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December 28, 2017
C-COM Times Two at CABSAT... Attend the Show and Stay on to Get Certified
C-COM Satellite Systems will be attending CABSAT and offering certification for NewGen iNetVu®antenna systems at the end of the show. Full Story

SES-14 and Al Yah-3 Satellites Groomed for January Launch at Arianespace's Guiana Space Center
SES-14 will join the Arianespace launch mission’s other payload, Al Yah 3, for Al Yah Satellite Communications Company PrJSC, located in the... Full Story

SES Video will Provide Capacity to All Media Baltics for TV Channels and Pay Package
ensures continuity for audiences with the reach of SES’s prime orbital position over the Nordic and Baltic region reaching 1.73 million TV homes. Full Story

Blue Origin's New Shepard Completes Mission 7 with 12 Payloads
While the primary objective was to progress testing this new system for human spaceflight, the company also achieved an exciting milestone with... Full Story

Ten Satellites a Launching... SpaceX Successfully Sends Iridium's NEXT Batch of Satellites Soaring
Once deployed, there will be a total of 40 Iridium NEXT satellites in LEO. Full Story

This SmallSat Symposium™ is Big in Return on Investment
How easily could you gather experts in your field of interest together on the same day(s) to address issues and questions that are foremost on your mind? Full Story

December 25, 2017
Clyde Space Acquired by ÅAC Microtec AB
The acquisition will be paid for with 30,466,326 newly issued shares in AAC and GBP 2 million in cash, equivalent to approximately SEK 294 million (at... Full Story

December 23, 2017
AST&Science's™ Big Venture with Smaller than Small Ultra-Small Satellites
The satellites, called Microns, by the company, weigh approximately seven ounces ... Full Story

December 21, 2017
Orbital ATK's Cygnus™ Breaks Records with Cubesat Deployments and Keeps Space Tidy
Their success is a fitting tribute to Gene Cernan, one of the great space pioneers in the industry and ... Full Story

Airbus' PAZ Earth Observation Satellite is Packaged for Travel
A team of 15 Airbus space technicians and engineers will travel to Vandenberg to receive the satellite and the equipment. Full Story

Jim Simpson to Head Up ABS
Prior to joining ABS, Jim Simpson spent 35 years at The Boeing Company in various leadership positions in the Satellite and Launch Business. After retirement from Boeing... Full Story

Orbit's US$1 Million Additional Service Contract Extension for the USAF's Airborne Digital Audio Systems

worth approximately US$1 million, for service for maintenance, repair and support of systems aboard Boeing KC-135 Stratotankers. Full Story

Boeing's $10 Million Modified Work Order for U.S. Air Force
Work will be performed at Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado; El Segundo, California; and Colorado Springs, Colorado, with an expected completion date ... Full Story

U.S. Coast Guard Planning Launch of Satellites During Q3 of 2018
The Polar Scout program is one step toward a larger goal of the Coast Guard to develop a long-term plan for using satellite technology across a... Full Story

EO Imaging Distribution Partnership Signed by UrtheCast and SI Imaging Services
The space assets of Deimos Imaging and SIIS include Deimos-1, Deimos-2 and the KOMPSAT series KOMPSAT-2, KOMPSAT-3, KOMPSAT-3A and... Full Story

The Advanced Technology Receiver Card from Raytheon Garners an SMC Contract
This is a four-channel receiver of simultaneous tracking patented direct measurement processing, ultra-tight global positioning system/inertial... Full Story

The NSA 5G NR Standard has been Achieved by Leading Mobile Comms Companies
The successful demonstrations show the companies’ combined strength in carrying out timely trials that pave the way for commercial launches of 5G... Full Story

Marlink Procures Livewire Connections
Livewire Connections will become part of the Marlink Group, joining the worldwide leader in maritime communications and maritime VSAT services... Full Story

December 20, 2017
Surrey Satellite Technology Seeks Space Debris with a Harpoon and a Net
and will fly four space debris removal technologies and two target cubesats. Full Story

SpaceX Falcon Heavy Launch Vehicle Now at Kennedy Space Center
Prior to the close of 2017, Elon Musk and his firm intend to engage in a static test firing at Launch Complex 39A... Full Story

Millions Obtained by China's EXPACE for Kuaizhou Solid Fuel Launch Vehicle Development
CASIC Rocket Technology Company, also known as EXPACE and based in the city of Wuhan, said it signed fundraising agreements totaling 1.2 billion... Full Story

SSL's Restore-L Satellite Servicing Spacecraft Completes NASA Review
As announced last year, SSL is working with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s Satellite Servicing Projects Division (SSPD) to build a spacecraft ... Full Story

Color Airbus and KARI Happy ... Now They've Got GOCI-II Ocean Color Imaging
will analyze the color of the ocean around the Korean peninsula to detect, monitor, quantify and predict short-term variations in the characteristics of ... Full Story

