Author: Rachel Jewett

Myriota is expanding its space services deal with Spire Global to add 16 more satellites for IoT connectivity.  Myriota has worked with Spire to deploy its constellation since 2021. Earlier...

A Firefly Aerospace Alpha rocket suffered an anomaly during a Tuesday launch, losing the payload for customer Lockheed Martin.  The Alpha FLTA006 mission launched at 6:37 am PDT from Vandenberg...

There are a number of evolutions underway in satellite manufacturing: software-defined satellites, more satellites in Low-Earth Orbit and Medium-Earth Orbit, fewer orders in Geostationary Orbit, and increasing demand from both...

United Launch Alliance (ULA) launched the first full-scale mission for Amazon’s Project Kuiper constellation on Monday evening, starting the deployment phase of Amazon’s competitor to Starlink and OneWeb.  ULA launched...

Spire Global completed the sale of its maritime business to Belgian data and analytics company Kpler, using the proceeds to retire all outstanding debt, Spire announced April 25.  Spire sold...

The FCC has opened a review of spectrum sharing between Geostationary (GEO) and Non-Geostationary (NGSO) satellite systems, and invited comments on satellite power limits.  During Monday’s open meeting, the FCC...

T-Mobile cut the price on its commercial service for “T-Satellite” messaging, and plans to start service in July. T-Mobile is setting the price at $10 per month, and is offering...

The Satellite Industry Association is encouraging policy and lawmakers to look to satellite communications and technology to assist in natural disaster response. SIA, which represents satellite operators, manufacturers, equipment suppliers,...

Booz Allen and Meta, the parent company of Facebook, tailored a version of Meta’s open source platform, Llama, for space, to be deployed on the International Space Station (ISS).  Dubbed...

L3Harris lowered guidance for the company to account for a divestiture, but leadership was optimistic on Thursday’s investor call about opportunities for its satellite business to participate in the “Golden...