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BlackSky Technology said on March 4 that it won a multi-million dollar U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) contract to collect and annotate thousands of BlackSky multi-frame burst images to train moving target artificial intelligence models for commercial motion imagery. “We are taking BlackSky’s industry-leading ability to monitor moving objects from space another step forward by...

Astroscale will play a key role in a UK Space Agency (UKSA) Active Debris Removal (ADR) Refueling feasibility study. Astroscale has placed a successful bid to lead this study, the company announced March 5. This 2 million pound ($2.54 million) UKSA study is focused on the refueling of the UK’s first active debris removal (ADR)...

U.S. Space Force‘s Space Systems Command awarded Boeing a contract worth $439.6 million to build the 12th Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) communications satellite. The U.S. Department of Defense announced the contract on March 1. The satellite is expected to be delivered by Jan. 31, 2029.  Boeing is the prime contractor for the WGS satellites, which...

Icelandair has selected Viasat to provide the in-flight connectivity for the airline’s new fleet of Airbus aircraft, Viasat announced Tuesday.  This comes after Icelandair ordered 13 Airbus A321XLR planes in July 2023, the airline’s first order of Airbus aircraft. The new fleet is expected to service routes between Iceland and Europe as well as transatlantic...

SpaceX launched 53 payloads in the Falcon 9 Transporter-10 smallsat rideshare mission, SpaceX’s first rideshare mission of 2024. The mission launched from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on March 4 at 2:05 p.m. PT. This was the tenth dedicated rideshare mission organized by SpaceX. Aboard the Transporter-10 mission were...

NASA made the decision to cancel the On-orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing 1 (OSAM-1) mission, citing technical, cost, and schedule challenges. NASA announced the decision on March 1, which affects prime contractor Maxar.  OSAM-1 was set to be the first mission to robotically refuel a satellite not designed for fueling or servicing. Yet NASA said...

Rivada Space Networks’s now has market access in the United Kingdom after independent communications regulator Ofcom granted the company a license that enables the company to provide satellite communications services in the country. The company is launching a constellation of Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites to provide government communications, maritime and aviation connectivity, enterprise networking and...

SES passed the 2 billion euros mark for overall revenues in 2023. This was one of the highlights of its 2023 full year results, issued Feb. 29. SES achieved revenues of 2.03 billion euros ($2.2 billion), ahead of forecast, and slightly more than its overall revenues in 2022. Video revenues continue to fall as the...

Umbra on Wednesday said the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) has selected the company for the second stage of a commercial remote sensing contract the agency uses to obtain radio satellite-based radio frequency (RF) data for intelligence collection. In early 2023, the NRO selected Maxar Technologies, HawkEye 360, Kleos Space, and Spire Global for Stage II contract options under the...

Redwire Corporation has opened a new facility in Chantilly, Virginia to support the company’s growing number of national security programs and customers. Redwire announced the new facility on Feb. 27.  “The new facility will be home to projects that require the kinds of deep expertise, relationships, and infrastructure needed to support national security programs, including...