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Kongsberg NanoAvionics has appointed Atle Wøllo as its new CEO, the company announced Monday. This comes two years after the Norwegian defense firm acquired NanoAvionics, a company that began as a spin-off from Lithuania’s Vilnius University and became a leading small satellite manufacturer.  Wøllo is a former Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace executive and was previously...

Yahsat has contracted Airbus Defence and Space to build two new Geostationary (GEO) satellites, Al Yah 4 (AY4) and Al Yah 5 (AY5). The satellites are expected to launch in 2027 and 2028 respectively, and will eventually replace Al Yah 1 and Al Yah 2.  They will be designed on the Airbus Eurostar Neo platform....

An upcoming Planet imaging satellite will be equipped with an artificial intelligence chip from Nvidia, Planet announced Monday. Planet will leverage the Nvidia Jetson edge AI platform for its Pelican-2 satellite set to launch later this year. Nvidia builds AI chips, systems, and software and recently reached a $3 billion market cap. Planet said it...

Shortly after SpaceX completed its first test flight of its Starship rocket on Thursday, the company’s CEO Elon Musk outlined potential next steps for the launch vehicle in a series of posts to X (formerly Twitter). Musk stated that after Starship sustained some minor damage during the mission and lost shielding tiles, SpaceX would augment...

Space Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Space ISAC) has reaffirmed its recommendation to maintain the Threat Level at Level 3 which is High for the space industry. It said the purpose of this announcement is to raise awareness of the space industry, government, and international partner perspective on the current threat level. Space ISAC confirmed...

Space station manufacturer Vast and the European Space Agency (ESA) will collaborate to accelerate human spaceflight missions in LEO under the terms of a new partnership agreement announced June 6. The agreement outlines the parties’ intention to foster human spaceflight, science, technology and commercialization development and explore collaboration in LEO destinations other than the International...

Satellite operator Telespazio has signed a deal with SpaceX to bring Starlink constellation solutions into its mix. As a result of this agreement, Telespazio will be able to integrate Starlink into its global hybrid connectivity network, which is made up of satellite and terrestrial solutions, including global fixed and mobile communications services. Telespazio is a...

Montréal-based networking technology company XipLink is adding enhanced features and functionality to its XipOS SD-WAN solution. The company announced Thursday that while the new enhancements support multi-orbit satellite networks, the were developed more specifically for needs in the LEO segment. The XipOS solution is designed to provide consistent cellular data services, utilizing available bandwidth at...

Equatorial Launch Australia (ELA), a spaceport operator and launch technology infrastructure company, has hired Joshua Daish, as its new Head of Arnhem Space Center site operations. Daish will also take up the Launch Operations Manager role in ELA’s launch operations team. Working closely with ELA’s CEO and within the leadership team, the role supports the...

SES Space & Defense has demonstrated what it claims is the first multi-orbit, multi-band commercial space relay service in support of the NASA Communications Services Project (CSP). To demonstrate data relay services, SES Space & Defense partnered with Planet Labs (Planet), a provider of global daily Earth data using SES’s O3b mPOWER satellite constellation in...