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August 31, 2018
United Arab Emirates' KhalifaSat... Their First 'Homemade' Satellite Will Launch in October 
the first satellite fully built in the UAE by a team of Emirati engineers, will be fired into orbit on October 29, says Dubai Crown Prince   Full Story


August 30, 2018
C-COM is  Ready to Show and Tell About COTP and COTM Antenna Innovation at IBC
nearing production of mechanically steerable, Ka-band Comm-on-the-Move  mobile antennas targeting verticals of trains, buses and land-based vehicles.    Full Story

Back to School ... PCI Geomatics' Educational Alliance Agreement with the State University of Rio de Janeiro
offers opportunities encouraging communication between the university and PCI Geomatics’ scientists, and provides an outlet to the commercial world,   Full Story

SSL Selected by NASA for Habitats in Space Exploration Study
SSL brings its decades of experience in satellite manufacturing and space-based robotics to developing new architectures that dramatically improve...   Full Story

All WORK and No Play Makes WORK the Serious SATCOM Solution Solver 
As satellite operators deliver higher quality broadcast and high-speed broadband offerings over constrained networks, the importance of flexible,    Full Story

APAC Partnership Coalesces Between Singtel and KVH Industries
This satellite service is designed to facilitate the use of digital solutions in the maritime industry to significantly improve operational efficiency, crew...   Full Story

Brazil Welcomes Teledyne Paradise Datacom as They Set Up Shop Expanding Their Footprint
Here they will launch an in-country business operations that serve as a single point of contact (POC) for customers in that country.    Full Story

Boeing and Viasat's ViaSat-3 Begins Satellite Integration 
Each ViaSat-3 class satellite will deliver more than 1-Terabit per second of network capacity and flexibility to direct capacity to customers' locations.   Full Story

Satellite Launch Vehicle Market to Climb to $2.4 Billion by 2024 Per Global Market Insights Report 
Growing high speed internet connectivity demands in conjunction with the requirement to gain tactical intelligence over the neighboring nations can be...   Full Story

DARPA's ERI Selects Northrop Grumman as One of the Initiative's Participants
Northrop Grumman is helping to lead a resurgence in the microelectronics industry through groundbreaking research. The five-year research initiative...   Full Story

ISRO Indicates a Willingness to Outsource the Manufacturing of the PSLV and SSLV Launch Vehicles
The ISRO held discussions a week ago with a consortium of industries regarding PSLV industrialization with the objective of easing ISRO to focus...   Full Story

Iridium and Rolls-Royce Marine Reach for Results of Autonomous Vessel Program

Iridium's $3 billion satellite constellation will provide voice capabilities, as well as enterprise-grade broadband functionality, for the entire planet, whether on 
  Full Story


Airbus' Sentinel-6A ‘Ocean’ Satellite Takes Shape for Mission to Measure Sea Levels
In a complex operation, the Airbus satellite specialists hoisted the approximately five-meter-high satellite platform with exacting precision   Full Story


August 29, 2018
Iridium's Certus Draws a Crowd in Chile for Training With Iridium, Cobham and Thales
asked questions, got answers and later enjoyed a cocktail to celebrate at the end of the activity and the start of new business opportunities.   Full Story

Another Speedcast Acquisition ... This Time It's Globecomm
Speedcast estimates the company will generate more than US$15 million in annual cost synergies within 18 months after the acquisition. The cost...   Full Story

Microsemi RTG4 FPGAs is In the Chips Achieving the Highest Level of Qualification for Space Components
highest level of qualification for space components... to be used on the most critical space missions with the highest standards for quality and reliability.   Full Story

Cobham SATCOM Ships a SAILOR After Certification for Iridium's Certus(SM)
SAILOR 4300 L-band delivers as a standalone solution or VSAT companion terminal    Full Story

Lockheed Martin's Final Assembly on NASA's Orion... Mission to Return Astronauts to the Moon
Technicians have completed construction on the spacecraft capsule structure that will return astronauts to the Moon and...   Full Story

Commercial Spaceflight Federation's New Chairman of the Board Has a World View
he has grown World View from a simple idea to a Silicon Valley backed global leader in stratospheric flight technology.   Full Story

The Inaugural Florida Aerospace Capital Forum Brings Investors and Partner Harris to Lake Nona in November
The Florida Venture Forum is looking for companies in the following industries to present at the event: Aircraft and spacecraft design, parts and...   Full Story

The Audacy Alliance is Formed
Partner companies will be able to participate in up to three different programs characterized by their involvement in the Audacy...   Full Story

ISRO's Chandrayaan-2 Moon Mission Scheduled for January 2019 Launch
The changes suggested have also led to increase in the weight of the mission and will now be launched with the help of GLSV Mark III launcher...   Full Story

Gilat Contracts with Gazprom to Drive Connectivity Throughout Russia
Gilat will deliver their multi-service platform and user terminals to operate over the new Yamal 601 Ka satellite. The companies also signed a...   Full Story

CETel Heralds Agreement with Türkmen Hemrasy CJSC for FSS in Turkmenistan
The aim of this cooperation is to mutually create a business environment that helps customers with their communications requirements on FSS in the...   Full Story


August 28, 2018
Telesat’s New Telstar 19 VANTAGE Satellite Goes Commercial ... Now Operational
After the July 22 launch not much was heard about Telsat's Telstar 19 VANTAGE HTS satellite until now...   Full Story

After Two Years and 1.1 Billion Miles, OSIRIS-REx Begins Approach to Asteroid Bennu
If OSIRIS-REx was a plane on its final approach you'd hear, "Make sure your seat is back and folding trays are in their full upright position," that's how close it's getting to the target   Full Story

USA’s Largest Earth Stations 'Sans' Snow and Ice with Walton De-Ice Products
Walton Hot Air De-Ice systems heat the entire antenna reflector uniformly, minimizing reflector distortion that causes Ku- and Ka-Band signal problems    Full Story

COMSAT's WiSL® Reuses Existing SATCOM Equipment for Significant Cost Savings of U.S. Government 
Provides users with dedicated high data rate communications link from a vehicle or fixed-wing aircraft using existing SATCOM equipment   Full Story

UPDATED: OneWeb Smallsat Launch Date Slips
OneWeb is working with satellite builder Airbus to build 10 debut satellites in Toulouse, and is also constructing – with OneWeb — a jointly-owned...   Full Story

Three Astronauts Planned for India's First, Manned, Space Mission
Giving details of the program at a press conference, Minister of State for Atomic Energy and Space, Jitendra Singh, said GSLV Mk III, the three-stage heavy lift launch vehicle...   Full Story

