Cybersecurity

Hughes Network Systems announced Tuesday its Artificial Intelligence (AI) for IT operations (AIOps) solution for enterprise Wide Area Networks (WANs) is commercially available. The solution is integrated into the company’s HughesON Managed Network Services, and is already in use across more than 32,000 managed sites.  Hughes said the technology automatically predicts and preempts undesirable network...

The White House on Sept. 4 released Space Policy Directive-5 (SPD-5) regarding cybersecurity for space systems, as a senior administration official told reporters that cyber threats on U.S. space systems happen with “concerning regularity.” “With regard to particular cyber threats, I can’t really talk about those at an unclassified level, but suffice it to say that they...

Loft Orbital awarded a contract to small satellite manufacturer Blue Canyon Technologies (BCT) to develop and build the YAM-4 spacecraft bus for the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and Honeywell‘s Quantum Encryption and Science Satellite (QEYSSat) mission, BCT announced August 5. BCT will build the satellite using its new X-SAT Venus-Class bus design, which can carry...

Eutelsat Communications and Intelsat secured the 48 degrees East orbital position for the EUTELSAT QUANTUM satellite, in which both operators have orbital rights. The satellite is well-suited for coverage in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region at the 48 degrees East position, and it is expected to launch by the end of 2020....

NovelSat will incorporate its satellite access waveforms into Envistacom’s Transport Virtualization Ecosystem (TVE). Envistacom announced Thursday it will deliver an open-architecture ecosystem which helps enable virtualized applications such as advanced communications waveforms, encryption, data analytics, and other real-time continuous processing applications to reside in Common off-the-Shelf (COTS) hardware. The Envistacom/NovelSat partnership helps allow commercial and...

Next week, we make a little bit of history as we launch digital CyberSat week, the first virtual event by the Satellite group here at Access Intelligence. An all-star lineup of cybersecurity influencers and experts will deliver presentations and panels looking at some of the biggest topics in the industry from supply chain and software-defined...

Xona Space Systems, a startup working on a secure and precise Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) satellite service, has raised a $1 million in a pre-seed round led by 1517, with participation from Seraphim Capital, Trucks Venture Capital, and Stellar Solutions. The San Mateo, California-based startup announced the funding on May 14.  Xona Space Systems...

Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd (ST Engineering) said that its Aerospace and Electronics sectors have received about $1.1 billion in new contracts in the First Quarter (Q1) of 2020.   The Aerospace sector secured about $590 million in contracts across its aviation manufacturing and Maintenance Repair and Overhaul (MRO) businesses, including A320 heavy maintenance contracts and CFM56-7B...

The U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) has awarded Raytheon and L3Harris each contracts to develop protected tactical waveform capable modems, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) announced March 27. Each has received a $500 million-ceiling, Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) contract with corresponding delivery orders valued at roughly $37.6 million for Raytheon, and roughly...