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Lockheed Martin has signed a deal to launch a tech demonstration on a Firefly Aerospace Alpha launch vehicle. This is the first deal between Lockheed Martin and the launcher.  Firefly’s Thursday announcement was light on details on what the mission will entail, and when it will occur. The Alpha rocket has the capability to launch...

Space computing company Ramon.Space has raised $26 million from Ingrasys, a subsidiary of Foxconn Technology Group, Abu Dhabi-based strategic investment firm Strategic Development Fund, and existing investors Grove Ventures, Deep Insight and UMC Capital.  Ramon.Space announced the new funding on June 28 and said the funding will help it commercialize its computing platform for space...

OneWeb has initiated service across Europe and much of the United States as the Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation is working toward global service.  The satellite operator announced Wednesday that it started service at the end of May in 37 new countries in Europe including Austria, Italy, France, and Portugal, and West Coast of the U.S....

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) awarded SES Space & Defense a five-year X-band Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) with an estimated value of $134 million.  The contract announced Wednesday is for global X-Band satellite capacity, teleport and network services over a secure global terrestrial network. SES Space & Defense will  leverage the GovSat-1 satellite and...

Google connectivity-focused spinoff Aalyria has a new contract from the Office of Naval Research and Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) to develop over-the-horizon connectivity for the Navy’s sea, air, and land assets. The initial $7 million contract award is for the first phase of the Navy’s Secure Optical Aerial Relay (SOAR) project, which aims to provide...

Airmo, another climate and space-based start-up, has closed a pre-seed funding round of 5.2 million euros ($5.69 million). The company announced the funding round June 27. This pre-seed round will enable Airmo to launch its first out of 12 satellites into orbit as its aims to revolutionize transparency on the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and...

Intelsat is helping bring more connectivity to Indonesia, one of Asia’s biggest markets by expanding its partnership with some key players in the region. Intelsat is working with Lintasarta, an Indonesian information and communication technology company via its mobile network operator subsidiary Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (IOH), to roll out a network to cover remote areas...

The Biden Administration is investing $42.45 billion in a high-speed broadband program with the goal of connecting every resident and small business with high-speed internet by 2030, the White House announced Monday.  The funding is through the Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) program, with funds to be spent on planning, infrastructure deployment, and adoption...

SES’s recently-launched C-band satellite SES-18 is now providing service, the operator announced Tuesday. The satellite replaced SES-3 at the 103 degrees West orbital position.  SES-18 was launched alongside SES-19 in a SpaceX Falcon 9 mission in March. The operator also announced that SES-19 has reached its orbital slot at 135 degrees West, where it is...

Aarti Holla-Maini will lead the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) as its director, the UN announced Monday. Holla-Maini succeeds Simonetta Di Pippo of Italy.  Holla-Maini lives in the United Kingdom and is a satellite expert. She was the longtime secretary general of the Global Satellite Operators Association, and has served as a...