Global SATCOM Ops Support to be Provided by SOSi to U.S. Army
SOSi will support Product Manager WESS Data Communications Network customers worldwide in providing secure and non-secure voice, data and...   Full Story

Thuraya and IEC Telecom Present Their Comms Wares @ SMM Hamburg
Delegates to the four-day event in Hamburg will have an opportunity to discover the latest Thuraya offerings, hear the latest updates and learn...   Full Story

Comtech EF Data's New Durostream WAN Optimization Apps Also Offer Packet Protection
The AHA725 model is packaged in a 1RU rack-mountable chassis and supports WAN data rates up to 1 Gbps. The AHA723 is the compact form...   Full Story

Globecast's VP Sales, U.S. East Region ... He's Got a Proven Track Record
Most recently in the media industry, he served as Director, North America Media Sales for Intelsat, based in Washington DC.    Full Story

Satellite Remote Sensing Firm Opens Their Subsidiary Doors in San Diego
Utilis is the world’s only leak detection provider that uses satellite remote sensing, which contributes to the conservation of one of Earth’s most...   Full Story

Money Laundering Scandal Hits ISRO
The case is based on ISRO’s Antrix and Devas Multimedia, an independent company which held certain capacity rights on ISRO satellites. The deal...   Full Story

Newtec... Their Products and Participation — Equipment and Evolution at IBC2018
delegates will discuss advanced IP newsgathering and sustainable broadband; Satellite on-the-move; Satellite and 5G and New Space,   Full Story

Aerojet Rocketdyne Thrusts and Propels Their Hall Thruster as NASA Tests for Deep Space Missions
“By staying on the cutting edge of propulsion technology, we have positioned ourselves ... in getting back to the Moon ...also to send people to Mars,”   Full Story


August 27, 2018
DEADLINES UPDATE: M2M Communications Smallsat Win for ÅAC Clyde with Kepler Communications
This new platform, TARS, will be the third built by the company for Kepler's growing constellation, offering SATCOM services for Internet of Things (IoT) ...   Full Story

Success for Exos SARGE Lift-Off
Following the completion of the the design, testing and build of their latest platform, and after receiving their FAA launch license and final integration...   Full Story

Aerojet Rocketdyne's Thrusters Begin Braking as NASA's OSIRIS Approaches Asteroid Bennu
A company builds 28 rocket engines to maneuver a spacecraft onto an asteroid to take samples and then return to Earth. This isn't a sci-fi movie,   Full Story

Gomspace Says 'Ahøy' to the Chief Production Officer ...He's Already Been Onboard Since 2017
He has acted as the Production Director with GomSpace since September 2017. Based on a strong profile with years of experience in...   Full Story

Prime Minister May of the United Kingdom OK's British Satellite Navigation System Build
Galileo, a 10 billion euro (US$11.44 billion) satellite program being developed by the EU as a rival to the U.S. Global Positioning System, has...   Full Story

ResearchAndMarkets Publishes "Satellite Transponders—Global Strategic Business Report"
The report provides separate comprehensive analytics for North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa, and Latin America. Annual estimates and...   Full Story

Cybersecurity Certification Program Initiated by CTIA for Cell-Connected IoT Devices
By offering certification for IoT devices built from the ground up with cybersecurity in mind, the program will protect consumers and wireless...   Full Story

China Orbits Two BeiDou Satellites
The Long March-3B carrier rocket lifted off from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province at 7:52 a.m. — this was the...   Full Story

In Memory of an Engineer's Engineer ... Art Faverio Founder of MITEQ and GeoSync Microwave
The satellite communications and engineering community lost a true visionary, innovator, and entrepreneur with the passing of Arthur Faverio ...   Full Story

Global VSAT Forum Announces a New Secretary General ... He Brings Business and Legal Experience
he served as the General Counsel and Chief International Officer of the American Red Cross where he led its legal, international disaster relief and   Full Story

Lockheed Martin Ships GPS III to the Cape
GPS III will be the most powerful and resilient GPS satellite ever placed on orbit. Developed with an entirely new design, for U.S. and allied forces...   Full Story


August 26, 2018
U.S.A.F. GPS III Space Vehicle No. 1 — “Vespucci” Arrives in Florida— for December Launch
The satellite, dubbed “Vespucci” in honor of Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian explorer for whom the Americas were named, was transported in a custom...   Full Story

Comtech EF Data Earns SATCOM Infrastructure Equipment Contract
The order specified Comtech EF Data’s VSAT networking equipment. Comtech EF Data’s VSAT solutions are a portfolio of high-performance...   Full Story

Teledyne e2v Detector Deployed Aboard Aeolus
Contracted by Airbus Defence & Space, Toulouse in 2003, with flight model deliveries in 2005, Teledyne e2v developed a unique Charge Coupled Device (CCD) type detector...   Full Story

The Second Milestone of the Kratos Study of U.S.A.F. Satellite Enterprise Ground Services is Completed
Enterprise Ground Services (EGS) is an enabling technology for the U.S. Air Force’s Space Enterprise Vision (SEV). EGS enables a sustainable...   Full Story

Russia's Angara-A5M Rocket Flight Debut Scheduled for 2025
The Angara rocket family includes several launch vehicles of different classes: the small-lift Angara-1.2, the medium-lift Angara-A3, the heavy-lift ...   Full Story

DataPath is Packing Up Their Portable Satellite Terminal Solutions for IBC 2018 (and SatInnovation)
The QCT90’s tri-band terminal operates over X-, Ku-, and Ka- including Global Express frequencies and supports a wide range of the industry’s ...   Full Story

James R. Wright's Memory is Celebrated with His Many Contributions, Talents and Achievements
While working at GE, Jim received the prestigious “One in a Thousand” award, acknowledging his work and recognizing his team as “a national resource.”   Full Story

NSR's Key Assessments of Global Satellite Capacity Supply and Demand
Building on more than 18 years of regular NSR reporting and in-depth SATCOM data, Global Assessment of Satellite Capacity Supply & Demand, 15th Edition (GSCSD15)...   Full Story


August 24, 2018
KLEOS Space Successfully Raises Capital and Heads into the Australian Stock Exchange
Co-founder and CEO of the company, Andy Bowyer, feels that the interest shown in Kleos’ by investors is reflective of the worlds current desire to ...   Full Story

Uplink: Innovation — Ball Aerospace, Plus a Discussion with Debra Facktor, VP and GM, Strategic Operations
Debra Facktor, VP and GM, Strategic Operations at Ball Aerospace explains why innovation is important to the industry and, in particular, to her company.   Full Story