Halawi Moves from OneWeb to Become CCO at Intelsat
Intelsat created the new role to accelerate the commercialization of its Intelsat EpicNG high throughput fleet and build additional focus on the... Full Story

Now Operational is NOAA's GOES-16 Satellite, "The Game Changer"
Since its launch in November of 2016, NOAA’s GOES-16, even in its testing stage, showed its potential to improve weather forecasts and brought new... Full Story

New Report from Berg Insight Focuses on M2M/IoT
About 4.9 million cellular M2M terminals were shipped globally during 2016, an increase of 28.0 percent from the previous year. Growing at a compound... Full Story

Thales Alenia Space Earns Italy's National Award for innovation 2017
The award, which recognizes Thales Alenia Space as one of the nine most innovative Italian enterprises in the industry and services sector, was... Full Story

The New Solar Array from Sierra Nevada Corporation Pumps In 25 Percent More Power
The revolutionary technology is being used on the Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL) Satellite for the High Accuracy Radar Calibration (SHARC) mission... Full Story

December 19, 2017
Global Competition for Smallsat Structures Now Open
Enterprise In Space, an international initiative of the National Space Society, along with EXOS, 3D Hubs, and Sketchfab, are initiating a... Full Story

NNU Students Already at Work on their Next Smallsat Mission
The MakerSat-0 satellite was launched into space aboard a Delta II rocket on November 18. The project was envisioned by a team of students and... Full Story

New USGS-NASA Landsat Science Team Named...
The new team will conduct scientific research on technical issues critical to the success of the overall Landsat mission, including topics related to data... Full Story

Canadian Space Agency Invests in Quantum Encryption and Science Satellite Mission
The estimate is that, within 10 to 20 years, the encryption codes used by computers today will be easily decoded by high-performing quantum... Full Story

5G America's Global Events Announced
The Global 5G Event series was developed in the interest of efficiency and building global consensus on 5G and was announced in October of 2015 by... Full Story

U.S.A.F.'s GEO Flight-4 Satellite Arrives at the Cape for January 2018 Launch
Having verified satellite integrity after successful delivery from Sunnyvale, California, to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, the SBIRS team... Full Story

ArianeGroup to Begin Production of Ariane 6 to Accommodate a Changing Market

is specifically designed to be able to respond to evolving market demands. Full Story

A Multi-Purpose PLATiNO SmallSat is the Plan by SITAEL and the Italian Space Agency
PLATiNO is the first all-electric mini-platform suitable for a wide range of missions (Hi-Res Optical, Mini-SAR, Telecom, etc.), deployable in a... Full Story

Poland to Invest in Space and Satellite Systems Technology
The National Space Program, drafted by the government-run Polish Space Agency, comes with a budget of around PLN 1.43 billion (340 million euros/... Full Story

Apollo Fusion ACES a New Electric Propulsion System
Apollo recently tested ACE in an independent lab at The Aerospace Corporation where thrust, Isp, and system efficiency measurements closely... Full Story

Improving SatTracking of Aircraft Is Highighted in New International Telecommunications Report
Aircraft automatic dependent surveillance is a technique in which aircraft automatically provide, via a data link, data from the on-board navigation and... Full Story

LitePoint Announces the First Fully-Integrated 5G Millimeter Wave Test System
The IQgig-5G system covers both the popular 28 GHz and 39 GHz 5G millimeter wave bands and has multiple RF ports which make it easy to... Full Story

Kratos Unmanned Systems Division Drones On and On...
USD is an industry leader in the rapid design, development and fielding of affordable high performance jet powered unmanned aerial drone systems... Full Story

Italian Space Agency Signs Letter of Intent For Flight on Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo
will be to conduct scientific research, suborbital experiments and to fly an Italian Payload Specialist. Full Story

Four Additional Satellites Ordered from GomSpace A/S and Aerial & Maritime
The amendment contains four additional satellites as well as launch, ground station and commissioning of the constellation of satellites into a... Full Story

December 18, 2017
DigitalGlobe Documents SpaceX's Successful 'Firsts' Times Two Includes Hosing Down a Falcon
... the first time SpaceX has flown both a flight-proven Falcon 9 and a flight-proven Dragon spacecraft in the same mission. Full Story

OHB and Arianespace Partner to Launch Heinrich Hertz for Germany's Civil and Military Telecommunications
"...we are responsible for implementing the entire mission including the satellite, the launcher and the related ground infrastructure." Full Story

Quintech's Extreme Solution Fans the Plans of Major Company's Test Labs with XTREME 80
among the highest density matrix on the market, in which they squeeze 80 total ports in a 2 RU chassis. Full Story

