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Satnews offices will be closed on Monday, September 1st to observe the Labor Day holiday. As summer comes to a close, we hope you enjoy this day to relax. The Satnews offices will then reopen for business on Tuesday, September ...
SpaceX Starship 10 test run proves successful concluding with Starship landing “flat down in the Indian Ocean”
Starship’s tenth flight test lifted off on August 26, 2025, at 6:30 p.m. CT from Starbase, Texas, taking a significant step forward in developing the world’s first fully reusable launch vehicle.The results were a significant step forward as every major ...
SpaceX launches NAOS an EO spacecraft for Luxembourg + smallsats from sunny California
SpaceX's Falcon 9 launched a new Earth-observation satellite along with several smaller spacecraft from California on Tuesday (Aug. 26). Photos captured by Satnews. NAOS (National Advanced Optical System) is the space component of Luxembourg's governmental dual-use observation satellite system LUXEOSys ...
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Forrester’s Digest: UK Space Agency absorbed by British government
The move by the UK government to shift the UK Space Agency into its Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT) has been described as both good news, and bad, for the UK space sector. The UK Space Agency (UKSA) ...
Alaska Airlines launches new era of connectivity with Starlink, the fastest Wi-Fi in the sky
Alaska Airlines will launch an upgrade to their inflight experience: the fastest, most reliable Wi-Fi in the sky on every flight. Starting in 2026, Alaska guests will be able to use Starlink Wi-Fi with ultra-fast speeds and lower latency to ...
Australia and New Zealand expand SouthPAN program with Viasat through AUD252 million award for additional satellite services
Viasat, Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT) has received an AUD252 million award from Geoscience Australia (GA) and Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) to deliver additional satellite services for the region’s world-class Southern Positioning Augmentation Network (SouthPAN). SouthPAN early Open ...
C-COM receives U.S. patent for Ka-Band Phased-Array Antenna in Package technology
C-COM Satellite Systems Inc. (TSXV: CMI and OTCQB: CYSNF) has been granted U.S. patent No.:12,381,318 B2 for the firm's invention of a Ka-band 2D Phased-Array Antenna in Package. This is the 12th patent C-COM has been granted and is the ...
Mercury signs hardware production agreement with AeroVironment to support USSF’s SCAR program
Mercury Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRCY) has a new production agreement with AeroVironment, Inc. (“AV”) (NASDAQ: AVAV) to support the U.S. Space Force’s Satellite Communication Augmentation Resource (SCAR) program. AV was awarded the $1.4 billion SCAR contract in 2022 by the ...
Forrester’s Digest: Mynaric exits Chapter 11
Munich-based Mynaric, which makes satellite laser terminal links, has exited the German version of Chapter 11 (StaRUG). Back in March, Sir Peter Beck’s Rocket Lab announced plans to acquire Mynaric but there’s now a new owner in place. The new ...
Anglo-Eastern upgrades Hadley Shipping Group with Viasat’s Inmarsats NexusWave
Inmarsat Maritime, a Viasat company, has announced that Anglo-Eastern will upgrade Hadley Shipping Group’s fleet to Inmarsat’s fully managed bonded connectivity solution, NexusWave. Hadley Shipping Group is a long-standing Inmarsat Maritime user. Its transition to NexusWave represents a significant step ...
Forrester’s Digest: Viasat’s 3-F2 satellite gets ready to ship
California-based satellite operator Viasat says that its latest satellite, its much-delayed Viasat-3 F2 craft, is ready to ship to its launch site by the end of September, for launch by a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V-551 rocket. This suggests ...
SpaceX still plans for Thursday launch from the Cape of USSF-36 mission of the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle
X-37B inside payload fairing before launch of eighth mission. (U.S. Space Force photo) The U.S. Space Force, in partnership with the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office and SpaceX, is making final preparations for Falcon 9 to launch the eighth mission ...
Gilat awarded more than $60 million for Stellar Blu ESA Sidewinder terminals
Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (NASDAQ: GILT, TASE: GILT) has announced that the company's Commercial Division has been awarded more than $60 million in orders from a leading satellite operator for the firm's Stellar Blu ESA Sidewinder in-flight connectivity (IFC) terminals—deliveries ...