Comtech Xicom Technology and Comtech Telecommunications' Three Contracts Totaling More than $24 Million
they must be doing something right when they shared the news that they were on the receiving end of three lucrative contracts beginning with...    Full Story

The SSTL RemoveDEBRIS Spacecraft is Successfully Commissioned to Clean Up
Spacecraft operators at SSTL have just completed a series of tests and operations to confirm the functionality of key operating systems such as...   Full Story

SCISYS Software Helps to Drive Aeolus to Orbit
Two specialist teams at the Bristol-based Space UK division developed the onboard software (OBSW) and a bespoke Operational Simulator...   Full Story

NASA's Spitzer Telescope Lives Way Longer than Expected to Reveal from the Oldest Galaxies to Newborn Stars
The light from some of those galaxies traveled for 13.4 billion years to reach Earth.   Full Story


August 23, 2018
An Agreement for SSA Services and Info Signed by U.S. Strategic Command with Brazilian Ministry of Defense
Brazil joins 14 nations — the United Kingdom, the Republic of Korea, France, Canada, Italy, Japan, Israel, Spain, Germany, Australia, Belgium, the United Arab Emirates, Norway, and Denmark ...   Full Story

ESA's Satellite Aeolus is Gone with the Wind as Arianespace Successfully Launches
Vega C will offer higher performance in terms of payload capacity and greater flexibility from nanosatellites to large optical and radar observation satellites   Full Story

When in Real Danger There's Nolinor's Real-Time Data and Automated Distress Tracking in Remote Canada
Nolinor has a key to proactive safety management for operators throughout the aviation industry and they've done something about it ...   Full Story

UPDATE: RF-Design to Present their RF Product Families @ IBC 2018
The company invites attendees to view their new Switch Matrices, RF-over-Fiber (RFoF) systems as well as their Line Amplifiers, which will all be...   Full Story

Saudi Arabia Says 'No' and Bans beIN Sports
Saudi Arabia in addition ‘fined’ beIN Sports $2 million and demanded that the Qatar-based beIN Media Group “return all profits” because of its “violations”.   Full Story

Phasor Gains Contracts Worth Millions
Over the coming months, Phasor expects to announce additional contracts across its commercial mobile broadband and government Communications-on-the-Move (COTM)...   Full Story

KP Performance Antennas Has a New Partner/Distributor Supporting Canada

can now offer their customer base a broad, in-stock antenna portfolio that satisfies their urgent antenna requirements.   Full Story

Pilot Weather Solution from SITAONAIR Now Certified for Inmarsat's SB-S
Following its certification under Inmarsat’s Aviation Certified Application Provider (CAP) Program, eWAS users will now be able to seamlessly use...   Full Story


August 22, 2018
Communications & Power Industries Announces More Acquisitions... This Time It's Two Companies 
These acquisitions ... times two... brings new technologies and capabilities to CPI's extensive satcom, telemetry and radar antenna offerings   Full Story

The Aireon ADS-B ALERTsm is Now Open for Pre-Registration
The Aireon ALERT service will provide the last known position of an Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B)-equipped aircraft...   Full Story

Viasat's BATS-D Device Gains NSA Authorization
The Viasat BATS-D radio bridges a critical gap between air and ground forces by providing real-time fused air/ground situational awareness to...   Full Story

Kacific's New VP Sales and Marketing He'll Be Busy Marketing Broadband Products Up to Satellite Launch
oversee the development and introduction of the company’s range of satellite broadband products and services leading up to the launch of Kacific1 in 2019.   Full Story

DEV Systemtechnik Expands Optribution RFoF Product Line — to be Shown @ IBC 2018
As part of the current RFoF product line Optribution®, DEV Alpha serves clients seeking very cost-effective fiber optic connections within tight rack...   Full Story

Marlink ... Look Who's 40 Celebrating Long History with a Major Shipping Nation
second-longest serving foreign-owned satcom company delivering communication services to maritime clients for longer than any other company.   Full Story

Prospects for the Small Satellite Market Report Debuts from Euroconsult
Smallsats’ applications are multiple. In the past, “technology development” was the dominant application to test future technologies and payloads or for...   Full Story


August 21, 2018
UPDATE: 24-hour Postponement Due to Weather for Arianespace's Launch of Aeolus Satellite
All are ready as the payload processing for Arianespace’s two upcoming missions from French Guiana involving the European Space Agency’s Aeolus   Full Story

U.S.A.F. Accepts Lockheed Martin's Second GPS III Satellite... the Most Powerful GPS Satellite Ever on Orbit
The U.S. Air Force's "Available for Launch" declaration is the final acceptance of Lockheed Martin's second GPS III Space Vehicle ...   Full Story

NASA's Parker Solar Probe's Successful Milestones Have Begun With a Boom 
As of 12:00 p.m. EDT on August 16, Parker Solar Probe was 2.9 million miles from Earth, traveling at 39,000 miles per hour, and heading to a Venus flyby.   Full Story

"HumanityConnect!" Launches by Geeks Without Frontiers
The launch of HumanityConnect! was accompanied by a call for partners during the Global Grand Challenges Summit.   Full Story

Pathfinder Flight of EXOS Aerospace SARGE Rocket Set for Spaceport America
A successful Pathfinder test flight of the SARGE reusable system will solidify the company’s plan to use this technology as the design basis of...   Full Story

oneM2M's Diverse Membership Grows as Momentum Regarding IoT Accelerates
Ever-increasing efforts to advance the IoT has brought a jump in new oneM2M members   Full Story

Advantech Wireless Technologies New L-Band to 720MHz SATCOM Synthesized Frequency Converters

The new frequency converters provide a bridge between high data rate 720MHz modems and conventional off-the-shelf satellite X-Band hardware.   Full Story

ORBCOMM's New Executive VP and Chief Financial Officer ... He'll Take Company to the Next Level
he will make an immediate impact in providing broad-based financial vision, strategy and seasoned leadership to take ORBCOMM to the next level.   Full Story

Insitu's ScanEagle® UAS Provides ISR for Firefighters in Oregon
Comprised of aviation professionals, Insitu’s Mobile Response Team has been operating its ScanEagle® Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) to ...   Full Story

Finnish City Declares as the Capital of Space
For a city that does not really reach the top lists of the world’s biggest metropolises, declaring itself the Capital of Space can be considered...   Full Story

