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Firefly Aerospace last week said it has raised about $300 million in the past eight months, adding that it is generating additional interest from investors following the startup’s successful tactical responsive space launch mission in September. The latest Series C round is being led by existing investors that include the private equity firm AE Industrial Partners, and...

Intellian Technologies and Marlink renewed their strategic partnership for five more years, the companies announced Tuesday. Intellian will continue to supply Marlink end users with hybrid connectivity terminals.  The partnership will include joint product development for hybrid connectivity across Geostationary Orbit (GEO), Medium-Earth Orbit (MEO), and Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) networks. Marlink has access to capacity...

Taiwan’s largest telecommunications company signed an exclusive distribution partner agreement with Eutelsat OneWeb for Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite services. Eutelsat announced the multi-million-dollar deal with Chunghwa Telecom on Wednesday.  Chunghwa will integrate Eutelsat OneWeb services as backup for terrestrial fixed and mobile networks, submarine cables and microwave communication services, which it provides for government and...

Northrop Grumman Corporation recently completed its critical design review (CDR) for 16 missile tracking satellites that will be part of the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) Tranche 1 Tracking Layer. Now that the CDR is complete, Northrop is cleared to begin production work on the space vehicles. The company announced the milestone on Wednesday.  The Tranche...

Intelsat is working to reduce the digital divide in Africa, using satellite technology to bring connectivity to millions of people. Working alongside Africa Mobile Networks (AMN), it has deployed more than 3,000 rural base satellite antennas across several countries in Africa since 2018, providing new telecoms services to more than 8 million people. Intelsat revealed...

Telesat signed a deal with Aalyria to deploy its Spacetime networking software to manage customer traffic for Telesat’s Lightspeed satellite constellation. The deal announced Tuesday is a 10+ year agreement. Financial terms were not disclosed.  Telesat will use Aalyria’s Spacetime platform to route customer data through real-time analysis of millions of possible paths. The operator...

The White House released a National Spectrum Strategy on Tuesday, developed in coordination with the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).  President Biden released a Presidential Memorandum, establishing spectrum policy and a process for resolving spectrum-related conflicts. The strategy identifies 2,786 megahertz of spectrum across five spectrum bands for...

Eutelsat has signed a new 4k broadcasting deal with one of France’s biggest broadcasters. Public broadcaster France Télévisions has signed a multi-year contract with Eutelsat which will see two 4K channels on both terrestrial and satellite networks. France 2 UHD, a full-time channel, and France 3 UHD, a part-time UHD channel dedicated to special events...

The Global Satellite Operators Association (GSOA) hopes to play a key role and drive better behaviors in the area of space sustainability. GSOA released a Code of Conduct on Space Sustainability on Nov. 13 — calling on operators to implement responsible practices that mitigate the risk of in-orbit collision, minimize the threat of non-trackable debris,...

SpaceX launched two O3b mPOWER satellites for SES, and a 90-payload rideshare mission in a busy weekend of Falcon 9 missions. SES confirmed that the fifth and sixth O3b mPOWER satellites were successfully launched in a Sunday mission from Cape Canaveral, Florida. SES expects to begin commercial service with O3b mPOWER in the second quarter...