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Amazon continues to invest in facilities for its Project Kuiper constellation, announcing a second facility at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.  Last year, Project Kuiper broke ground on a $120 million satellite processing facility, and Amazon is now adding a secondary support facility at the site in a new, $19.5 million investment, the company...

The Defense Information Systems Agency awarded Viasat a $153.5 million contract for engineering support services for the U.S. Army Blue Force Tracker-2 system.  The award announced Aug. 22 by the U.S. Department of Defense is a non-competitive, cost-plus-fixed-fee, and cost contract with a one-year base period of performance with four one-year options. The contract is...

Eutelsat Group signed a multi-year renewal with Cable Color for satellite capacity to continue broadcast services in Latin America. Cable Color, based in Honduras, is a longtime customer of Eutelsat’s. The deal announced Aug. 22 continues service on the Eutelsat 117 West A satellite. The 117 degrees West location is the premium TV neighborhood for...

Scout Space plans to fly a novel Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) space domain awareness (SDA) capability aboard a Dawn Aerospace suborbital spaceplane in an upcoming mission called “Morning Sparrow.” Scout announced Thursday that the company signed a flight agreement with Dawn in August that covers the initial demonstration and a series of future flights.  ...

MDA Space has selected Beyond Gravity to supply on-board computers for its Aurora satellite supply chain, including for the Telesat Lightspeed constellation. Beyond Gravity will provide 252 on-board computers with integrated navigation receivers and antennas.  Beyond Gravity, formerly known as RUAG Space, is based in Switzerland. The company announced the deal on Thursday, financial details...

Tesat opened a new production facility in Backnang, Germany, to manufacture the company’s laser terminals.  Tesat is ramping up for industrialized production of its laser terminals, which were selected to support the Telesat Lightpseed constellation, built by MDA Space. Tesat will supply 792 of its SCOT80 optical communications terminal under the deal.  The new facility...

Arizona-based motion control solutions provider Kinematics has joined the Satellite Industry Association (SIA) as its newest member, the company announced this week.  Kinematics offers motion control products for solar, industrial mobile, and satellite industry. For the satellite industry, its motion control products are designed to meet satellite ground station and user terminal reflector positioning requirements....

SpaceWERX has awarded TrustPoint two Direct-to-Phase II contracts to mature the company’s GPS-independent technologies as part of the SpaceWERX AltPNT Challenge. TrustPoint announced the two awards on Wednesday, worth $3.8 million total.  The AltPNT challenge is a SpaceWERX initiative to solicit industry ideas to advance U.S. and Allied warfighter PNT capabilities with new sensors, data...

Swiss satellite IoT company Astrocast delisted from the Euronext Growth Exchange in Oslo, Norway, as leadership decided to take the company private. CEO Fabien Jordan explained the strategy behind the decision in an Aug. 20 LinkedIn post.  Astrocast went public in August of 2021 as the first Swiss company on the Euronext Growth Exchange in...

Iridium Communications announced Wednesday that its longtime CFO Thomas Fitzpatrick will retire at the end of the year. He will remain on the company’s board of directors.  Fitzpatrick has been CFO of Iridium for 14 years and led finance and administrative functions through the development and launch of the Iridium Next constellation refresh, and the...