Trivec-Avant to Engage the U.S. Navy with a UHF SATCOM Antenna System
The SSV provides a UHF SATCOM antenna to coastal patrol craft, littoral combat ships, joint high speed vessels and other disadvantaged users that... Full Story

NSR's Satellite Capacity Pricing Webinar
This vital topic affects all within the satellite industry — NSR will provide key analysis as it relates to capacity pricing now and in future... Full Story

Ariane Group to Provide a Very Low Cost Prometheus Engine for ESA
The aim is to be able to build future liquid propellant engines with a unit cost of about 1 million euros, or 10 times less than the cost of producing existing... Full Story

NEC and Lockheed Martin to Join Space and AI Technologies for Missions
SIAT's advanced analytics engine uses data collected from sensors to learn the behavior of systems, including computer systems, power plants... Full Story

KVH and PGNL's Agreement to Deliver Philippine Basketball Association Broadcasts to Merchant Ships
Under the terms of the agreement, KVH will distribute PBA games for the 43rd and 44th PBA seasons, which begin with the Philippine Cup on... Full Story

2019 Set as the Year for an Egyptian Satellite Launch by Russia
Al-Shafei pointed out that the satellite launch schedule will be announced by Russian space agency Roscosmos. The agency will indicate whether it... Full Story

Navy Multi-Band Terminals to be Built by Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems
NMT is a multi-band capable satellite communications terminal that provides protected and wideband communications. NMT supports... Full Story

Mobile Satellite Users Association Opens Their Mobility Awards Contest
MSUA's 2018 Satellite Mobility Awards Contest and Luncheon will take place on Tuesday, March 13, 2018 in Washington, DC. Awards will be given... Full Story

ORBCOM's Logistics and Monitoring Solutions Selected by Wayne Smith Trucking
ORBCOMM’s solution includes a robust web application with data reporting and analytics capabilities to increase visibility and security of Wayne Smith Trucking’s trailers... Full Story

Space Foundation Names "Chris" Kraft as the Recipient of the Organization's General James E. Hill Lifetime Space Achievement Award
For 2018, the Space Foundation Board of Directors will honor Christopher Columbus "Chris" Kraft, Jr., the first U.S. human space mission flight... Full Story

Globecast's Promotion ... Their Chief Technical Officer Continues and He Also Becomes Chief Operating Officer
driving operations globally across distribution, contribution and media management as well as continue out his CTO role. Full Story

Air Force Secretary Takes Off the Wraps and Unveils Final DMSP-20 Satellite
when the National Reconnaissance Office established a meteorological satellite program to provide information on cloud cover over the Soviet Union for the once highly-classified Corona photographic reconnaissance satellites. Full Story

Ericsson Musters Up Fixed Wireless and Sky Muster™ Satellite Services for Aussies
services cover more than 980,000 homes in regional and remote Australia with more than 290,000 homes connected to broadband services via NBN Full Story

December 15, 2017
Harris Navigation Payload Delivered to Lockheed Martin for Inclusion on GPS III SV01
At the heart of Harris’ navigation payloads is a Mission Data Unit (MDU), featuring a unique 70-percent digital design that links atomic clocks... Full Story

Ground Station Duo Developed by EUMETSAT are now Above PAR
The stations form part of the ground segment of MTG, the most complex and innovative meteorological geostationary system ever built. Deployed on... Full Story

Arianespace Plans for a Heavy Lift of Germany’s Heinrich Hertz Demonstrator Satellite
H2Sat will be used to test or flight-qualify some 20 different components or subassemblies, new technologies and transmission schemes ... Full Story

SpaceX Flight-Proven Falcon 9 and Dragon Successfully Head to ISS on Resupply Mission
This mission marks the first time SpaceX has flown both a flight-proven Falcon 9 and a flight-proven Dragon spacecraft in the same mission. Falcon 9’s first stage... Full Story

Serco Contracts with ESA for Delivery of a New EO Program
The Copernicus program is the world’s largest single EO program, continuously collecting satellite imagery from around the world updated on a... Full Story

Milestone reached by MT Aerospace in the Ariane 6 Launch Facilities Build
Composed of representatives from the European Space Agency (ESA), ArianeGroup, CNES, Apave and Socotec, the review board approved the... Full Story

December 14, 2017
Orbital Micro Systems and Satavia's Partnership for Predictive Weather Analytics for Airline Industry
Satavia will use the high temporal resolution weather data provided by OMS to enhance its solutions which allow aircraft original equipment... Full Story

LeoSat Signs with DCS Telecom for MENA and APAC Satellite Services
DCS Telecom will use LeoSat to upgrade their existing satellite solutions, giving customers access to a unique low-latency network which is expected.../ Full Story

GeoSLAM 3D Mobile Mapping Makes Important Move
The Nottinghamshire-based firm, which recently celebrated five years in the industry, has moved to Innovation House, a technology hub Full Story

