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In-space transportation company Impulse Space, founded by SpaceX founding member Tom Mueller, raised $45 million in an oversubscribed Series A funding round, the company announced Monday. RTX Ventures, the venture capital arm of RTX, led the round, along with participation from Founders Fund, Lux Capital, Airbus Ventures and Space Capital. The company, founded in 2021,...

A new Eutelsat satellite has entered service. The operator announced Monday that Eutelsat 10B is now in service at 10 degrees East, after SpaceX launched the satellite in November. Thales Alenia Space built the satellite on its Spacebus NEO platform.  Eutelsat 10B is a multi-mission satellite with two multi-beam high-throughput Ku-band payloads for maritime and...

Iridium Communications is expanding its Iridium Certus service, launching service for commercial aviation, the company announced Monday. The L-band service is now available for cockpits in commercial transport aircraft, business aviation, helicopters, private aircraft, and uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS). Safety certifications with partner manufacturers and resellers are in progress, with flight trials expected to begin...

Maxar Technologies’ new satellite bus, called the Maxar 300 series, has completed its first critical design review (CDR), the company announced Monday.  Maxar is developing this satellite bus to support L3Harris on its contract for the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 Tracking Layer missile warning constellation. Maxar is building 16 satellites for L3Harris. The original...

Ovzon announced the Ovzon T7, a new mobile satellite terminal designed for military, civil defense, police, and emergency services. It is a rugged terminal that weighs only 2.8 kg and is 17 cm square. The company said the T7 has demonstrated that it can transmit 10 Mbps and receive 60 Mbps on current Ovzon networks....

Astranis is reporting issues with vendor-supplied solar arrays on its first satellite that was launched in April, and the satellite is not fulfilling its mission to provide broadband connectivity in Alaska.  Astranis CEO John Gedmark shared an update in a Medium post on Friday, writing that after the satellite reached orbit and demonstrated connectivity, there...

BT, OneWeb and the U.K. government have teamed up to deliver high-speed, low-latency internet connectivity to Lundy Island, North Devon in the United Kingdom. The partnership was announced July 21. The remote island is home to 28 permanent residents, as well as being a designated marine conservation zone and a site of special scientific interest...

Wind River and Astroscale have announced a collaboration that sees Wind River’s VxWorks Real Time Operating System (RTOS) being used on an On-Board Computer (OBC) to command Astroscale’s ELSA-M Servicer spacecraft. The two companies announced the collaboration, July 19. The OBC will support the rendezvous between Astroscale’s servicer spacecraft and the client satellite. Astroscale’s software...

Thales Alenia Space signed new contracts with the European Space Agency (ESA) for the ground mission segment for Galileo Second Generation (GSG) and for system engineering activities, and two contracts for cybersecurity. The contracts for ground mission segment and system engineering activities are worth 300 million euros ($333 million) and the cyber awards are worth...

Skylo has signed another deal with an IoT tech company, partnering with Soracom to provide its satellite IoT through the company’s cloud-based IoT network management. Soracom said this collaboration gives its customers building IoT solutions and M2M devices access to Skylo’s direct-to-device 3GPP non-terrestrial network (NTN) connectivity, along with Soracom’s fully-virtualized cellular platform. Soracom is...