Author: Kendall Russell

MDA, a business unit of Maxar Technologies, announced that it has signed four contracts with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) with a total value at approximately CA$53.75 million ($41.8 million)....

North Korea recently made public its plans to launch two new satellites: one it vaguely describes as an “Earth remote exploration satellite” and the other a heavy telecommunications satellite that...

2017 was an exciting year for the satellite industry up to the very last minute. But how much do you actually know about the events that shook the business this...

Apollo Fusion stated it recently tested its electric propulsion system, Apollo Constellation Engine (ACE), in an independent lab at The Aerospace Corporation where thrust, Isp, and system efficiency measurements closely...

Abel Avellan, who founded Emerging Markets Communications (EMC), has launched a venture called AST&Science to manufacture a new generation of ultra-small satellites. According to Avellan, the company’s goal is to...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded Serco a contract to facilitate open and unlimited access to Earth Observation (EO) data and geospatial information collected as part of the Copernicus...

An undisclosed global security and aerospace company and U.S. government supplier has selected Quintech Electronics and Communications’ Xtreme 80 fan-out and fan-in matrix switches for use in its telecommunications test...

Like any year in the fast-paced satellite industry, 2017 was brimming with new innovations, earth-shaking business deals, and some competitive drama for good measure. Just in case you missed anything,...

Lockheed Martin will use NEC’s System Invariant Analysis Technology (SIAT) in the space domain. SIAT’s advanced analytics engine uses data collected from sensors to learn the behavior of systems, including...

SES is expanding its efforts to support 5G developments as part of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems (ARTES) project, SATis5, where it will be enabling demonstrations...