Author: Jeffrey Hill

The U.S. Space Force plans to launch its Infrastructure Asset Pre-Assessment Program (IA-PRE) in January 2022, Jared Reece, cybersecurity lead in the Commercial Satellite Communications Office (CSCO), announced Thursday at...

Viasat will use capacity from Brazilian state-owned telecommunications services provider Telebras to expand its Ka-band In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) coverage for business jets in Brazil. The satellite operator said Tuesday that...

The U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has renewed its contract with Maxar Technologies to provide imagery and geospatial data for the Global Enhanced GEOINT Delivery (G-EGD) program. The renewal, which...

Hancom InSpace will launch Korea’s first private satellite for Earth observation in the first half of 2022, the company announced September 29. Once launched, the satellite, Sejong-1, would make Hancom...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) confirmed it will investigate claims that 21 current and former employees at Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin made about the safety of the company’s rockets in a...

Egypt’s state-owned National Company for Telecommunications Services (NCTS) has contracted Hughes Network Systems to develop the ground systems that will support the operation of the government’s TIBA-1 Ka-band satellite. TIBA-1’s...

HawkEye 360 CEO John Serafini said Thursday that the radio frequency (RF) data and analytics firm’s newly launched next-generation satellites have enabled the company to secure more than $50 million...

Adisesh Yeragudi just graduated from Rutgers University… and also became Startup Space’s youngest-ever competition winner at SATELLITE 2021. His company, AV SpaceTech, is building a modular ion space propulsion engine...

Air France will install Intelsat‘s 2Ku high-speed satellite In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) service on 60 of its new A220-300 aircraft. Intelsat is equipping the aircraft now and will be ready to...

Two space-as-a-service solutions providers are teaming up to demonstrate the feasibility of blockchain technology computation in space. Spire Global, a publicly traded space data analytics company, announced it entered into...