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SES announced Tuesday its selection of  Northrop Grumman and Boeing to build four new satellites as part of an accelerated C-band clearing plan to help address the Federal Communications Commission’s 5G service rollout objectives.

Intelsat has signed a pair of deals to procure four satellites from Maxar Technologies and another two from Northrop Grumman in efforts to meet the Federal Communications Commission deadline for reallocating some C-band spectrum to support 5G network services.

Executive Mosaic is thrilled to present Christopher Scolese, director of the National Reconnaissance Office, as an inductee into the 2020 edition of the Wash100 Award for advancing the office’s space initiatives, developing new satellite systems and forging new partnerships for proactive defense.

A fourth batch of 60 SpaceX satellites launched into space as part of the Hawthorne, Calif.-based company's program to deliver broadband connectivity worldwide. The upper stage of a company-built Falcon 9 rocket deployed the latest internet satellite batch in low-Earth orbit Wednesday one hour after it lifted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

TriSept has won a spot on an $18M contract to help NASA launch small cube-shaped satellites, or cubesats, designed for deployments in low-Earth orbit, Space News reported Monday.

Northrop Grumman-made satellites have completed ten years of operations, surpassing more than double the original four-year lifespan, in support of the Missile Defense Agency.

Descartes Labs is working to develop a geospatial data platform that would help New Mexico meet greenhouse gas reduction goals.

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.

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 signals as part of the Starlink constellation for the internet service of the same name. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted the satellites Friday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station to orbit.

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, SpaceNews reported Wednesday.

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 gravitational waves in space to identify new black holes and other previously unknown objects across the universe, NASA said in a statement posted Monday on FedBizOpps. 

Inmarsat has partnered with Orbit Communication Systems, a satellite communications terminal provider, to develop a compact and lightweight aviation terminal that will support unmanned aerial vehicles, military aircraft and business jets.

United Launch Alliance is set to launch the U.S. Air Force’s 10th wideband communications satellite using its Delta IV rocket on Friday.

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 it possible for LTE devices to network directly with satellites in geostationary orbit, Sequans said Tuesday.

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 military users to switch or "roam" from one satellite communications network to another. Kratos said in a press release on Monday that the demo featured a satcom terminal commonly deployed by the U.S. government as well as other hardware configured in a way that mirrors the typical government setup.