PSSI Global Services and Frontline Communications Keep on Truckin' with 16 Ku-Band SNG Vehicles for CNN 
They've agreed to build 16 new, state-of-the-art Ku-band SNG vehicles for use by PSSI News Group in exclusive partnership with CNN.    Full Story


August 20, 2018
Maxar’s SSL's Fifth Robotic Arm for NASA to Reach Mars in November
SSL’s long legacy as a trusted contractor to NASA provided five robotic arms for Mars landers and rovers. That’s every robotic arm on the Martian surface!   Full Story

MIT and NASA's JPL Collaborate as a Tiny but Mighty ASTERIA Achieves a First for CubeSats
Measurement of an exoplanet transit demonstrates proof of concept that small spacecraft can perform high-precision photometry.   Full Story

Students Preparing Their Own Satellite Telescope for Duty in Space
With telescopes, bigger is better: the larger their primary mirror, the more light they can capture and the better the images they can create. Currently...   Full Story

After Years of Delay, Russia's Research Module Nauka Will Launch to ISS in 2019
The module Nauka began in 1995 and was to be used at the ISS as a stand-by substitute for Zarya. The launch was repeatedly postponed until now   Full Story

ISO Has Just Published Guidelines for Small Spacecraft
Bringing together international expertise, ISO/TS 20991, Space systems — Requirements for small spacecraft — details the requirements for various...   Full Story

Comtech EF Data Working with SPAWAR on TDMA ATIP Production Terminals Long-Term Support
ATIP is a Layer-2 Ethernet bridging device installed on ship, shore and submarine platforms in the Navy Multi-band Terminal (NMT). The ATIP...   Full Story

NSSLGlobal Floats Vertom-Bojen's Boats with Contract for ‘VSAT Powerhouse’ Status
It's a deal and so a vast Vertom-Bojen fleet of mini bulkers, general cargo vessels and multi-purpose vessels will rely on NSSLGlobal's VSAT IP@SEA.   Full Story

The Prize from the Planck Satellite, or How a Group of Finnish Researchers Won the Gruber Prize

The unprecedented accuracy of the measurement results enables the birth, age, composition and geometry of the universe to be precisely estimated.   Full Story

Mercury Systems' $11.6 Million Order Booked for Digital Signal Processing Subsystems for UAV ISR
Mercury Systems provides secure sensor and mission processing subsystems powering a variety of critical defense and intelligence programs.   Full Story

Bye Aerospace StartoAirNet Protoype Has a Successful First Flight
The Solesa and StratoAirNet family of aircraft systems are intended to provide support for long-endurance commercial and government security..   Full Story

CASIS and Teledyne Brown Engineering Offer Remote Sensing Challenge Using MUSES

MUSES can simultaneously host up to four instruments and offers the ability to change, upgrade, and robotically service those instruments.   Full Story

Marlink's Maritime Partnership With Transmetrics Optimizes Empty Container Logistics
unlock the power of big data to optimize empty container logistics based on their extensive experience in demand forecasting and predictive optimization   Full Story

Next Phase of Development Underway by SSL for DARPA's RSGS Mission Robotic Payload
a recently completed preliminary design review showed that the robotic payload design coupled with a Space Systems Loral spacecraft bus   Full Story

SI Imaging Services' Feasibility Study of Using KOMPSAT-5 SAR to Measure Chukchi Sea Ice
This study presented that the KOMPSAT-5 SAR images can be used to produce high-resolution sea ice maps of the Arctic Ocean.    Full Story

RigNet's Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Begins Immediately
As CFO, Ahlstrom will report directly to President and Chief Executive Officer, Steven Pickett.  He will be responsible for overseeing all financial...   Full Story

Cruising for Higher Throughputs — NSR Releases New Maritime SATCOM Report
According to NSR’s Maritime SATCOM Market’s 6th Edition, commercial passenger markets will post double-digit revenue growth over the next ten...   Full Story


August 19, 2018
DoD Inspector General Has "Concerns" for Air Force Space Command's Supply Chain
The supply chain is the sequence of activities necessary to provide an end user with a finished product or system (from raw material to finished...   Full Story

Inmarsat Mines a Partnership with Auxilium for IIoT and Comms
The partnership will see Auxilium deploying satellite connectivity from Inmarsat in its IIoT solutions. This will ensure that mining companies can...   Full Story

Comtech EF Data to Supply MNO in China with Replacement Modems
This latest order for $1.9 million, specified Comtech EF Data’s CDM-625A Advanced Satellite Modems, Up & Down Frequency Converters and the...   Full Story


August 17, 2018
RUAG Space's 'Brains' Enable Both the Launch Rocket and the Wind Satellite, Aeolus, to Do Their Jobs
Aeolus is the first space mission to acquire profiles of the wind on a global scale.   Full Story

SSTL Signs Up for NovaSAR-1 and SSTL S1-4's Launch on ISRO’s PSLV  
...Automatic Identification Receiver (AIS) receiver supplied by ComDev to track ships at sea.    Full Story


August 16, 2018
UPLINK: Innovation from Glowlink
Even with planning perfect to the 99 percent ...we’ve learned that 1 percent is the difference between mission success and mission failure.   Full Story

AsiaSat to Deliver Live Coverage of the 2018 Asian Games Via AsiaSat-5
The 18th Asian Games, co-hosted by the cities of Jakarta and Palembang of Indonesia, includes  0 sports, to be contested by over 11,000 athletes...   Full Story

Boeing Lands Millennium Space Systems and Expands Their Satellite and Space Portfolio
The acquisition, which is subject to customary conditions, is expected to close by the end of third quarter 2018, when Millennium Space Systems becomes...   Full Story

U.S. State Department Expresses Concern Over Inconsistent Behavior of Russian Satellite
there is no way to verify it. But Russian intentions with respect to this satellite are unclear and are obviously a very troubling development.   Full Story

Pakistan's First-Ever Remote Sensing Satellite PRSS-1Is Now Operational
The services provided by the satellites are expected to uplift the socio-economic development of Pakistan and “would also enable the country ...   Full Story

Market Forecast Evaluates Smallsat Impact on the Global Communications Market
This demand is driven not only by social and commercial requirements, ... but also, and perhaps most critically, by military applications.   Full Story

Frontier Aerospace Selected by NASA for Deep Space Engine Flight Qualification
The DSE engine will enable the design of smaller and less expensive propulsion systems for spacecraft as a result of the lower temperature...   Full Story

HawkEye 360 Does a 180 With Ample Funding for a Satellite Cluster and More
have secured additional capital commitments to fund their first commercial cluster that will augment their PathFinder Cluster scheduled for launch later...    Full Story

