Focus: Manufacturing

After eight days of being at World Satellite Business Week (WSBW) in Paris and IBC Show in Amsterdam and having talked MEO, LEO, GEO, Ka-, Ku-, C-, V-, Q- and...

Executive leaders from the world’s largest satellite manufacturing companies believe that software-defined satellites are the future of an industry that is seeing a majority of its customers transition away from...

British Virgin Islands-based GapSat has commissioned its first geosynchronous satellite, GapSat-1, from California-based manufacturer Terran Orbital, which will outfit the spacecraft with a multi-band system offering wide band solutions in C-,...

NASA has contracted SSL to perform a study exploring how commercial habitats in space, like the International Space Station (ISS), could be used to build satellites and “unlock new capabilities and business...

The first commercial launch of an entirely 3D printed rocket, including primary structures and all major components, is slated to happen in 2021. This is the ambitious plan of one...

Communications and Power Industries (CPI) acquired Orbital Systems and Quorum Communications from its co-founders. The acquired companies design and manufacture associated ground-based full-motion antenna products that play a key role...

Bigger is better. This statement is certainly true in Texas, but it applies elsewhere. In the automotive industry, cars seem to keep growing in size (even Mini got aboard the...

Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of LinkedIn, has joined the board of directors of Apollo Fusion, a satellite propulsion company, after helping it secure $10 million in Series B financing from...

Northrop Grumman has contributed to an advanced weather satellite that enables improved weather prediction capabilities, leading to more accurate and timely forecasts, watches and warnings. The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite...

Mu Space has released a Request for Proposals (RFP) for a manufacturer to build the company’s first satellite with coverag spanning across Asia-Pacific. The High Throughput Satellite will be on...