Author: Helen Jameson

SpaceX has confirmed that the seventh Iridium Next mission has been slated to take place on July 20 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The Falcon 9 rocket will...

The Satellite Applications Catapult has contracted Open Cosmos to provide its space mission service to the In-Orbit Demonstration (IOD-6) program. Through this mission, the Satellite Applications Catapult is expanding its...

Satellite-cellular start-up, Everywhere Communications has been launched to provide connections for users and assets that require global connectivity for safety, security and productivity. Everywhere’s solution uses the newly launched Iridium...

Swarm Technologies, the start-up that launched four satellites illegally in January, has filed a new application to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to gain permission to launch a further three...

As a technology, nobody is quite sure what 5G means. It’s a whirl of uncertainty. We get the real sense that it will dictate the future of telecoms as we...

We’re hearing a great deal about 5G and the role that satellite is set to play in the ecosystem, but the industry could be getting ahead of itself as 4G...

As the panel on “New Launch Options to Orbit Part 1” ensued, moderator, Kendall Russell, assistant editor for Via Satellite, noted the huge growth that the smallsat sector has recently...

The satellite industry is going through unprecedented times and this is being reflected in the risks that the investment community are prepared to take on new services and constellations. On...

The interest in the NewSpace movement has been gaining momentum all over the world and the MENA region is no exception. With talk of space ranging from enabling emerging nations to enhance their communications infrastructure to missions to Mars, this is a fertile region for NewSpace, with varying ambitions from country to country.

It first might help to put some sort of a definition on NewSpace. This is not an easy thing to do as it involves so many different threads. NewSpace could have a plethora of meanings from the delivery of very