Asian Defense Organization's US$7 Million Order for Orbit's Aeronautical Telemetry Systems
“This order includes a unique collapsible, transportable antenna,” Full Story

Russia Blames a Software Glitch for Failed Vostochny Cosmodrome Launch
On November 28, Russia lost contact with its Meteor-M weather satellite after its launch from the new Vostochny cosmodrome — only the second... Full Story

Peruvian Government Reports Investment in Airbus' PerúSAT-1 Already Recovered ... In First Year
The PerúSAT-1 satellite, built by Airbus, is the first of its kind to be delivered in a record time. It took less than two years from ... Full Story

Kymeta's KALO™ Internet Access Services Now Commercially Available...
KALO™ internet services, powered by the IntelsatOne® Flex network, deliver broad connectivity when paired with the world’s only commercially... Full Story

A Major Space Mystery is Solved by University of Colorado Students' Smallsat
The team showed, during a process called “cosmic ray albedo neutron decay” (CRAND), cosmic rays entering Earth’s atmosphere collide with... Full Story

Space Exploration Partnerships Signed by Thales Alenia Space with Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Orbital ATK
For Thales Alenia Space, the partnering with U.S. companies in this exciting adventure is also the culmination of a unique know how developed through... Full Story

New Elara Comunicaciones Teleport Employs an iDirect Satellite Hub for Real-Time Streaming
With the expanded iDirect network, Elara can raise the customer experience for mission-critical applications, delivering enhanced network... Full Story

5G Satellite Demo Testbed Initiative Driven by SES with ESA
The testbed infrastructure will comprise SES's fleet of GEO and MEO satellites, which will be integrated with terrestrial networks and state-of-the-art technologies... Full Story

December 13, 2017
GomSpace's Two Announcements... Subsidiary Signs Smallsat Propulsion System with ESA and General Meeting Info
The objective of this contract is to develop a propulsion system that can give nanosatellites “6 degrees of freedom” control with high accuracy and... Full Story

ISRO Developing a Compact Launch Vehicle and Reduction in Launch Fee for Small Satellites
It could also tremendously cut the launch fee that customers would have to pay. Full Story

Airbus Says Adieu as Twin GRACE-FO Satellites Wing Their Way to California
The satellites will constantly measure the distance between each other to within a few microns using a microwave system built at JPL. Full Story

Astrocast's $4.1 Million in Seed Funding to Grow Sixty-Four Satellites
The additional capital was provided by investiere.ch, one of Switzerland’s leading start-up investors, and comes in addition to the current seed... Full Story

OHB Reports the Target Orbit for Four Galileo Satellites has been Attained
The satellites will now enter a test phase lasting around six months. For the first 11 days, they will be managed by the control center of the French... Full Story

General Dynamics Mission Systems' Award of $198,082,976 to Continue Procurement of Digital Modular Radio
DMR is a modular, software reprogrammable radio system with embedded cryptography that provides all radio frequency (RF) to-baseboard and... Full Story

Aerojet Rocketdyne's 3-D Printed Pogo in RS-25 Rocket Engine Hot Fire Test
During the 400 second test at NASA’s Stennis Space Center, Aerojet Rocketdyne was able to evaluate the performance of a 3-D printed vibration... Full Story

Airbus Sends the GRACE-FO Satellites Packing... to Vandenberg AFB for Launch
GRACE-FO is a joint project between NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) based in Pasadena, California, and the German Research Center... Full Story

EUMETSAT Extends Tenure of Meteosat and EUMETSAT Polar System for Seven Years
These decisions reflect the substantial impact of observations from Meteosat and Metop satellites on weather forecasts at all ranges and ... Full Story

Lockheed Martin's GPS III SV01 and Raytheon's OCX Complete Factory Mission Readiness Testing
During this end-to-end system demonstration, command signals were sent from the latest OCX LCS software installed at Lockheed Martin’s Launch... Full Story

December 12, 2017
Arianespace Launches Four Galileo Satellites and Surrey Satellite Systems Comments About the Last of 2017
"2017 has been a perfect year for Ariane 5, which has beaten its own record with its 82nd consecutive successful launch since 2003." Full Story

XipLink Has Got Wireless Security Zipped Up with Optimized IPSec VPN Solution

IPSec throughput is enhanced by 400 percent or more over high-latency satellite and wireless links by combining encryption and optimization ...
Full Story

UPDATE: Scrubbed Tuesday's SpaceX's Falcon 9 Resupply Mission to ISS Launch
Dragon will deliver supplies, equipment and science investigations. Full Story

Israel's SpaceIL Google Lunar XPRIZE Moon Race Mission Requesting Assistance...
To win the $20 million grand prize, a privately funded team must be the first to successfully place a spacecraft on the moon’s surface, travel 500 meters... Full Story

