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I would hazard a guess that most Via Satellite readers have been following Starship’s development tests fairly closely, or at the very least, watching the livestream tests. But to recap: Starship is designed for a wide variety of missions – Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) to Geostationary Orbit (GEO), lunar missions, and, of course, Mars and beyond. Its...

The new EU AI Act (at the time of writing, not published yet) is a seminal legal act, bringing rules for the development and placement of AI systems in the EU market. However, the EU legislation does not expressly address the space sector. There is increasing recognition in policy and in law of the role...

French startup Skynopy, which hopes to make connectivity-as-a-service a commercial reality, could close a number of deals this year ahead of expectations. The company, which is led by CEO Pierre Bertrand, and CTO Antonin Hirsch, both former directors at Loft Orbital, recently closed another $3.1 million in funding. In an interview with Via Satellite, Bertrand said the...

Former Made in Space and Redwire leaders Andrew Rush and Michael Snyder are launching a new venture Star Catcher Industries to build the first power grid in space to bring more power to satellites in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO).  Star Catcher announced a $12.25 million seed round on July 24, led by Initialized Capital and B...

Northrop Grumman’s Space Systems segment posted the lowest growth rate among the company’s four segments in the second quarter of 2024, while leadership set expectations for flat Space sales this year. However, the Space segment improved its operating margin year-over-year by 14% in Q2.  Northrop Grumman reported its second quarter results on July 25, posting...

Welcome to another of our Thursday Morning Conversation as we talk tech with one of the most dynamic companies in the satellite sector. SpaceBridge is a company which provides a number of solutions to enable the efficient satellite networks. Earlier this year the company announced the launch of its new ESTELLA VSAT solution, a solution...

In August, 2022, less than six months after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Atlantic Council’s David T. Burbach proposed that the conflict was the first ‘two-sided space war.’ He described how Ukraine, having no indigenous space capacity, had made effective use of space-based communications, surveillance and reconnaissance from providers based in the United States and...

You probably use Bluetooth every day to connect your phone to your car, speakers, and headphones. Now satellite startup Hubble Network is rethinking the bounds of Bluetooth to unlock low-cost IoT connections from space.  This week, Alex Haro, co-founder of Hubble Network, joins On Orbit. Hubble recently demonstrated a bluetooth connection from space. The company...

The way more non-traditional defense companies will grow their business with the Defense Department is for more of them to be successful in doing so, which will provide more courage for acquisition organizations within the department to accept the risk of working with startups, the head of the DoD unit focused on accelerating the use...

A number of major satellite operators said they were unaffected by the Microsoft outage on July 19 that created IT issues in multiple industries around the world and grounded flights.  Intelsat, Eutelsat Communications, SES, Telesat, and Iridium Communications said in statements to Via Satellite they were not impacted by the Microsoft outage.  Intelsat operates a fleet...