Author: Rachel Jewett

Airbus released its Full Year (FY) 2020 results on Feb. 18 after a challenging year for the company, reporting 4.3 billion euros ($5.2 billion) in revenue — a 29% revenue...

Virgin Orbit has tapped the former CEO of OneWeb Satellites, Tony Gingiss, as the company’s first chief operating officer (COO). In a Wednesday release, Virgin Orbit said Gingiss will oversee...

BlackSky Holdings is the latest space startup to go public through a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) merger, announcing a deal Thursday to go public with a $1.1 billion valuation. ...

Via Satellite Basic and Premium Members have early access to this article from the March edition of Via Satellite. In February, Telesat finally came forward with the long-awaited announcement of...

Synspective has acquired its first image from its debut Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite, marking the first commercial SAR image from a Japanese company. The satellite, dubbed striX-α, was launched...

Rakuten Mobile and Ligado Networks have reached an MoU for commercial trials for 5G mobile private networks based on the Rakuten Communications Platform (RCP). Under the MoU announced Feb. 12,...

SpaceX deployed another round of Starlink satellites late Monday, but ended its streak of Falcon 9 booster recoveries.  The Falcon 9 rocket took off on Feb. 15 from Launch Complex...

Intelsat has reached a plan supported by some of its creditors to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy with its debt cut by more than half – from nearly $15 billion...

Fleet Space Technologies has selected Swissto12 to deliver additively manufactured all-metal patch antennas for its C4 and C5 satellites. Swissto12, which develops advanced engineered Radio Frequency (RF) products for aerospace...

Iridium Communications capped off a year of subscriber growth with a record total revenue in 2020 of $583.4 million, and initiated a $300 million share repurchase program to reward shareholders. The...