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The first O3b mPOWER terminal built for Galapagos telco CNT was inaugurated last week, SES recently announced. This comes after CNT recently signed a deal to increase its capacity agreement with SES from 1.5 gigabits per second to 2.5 gigabits on the O3b constellation, with plans to migrate to O3b mPOWER.  Ecuador’s Minister of Telecommunications...

Satellogic signed an agreement with Quant Data & Analytics, a Saudi provider of data solutions for real estate and retail sectors. Quant plans to use Satellogic’s high-resolution satellite imagery to serve the property tech landscape in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf region. Satellogic’s imagery will be integrated with Quant’s interactive real estate platform, Suhail, and...

Commercial space station company Axiom Space raised $350 million in its Series-C round of growth funding from Saudi financier Aljazira Capital and existing investor Boryung, a Korean pharmaceutical manufacturer. Axiom Space announced the round on Monday, reporting it has signed more than $2.2 billion in customer contracts.  Aljazira Capital CEO Naif AlMesned commented on the...

Japanese Earth imaging company iQPS has tapped Rocket Lab for a dedicated Electron launch, switching mission providers after Virgin Orbit went out of business. The mission is set for September and will launch the company’s QPS-SAR-5 satellite named “TSUKUYOMI-I.”  iQPS originally contracted Virgin Orbit for the launch, announced in May of 2022, but Virgin Orbit...

True Anomaly, which recently emerged from stealth mode, opened a new spacecraft manufacturing facility called GravityWorks in Centennial, Colorado on Aug. 17.  The company gave a bold projection for the new facility, saying its novel assembly line approach will be able to produce a fully-tested satellite every five days. The 35,000-square-foot facility serves as the...

Korean launch company Innospace signed a deal with Equatorial Launch Australia (ELA) to launch multiple orbital missions from the Arnhem Space Centre (ASC), a new spaceport in Australia’s Northern Territory. Innospace’s first launches from the ASC are expected to commence in early 2025, and the deal announced Aug. 17 is a five-year agreement that runs...

The Space Development Agency (SDA) has contracted SpaceX, Kuiper Government Solutions, and Aalyria Technologies for a study on Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) backhaul capability. The awards have a total value of $1.6 million. SDA announced the contracts in a LinkedIn post on Thursday, and said the studies will begin this week.  The awards were made under...

Malaysia’s national air carrier, Malaysia Airlines, selected Viasat’s in-flight connectivity (IFC) solution for its new Boeing 737-8 fleet. The companies announced the deal Thursday, and said the first factory installation is expected to be delivered later this month. The new fleet has anticipated flight routes across Malaysia and Southeast Asia and Malaysia Airlines will leverage...

Spire Global named Leo Basola as its new chief financial officer. This appointment comes after earlier this year, the company’s CFO Thomas Krywe announced he would step down in September.  The change comes as Spire will soon execute a stock split to regain compliance with its NYSE listing, as its shares have been trading at...

OneWeb had demonstrated how its satellites and services can make a real impact in the humanitarian community. The company announced Aug. 17 that it took part in a successful demonstration of Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite capabilities last month at the headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva, Switzerland. OneWeb, successfully streamed...