6 August 2024 – Safran Electronics & Defense, a global equipment supplier for defense and space, is building its U.S. manufacturing capabilities for small satellite propulsion systems to meet the increasing demand in both the commercial and defense sectors. This strategic initiative, announced during the 2024 Small Satellite Conference in Logan, Utah, will support the…

5 August 2024 – Interstellar Technologies Inc., a leading space infrastructure company dedicated to addressing global challenges through space transportation and utilization, has successfully raised 3.1 billion yen in its Series E round via third-party share allocation to new investors such as SBI GROUP and NTT DOCOMO, INC., alongside financing from Resona Bank. This addition…

5 August 2024 – Airbus has been selected by the French Space Agency (CNES) to design and build two new generation microwave radiometers as part of the French contribution to the Atmosphere Observing System (AOS): the C²OMODO mission (Convective Core Observations through MicrOwave Derivatives in the trOpics). A cooperation between the United States, Canada, Japan,…

1 August 2024 – KVH Industries, Inc., continued its rapid integration of Starlink low earth orbit service and terminals into its portfolio with today’s announcement of new airtime plans and additional value-added services designed to make the popular maritime connectivity service more flexible and valuable to commercial and leisure vessels. KVH’s new custom monthly data…

30 July 2024 – United Launch Alliance (ULA) successfully launched the company’s 100th national security mission to orbit with the launch of an Atlas V rocket on July 30 at 6:45 a.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The rocket, carrying the USSF-51 mission for the United States Space Force’s…

30 July 2024 – Astroscale Japan Inc. announced that its commercial debris inspection demonstration satellite, Active Debris Removal by Astroscale-Japan (ADRAS-J), has achieved an unprecedented technical milestone for a commercial company: the controlled fly-around operations of the space debris — a rocket upper stage — capturing images from various angles and lighting conditions while maintaining…

29 July 2024 – ​Teledyne Space Imaging is pleased to announce that it is collaborating with Starris Optimax Space Systems in Ontario, New York, to develop space cameras for the small satellites and lunar ecosystems. Teledyne Space Imaging has a long heritage of developing space-qualified imaging sensors, focal plane arrays, and instrument systems for the…

25 July 2024 – Marlink, the leading managed services provider of business-critical ICT solutions, has announced two major upgrades for long-term customer Shelf Drilling. The first upgrade involves implementing a software-defined network management (SD-WAN) solution across Shelf Drilling’s fleet of 36 jack-up rigs. The second upgrade includes installing the high bandwidth, low latency Starlink solution…

25 July 2024 – LOT Polish Airlines, Poland’s flag carrier, and Viasat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT), a global leader in satellite communications, today announced officially that 15 aircraft across LOT’s wide-body Boeing 787-8 and 787-9 Dreamliner fleets will be equipped with Viasat’s trusted Ka-band, global in-flight connectivity solution. LOT will offer inflight Wi-Fi for the first…

24 July 2024 – SES’s wholly-owned subsidiary SES Space & Defense has been awarded the pilot effort to provide the U.S. Army with Satellite Communications (SATCOM) as a Managed Service (SaaMS) under a $3.6 million ceiling blanket purchase agreement (BPA). This initiative will streamline commercially leased SATCOM network services to be flexible and tailored to…

23 July 2024 – Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd., a worldwide leader in satellite networking technology, solutions, and services, announced today that the Company was awarded over $9M in cumulative orders from multiple satellite operators to expand their global SATCOM networks utilizing Gilat’s innovative and field-proven solutions. Gilat’s solutions will be used to enable a wide…

18 July 2024 – Ateme announces that SES is integrating its innovative technology to further elevate and secure SES’s distribution network for broadcasting of sports and events content worldwide. Building on a long-standing relationship between the companies, SES will utilize Ateme’s TITAN encoders, multiplexers, and decoders for distribution of Ultra-High and High-Definition content via its…

17 July 2024 – Cobham Satcom has unveiled its most advanced maritime satellite TV antenna yet. Designed primarily for use on cruise ships and mega yachts, the 3.7 meter Sea Tel 370s TV is a groundbreaking solution designed to expand onboard access to the highest quality programming anywhere in the world, while significantly reducing lifetime…

16 July 2024 – SES and RTL Deutschland have extended their long-term partnership to deliver a wide range of high-quality TV channels to audiences across Germany and Austria. The extension will run to the end of the decade. RTL Deutschland’s TV offering will also continue to be available on HD+, SES’s high-definition satellite TV platform…

16 July 2024 – Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. announced that a National Defense Organization awarded a multi-year contract for over $5M to one of the company’s US-based subsidiaries, DataPath Inc. to upgrade their DKET terminals, transportable SATCOM network hubs. DataPath’s multi-band tactical DKET terminals deliver the operational flexibility, capacity, connectivity, rapid deployability, and control required…

15 July 2024 – Southern Launch will welcome South Korean rocket manufacturer UNASTELLA Corporation to launch from Australia after signing an agreement in Seoul last week. The agreement enables UNASTELLA to aim for at least four launches per year. UNASTELLA is aiming to develop a small lift rocket based off proven South Korean technologies. The…

10 July 2024 – SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation announced that it donated 440,000 yen from the sales of “Crayons of the Mountains” to the Kingdom of Tonga, an island nation in the South Pacific, at the end of June 2024. The “Crayons of the Mountains” were released in March 2023 as the second product of…