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Gilat Satellite Networks has won a U.S. military contract worth $20 million through its U.S.-based subsidiary, Wavestream. The company announced the deal, Dec. 4. It has won a contract with the U.S. Army to provide additional 50W Ka-band BUCs for long-term sustainment of thousands of mobile Satellite Transportable Terminals (STTs), an extension of an existing...

SatixFy Communications is at risk of being delisted from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) because its market capitalization fell below $50 million.  SatixFy is a satellite technology company headquartered in Rehovot, Israel with offices in the U.K., U.S., and Bulgaria. The company develops satellite payloads, user terminals and modems, and also develops its own...

LeoLabs and Aalyria announced a new partnership to work together on contract opportunities dealing with space awareness. Aalyria plans to integrate LeoLabs’ space traffic database into its network orchestration platform, according to the Monday announcement.  LeoLabs offers space operations software to track missions in Low-Earth Orbit, and has a network of ground radars. Aalyria offers...

Hanwha Systems signed a distribution partnership agreement with Eutelsat OneWeb to offer Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) connectivity services in South Korea. Hanwha Systems will take the lead to obtain approval for landing rights in Korea, the company said in a Nov. 29 announcement.  The Korean defense tech firm said it is looking to participate in a...

Rivada Space Networks is teaming up with Globalsat as the two companies target customers in the energy, government, NGO, agriculture, utilities and transportation sectors throughout Latin America and beyond using Rivada’s network. The two companies announced the partnership Nov. 30. Globalsat is a service provider in mobile and other satellite services specializing in voice, data,...

U.S. Space Systems Command on Nov. 30 said it is targeting December 10 for the launch of an X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch vehicle, marking the seventh mission for the Boeing-built unmanned spacecraft that will reenter Earth’s atmosphere and land as a space plane. The upcoming U.S. Space Force (USSF)-52 mission is...

Intelsat will equip nearly 500 American Airlines regional jets with satellite in-flight connectivity under a deal announced Nov. 30. American currently offers high-speed Wi-Fi on more than 900 mainline aircraft, and this update to regional aircraft will bring the number of satellite-connected aircraft to more than 1,400. Intelsat’s solution includes its multi-orbit electronically steered array...

Tesat delivered the first optical communications terminals to Lockheed Martin for the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 Transport Layer, the company announced Dec. 1. Lockheed will integrate the Tesat terminals on 42 small satellites that the company is building for the SDA’s data transport layer.  These terminals recently completed ground interoperability tests for the SDA...

Israeli satellite communication chipsets and systems developer SatixFy boasted an increase in product sales and revenue in its consolidated financial results for the nine-month period ending in September. The results, released early on Thursday, showed SatixFy’s total revenue increasing 31% to $8.9 million. The company reached $6.8 million in revenue during the first nine months of...

Amini, an African environmental data collection and intelligence infrastructure company, has raised another raised $4 million in a seed funding round. Amini announced the successful funding round, Nov. 30. The round was led by Salesforce Ventures, Salesforce’s global investment arm, and Female Founders Fund, a seed stage venture fund that invests exclusively in female-founded companies....