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AURORA, Colo.—The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) this summer expects to seek proposals from commercial providers of satellite-based radio frequency (RF) sensing capabilities to help it better understand how to make use...

AURORA, Colo.—Advances in commercial satellite imagery collection and dissemination have enabled the U.S. intelligence community to provide commercial satellite imagery to Ukraine in its war against Russian invaders in just “minutes,”...

NASA is working with six American satellite communications companies to develop commercial near-Earth space communication services. On Wednesday, the agency awarded $278.5 million in contracts to Inmarsat Government, Kuiper Government...

The satellite industry is going through a period of consolidation down the value chain. At SATELLITE 2022, two such deals were announced, with SES acquiring the Global Enterprise Solutions (GES)...

The United States is committing to refrain from direct-ascent anti-satellite (ASAT) missile testing in an effort to set an international norm for responsible behavior in space. Vice President Kamala Harris...

On this episode of On Orbit, we welcome the grand prize winner of the 2022 Startup Space entrepreneur pitch contest, Dr. Luisa Buinhas. She is the co-founder of Vyoma Space,...

Sarah Schellpfeffer, CTO of Northrop Grumman’s Space sector, recently joined the opening general session at SATELLITE, which looked at how satellite business models and technologies are evolving in the multi-orbit...

Between 2019 and 2021, China doubled its number of satellites in orbit from some 250 to 499, while Russia increased its number of orbiting satellites from about 150 in 2019...

Space systems face growing security threats, as evidenced by Viasat’s recent security incident. On April 6 in Paris, speakers at CySat, a European event dedicated to cybersecurity for the space...

AST SpaceMobile is generating a lot of interest as it nears the launch this summer of Bluewalker 3, a satellite designed to connect directly with unmodified cellphones on Earth.  The...