Maxar’s SSL to Define Next Generation Secure MILSATCOM for the U.S. Air Force
SSL will develop, test and analyze antenna subsystem prototypes through a contract with the Space Enterprise Consortium, managed by Advanced Technology International...   Full Story

SPARC Research, ANSYS and F1 Computer Solutions Take Simulation to a New Level
there are entrepreneurs with incredible technology ideas that can make the future a better place...it's thrilling to have game-changing startups like SPARC   Full Story

Berg Insight Reports Installed Base of Fleet Management Systems in the Americas to Reach 22 Million by 2022
The top-25 vendors in the Americas together have a combined installed base of more than 7 million active units in the region today.   Full Story


August 15, 2018
EXOS Aerospace SARGE Launch Scheduled
EXOS has completed the design, build, and test of their latest platform, completed fully integrated hover testing, received their Launch License, and ...   Full Story

ViaLite Presents a New Product, and Participates with the RFoF Product Family at Three International Trade Shows 
ViaLite will be featuring their state-of-the-art RF over fiber products at three different trade events this fall including the Satellite Innovation Symposium.   Full Story

UrtheCast to Farm More Data Through Acquisition of Geosys Technology
This landmark deal is expected to bring value to agribusinesses worldwide through the enhanced relationship between imagery data and geoanalytical solutions...   Full Story

Engility Ensures NASA's Parker Solar Probe Mission Succeeds Even Under Adverse Conditions
It's exciting to contribute to a mission that could solve some of the biggest mysteries about the physics of our solar system.   Full Story

UK's Space Industry's £19 Million Contract Gets the Shakedown with Plans for Test Facility
Satellite test facilities at this scale, in one location do not currently exist in the UK.   Full Story

India's Prime Minister Announces an Independence Celebration and a Manned Mission in Space by 2022 
when India celebrates its 75th year of Independence, or before, an India – could be a boy or a girl – will go to space with the tricolour in their hand.   Full Story

ASTERIA's Successful Mission ... to Win Small Satellite Mission of the Year Award
designed to test miniaturized technology for measuring the brightness of stars, to stabilize the spacecraft so that it can point itself directly at a star ...   Full Story

Comtech EF Data's and U.S. Navy's Multi-Million Dollar Order for Next Generation Satellite Earth Station Equipment
The commercially available modems will support satellite communications and interoperability across the Navy’s platforms and shore sites.   Full Story


August 14, 2018
ISRO Plans to Launch Chandrayaan-2 in January of 2019 and Avoiding a Costly Debacle by Recalling GSAT-11
The Rs 800-crore lunar mission named “Chandrayaan-2” comes over a decade after India's initial lunar orbit on November 8, 2008, after the...   Full Story

Sierra Nevada Corporation's Hardware is Critical for Mission to the Sun NASA’s Parker Solar Probe 
Space weather can have negative impacts on satellites, harm humans in space and affect power systems and communications on Earth.   Full Story

UTIAS-SFL Students Win Significant Awards for their Technical Papers
Robert Magner won first place and a $10,000 check for his paper entitled, “Extending Target Tracking Capabilities through Trajectory and Momentum Setpoint Optimization.” Placing second...   Full Story

Chinese Commercial Rocket Firms Gain Financing and Plan Launches
The funding was led by CICC Jiatai (Tianjin) Equity Investment Fund and followed by FinTrek Capita, while its shareholders like China Merchants...   Full Story

Satellite Innovation — THE Meeting Place for Satellite Executives and Professionals
New for 2018 — Satellite Innovation will host brief, intensive updates on important new and advanced technologies. These concise presentations...   Full Story

China's 'Satellite Savior' Spacecraft Said to Salvage Falling Satellites
provide attitude control assistance and push the device back into its proper trajectory, giving it about a decade of additional service life.   Full Story

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Provides the Eyes of NASA's Parker Solar Probe with a WISPR 
"Space weather is important for civilians, the Navy and all militaries. We need it and depend on it.”    Full Story

International Astronautical Congress 2018 Will Open Doors to Everyone on Public Day
Along with the many satellites space debris or junk has increased to about 750,000 objects larger than 1 cm!   Full Story

The U.S. Army's Contract for $522 Million GATRs or the Military Procures Inflatable Satellite Antennas
antenna system has become the Warfighter's choice, for ground use in military situations in remote areas, quick deploys, or in harsh weather    Full Story

NSR's Revelation ... Maritime SATCOM Market will Double Over Next 10 Years
Doubling over the next 10 years, Maritime SATCOM Markets are in a growth-phase.    Full Story

Aerojet Rocketdyne's Two Successes... RS-25 Engine Tests Upgrades and Cost Reduction
The 3-D printed Pogo, which is about the size of a beach ball, continued to perform as designed during the test series   Full Story


August 13, 2018
Es'hailSat Acquires Full Ownership of Satellite
Eutelsat’s share of the satellite generated FY2018 revenues of c.16 million euros in the video application. The divestment of this non-core asset is in ...   Full Story

Frost & Sullivan's Smallsat Launch Services Market Quarterly Update for Q2 2018 Now Available
Frost & Sullivan now expects launch demand to increase to 11,740 smallsats by 2030, with revenues reaching $70.10 billion. Commercial...   Full Story

XipLink's New Sales Executive ...He Has Experience for Fast Growth in Latin America
he is moving from the space capacity side to the network optimization business, XipLink is fortunate to obtain his sales leadership at the right time.   Full Story

Sierra Nevada Corporation Completes Study of First Module for NASA Gateway
The study was performed under one of SNC’s Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships-2 (NextSTEP-2) contracts. SNC plans to submit a...   Full Story

ResearchAndMarkets.com Takes a Large Span of Small-Satellite Launch Services Update ... Forecast to 2030
At present, nearly all small satellites use the rideshare capacity as a secondary payload on the existing launch vehicles.   Full Story

RigNet Partners with Singtel to Provide CyphreLink, a Terrestrial Encrypted Network Service
The hardware-based encryption allows military-grade data security, with little to no overhead on the payload.   Full Story

Goonhilly Earth Station Collaborating with Spacebit for Application of Blockchain Technology
Blockchain technology has the potential to introduce new techniques to accelerate space exploration by creating an ecosystem that fosters access...   Full Story

Vislink Engages in Cooperation with Cogent Technologies Limited
Pursuant to terms of an MoU that the companies have entered into, Vislink will have the exclusive right to help promote and sell Cogent's products and...   Full Story

