Author: Rachel Jewett

SpaceX conducted the second mission in its dedicated service on Wednesday afternoon, carrying 88 spacecraft to Low-Earth Orbit (LEO).  The Falcon 9 rocket took off from Space Launch Complex 40...

Momentus has cut its valuation in half as it has gone through challenges with its special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) merger. The in-space transportation company announced June 29 that it...

Virgin Orbit has kicked off commercial service with a successful LauncherOne mission on Wednesday, June 30.  As part of Virgin Orbit’s air-launch system, carrier aircraft Cosmic Girl took off from a...

Bharti Global will invest $500 million more into OneWeb, fully funding the Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation company and making Bharti Global the company’s largest shareholder.  In the deal announced June...

Speedcast has completed testing on Telesat’s phase one Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite for Brazilian petroleum company Petrobras.  Over nine tests, Speedcast measured throughput, latency, packet loss, and jitter across applications...

Christopher Kubasik has taken the helm of L3Harris as CEO, succeeding William Brown. This leadership transition was planned and first announced with the merger of L3 Technologies and Harris Corp....

The space and satellite industry is at an exciting inflection point, as startups prove their business plans and industry standard-bearers invest in next-generation technology. Via Satellite’s third annual crop of...

SatixFy and SWISSto12 have formed a strategic collaboration for work on advanced satellite payloads. The companies said they each offer products that are complementary to advanced digital payloads, and are...

The smallsat launch market is set to get a bump in launch capacity as new launch providers come to market over the next year. Astra is one of those companies,...

Eutelsat is launching a new end-to-end managed connectivity service called Advance, tailored to maritime, aviation, enterprise, government, and telecom markets. Advance, announced June 24, includes network interconnection, terrestrial connectivity, Ku-...