Blue Origin's New Shepard Flies Again... with Crew Capsule 2.0's First Flight...
Known as Mission 7 (M7), the mission featured the next-generation booster and the first flight of Crew Capsule 2.0. Crew Capsule 2.0 features large... Full Story

AQYR Supports GVF SATCOM Certification Program for the U.S. Army at Camp Roberts in California
The first milestone for the 302d Signal Battalion GVF Pilot Program was achieved on October 20, 2017, with 40 uniformed and civilian staff... Full Story

Marlink's Sealink VSAT Network Provides New MSC Cruises Seaside Luxury Ship with Connectivity
MSC Seaside is the 14th addition to the Swiss-based Company’s state-of-the-art fleet and the second new MSC Cruises ship to come into service this... Full Story

Orbital Micro Systems' Miniature Weather Observation System to Send in Smallsat
The IOD space mission, scheduled for the autumn of 2018, will deliver the first OMS satellite to orbit and is expected to immediately change the global... Full Story

Rocket Lab Aborts 'Still Testing' Launch that Reveals Issues with Chilldown Bleed
The slight LOx temperature increase was a result of a LOx chilldown bleed schedule that was not compatible with the warm conditions of the day. Full Story

Travelxp 4K to Broadcast Content Via SES' Astra 19.2 East Satellite to HD+ Viewers
Travelxp 4K is also one of the first networks in the world to broadcast in High Dynamic Range, a feature that provides better contrast and greatly... Full Story

A New Future for Forestry Through MySustainableForest Project
One of the focal points of this plan is the Copernicus EO and monitoring program. The first Sentinel satellites of the constellation making up this... Full Story

December 11, 2017
Dream Cruises’ World Dream Now Reality ... Ultra-fast Connectivity with SES Networks
significantly enhanced connectivity enabling guests to stream countless movies, game online and share real-time vacation travel videos and photos... Full Story

Lockheed Martin's Second Next-Generation Weather Satellite Will Keep People and Property Safer
the technology will improve hurricane tracking and intensity forecasts, and increase thunderstorm and tornado warning lead time. Full Story

General Atomics' Contract with Government Enables ARGOS to Provide Better Comms for Warfighters
Not only will ARGOS support the needs of the U.S. Army, but also the Combatant Commanders and Partner Nations. Full Story

NOAA's Lockheed Martin-Built GOES-S Flies to Florida for Launch Prep
GOES-S is scheduled to launch on March 1, 2018, when it will join its sister satellite, GOES-16, in orbit. GOES-16 has already proved vital in... Full Story

Algeria's First Satellite is Launched by China
The satellite was the first cooperative project in aerospace industry between the two countries. Alcomsat-1 will be used by Algeria for... Full Story

SES Networks Provisions Africa's Munga MTB Race with SATCOM Support
SES Networks, together with local partners Connectivity Africa and Ruckus Wireless, provided connectivity at five sites on the cycle routes... Full Story

Orbital ATK Signs on with U.S.A.F. SMC to Develop ESPA Space Platform
ESPAStar uses a modified EELV Secondary Payload Adapter ring as its structure and is capable of being launched aboard any launch vehicle that ... Full Story

2017 Technology of the Year Award for SDR System Goes to Rohde & Schwarz
The objective of the SVFuA project was to develop a software defined radio (SDR) system for the German Federal Armed Forces for joint and... Full Story

Raytheon Joins with UAE After 30 Year Partnership to Form Raytheon Emirates
The creation of Raytheon Emirates supports the Abu Dhabi Economic Vision 2030 by forming an aerospace and defense business that ... Full Story

An Airspace Closure Could Portend A Blue Origin New Shepard Test Flight
Blue Origin has filed similar NOTAMs in the past in advance of New Shepard test flights. Such notices were originally the only advance notice of... Full Story

ETL Systems to Bring a Griffin and a Hurricane to CABSAT
the compact Hurricane Matrix, which provides L-band routing for up to 64 input and output feeds. Full Story

SSL Partners with NASA JPL and University of Michigan for SunRISE Mission
SSL’s role in the mission, called the Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment (SunRISE), is to provide a ride beyond geosynchronous orbit... Full Story

Marlink to Gain Livewire Connections SATCOM Service Via Company Acquisition
The move follows the recent announcement that Marlink intends to acquire a majority stake in the Spanish superyacht service provider OmniAccess.... Full Story

SES Delivers ... No Need to Miss as Swiss TV Debuts 4KUNIVERSE
which has grown quickly from a strategic idea to a 24-hour 4K cable TV channel in little more than a year Full Story

RUAG Space, aka 'Brain Builder', a Smart Move to Continue Supplying Brains and Blankets for Galileo Satellites

