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Ligado Networks filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government, claiming the government unlawfully took the company’s licensed spectrum without compensation. Ligado announced the lawsuit on Oct. 12. It was filed in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims against the United States, the Defense Department (DoD), the Commerce Department and  National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). ...

SpaceX launched NASA’s Psyche mission on a Falcon Heavy mission on Friday morning, launching the spacecraft to an interplanetary transfer orbit.  The Psyche spacecraft is now headed toward the asteroid of the same name, located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. This is NASA’s first mission to study an asteroid that has more...

German startup OroraTech has appointed Martin Langer as its new CEO. The company announced the appointment Oct. 11. OroraTech strives to continue breaking the barriers of Earth Observation (EO) by fusing predictive AI capabilities with an expanding space-based sensor network. Langer’s appointment is part of a number of changes to OroraTech’s management board. Dr Axel...

Shipping giant Maersk plans to deploy SpaceX’s Starlink broadband internet on more than 330 of its container vessels, the company announced Thursday. Maersk has already tested Starlink on more than 30 vessels with positive feedback from crew.  Maersk said Starlink will bring high speed internet faster than 200 Mbps, which is a “leap forward in...

Designing for resource constraints in space can impact climate resiliency on Earth, a Procter & Gamble executive told attendees at the Space Economy Summit hosted by The Economist on Thursday.  Multinational consumer goods company P&G has worked with NASA since the Apollo program, when it provided personal care products for the Apollo 11 mission. Today,...

Italian space company Argotec is opening a manufacturing facility in Largo, Maryland, expanding its business to the U.S.  Argotec is investing $25 million to launch its business in the U.S., the company announced Wednesday. The company plans to use the 20,000 square foot facility in Maryland to design, develop, build, test and operate satellites. The...

Skyrora has won a European Space Agency (ESA) contract alongside Viasat and CGI. The contract is under the Commercial Space Transportation Services program to demonstrate InRange, a space-based launch vehicle telemetry relay system which will benefit launch vehicle providers across the industry globally. The contract was announced Oct. 11. The collaboration will focus on Skyrora’s...

The U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC) has released a draft solicitation for the future Evolved Strategic Satellite Communication system (ESS) to replace the Lockheed Martin Advanced Extremely High Frequency (EHF) satellites. SSC did not release the draft at large, but the command said on Oct. 6 that the draft “is in the bidder’s library”...

Aalyria is working with Second Front Systems to bring its Spacetime network orchestration platform to government sectors, the companies announced Tuesday. Spacetime is a software platform used to manage complex networks of satellites, ground stations, aircraft, ships, urban meshes, and more. Under the agreement, Spacetime will be integrated into Second Front’s  Game Warden platform, making...

Intelsat signed a multi-launch deal with Relativity Space, for Relativity to launch Intelsat satellites on the Terran R rocket as early as 2026. With this agreement, Relativity now has nine signed customers for Terran R, with more than $1.8 billion in backlog. The Tuesday announcement did not specify the number of launches or the value...