Month: April 2018

Although the relationship between North Korea and South Korea has seen relative improvements in recent months, a new satellite launch could ruin upcoming talks between the country and the U.S. A Sejong Institute analyst predicts North Korea may launch a new satellite to celebrate its 70th anniversary this September — potentially triggering another round of...

Although satellite companies probably won’t get the “lion’s share” of profits from the emerging connected car market, the multibillion-dollar opportunity that lies ahead could still be a revolutionary turning point for the industry. So says Globalstar’s Greg Ewert who, in an interview with Via Satellite, broke down the company’s motivation behind its decision to spin...

As Audacy’s Zero CubeSat approaches launch, the company is already working on the next demonstration to the International Space Station (ISS) named Audacy Lynq. The mission will deploy a second generation client terminal on the ISS, where it will provide communications for commercial users. The service will be offered using the same pricing as future relay services...

Deep Space Industries announced it has signed a contract to provide its Comet water-based satellite propulsion systems for the BlackSky Earth Observation (EO) constellation of smallsats. DSI will provide an initial block of 20 water thrusters for the BlackSky satellites, which are scheduled to start launching later this year. The announcement comes on the heels...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has awarded Leidos a task order to develop the seventh generation Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) satellite used for the FAA Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS). The task order has a four-year development phase, and one 10-year operations and maintenance phase with a total contract value of approximately $117 million. WAAS...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has selected SSL to design and build critical equipment for a spacecraft that will explore Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons. The Europa Clipper spacecraft, set to launch in the 2020s, will perform repeated investigative flybys of Europa, an icy moon of Jupiter, which strong evidence suggests has an ocean of liquid...

When it comes to U.S. commercial, civil and military satellite communication services, three seemingly interrelated areas — innovation, spectrum certainty, and sustainable space operations — are critical to the industry’s future. At the recent National Space Council (NSC) meeting chaired by Vice President Mike Pence at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, I was honored...

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) confirmed over the weekend that it has lost communications with the recently orbited GSAT 6A communications satellite. ISRO launched the satellite on March 29 from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota. On Sunday, ISRO reported it lost contact with the satellite shortly after carrying out the second orbit...

LiveU has unveiled its newly enhanced LU600 High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) portable transmission product suite. According to the company, it has already deployed thousands of its LU600 HEVC units worldwide, and its product suite now includes 4K Serial Digital Interface (SDI) offerings and built-in global roaming capabilities. LiveU is rolling out its professional HEVC 4K-SDI card as...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) successfully activated two instruments built by Northrop Grumman on its newest weather satellite, which is performing post-launch procedures nominally after reaching orbit. The instruments are the Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS), a cross-track microwave sounder, and the Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) FM-6. United Launch...