Technology

Astranis successfully hit a milestone with its first satellite, completing an end-to-end test of its payload, connecting to remote user terminals in Alaska. The satellite, Arcturus, is the first Astranis...

Arctic Space Technologies will construct a satellite network portal (SNP) for OneWeb, a hyperscale satellite ground station installation at the Arctic Space Technologies’ Space Center in Piteå in Northern Sweden....

Oman-based telecom service provider Azyan Telecom has signed a deal for Kymeta u8 terminals, which it will use to access OneWeb’s Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) connectivity. The terminals will be delivered...

Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) has won a new 2.26 million euros ($2.46 million) contract from the European Space Agency (ESA), the company announced May 15. This contract is for the...

Tesat has joined SES’s team for the Eagle-1 quantum key distribution (QKD) satellite. SES announced last week that Tesat will develop and integrate the quantum key payload.  Tesat will manufacture...

NASA’s TBIRD mission recently broke its own record for optical communications in space, demonstrating 200 gigabits per second in a space-to-ground optical link from a satellite in orbit to Earth....

Sidus Space will use Atlas Space Operations ground station services for its upcoming LizzieSat constellation, the companies announced Wednesday.  Atlas Space Operations provides Ground Software as a Service (GSaaS) to...

Google connectivity-focused spinoff Aalyria announced a software partnership on Tuesday with defense tech firm Anduril Industries geared toward national security use cases. The companies will integrate Aalyria’s networking orchestration platform, Spacetime,...

Momentus has successfully demonstrated its propulsion system that uses distilled water as propellant, reporting the first orbital raise of its orbital service vehicle (OSV).  The company announced Monday that the...

SES has selected Mission Microwave to provide Ka-band block upconverters (BUC) for high throughput customer user terminals for the company’s O3b mPOWER system. Mission Microwave said in a recent release...