Month: April 2018

Agronow is spearheading a new revolution it calls Agriculture 5.0, through which it aims to monitor crops by using Artificial Intelligence (AI), making it possible for all sectors involved in agribusiness — banks, tradings, lenders and insurers — to receive alerts, information, analyses and projections that are fundamental for remotely strategic decision making. Using satellite...

As part of its 2018 federal budget, the government of Canada has committed to providing $100 million for the country’s Strategic Innovation Fund. This investment will largely focus on supporting upcoming Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite projects. Telesat, which is just months away from its first customer demonstrations with its own constellation, will also receive...

Phase Four, a provider of electric Radio Frequency (RF) thrusters for in-space propulsion, announced the results of third party performance testing by The Aerospace Corporation. The testing found Phase Four’s second generation of RF thrusters achieved their best performance to date, demonstrating performance on par with today’s Hall Effect Thrusters (HETs) and a 3,000 percent efficiency...

Arianespace has signed an agreement with Spaceflight Industries for the launch of several small payloads. This will be the inaugural mission for Spaceflight customer spacecraft on an Arianespace vehicle. The initial batch of spacecraft is slated for launch aboard Vega in early 2019 from Europe’s spaceport at the Guiana Space Center. The contract with Seattle-based...

Sputnik Telecommunications Entertainment Company (STECCOM), a Russian satellite communications operator and developer of Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT)-based communication systems, will elevate the passenger and crew In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) experience across the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) region and Europe using SES satellite capacity. SES Networks’ mobility solution will enable the service provider to customize...

HawkEye 360 has selected Norway’s Kongsberg Satellite Service (KSAT) to provide ground station services for its pathfinder mission. HawkEye 360 plans to use its commercial satellite constellations to identify and geolocate a broad set of Radio Frequency (RF) signals, and is developing a suite of analytic products to process those signals and help provide insights...

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL), Goonhilly Earth Station (GES) and Astrobotic have announced an agreement to collaborate on delivering a roadmap of innovations that support organizations carrying out operations on and around the Moon. The agreement formalizes a long-term close working relationship between the three organizations with the aim of deploying in-space communication relay services....

News broke last week that government investigators have confirmed SpaceX was not at fault for the failure of the top-secret Zuma mission in January. Instead, officials are pointing the finger squarely at manufacturer Northrop Grumman, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported. The revelation comes less than two weeks after NASA further delayed the launch of...

S7 Group, the holding company that owns Russia’s S7 Airlines, has finally closed the transaction on its $109 million purchase of Sea Launch assets from RSC Energia. The two corporations first signed the purchase agreement in late 2016. As part of the deal, S7 Group will take control of the Sea Launch Commander ship and...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has awarded Intelsat, along with a team of other companies, a new task order to develop and operate a satellite payload to aid aircraft navigation, particularly precision approaches to airports without dependence on ground-based infrastructure. The payload will be part of the FAA’s Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) that corrects...