Asia Pacific Space Community Council
5 August 2025 – Neo Space Group (NSG), the Kingdom’s national space company and a (PIF) company, and a global leader in satellite communications and space technologies, has announced the launch of the Earth Observation (EO) Marketplace, the Kingdom’s first dedicated EO data marketplace, powered by UP42 – a company fully owned by Neo Space…
5 August 2025 – Astroscale announced an agreement to provide Xona Space Systems (“Xona”) with next-generation docking plates for integration into Xona’s growing constellation of low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites. The collaboration supports two critical goals: building a resilient Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) infrastructure and keeping Earth’s orbit safe and sustainable. Xona is developing…
5 August 2025 – NBN Co and Amazon today announced an agreement to deliver high-speed, wholesale fixed broadband to customers in parts of regional, rural and remote Australia via Project Kuiper’s low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite technology. Project Kuiper is Amazon’s satellite broadband business that will provide fast, reliable internet to customers around the world.…
4 August 2025 – SES’s wholly-owned subsidiary, SES Space & Defense, has been awarded a five-year Sustainment Tactical Network (STN) contract, to provide the U.S. Army with COMSATCOM services. Under the USD 89.6 Million agreement, the initiative will support strategic long-haul network transport and base-support communications for Combat Service Support, Department of Defense (DoD) programs,…
30 July 2025 – Eutelsat and longtime partner Station Satcom, a leader in maritime communications headquartered in India, have signed a new agreement to deliver Eutelsat’s OneWeb LEO connectivity services to the global maritime sector. The deal marks a significant strategic expansion for Station Satcom, which will integrate OneWeb’s LEO capabilities into its portfolio to…
30 July 2025 – Viasat announced it was selected by the U.S. Government to build a next-generation Ethernet Data Encryptor (EDE) solution as part of a sole-source multi-million dollar Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) award. Under this award, Viasat will design and develop this new high-assurance (formerly Type 1), high-speed EDE to meet the most stringent…
29 July 2025 – As low Earth orbit becomes increasingly congested with aging satellites and fragmented debris, and new satellites are launched at an accelerating pace, Astroscale Holdings Inc. (“Astroscale”), the market leader in satellite servicing and long-term orbital sustainability across all orbits, announces a major step forward: the issuance of U.S. Patent No. 12,234,043…
26 July 2025 – Arianespace successfully launched Airbus Defence and Space’s CO3D satellites, as well as the CNES’s MicroCarb satellite. This mission, called “VV27” was performed using an Arianespace operated Vega C rocket, launched from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. The main passengers, the four satellites composing the CO3D constellation, were placed into Sun-synchronous orbit…
25 July 2025 – Thales Alenia Space has signed a contract with the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to perform the preliminary design phase, including development of critical enabling technologies, of the pressurized Multi-Purpose Habitation (MPH) module for the lunar surface. Planned for launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in 2033, the MPH module will be…
24 July 2025 – GovSat (LuxGovSat S.A.), a public-private joint venture between the Luxembourg Government and world-leading satellite operator SES, together with Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), today announced the signing of a contract for the supply of a new defence geostationary communications satellite, GovSat-2. Operating in X,…