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Reflex Aerospace signed Media Broadcast Satellite (MBS) as its first commercial customer, and will fly a payload for MBS on its first satellite.  Reflex announced on Tuesday that MBS will be the customer for its SIGI mission, which will test its new satellite manufacturing technologies. Reflex Aerospace has booked a slot on a fall 2024...

Luxembourg’s Parliament approved funding for a new program for the country to acquire services from SES’s O3b mPOWER for 10 years.  Thursday’s news marks the approval of the Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) Global Services (MGS) program announced earlier this year. It is valued at €195 million ($213 million) over 10 years, and gives Luxembourg and...

Comtech and E-Space have a new agreement to work together to deliver communications solutions and IoT services to support government and targeted commercial customers.  E-Space is building a satellite constellation for IoT connectivity that it says will resemble terrestrial communications network capabilities. The companies said in a Wednesday announcement that this agreement will combine Comtech’s...

Forsway has appointed Bengt Jonsson as its new chairman, the company announced June 14. A long-time investor with strong roots in Forsway, Jonsson previously served as managing director of the company. Jonsson takes over from Mats Andersson, who served as chairman for nine years. The company, which has been going almost 20 years, aims to...

Tomorrow.io announced an $87 million Series E funding round, along with the successful launch of its second satellite on this week’s SpaceX rideshare mission. Activate Capital led the round for the weather intelligence startup, and new investors include RTX Ventures, Seraphim, and Chemonics.  Existing investors SquarePeg Capital, Canaan, ClearVision, JetBlue Ventures, and Pitango participated as...

Terran Orbital has hired Tony Gingiss as the company’s new COO, snagging the executive after Virgin Orbit’s bankruptcy.  Gingiss has a long career in the space industry including more than two decades with Boeing Satellites Systems and Airbus OneWeb Satellites, which he led as CEO. Gingiss was COO of Virgin Orbit and had been with...

Viasat’s former CEO Rick Baldridge is retiring from his role as vice chairman with the completion of the Inmarsat acquisition, and will remain on the company’s board of directors.  Baldridge is a longtime executive at Viasat and served as CEO for about a year and half while founder Mark Dankberg stepped away from the role....

SpaceX delivered 72 spacecraft to orbit on Monday in the Transporter-8 launch, its eighth mission in its dedicated smallsat rideshare program. The Falcon 9 mission launched from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 2:35 p.m. PT on June 12.  It was SpaceX’s second launch in one day, after SpaceX...

New European startup UNIO has hired Frederic C. Baker as CTO. He will lead the architecture build-out of the company’s commercial satellite constellation focused on the automotive and mobility sector. Baker has held roles in the past with the European Space Agency, Ball Aerospace, and LeoSat. Most recently, Baker worked with space debris removal company...

Singapore-based startup Zero-Error Systems (ZES) has closed an oversubscribed $7.5M Series A funding round, with participation from Airbus Ventures. The company specializes in semiconductor solutions for space and power management applications. The funding round announced Monday also included participation from the Dart Family Office.  ZES was founded in 2019 as a university spin-off from Nanyang...