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ST Engineering iDirect has been named as the winner of the Top Mobile User Experience Innovation Award at the 29th Annual Mobile Satellite Users Association’s (MSUA) Satellite Mobile Innovation Awards. ST Engineering iDirect’s advanced SATCOM mobility solutions comprise a diverse, ...

Communications & Power Industries LLC (CPI) is introducing a new line of 80 watt Ka-band GaN solid state amplifiers (SSPAs) and block upconverters (BUCs) at the Satellite 2021 exhibition, which is occurring from September 7 through 10 in National Harbor, ...

BridgeComm, Inc. has entered into a strategic new teaming agreement with Space Micro, Inc. and the companies will focus on the design, development and testing of U.S. Government and commercial optical wireless communications (OWC) programs and equipment and more. Space ...

Kymeta has announced that Walter Z. Berger and S. Douglas Hutcheson have been named Co-Chief Executive Officers of the company. Starting September 1, 2021, Berger, formerly Kymeta’s President and Chief Operating Officer, will serve as President and co-CEO. Hutcheson, formerly ...

The Unity#22 flight. Photo is courtesy of Virgin Galactic. Virgin Galactic has announced the manifest for the next rocket-powered test flight of SpaceShipTwo Unity from Spaceport America, which will be the first commercial, human-tended research mission for the Company. The ...

Kleos Space S.A. (ASX: KSS, Frankfurt: KS1) has secured A$12.6 million (equivalent to $9.3 million) from new and existing institutional and sophisticated investors in Australia and the U.S. via a Placement of approximately 14,823,529 new CHESS Depositary Interests (instruments traded ...

Following what appeared to be a normal launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, Firefly Aerospace's first Alpha rocket launch ended in a total failure. (Photo of the rocket explosion is courtesy of KSBY, Channel 6, and Kris Rosson.) ...

Thanks to the imagery collection resources of Maxar, views of the destructive Caldor wildfire as the conflagration approaches the southern edge of Lake Tahoe along the California-Nevada border reveal the horrific conditions that are being faced by firefighters and citizens ...

Airbus has been selected by Al Yah Satellite Communications Company (Yahsat) to build Thuraya 4-NGS, the next generation, mobile telecommunications system that will drive the continued advancement of Thuraya’s L-band business. Based on the all-electric, Airbus Eurostar Neo Platform, Thuraya ...

The Rocket Lab production complex. Photo is courtesy of the company. Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or the “Company”) is now constructing a new production facility that is capable of supplying as many as 2,000 reaction wheels ...

Virgin Orbit has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) establishing a new collaboration with the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), an independent, non-profit research and development organization. Under the terms of the agreement, Virgin Orbit and SwRI will explore multiple specialized ...

The Space Development Agency (SDA) is seeking responses to their Request for Proposal (RFP) to help build the Tranche 1 Transport Layer (T1TL). T1TL is a mesh network of more than 100 optically interconnected satellites that provide a resilient, low-latency, ...

Rogue Space Systems Corporation and Firefly Aerospace have signed a Launch Service Agreement (LSA). The agreement confirms that Rogue has secured the entire payload mass capacity aboard a Firefly Alpha rocket, scheduled for liftoff from Cape Canaveral in the fall ...

The SpaceX Dragon launch of the CRS-23 supply mission to the ISS. Image is courtesy of SpaceX. Update: On Sunday, August 29, 2021, at 3:14 a.m. EDT, a SpaceX Falcon 9 launched Dragon on the 23rd Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-23) ...

Blue Origin New Shepard's NS-17 rocket ignition. Blue Origin successfully completed the 17th New Shepard mission to space and back for the program and the 8th consecutive flight for this particular vehicle. Blue Origin New Shepard's NS-17 mission liftoff. This ...

Maxar Technologies (NYSE:MAXR) (TSX:MAXR) has received an order to build another geostationary communications satellite for longtime customer SiriusXM, following the SXM-9 satellite order that was announced earlier this month. The SXM-10, a high-powered digital audio radio satellite, will be built ...

Artistic rendition of Gilmour Space's Eris rocket. Gilmour Space Technologies and Exolaunch now have a series of agreements for smallsat launch, deployment and in-space transportation services. Artistic rendition of the Exolaunch Reliant orbital transfer vehicle. Under the agreements, the companies ...

Spaceflight’s electric propulsion OTV, Sherpa-LTE1, successfully ignited thrusters on its first attempt on orbit. Credit: Spaceflight Inc. During the 36th Space Symposium, Spaceflight Inc. announced the company had achieved 100% mission success for both its primary and secondary missions for ...

The United States Space Force’s Space Systems Command, Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared program, successfully passed a major milestone, completing its Block 0 Geosynchronous Earth Orbit Space Vehicle Critical Design Review (CDR) on August 20, 2021.  This CDR milestone, the culmination ...

Article by Lesley Conn, senior manager of Research and Analysis at Space Foundation Introduction This edition, a special publication for the 36th Annual Space Symposium, examines where we are as a global space industry and considers the steps still to ...