Focus: Europe

Thales Alenia Space has a new initiative to support startups with a new industry accelerator called the Space Business Catalyst, announced July 4. There are two locations, based in Toulouse,...

EchoStar has seven new partnerships to develop and sell IoT solutions with API-K, Cyric, DalesLandNet, Dryad, Galaxy1, ProEsys, and Symes. These EchoStar customers will use its mobile IoT network to...

Arianespace launched its final Ariane 5 mission on Wednesday evening from French Guiana, marking the end of an era for the workhorse rocket. With the final launch, Europe does not...

Cailabs will host Astrolight’s laser communications terminal on an upcoming satellite mission, the companies announced June 28. Astrolight’s lasercom terminal ATLAS-1 will demonstrate pointing, acquisition, and tracking capabilities at gigabit...

Airmo, another climate and space-based start-up, has closed a pre-seed funding round of 5.2 million euros ($5.69 million). The company announced the funding round June 27. This pre-seed round will...

The European Space Agency (ESA) awarded GMV a contract worth more than 200 million euros ($218 million) to develop the ground segment for in-orbit control and validation of the Galileo...

The European Union (EU) has added nine startups to contribute data to the Copernicus project. Each startup will receive a 5 million euro contract to provide additional data to Copernicus. ...

Eutelsat is exiting the European retail broadband business. The operator is selling its activities here to an unnamed private operator, Eutelsat announced June 15. The divestiture includes affiliate Bigblu Operations...

Reflex Aerospace signed Media Broadcast Satellite (MBS) as its first commercial customer, and will fly a payload for MBS on its first satellite.  Reflex announced on Tuesday that MBS will...

Luxembourg’s Parliament approved funding for a new program for the country to acquire services from SES’s O3b mPOWER for 10 years.  Thursday’s news marks the approval of the Medium Earth...