Author: Jeffrey Hill

NASA will fund research and development for 18 space technology concepts, including solar sails, smart space suits, and a Lunar-polar propellant mining outpost, as part of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC)...

Intelsat confirmed that it is experiencing a service outage on its Intelsat 29e satellite. The operator said the satellite’s propulsion system was damaged late on Sunday, April 7. The damage caused...

Viasat is opening a new headquarters in Montes Urales, Mexico, located in the northwest part of Mexico City. The new facility will provide the satellite operator with a base to...

Airbus Defense and Space has entered into a partnership with Bayer subsidiary The Climate Corp., to deliver its satellite-produced imagery to farmers through Climate Corp.’s Climate FieldView digital agriculture platform, the...

Maxar Technologies has completed a Critical Design Review (CDR) for the on-orbit servicing spacecraft bus it is building for NASA’s Restore-L project, and is on track to ship the bus to NASA...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will not hold priority access license auctions for Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) mid-band spectrum until at least next year “at the earliest,” FCC Commissioner Michael...

Aerospace manufacturer Lockheed Martin will integrate its new software-defined satellite architecture, SmartSat, on 10 of its nanosatellite missions this year, starting with Linus and Pony Express. The new software-defined capability is...

A majority of analysts and stakeholders logged off of Iridium’s March 7 Investor Day webcast with smiles after the Virginia-based satellite operator revised its full-year 2019 service revenue and EBITDA...

Intelsat lost $111.3 million during its 2018 fiscal Fourth Quarter (Q4) and $599.6 million during the full year, according to the Virginia-based satellite operator’s latest financial results, published Feb. 20. The...

ExactEarth completed the rollout of its real-time global satellite Automatic Identification System (AIS) service after activating the final six payloads of its exactView constellation, the company reported Feb. 15. The...