
Skyrora, Viasat + CGI partner to develop a commercial space-based launch vehicle telemetry solution
Skyrora, Viasat and CGI have been awarded a contract by the European Space Agency (ESA) under the Commercial Space Transportation Services program to demonstrate InRange, a space-based, launch vehicle telemetry […]
SES’ new CEO comes from T-Systems
SES has announced that Adel Al-Saleh has been hired as the company’s Chief Executive Officer, effective February 2024. Since January 2018, Al-Saleh has been CEO at T-Systems International GmbH, the […]
AstroAgency secures space expertise as UK economic growth is targeted
Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE), a governmental economic development agency that is focused on supporting a region of the UK with four developing spaceports and wider space cluster activity, has […]