New Cloud-Based Analytics Debuts from ORBCOMM as an IoT Solution
With ORBCOMM’s new analytics offering, its global customers can extract valuable, real-time information from their asset-based data to determine...   Full Story

BridgeSat's Formation of Advisory Board and New Appointments Part of New Mission
“I’ve had some incredible experiences in outer space, and I’m glad to be able to help BridgeSat from the ground.”   Full Story

TCarta's National Science Foundation Grant Goes Deep to the Seafloor ...Satellite-Derived Bathymetry Technology
Here's a big job... enhance and automate multiple techniques for deriving seafloor depth measurements from optical satellite imagery.    Full Story


August 12, 2018
The STN Teleport Receives World Teleport Association Provisional Certification
To achieve Provisional Certification, a teleport operator completes a +170 item questionnaire and submits it to WTA. The Association analyzes the...   Full Story

Through the Dark and Into the Light ULA's Successful Launch of NASA's Parker Solar Probe, the Fastest Spacecraft Ever 
closest approach Parker Solar Probe will reach a top speed of 430,000 miles per hour or 120 miles per second, making it the fastest spacecraft in history.   Full Story

Rocket Lab Has Two Launch Missions Scheduled That Are Mere Weeks Apart
It’s Business Time’s manifest includes IRVINE01, an educational payload from the Irvine CubeSat STEM Program (ICSP), and NABEO, a drag sail...   Full Story

Ecliptic Enterprises Corporation to Launch Hosted Payloads on Rocket Lab’s Electron Rockets
Under the framework of this agreement, hosted payloads supplied by Ecliptic and their customers will constitute any payload launched, but not separated from, the kick stage...   Full Story

Airbus Built the Aeolus Satellite for ESA Now Ready for Aladin and the Wind 
Airbus-built Aeolus satellite ready to take on the wind ESA’s wind sensing spacecraft Aeolus, is encapsulated into the Vega launcher ready for lift-off   Full Story

Ocean Signal's Latest Solution of Safety on the Sea with AIS Transponders
Safety on the water is mandatory and AIS is there to offer fully compliant solutions to increase visibility, aid collision-avoidance and enhance ...   Full Story

ETL Systems to Debut Their New StingRay DWDM @ IBC 2018
The solution enables high-quality distribution between a satellite antenna and a remote control room. Using DWDM technology, multiple signals can...   Full Story

NASA's US$1.5 Billion Parker Solar Probe's Timeline Past and Future the Hopes and Plans
“We’ve accomplished something that decades ago, lived solely in the realm of science fiction.”   Full Story

 NASA Leaves the Driving of the Parker Solar Probe to Aerojet Rocketdyne
Throughout the journey, an in-space propulsion system supplied by Aerojet Rocketdyne will provide attitude and momentum control, and course corrections.   Full Story


August 11, 2018
U.S. Department of the Space Force — the Sixth Branch of the U.S. Armed Forces — to be Established
In a speech at the Pentagon, the Vice President also announced plans to establish a new combatant command — U.S. Space Command —- as well as a...   Full Story


August 9, 2018
UPLINK: Innovation - C-COM Satellite Systems
“The longer you tread water, the more likely it is that someone with a big enough boot will come and stand on your head."   Full Story

Bezos to Address the AFA's 2018 Air, Space & Cyber Conference
More than 9,000 attendees registered for the 2017 Air, Space & Cyber ...   Full Story

Smallsat Ground Station Infrastructure Announced by Hiber and KSAT
The first two satellites of the Hiberband constellation (Hiber One and Hiber Two) will be launched in the last quarter of this year.   Full Story

Rocket Lab Signs On to Provide Launch Services to Circle Aerospace
Headquartered in Dubai, Circle Aerospace is a new turnkey launch brokerage and satellite development company serving to catalyze the...   Full Story

NASA Reaches the Tipping Point with Six U.S. Companies that Create Major Changes for Space
Selections are based on the agency’s third competitive Tipping Point solicitation and have a combined total award value of approximately $44 million...   Full Story

SSL Psyche'd Out by ZIN Technologies Contract for NASA/JPL Mission
As the main on-board computer, the Psyche Compute Element acts as the brain of the spacecraft, functioning as the coordinating center for command...   Full Story

ViaLite’s APAC Reseller Network Has Expanded
These distributors have considerable expertise in understanding customers’ requirements and the company is certain they will be able to deliver...   Full Story

An International Investment Program from Intersputnik Set to Launch Soon
The program investment fund totals $4,500,000 — a single applicant may receive up to$750,000 on preferential conditions. For several decades, it...   Full Story

Britain in the Running for an Estimated 2,000 Satellite Launches by 2030
During the visit, the Secretary of State viewed plans for the spaceport site and held discussions with local citizens and businesses to hear their ...   Full Story

AST's New Growth Isn't Measured in Feet ... But in Continents
Expansion can mean a larger office, or an entire building to better serve their clients. How about an expansion that includes offices on three continents?   Full Story

Rocket Lab Selects RUAG Space as a Preferred Supplier
Rocket Lab, the developer of the world’s first fully carbon composite orbital launch vehicle, Electron, powered by 3D printed, electric pump-fed engines,...   Full Story


August 8, 2018
Kongsberg Satellite Services' New Business, KSATLite, is Big for Small Satellites
“One major benefit of the KSATLite network is that it is live today supporting over 10,000 passes a month which enables new missions to ...   Full Story

A Ten Satellite Launch Agreement with D-Orbit for Astrocast
The company is planning an 80 satellite constellation to deliver cost-effective IoT and M2M services to users across the globe who have no cell ...   Full Story

Aerojet Rocketdyne and Teledyne Deliver Power Generator for Mars 2020 Rover
The MMRTG converts heat generated by the natural decay of plutonium-238 into electricity which also provides heat to a spacecraft’s components   Full Story

Maxar's SSL Delivers Azerspace-2 / Intelsat 38 to Arianespace for Launch
Azerspace-2 will help Azercosmos meet the growing demand for Direct-to-Home (DTH) television, government and network services in Europe,...   Full Story

Ball Collaborates and Delivers on Preliminary Design of NASA's IXPE Mission
explore, and for the first time discover, some of the most unique objects in our universe; neutron stars and stellar and supermassive black holes.   Full Story

Airbus' Zephyr, a High Altitude Pseudo-Satellite, Breaks Record in Air More Than 25 Days
After taking off on July 11 in Arizona, Zephyr S logged a maiden flight of more than 25 days, the longest duration flight ever made. An application...   Full Story

