Author: Rachel Jewett

Africa Mobile Networks (AMN) has deployed the company’s first base station in Nigeria that has connectivity via SpaceX’s Starlink constellation, AMN announced last week.   AMN has deployed over 4,000 base...

Lockheed Martin increased both sales and operating profit in the company’s Space segment in the first quarter of 2024, compared to the same time period in 2023.  Space posted $3.3...

Seraphim Space closed a new venture fund, Seraphim Space Ventures II LP, with backing from satellite operator Eutelsat Communications, Japanese telco NEC and Japanese satellite operator SKY Perfect JSAT. Seraphim...

In this week’s On Orbit episode, we’re joined by Patrick Shannon, CEO of TrustPoint. Shannon won the 2024 Startup Space pitch contest at SATELLITE in March, competing against nine other...

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions and SES demonstrated a virtualized satcom ground system for the U.S. Army Futures Command, over the SES O3b satellite network, the companies announced April 17. ...

The U.S. Space Force awarded L3Harris a contract option worth up to $187 million to support military space domain awareness. The award announced Thursday is for option year five of...

Comtech leadership says the company’s transformation and focus on opportunities like virtualization and the convergence of satellite and terrestrial technologies does not change as the company looks for a new...

Italian service provider Telespazio has a new CEO. The company’s board of directors appointed Gabriele Pieralli as CEO on April 16, Telespazio announced.  Pieralli has been Telespazio COO since June...

Earth imagery provider Satellogic has begun the process of relocating the company to the U.S., and recently received a $30 million strategic investment from cryptocurrency company Tether Investments Limited.  Satellogic...

Finnish satellite company Iceye raised $93 million in growth funding, led by Finland’s sovereign wealth fund Solidium. Other investors include Move Capital Fund I, Blackwells Capital, Christo Georgiev, and existing...