Author: Rachel Jewett

Virgin Orbit is taking a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) merger to go public in a deal that values the company at $3.2 billion.  The launcher announced Monday that parent...

UltiSat has named Richard Koucheravy as the company’s new vice president of Sales & Business Development, UltiSat announced Thursday. Koucheravy will be responsible for driving revenue growth through new customers...

Rocket Lab’s special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) merger is set to close, making Rocket Lab a publicly traded company. Shareholders of Vector Acquisition Corporation approved the SPAC merger with Rocket...

Iridium COO Suzi McBride talks about how Iridium plans to deal with incoming competition, and how the operator will fit in with an evolving space industry. While many satellite operators...

Maxar Technologies has been awarded a five-year contract worth up to $26.4 million by the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) to continue supporting its open mapping platform.  Under the agreement...

Planet and Google Cloud have expanded an existing partnership on data analysis. The companies announced Wednesday an agreement to create joint solutions with Planet satellite imagery and Google Cloud’s cloud-based...

Ligado has chosen Mavenir as its partner to develop base stations for its 5G mobile satellite network, the company announced Thursday. Mavenir is an end-to-end, cloud-native network software provider.  Ligado...

Retired U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Mark Baird has been named president of Vox Space, Virgin Orbit subsidiary that provides launch services to the national security community.  Baird has held...

Hughes Network Systems has been awarded one of several prime positions on a U.S. Air Force contract to support its Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS). Hughes announced Tuesday that it...

Spacecom and Get SAT have demonstrated the Get SAT Micro Sling Blade Electronically Steered Antenna (ESA) on the AMOS-17 satellite, reporting 5 Mbps forward and 25 Mbps return rate. The...