Advantech Wireless Technologies Expands LATAM Operations With New Office and Service Center in Brazil
The new Brazil office and service center have been opened to meet the growing demand for Advantech’s new line of Second Generation Gallium Nitride (GaN)...   Full Story

The Implications of Launching U.S. Government Payloads Globally Analyzed by The Aerospace Corporation
This brief examines the emergence of new, venture-class launch providers for smallsats. The U.S. government is interested in reducing costs and ...   Full Story

SpaceTime Enterprises Delivers Letter of Intent to ISIS for Two Nanosatellite Platforms
capturing and broadcasting live, real-time immersive video of the entire Earth, to deliver a view unlike anything currently in existence.   Full Story

Key Spatial Partnership Signed Between Open Cosmos and Addvalue
The agreement will allow Open Cosmos’s smallsats to stay in continuous communications with their operation centre on the ground, thereby enabling...   Full Story


August 7, 2018
Honeywell Selected by Lockheed Martin for Their Control Actuation System
An actuator is a type of motor that is responsible for moving or controlling a mechanism or system, typically operated by electric current, hydraulic fluid ...   Full Story

Spaceflight's First Rideshare Mission of 70+ Smallsats Set for SpaceX's Launch Later This Year 
Spaceflight has contracted with more than 70 spacecraft from approximately 35 different organizations to launch from a SpaceX Falcon 9...   Full Story

Uniwise Offshore is Wise to Select Thaicom's Nava™ for Their Entire Fleet
Thanks to the flexibility and scalability of the Nava broadband service, their operation can remain future-proof and competitive in the future.   Full Story

Thermal Management Technologies Receive a NASA Smallsat Technology License
The patented technology — Diminutive Assembly for Nanosatellite deploYables (DANY) — provides a reliable mechanism to secure...   Full Story

Trimble's New GNSS Corrections Technology Achieves Horizontal Accuracies of Better than 2 Centimeters
Start-up times, commonly referred to as convergence, have also improved. Users can now achieve full accuracy in less than 15 minutes, and as fast as...   Full Story

Empower Space Alliance Formed by Xenesis, ATLAS Space Operations and Laser Light Communications
Empower Space will provide a turnkey direct optical data distribution service from spacecraft to customer locations, worldwide. Empower Space intends...   Full Story

Viasat's VISION Software Passes Critical NATO Test
Under a contract awarded in January 2018, NATO will upgrade its legacy UHF communications network to Viasat's VISION planning and network...   Full Story

Gilat Telecom Keeps 'em Connected On the Go, Anywhere with Iridium's CertusSM
They recognize that businesses are expanding operations to the most remote and rugged locations on Earth, and with Iridium Certus there will be ...   Full Story

Bright Ascension Develops Software in Support of VORAGO's RH-OBC-1 Plug-and-Play Components for Smallsats
The Onboard Computer (OBC) has been designed as a plug-and-play component for cubesats orbiting in high radiation environments. Radiation...   Full Story

The SSL-Built Merah Putih Satellite Performing Post Launch Maneuvers Successfully After SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch
Merah Putih, a name which represents the red and white of the Indonesian flag, deployed its solar arrays shortly after launch and will begin firing its...   Full Story

Aerojet Rocketdyne's Boosters Endure Extreme Cold and Hot Soak for Simulated Air-Launch Tests

The solid rocket motor will be used to accelerate a vehicle during its initial phase of flight. The motors were tested at extreme temperatures to verify ...   Full Story


August 6, 2018
The Glonass Navigation Signal Now Accessible by Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan has been granted access to a high-precision Glonass navigation signal, an official with the Kazakhstan Defense Ministry’s Aerospace Committee, Kazcosmos, said...   Full Story

UPDATE: Austrian Institute of Technology and SES to Work on Satellite-Based QKD Security System
Over the coming three years, the Australian Institute of Technology (AIT) experts of the optical quantum technologies research group will create next...   Full Story

A New, Launch Unit Standard for Smallsats Introduced by Aerospace Corporation
This standard provides major benefits to the smallsat industry — manufacturers, launch providers, and satellite users — by increasing...   Full Story

Yahsat Acquires Thuraya
The acquisition of the UAE's first home grown satellite operator, Thuraya, is set to expand Yahsat's current satellite solutions portfolio on commercial ..   Full Story

NASA to Launch 'Cubes in Space' Satellite Contestant That's as Light as an Egg  
3D-printed polylactic acid exterior, it weighs as much as a chicken's egg might, 33 grams, and was a contestant in the ‘Cubes in Space’ competition    Full Story

Terran Orbital's Successful Series "B" Financing Round
Proceeds from the financing will be used to purchase additional manufacturing equipment for Terran Orbital’s new, 40,000 square foot...   Full Story

Lockheed Martin Ships AEHF's Fourth Satellite for MILSATCOM to Canaveral for Launch
AEHF communications are jam-proof and offer low probability of detection or interception, and the four-satellite constellation will be able to deliver that...   Full Story

Euroconsult's Latest Executive Report — Prospects for the Small Satellite Market
About 7,000 smallsats are due to be launched over the next ten years, i.e., a six-fold increase from the 1,200 units launched over the past decade...   Full Story

Alta Devices Debuts Their Gen4 Solar Cell for Smallsats
The company is exhibiting and discussing the technology, materials and business issues surrounding smallsats and solar technology. This will ...   Full Story

PLD Space Obtains Necessary Space at Tureual Airport in Spain for Launcher Technology Projects
PLD Space started their activity on October 6, 2014, at Teruel Airport facilities through a public property authorization of use that was initially...   Full Story

Comtech EF Data Expands Their WANOp and Also Receives Satellite Modem Order
The new Release 7 of the FX Series WANOp appliance solution delivers unparalleled performance of up to 5 Gbps throughput and 1,000,000 TCP...   Full Story

Loft Orbital Develops inSpace Mission Partner Program as Space Access is Standardized
inSpace partners are companies across the space value chain with whom Loft Orbital will collaborate for their end-to-end space mission offering...   Full Story

Newtec's Dialog® with Milano Teleport Results in Smooth Sailing at Sea
vessels already in service with Milano Teleport enjoy significantly reduced cost as a result of the Newtec Dialog hub located at its teleport in Italy.   Full Story


August 5, 2018
Enhancing Smallsats with Big Satellite Power and Capacity Enabled by Made In Space
Current smallsats are typically constrained to 1 kilowatt of power or less. The power system being developed by Made In Space can, initially, provide...   Full Story