“RUAG Space has provided the ‘brain’ of the Galileo satellites ever since the program started and we thank OHB for their continued trust in our product”... Full Story

Space Florida's First ... Funds Made In Space to Create Fiber Optics in Space
MIS' Fiber Optics payload will manufacture ZBLAN optical fibers in microgravity on the ISS, it's a fiber that cannot be made on Earth
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Satcube's Lightweight Ku- Terminal Testing Success
The test was performed in cooperation with Intelsat and UHP Network using the UHP 200 modem. The terminal’s efficiency was demonstrated by... Full Story

On the Show Floor @ CABSAT 2018 — Integrasys' SATCOM Tools
Satmotion HTS has the same auto-commissioning features as Satmotion Pocket, making pointing to the correct satellite quick and simple. It also... Full Story

V-Band Satellite Markets Report and Analysis Published by NSR
The market is speculative; however, the opportunity exists such that market players currently vetting V-band’s prospects should consider launching... Full Story

"Mastering Noise Figures Measurements" Webinar Upcoming from Keysight Technologies...
Characterizing the noise contributed by RF and microwave amplifiers and frequency converters is essential for optimizing overall system... Full Story

December 8, 2017
mu Space Translates to 'More Space' for Millions of Thais with 15-Year Broadband License
nearly 12 percent or 8 million of the country’s 68 million population have access to broadband. Full Story

The Epsilon-3 Launch Moved Out to Mid-January by JAXA
The Epsilon-3 launch, originally scheduled for November 12, 2017, was postponed as its electrical system needed further confirmation. JAXA has... Full Story

December 7, 2017
Savage Devil Winds Captured by NASA's Satellite Destroying Portions of SoCal
That is exactly what Southern California experienced on Monday night, December 4. Thousands of residents found themselves evacuating when... Full Story

Space Florida Goes Deep with NASA as Partners for Orion Testing in Deep Space
an effort to verify a key part of Orion's safety system during ascent to space before it begins missions with astronauts to deep space. Full Story

PSSI Global Services Goliath Plays Games at BlizzCon 2017
when you’re encoding 14 concurrent feeds, inserting captioning on five of them, and then multiplexing for transmission on both satellite and fiber ... Full Story

NanoRacks Completes Fourth External Cargo Ship Satellite Deployment Mission, Largest to Date
On this External Cygnus Deployment mission, NanoRacks deployed 14 satellites with customers that included Spire, Asgardia, Tyvak, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and more... Full Story

The Build for Vector's Rocket Manufacturing Facility Now Underway
Vector's 92,500 square-foot factory will feature two soft-production facilities, a 30,750 square-foot two-story office space for its headquarters and a... Full Story

Aerojet Rocketdyne Gets Heated Up and Achieves Milestone with Hot-Fire Test for Air Force
Post boost propulsion systems are a critical element of strategic and missile defense systems for final payload positioning and deployment. Full Story

World Teleport Association to Initiate Executive Dialog Member Interviews During CABSAT 2018
The World Teleport Association’s Executive Dialogue Series provides WTA members with opportunities to share their viewpoints, experience and... Full Story

Nominations are Now Open for SSPI's Space & Satellite Hall of Fame Event
The Space & Satellite Hall of Fame recognizes the invaluable contributions of the visionaries who have transformed life on planet Earth for the better ... Full Story

Thuraya Garners Satellite Operator of the Year Award
Winning the award for the third time and for the second consecutive year, Thuraya received the largest number of votes from an independent panel of... Full Story

Arianespace Hurries to Prepare for the Last Launch of 2017 of Four Galileo Satellites
completing a busy 12 months that already have involved 10 flights from the Spaceport: five performed with the heavy-lift workhorse Full Story

December 6, 2017
Harris to Provide U.S. Army Security Force Assistance Brigades with Comms Systems
Harris will provide a full battlefield solution including its Falcon III® AN/PRC-152A Wideband Networking Handheld Radios and AN/PRC-117G... Full Story

Globecast Races with Results Providing Full Coverage for FIA World Endurance Championship and Le Mans
"this contract was as much about coordinating all the various technologies and associated parameters as it was about the actual transmission of the signal." Full Story

PLANETCAST Teleport Achieves WTA Certification
To achieve Provisional Certification, a teleport operator completes a +170-item questionnaire and submits it to WTA. The Association analyzes the... Full Story

ULA Delays the Launch of NROL-47 to Perform Validation...
Common Avionics is a newly designed suite of avionics, flight software and ground systems that will fly on both Atlas V and Delta IV. This upgraded... Full Story

Globecomm to Explore Expansion of Worldwide Network with LeoSat
The increasing demand to move large quantities of data quickly and securely around the world is fast outpacing the infrastructure in place to Full Story

