Month: August 2020

KBR, Inc. on Wednesday said it has agreed to acquire Centauri for $827 million in cash in a deal that complements its existing civil space business with work in the space domain...

Quantum Dynamics Enterprises earlier this month revealed the first propellantless drive for space flight, the Centrifugal Impulse Drive (CID).  This drive uses a new form of propulsion where electricity is...

David Myers has been appointed President of UltiSat, which does business as Speedcast Government (SCG). The Board of Directors announced Friday that Myers will be the next CEO succeeding longtime...

Near Space Labs, which captures Earth Observation (EO) imagery from stratospheric balloons has reached a deal to supply imagery to property analytics data firm Arturo.  Arturo delivers physical property characteristic...

SES has selected SpaceX to launch four newly-ordered O3b mPOWER spacecraft for O3b mPOWER, the operator’s next-generation Medium-Earth Orbit (MEO) communications system.  The operator chose SpaceX to launch the first...

United Launch Alliance (ULA) is preparing a Delta IV Heavy rocket with a classified National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) payload, NROL-44, for launch at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, on Aug....

Exolaunch revealed on Tuesday that it signed a launch agreement for two of Kepler’s 6U XL satellites. Exolaunch will provide launch, mission management, integration, and deployment services to Kepler’s satellites on...

This week’s Thursday Morning Conversation takes place in Germantown, Maryland, with Hughes Network Systems President Pradman Kaul. This may be one of my favorite TMCs as Kaul was eager to...

The whole world has been completely disrupted by COVID-19 in the past six months, and unfortunately, the pandemic does not seem to be ending anytime soon. For some countries and...

MediaTek reports it has conducted a successful trial of a 5G satellite Internet of Things (IoT) data connection. In a Wednesday release, MediaTek said it established a bi-directional link and...