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SpaceX Founder Elon Musk said he will take the company’s Starlink satellite connectivity business public once it is able to predict positive cash flow “reasonably well.” The billionaire space entrepreneur,...

How satellite will play a role in the 5G communications environment around the globe is a key challenge for the satellite industry as it looks to combine with terrestrial players...

L3Harris Technologies is the latest company to join the GPS Innovation Alliance (GPSIA), an industry group that advocates for the promotion, protection and enhancement of GPS in the U.S. and...

HawkEye 360 is at an inflection point in its work to bring commercial Radio Frequency (RF) geolocation data to market, as its second-generation cluster is now in-orbit and being prepared...

The FCC will start the assignment phase of the 5G auction of C-band spectrum on Feb. 8, the commission announced Tuesday. In this phase, bidders that won generic spectrum blocks...

Spanish operator Hispasat announced on Tuesday that it has renewed and expanded a multi-year, multi-transponder satellite capacity contract with Israel’s Gilat Satellite Networks. Under the terms of the agreement, Hispasat will...

The latest Starlink satellites launched on Jan. 24 are equipped with laser links, and all Starlink satellites launched next year will be equipped with laser inter-satellite links, Elon Musk, SpaceX...

On Dec. 31, the U.S. Air Force ended its Launch Services Agreements (LSAs) with Northrop Grumman and Blue Origin and paid out $787.2 million to the companies – $531.7 million to Northrop...

German rideshare provider Exolaunch was a part of SpaceX’s Transporter-1 mission on Sunday, the largest rideshare mission to date, carrying 143 satellites in total. Exolaunch brought 30 satellites along for...

SpaceX launched Transporter-1, the first mission in its dedicated smallsat rideshare program on Jan. 24, carrying 143 satellites total — 133 commercial and government spacecraft and 10 Starlink satellites. This...