Focus: In-Space Services

Space logistics company D-Orbit will deploy two satellites for Kepler Communications as part of an agreement announced Thursday.  The contract covers the launch of two 6U telecommunications satellites on D-Orbit’s...

Space-as-a-Service company Sidus Space has been tapped to join the Collins Aerospace team that was awarded NASA‘s Exploration Extravehicular Activity (xEVAS) services contract at the beginning of June. Sidus Space...

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) company Synspective is partnering with Addvalue to use its inter-satellite data relay system (IDRS) to deliver its SAR imagery more quickly to customers.  Addvalue’s data relay...

Astroscale’s U.K. subsidiary received 14.8 million euros ($16 million) in funding from the European Space Agency (ESA) for its ELSA-M servicer mission, which is developed in partnership with OneWeb, the...

Rapid growth in on-orbit space services will create a market that generates $4.4 billion in revenue by 2031, according to analysis firm Euroconsult’s first-edition Space Logistic Markets report published May...

SES Government Solutions (SES GS) is bringing Planet Labs onto its team for a recently awarded NASA contract to develop and demonstrate near-Earth communication services. NASA awarded SES GS a $28.96...

Kepler Communications signed Spire Global as a customer for its high-capacity Ku-band data transmission service, the companies announced Tuesday.  Under the contract, Spire will install Kepler’s physical Ku-band payloads to...

Sky Perfect JSAT and Japanese telco NTT are working together to form a new joint venture, Space Compass Corporation, to establish an integrated space computing network. The joint venture, announced...

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...

French space company Exotrail will debut a new orbital transfer vehicle (OTV) for rideshare missions called the SpaceVan on the SpaceX rideshare mission set for October 2023.  The company said...