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2 July 2026 – Airbus Defence and Space has signed the initial contract for the design and build of the Aeolus-2 wind sensing satellite from the European Space Agency (ESA) at a ceremony at ESA’s UK headquarters ECSAT at Harwell. Aeolus-2 will follow the first Aeolus wind sensing satellite built by Airbus and launched in…
1 July 2026 – Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced today that it has been awarded a subsidy for the Development of Internationally Competitive Full Digital Payload under the Development and Demonstration of Technologies for Internationally Competitive Communications Payloads, which is being financed by the 2nd phase of the Space Strategy Fund1 managed by the Japan Aerospace…
30 June 2026 – SES and Sharp Corporation plan to collaborate on work to combine SES’s medium Earth orbit (MEO) satellite network with Sharp’s advanced communication technologies and user terminals to enable high-availability satellite communications services in Japan. As part of this collaboration, Sharp is advancing the development of a new compact MEO user terminal,…
30 June 2026 – Thales Alenia Space announces the signing of a contract with Es’hailSat, the Qatar Satellite Company, to develop a new generation software-defined satellite based on the Space INSPIRE (INstant SPace In-orbit REconfiguration) platform by Thales Alenia Space. Named Eshail-3/Türksat-Biruni, this satellite will offer high-speed broadband connectivity services across Europe, Africa, Central Asia…
30 June 2026 – SKY Perfect JSAT announces that it will begin providing observation data from the advanced radar satellite “DAICHI-4” (“ALOS-4”), operated by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), from late July. SKY Perfect JSAT will not only provide observation data from ALOS-4 directly to end users but also integrate it into its infrastructure…
29 June 2026 – Rocket Lab Corporation and Iridium Communications, a leading provider of global voice, data, and positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) satellite services, today announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Rocket Lab will acquire Iridium. Rocket Lab will acquire all the outstanding shares of Iridium common stock for $54…