SpaceX has lifted off an initial wave of 60 small satellites that would provide internet connectivity for customers worldwide, Reuters reported Friday. The 500-pound satellites will beam sig... Read more
Lockheed Martin is planning to deploy a dish antenna network across the country to support the company’s Verge ground station intended to handle low-Earth orbit satellite communications, Spa... Read more
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is seeking potential contractors that could build three satellites for the space agency’s new Laser Interferometry Space Antenna. LISA will measure gravitati... Read more
Inmarsat has partnered with Orbit Communication Systems, a satellite communications terminal provider, to develop a compact and lightweight aviation terminal that will support unmanned aeria... Read more
United Launch Alliance is set to launch the U.S. Air Force’s 10th wideband communications satellite using its Delta IV rocket on Friday. Read more
Lockheed Martin and French 4G technology provider Sequans Communications are working together to develop an LTE-to-satellite communications solution. The goal of the partnership is to make i... Read more
Kratos Defense and Security Solutions subsidiary Kratos RT Logic has developed a prototype network management system called the Enterprise Management and Control system, which allows militar... Read more
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is seeking proposals from interested vendors that could help build a new autonomous constellation of satellites for the U.S. military through a... Read more
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected Rocket Lab to launch a satellite as part of a program to demonstrate radio communications in small space vehicles through the use o... Read more
Seattle-based aerospace company Spaceflight aims to send 71 satellites into sun-synchronous low earth orbit aboard a SpaceX-built Falcon 9 rocket as part of a rideshare mission later this ye... Read more
Iridium Communications‘ recently launched batch of 10 NEXT satellites began pre-operational testing and validation process with systems functioning nominally. SpaceX launched the satel... Read more
ExecutiveBiz talked with Tim Gillespie, vice president of business development for national programs, about SSL’s recent space initiatives, current technological capabilities and relationshi... Read more
U.K.-based spacecraft technology developer Effective Space has received a contract to perform in-orbit satellite servicing support for an unnamed regional operator, Via Satellite reported We... Read more
ViaSat has partnered with Boeing to build, integrate and test a pair of Ka-band satellites designed to offer network communications services across the Americas region and in Europe, Middle... Read more
Raytheon Works With USAF, DARPA on New Space-Based Sensors
Raytheon is helping the U.S. military build a new blanket of sensors, which will be stationed in outer space, for expanded capability to detect missile threats. Read more