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Xenesis has won a new Phase 2 contract from the Space Development Agency (SDA) for optical communications terminals. This effort kicked off in December 2023 and is a follow-on effort from an initial Phase 1 award in August 2022 for Xenesis’ Adaptable Optical Satellite Terminal Concepts. Xenesis announced the deal on Sept. 11. It is...

AST SpaceMobile confirmed the milestone launch of its first five commercial satellites on Thursday morning. These satellites will start service for the company’s cellular broadband network in space.  SpaceX launched the five BlueBird satellites on a Falcon 9 mission from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 4:52 am. EDT. AST SpaceMobile CEO Abel Avellan confirmed post-launch that...

Rocket Lab has hired a new COO from the automotive industry to help the company scale manufacturing. The launcher announced Frank Klein as its new chief operations officer on Sept. 10. The appointment is effective Sept. 16.  Most recently, Klein served as COO at Rivian Automative, where he helped to transform Rivian from a low...

Space industry hiring firm Evona is launching a new executive search arm of the company called Gram Partners.  The brand is led by CEO Steve Finder, who had stints leading talent acquisition at Apple and SpaceX, along with Vice President of Client Success Melissa Scofield, who has more than 25 years of recruiting experience across...

Astroscale has won a new contract in the United Kingdom worth over $2 million. Astroscale UK, a subsidiary of Astroscale, has secured a 1.95 million pound ($2.55 million) contract from the UK Space Agency (UKSA) to continue development of its Cleaning Outer Space Mission through Innovative Capture (COSMIC) spacecraft. The deal was announced Sept. 11....

NATO awarded satellite operator SES its first contract for Medium-Earth Orbit (MEO) satellite services under a partnership established in 2022.  The NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA), announced the MEO Global Services (MGS) award on Sept. 10. Luxembourg and the U.S. will leverage SES’s MEO services to carry out naval, air, and ground communications missions...

Comtech is launching a new portfolio of Digital Common Ground (DCG) modems that the company says will enable digitized, hybrid satellite network architectures.  The modems are designed to support commercial and government satellite operations on a single common platform that can be reconfigured for changing operational needs. The company said it is one of the...

T-Mobile reported Wednesday that it successfully sent a wireless emergency alert via Starlink satellites, testing a capability that will provide emergency warnings to the public outside of cell service.  T-Mobile performed the test on Sept. 5, sending an emergency alert message, which was received by a Starink satellite and broadcast out to an unspecified geographic...

Small GEO manufacturer Swissto12 awarded MDA Space a contract to build antenna systems for three HummingSat satellites in the Inmarsat-8 program. Under the contract announced Tuesday, MDA Space will design and build L-band navigation antennas and design and configure the packaging concepts for the HummingSat Geostationary Orbit (GEO) smallsat platform. The antennas will be built,...

The Polaris Dawn mission, in which a crew of four civilians will attempt the first civilian spacewalk, will also test out Starlink laser communications aboard the Dragon spacecraft.   SpaceX launched the Polaris Dawn mission early Tuesday at 5:23 a.m. ET from Cape Canaveral, Florida. A crew of four civilians in a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft will...