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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issued four, six-month contracts to Ball Aerospace for studies related to mission, spacecraft, and instrument concepts for future operational weather architectures and Earth...

DISH signed a multi-year agreement with a U.S.-based cloud services company it hopes will help advance its mission to launch a standalone 5G network. Altiostar is the developer of a...

Hispasat revealed on June 24 that it won a contract with Artel to embed the U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center’s Pathfinder 2 mission on its Amazonas Nexus...

NXT Communications (NXTCOMM), a new wireless connectivity company in Atlanta, has opened a new 10,000-square-foot production facility that will produce their electronically steered antennas to help meet worldwide demand for...

Virgin Galactic successfully completed its second SpaceShipTwo Unity test flight on Thursday from Spaceport America in New Mexico with pilots Mark ‘Forger’ Stucky and Michael ‘Sooch’ Masucci on board. Nicola...

Relativity Space, a Los Angeles-based space startup using 3D-printing and Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques to build launchers, has signed a Right of Entry agreement (RoE) with the U.S. Air Force’s...

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a Small Business Technology Transfer study contract to York Space Systems, in conjunction with Metropolitan State University of Denver (MSU Denver). The project...

Virgin Galactic signed a Space Act Agreement with NASA’s Johnson Space Center to encourage commercial participation in orbital human spaceflight to the International Space Station (ISS) while enabling the development...

Maxar Technologies today announced that it was selected by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to develop an analytics system for characterizing and tracking the behavior of vehicles in...

Astranis has reached a testing milestone that it said is a major step in its path to offering low-cost broadband internet service from microsatellites in Geostationary Orbit (GEO). The company...