14 May 2026 – Eutelsat announces the launch of QBC Business Economic Channel by Qatar Media Corporation, broadcasting in 4K/UHD via Eutelsat’s 7/8° West video neighbourhood. The new channel, first of its kind in Qatar, officially launched on May 5, 2026 and marks a significant milestone in the region’s media landscape as one of the…

14 May 2026 – Intuitive Machines, Inc., a space technology, infrastructure, and services leader, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Goonhilly Earth Station Ltd. (“Goonhilly”), a world-class deep space communications provider with major ground station assets in the United Kingdom and Goonhilly USA Inc. (dba COMSAT). The acquisition, which will…

13 May 2026 – NEC Corporation has launched a project to develop an Orbital Transfer Vehicle (OTV) following its selection by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and the agency’s decision to award NEC with a grant for the technology development theme “Technologies for Realizing Flexible Mobility in Space: (A) Development of Inter-Orbital Transportation Vehicles.”…

7 May 2026 – Rocket Lab announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Motiv Space Systems (“Motiv”), a California-based company specializing in space robotics, motion control systems, and precision mechanisms for spacecraft. The acquisition will advance two strategic objectives for Rocket Lab: it will add Mars-proven robotics heritage and capability for advanced planetary…

7 May 2026 – Rocket Lab announced it has been selected by defense technology company Anduril Industries for multiple hypersonic test flights with its HASTE launch vehicle. The partnership brings together two defense industry leaders to advance one of the Department of War’s most critical technology areas: scaled hypersonics that deliver Mach 5 and beyond…

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…

30 April 2026 – On 30 April 2026, at 5:57 AM local time, Arianespace successfully launched 32 Amazon Leo satellites aboard Ariane 64 — Ariane 6’s four-booster version — from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The satellites were delivered with precision into low Earth orbit (LEO), at an altitude of approximately 465 km. The…

30 April 2026 – Eutelsat and longstanding partner, India’s Station Satcom, a leader in maritime connectivity, have signed an expanded multi-year, multi-million dollar agreement to scale the deployment of Eutelsat’s OneWeb LEO connectivity services across Station Satcom’s global maritime fleet. The agreement builds on the successful activation of hundreds of vessels on the OneWeb network…

29 April 2026 – Gilat Satellite Networks announced today that Gilat Defense received an order for over $7 million through a prime contractor to support the U.S. Department of War for its Gilat Wavestream’s EnduroStream solid‑state power amplifier (SSPA) solution. Delivery is expected over the next 24 months. This significant order for the EnduroStream product…

29 April 2026 – Viasat announced the successful launch and initial signal acquisition of the ViaSat-3 Flight 3 (F3) satellite. The satellite successfully separated from the launch vehicle’s upper stage just under five hours after liftoff, with initial signals acquired minutes later, confirming the satellite is healthy in orbit and ready for the next phase…

27 April 2026 – INNOSPACE, a South Korean satellite launch service company, and RSAT Space Inc. (“RSAT”), a Canada-based space and defense technology company, announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to explore strategic cooperation in satellite launch services and related space system opportunities. Under the MOU, the two companies will jointly explore…

25 April 2026 – Long March-6 (LM-6) launch vehicle successfully delivered Pakistan’s PRSC-EO3 satellite into its designated orbit, from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center (TSLC). Launch services for the above-mentioned PRSC-EO3 satellite is provided by China Great Wall Industry Corporation (CGWIC), a subsidiary of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC). According to a multi-launch…