Asia Pacific Space Community Council
5 May 2026 – SES will provide service on its high-capacity medium-Earth orbit (MEO) satellite network, O3b mPOWER, to Petrobras, the Brazilian state-owned oil company, to connect multiple new Floating Production, Storage and Offloading systems (FPSOs). The projects will go into operation in the coming years, expanding Petrobras’ oil and gas production capacity to meet…
5 May 2026 – Gilat Satellite Networks announced that it received a multimillion order from Nelco, a leading Satcom service provider in India. Deliveries are expected over the next 12 months. Under the agreement, Nelco has chosen Gilat’s SkyEdge IV hub platform to deploy the most advanced Ka-band service network in India using GSAT-N2 Ka-band…
5 May 2026 – Thales Alenia Space announces the signing of a €26.1 million phase 1 contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) related to the development of LISA’s telescopes. Made up of three satellites, the LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) mission will be the first European space observatory capable of detecting and studying gravitational…
5 May 2026 – Astranis announced it has raised $450 million in new capital, bringing the company’s total raised to more than $1.2 billion as it scales to meet increased demand for its spacecraft designed for geostationary orbit (GEO) and other high orbits. The funding includes a new $300 million Series E round co-led by…
5 May 2026 – Viasat announced L2 Aviation has joined its Velaris ecosystem via Galaxy 1 Communications: bringing advanced avionics integration and certification expertise to Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) and uncrewed aviation. Until now, the AAM sector has focused primarily on technical feasibility demonstrations. However, scaling operations safely depends on embedding connectivity into certified avionics…
5 May 2026 – SWISSto12 announced today a major contract with German high-performance space subsystem providers HPS/LSS. The Munich-based consortium will provide a large deployable reflector subsystem (LDRS) for the NEASTAR-1 mission, built on HummingSat, enabling the world’s first direct-to-device media broadcasting capabilities from geostationary orbit. The German-led antenna reflector subsystem is the result of…