Technology

VT iDirect announced another successful Over-the-Air (OTA) test of its Digital Video Broadcasting-Satellite Second Generation Extension (DVB-S2X) technology. The company conducted the test on the SES 4 satellite over C-band...

ViaSat has announced that its ViaSat KG-142, a 100 Gbps type 1 Ethernet encryptor, is now National Security Agency (NSA)-certified. Building on ViaSat’s Internet Protocol (IP) encryption heritage, the ViaSat...

Northern Sky Research (NSR) predicts that into 2025, launch rates for Situational Awareness (SA) initiatives will grow at a 21 percent Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR). The satellite industry has...

ViaSat has chosen McObject’s eXtremeDB to implement a new physical layer satellite debugging application known as the Data Metric Aggregation System (DMAS). The application ingests metrics feeds from satellite ground-system...

Orbcomm announced that it has collaborated with Pole Star and Weatherdock to develop Hali, a Class B tri-mode vessel tracking solution that ensures complete vessel visibility. Hali combines terrestrial and...

During a Mountain View, California, forum this week organized by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), SES showcased some of its solutions geared toward humanitarian...

PacSci EMC announced the release of its new Modular Architecture Propulsion System (MAPS) for the small satellite market. According to the company, the compact design of MAPS reduces cost of...

Spire Global announced it has successfully developed, tested, and deployed a constellation of nanosatellites with Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receivers. The data from this growing constellation will augment the...

Esri has introduced four image platform bundles that enable management and analytics of all forms of imagery in a fraction of the time most desktop or enterprise image processing technologies...

ABS CEO Tom Choi has garnered a reputation for speaking unabashedly — so his somewhat harsh comments on the viability of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) constellations came as no surprise...