Capacity Agreement Signed by Sonlife Broadcasting Network with SES ASTRA 1L
Under the multi-year agreement, Sonlife Broadcasting Network will access capacity on ASTRA 1L, leveraging the wide reach of the key orbital slot at... Full Story

Wolfspeed Debuts Manpack Power Solution
The CG2H30070 is designed to provide instantaneous continuous wave (CW) power output of 70W, enabling battery operation for power amplifiers... Full Story

Japan's KDDI Selects Gilat’s Satellite Based LTE Cellular Backhaul Solution for Nationwide LTE Network
Gilat’s solution stood out with its field proven carrier grade technology and superior performance that matches KDDI’s highest standards of quality ... Full Story

Global Teleports, QuadSAT and SES ... It Takes Three to Provide First-Ever Live Broadcast from Easter Island
QuadSAT streamed the event using an RTMP IP livestream protocol, using the Icelandic streaming platform, OZ.com. Full Story

Indra's Systems Reduces Critical Surface to Transmit Time on Two Submarines by ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems
communications that reduces the time that vessels need to surface to transmit, increasing security and making them more difficult to detect Full Story

December 5, 2017
Switzerland's HUBER+SUHNER Bring Aerospace Solutions to Huston, Texas at SpaceCom2017
when pushing the limits of next-generation bandwidth and high-capacity, high-density systems are mission critical Full Story

Kongsberg Ground Network Services to Support Earth-i's Prototype Satellite Launch
Earth-i has selected Norway’s KSAT (Kongsberg Satellite Services) to provide ground network services for their new Earth Observation (EO) constellation... Full Story

SES and iDirect Partner Up for Satellite Services Ground Infrastructure Control
The iDirect Velocity infrastructure will be deployed across three HTS systems — SES-12, SES-14 and SES-15 — enabling SES Networks to... Full Story

Arianespace Prepares to Launch Four Additional Galileo Satellites
For the second time, an Ariane 5 ES version will be used to orbit satellites in Europe’s satellite navigation system. At the completion of this flight... Full Story

Aerojet Rocketdyne Names Steve Warren to Senior Leadership Team
In this role, Warren will define and lead the company’s strategic internal and external stakeholder outreach initiatives and serve as the primary media ... Full Story

Launch Support is All in Place by EUMETSAT for Copernicus Sentinel-3B Launch
The new version of the ground segment includes enhancements and upgrades necessary to exploit a dual Sentinel-3 system. Its acceptance ... Full Story

Microsemi's SyncServer S600 Series Receives New Hardware and Software Options
Enterprise and financial customers also look to the SyncServer S600 series to meet the timing and synchronization needs of their rapidly evolving... Full Story

Industry Vet Sanford Joins BridgeSat as New Vice President of Strategy and Business Development
Sanford’s 30-plus years of design and integration experience will help BridgeSat revolutionize global communications with an advanced optical... Full Story

Alternative Energy Facilities Targeted by Kymeta for Distribution Network Expansion
The renewable energy market has traditionally been limited to available connectivity options, such as fiber optic cables and microwave point-to-point systems... Full Story

Viasat-2 Orbit Deployments Completed and New Company Logo and Branding Underway
ViaSat-2 was launched by Arianespace from Kourou, French Guiana, on June 1, 2017. The ViaSat-2 satellite employed a hybrid propulsion... Full Story

L3 to Design Next-Generation Avionics System for United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur Rocket
Under the agreement, ULA and L3 will integrate the companies’ design and manufacturing processes to provide ULA with low-cost, custom solutions... Full Story

NASA and SpaceX's Resupply Mission Launch Rescheduled ... Maybe Some Holiday Goodies
This new launch date takes into account pad readiness, requirements for science payloads, space station crew availability, and orbital mechanics. Full Story

Yahsat's Orbital ATK-Built Al Yah 3 Satellite Arrives Safely in Kourou for January Launch — Arianespace Gets Ready
Al Yah 3 is a Ka-band high-throughput satellite that will expand Yahsat’s coverage to an additional 19 markets in Africa and also marks Yahsat’s... Full Story

UrtheCast's Confident Subscribers Commit in Excess of C$100 Million Revenue Backlog for UrtheDaily™ Constellation

"We have now grown the stable, highly predictable revenue stream underlying the UrtheDaily™business to a total backlog of more than C$100 million." Full Story

December 4, 2017
Thales Alenia Space and European Space Agency Sign to Develop the Space Rider
It can be recovered along with its payload, refurbished, and reused for up to six missions. Full Story

Hiltron's HCS-4 Universal Satcom Controller Follows in a Positive Family Tradition
The HCS-4 can also be used to control and monitor optical-fiber transceivers and antenna heaters, other features include ... Full Story

