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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 CEO. The long-standing satcom ground technology provider has been going through a “One Comtech” initiative to unify the company and its capabilities. During the past...

Iridium saw its fiscal first quarter 2024 (Q1 2024) revenue total decrease 1% year-over-year, largely due to lower equipment revenue. Iridium reported its Q1 2024 results on April 18, reporting total revenue of $203.9 million. This consisted of $148.6 million of service revenue and $55.3 million of revenue in equipment sales and engineering and support...

At SATELLITE 2024, ST Engineering iDirect unveiled it’s much anticipated next-generation satellite ground system. As expected, it’s engineered to be cloud-enabled, with virtualized infrastructure, supporting multi orbit networks, designed for network orchestration, and built on open standards. But what is truly novel about the new platform is actually captured in its name: Intuition. In this...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—Military space domain operators are working more closely with the commercial satellite industry to not only exchange vital operational information, but also to forge ahead integrating with them, and to deal with issues around protecting commercial assets.  This comes at a time when nefarious satellite interruption activities have ticked up across the board,...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.— The importance of allies and partners working together to understand what military deterrence in space activities means, and define what rogue behaviors should trigger deterrence, has become a bigger part of space domain situational awareness. Military commanders, leaders in military intelligence, and commercial industry partners from Canada, Norway, the U.S., and Germany,...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—The U.S. Space Force on Wednesday released its first strategy for acquiring commercial space capabilities, which include four criteria to guide its decision-making in this area and, as expected, the document does not outline funding plans. The decision-making criteria outlined in The U.S. Space Force Commercial Space Strategy: Accelerating the Purposeful Pursuit of Hybrid...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.— International military collaboration is critical to ensure the safety and security of space, a panel of military space force and space command leaders from six different countries emphasized in a discussion at Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado on April 9. The U.S. is in a leadership position for initiating and developing...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—U.S. allies Germany, France, and New Zealand have been invited to join U.S. Space Command’s Operation Olympic Defender (OOD), which already includes Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom, with a goal of further strengthening U.S. and allied space operations, Gen. Stephen Whiting, commander of Space Command, said on Tuesday. Our international allies and...

In October last year, SES announced the appointment of Adel Al-Saleh as its new CEO. It was an interesting appointment and marks a change of direction for the operator, bringing in someone from outside of the satellite industry. Previous CEO Steve Collar had a long history with O3b and was a well-known figure within the...

The UK government has made 60 million pounds ($75.8 million) available for innovations to boost the nation’s satellite communications sector. This is part of a 160 million pound ($202 million) total investment over the next four years in the UK Space Agency’s (UKSA) Connectivity in Low Earth Orbit (C-LEO) program. The first funding call launched...