Two NASA SBIR Projects Awarded to VORAGO Technologies
The two projects now underway are consistent with VORAGO’s technology expertise and commercial objectives. VORAGO will create a rad-hard I/O...   Full Story

Dejero to Present CellSat and Additional Connectivity Solutions to IBC 2018
Providing enhanced reliability in situations where cellular networks are congested or cellular coverage is limited, Dejero CellSat now includes a...   Full Story

Taqnia Space's Spot On Multi-Million Dollar Deal for Eutelsat's Spotbeam Capacity
Passengers checking emails and social networks, and streaming live content at 36,000 feet will become a reality at the end of this year   Full Story

DDC's SBC Selected by NRL for DARPA's RSGS Program
RSGS will provide an on orbit satellite servicing vehicle that will transform U.S. space operations in GEO.  As the lead payload developer for the ...   Full Story

UPDATE: Indonesia's Merah Putih Scheduled for SpaceX Launch August 7
will be integrated into Telkom's greater telecommunications network to provide service to the 17 thousand islands of the Indonesian archipelago and   Full Story

Empowering Earth Imaging and the Smallsat Industry at Draper
Draper scientists have developed a computer model to analyze satellite imagery and more effectively reveal socio-cultural conditions. Compounding...   Full Story

Expanded Operational Use for MUOS for U.S. Navy Authorized by U.S. Strategic Command
reveals that this authorization paves the way for U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps “early-adopter” commands...   Full Story

Marlink Adds Satellite Capacity for Yacht and Superyacht Customer Access to High Speed Internet
The new coverage in the Northwest Passage, the Mediterranean and Caribbean delivers even more potential for digital transformation in the...   Full Story

DEV Systemtechnik to Debut New Combining Matrix Switch at IBC 2018
Unlike distributing fan-out matrix devices, combining matrix switches allow several or all input signals to be routed into one output channel. The DEV...   Full Story


August 2, 2018
UPLINK: Innovation from Phasor
 “The move to satellite-based wideband/broadband mobility, (GEO HTS or NGSO), is a response to the expanding 'connected everywhere' needs of...   Full Story

ITC Global Extends Contract with Nonprofit Youth With A Mission Medical Ships
Under terms of the agreement, ITC Global will provide critical connectivity services to the nonprofit's medical ship serving the Papua New Guinea...   Full Story

Telesat Signs Airbus Defence and Space as the Second Team to Work on LEO Constellation System Design
This announcement follows closely on Telesat’s July 30 announcement that the firm had signed the consortium of Thales Alenia Space and Maxar to...   Full Story

Odysseus Space Provides Space... to RBC Signals for Multi-Mission Capabilities
first provider using a shared economy business model to enhance service and affordability for commercial operators with satellite constellations in LEO.   Full Story

BepiColombo's Wings are "Spread" in Preparation for an Arianespace Launch in October
These two arrays — one installed on each side of the module — were opened with the use of an overhead rig that helped support the solar panels...   Full Story

Space Flight Laboratory Celebrates 20 Years of Microspace Missions and Heads to a Show
SFL, which was established in 1998 as a self-sustaining specialty lab at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS), has...   Full Story

Plans by Ericsson and Audi to Pioneer 5G for Automotive Manufacturing
At Audi’s headquarters in Ingolstadt, Germany, the two companies agreed on a range of activities exploring the potential of 5G as a future-proof ...   Full Story

New BaiCells Radio Mounting Bracket for Reflector Dish Antennas Debuts from KP Performance Antennas
KP’s new BaiCells radio mounting bracket is designed to easily slot into their 23 and 27.5 inch reflector dish antennas, while securely attaching the...   Full Story

5G Still Needs to Prove its Worth — GlobalData Report Released
The company’s latest report, ‘5G - Thematic Research’, states that the hype around 5G has been building for so long now that it can be easy to forget...   Full Story

Over Brazil, Hispasat's Amazonas-3 and -5 to be Commercialized by Gilat Satellite Networks
Hispasat and Gilat are joining forces to develop the satellite broadband market in Brazil. Hispamar will use the recently launched Amazonas-5 multi-spot-beam...   Full Story


August 1, 2018
Globalsat and SatSure Agree to Market Their Combined Talents in the Americas
is anxious to identify and leverage market opportunities in the North, Central, and South America regions and is looking for assistance for this purpose ...   Full Story

Bangladesh Opens Their Ground Stations for Bangabandhu Satellite-1
The ground stations are situated at Telipara in Gazipur on the outskirts of capital Dhaka and Bethbunia in southeastern Bangladesh's Rangamati...   Full Story

5G Traffic Management Solution Enhanced by NEC
TMS increases the quality of experience for end users and enables Communication Service Providers (CSPs) to efficiently operate networks by ...   Full Story

Nathan Dickerman is Planet's New Chief Commercial Officer
With 20 years experience in the enterprise software industry, Nathan brings the strategic thinking, customer engagement experience, and operational ...   Full Story

Four Companies Selected by NASA to Integrate and Fly Technology Payloads
The selection is part of NASA's continuing effort to foster a viable market for American commercial reusable suborbital platforms that allow testing of...   Full Story

Multiple Partnership Agreements Signed by Infostellar
These partners include Bright Ascension and Spaceit. StellarStation has also been deemed compatible with GMV’s software products and can be...   Full Story

China Sends Gaofen-11 Remote Sensing Satellite Soaring
The satellite can be used for land survey, urban planning, road network design, agriculture, and disaster relief.   Full Story

Hiltron's HMAM and HACU Satellite Monitoring System Goes Live at LyngSat
An optional motorized feed changer allows the head to be moved quickly to a new position for switching between frequency bands.   Full Story

The First, Global, GNSS-Reflectometry Ocean Wind Data Service is Launched by SSTL and NOC
The current service is a pilot demonstration showing the potential for a new source of wind and wave measurements from in orbit using a small satellite.   Full Story

Maser Named as Senior Vice President of Space Business at Aerojet Rocketdyne
In this role, Maser will oversee all NASA programs, defense and commercial launch systems, advanced space and launch strategy...   Full Story

Exband Networks' 300 MHz Bandwidth Will Revolutionize 5G Transmissions 
Exband’s analogue technology can be fitted into any radio transmitter to enhance the current bandwidth and data rates tenfold.   Full Story

3D Laser Mapping and GeoSLAM Merger Creates a Major Mapping and Monitoring Supplier
both have different skill sets; GeoSLAM specializes in global sales, marketing and distribution, and 3D Laser Mapping brings advanced R&D capabilities.   Full Story


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