Russia Launches a Military Satellite
The ministry stated that the Soyuz-2.1b carrier, at the designated time, successfully took to the target orbit the space apparatus for interests of the... Full Story

NASA's JPL Voyager Fires Up Thrusters After 37 Years of Rest
Since 2014, engineers have noticed that the thrusters Voyager 1 has been using to orient the spacecraft, called "attitude control thrusters," have been... Full Story

Kiwi Partners... NSSLGlobal's Products Will Sell Through New Zealand's Wrights Technologies

apparent that they share a tendency to go above and beyond to deliver on promises to their customers, and to keep everything they do customer-centric. Full Story

She is Smart Ship Awards’ Digital Changemaker of the Year After Pushing the Maritime Digital Agenda
her commitment to driving digital transformation in the shipping industry, from spearheading the development of the new Kognifai digital platform, to... Full Story

ORBCOMM Celebrates More than Two Million Subscribers
“Reaching two million subscribers is a significant milestone for ORBCOMM, demonstrating our continued growth and market penetration in industrial IoT.” Full Story

Vandenberg's Commander's Concerns with Base's Shortcomings at a 'Critical Crossroads' for Commercial Launches
“SpaceX is already here, Orbital ATK is already here and Blue (Origin) is looking right now. Full Story

China Pushes Yaogan Weising-31 Satellite to Orbit
The satellite, Yaogan Weising-31, is, according to China's media, to be used for remote sensing exploration of land resources — however, the... Full Story

Project BURAK for Development of Domestic Satellite Capabilities Initiated by Turkey
The Ministry of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications, which took action to launch Turkey's own satellites, recently started project BURAK... Full Story

A VAST Satellite Broadcasting Community to Receive 3 Angels Broadcasting Network via Optus Satellite
VAST is an FTA DTH satellite service initiated by the Australian Government and operated by Optus Satellite on the Optus Aurora Digital satellite platform... Full Story

ViaLite Communications' GPS Over Fiber Improves Timing Performance for U.S. Defense Contractor
from a point-to-point to a point-to-multi-point system that allows RF to be transmitted over longer distances with less loss and greater reliability. Full Story

Eleven Spaceflight Smallsats Set for Orbit via Indian PSLV Rocket in January
The Spacecraft include Finland’s ICEYE-X1 SAR microsatellite, Planetary Resources’ Arkyd-6 6U asteroid prospecting demonstration cubesat, four ... Full Story

Yahsat Goes Blue and Partners with BLUETOWN to Connect Africa's Unconnected
solutions vary from single village installations and refugee camps to solutions with up to 200 Wi-Fi hotspots in a 15 km radius. Full Story

UrtheCast and Beijing Space View Technology's Agreement Includes Global Distribution of Each One's Portfolios
UrtheCast and Beijing Space View Technology sign strategic cooperation agreement for the global distribution of their respective portfolios Full Story

Rohde & Schwarz Provide Antenna Test Receivers for the ESA JUICE Mission
The tests were carried out at an airfield near the Airbus facility in Friedrichshafen, Germany, where the test crew assessed the RIME... Full Story

C-COM's Ku-Band Flyaway and Ka-Band Driveaway Come to Huston for Oilcomm
highly advanced, these auto-deploy antennas enable the user to transmit and receive Broadband Internet via satellite with, the press of a button. Full Story

Thales Alenia Space's MEOLUT Next Solution Receives 2017 Better Satellite World Award
This award was given by Space & Satellite Professionals International (SSPI) at London’s prestigious One Whitehall Place, the aim of which is to... Full Story

Satcom Global Receives a License for Iridium Extreme 9575 Satellite Phone Sales in Japan
Satcom Global is one of only three providers legally approved to supply the leading handheld satellite communications service within the Japanese... Full Story

SES Networks Enterprise+ Broadband Platform for Latin American Service Providers and Telcos
In today’s world, connectivity has evolved from a convenience to a critical component of business success. Full Story

December 1, 2017
Significant Headway Being Made by Orbital ATK on NOAA's JPSS-2 Satellite
Representatives from NASA, NOAA and Orbital ATK recently completed a successful spacecraft Critical Design Review (CDR) for JPSS-2, which... Full Story

SSPI UK Selects Magali Vaissiere UK Space Personality of the Year 2017

She has made great strides in breaking barriers between different satellite domains, and raised the profile of satellite services with non-space based organizations Full Story

FACSAT-2 Smallsat Program to be Initiated by GomSpace for the Air Force of Columbia
The FACSAT-2 Project comprises the design, manufacture, test and operation of an advanced 6U remote sensing spacecraft. This new project will build on the technology transfer gained through the FACSAT-1 project, awarded to GomSpace in 2014. FACSAT-2 spacecraft is planned to be launched in 2019, coinciding with the 100th anniversary of the Colombian Air Force.
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