HummingSat is the world’s first commercial GEO smallsat creating a new chapter in space innovation – SatNews Original Publication Date: 2023-11-27 00:00 Intelsat is the first commercial customer for SWISSto12’s innovative HummingSat geostationary telecommunications satellite. HummingSat’s ...

Space Force extends Kratos’ contract for satellite ground systems Original Publication Date: 2023-11-25 20:27 Kratos Defense & Security Solutions awarded contract worth up to $579 million. Contract supports command-and-control operations of four constellations and 26 military communication ...

Finding Life Beyond Earth: What Comes Next? The search for life is accelerating, sprouting new technologies and new ideas. Could we ever visit planets beyond our solar system? And if we find life beyond Earth, how will it change us? NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is already adding to ...

China’s Landspace aims to build a stainless steel rocket Original Publication Date: 2023-11-22 23:08 Chinese launch startup Landspace has unveiled plans to develop a reusable stainless steel rocket. The Zhuque-3 (Vermillion Bird 3) will use stainless propellant tanks and clusters of Tianque ...

Satellogic gets NOAA license for move to the United States Original Publication Date: 2023-11-22 00:04 Satellogic has received a remote sensing license in the United States. The license covers 36 sub-meter resolution satellites already in low Earth orbit. It is Satellogic’s first such license ...

Jupiter-3 deploys solar arrays and antennas in orbit Original Publication Date: 2023-11-21 02:12 EchoStar’s Jupiter-3, the world’s heaviest commercial communications satellite, is performing as expected. Maxar Technologies built the nine metric ton Ka-band satellite and supplied its solar ...

World View ends plans to go public through a SPAC merger Original Publication Date: 2023-11-20 10:53 World View and Leo Holdings Corp II announce they are canceling plans to merge. The companies announced the merger in January. The decision to end the merger was mutual, the companies said. ...

WRC-23: Time to Get the Rules Right for Satellite Broadband Original Publication Date: 2023-11-18 16:18 The ITU counts more than 2.7 billion people worldwide who remain offline. In the least developed countries, only 36% of people are online. Advances in satellite broadband offer incredible ...

Investors grant Astra extension on loan Original Publication Date: 2023-11-18 08:30 Astra Space gets four-day extension on loan to give company more time to line up longer-term funding deal. Investors had provided bridge loan, originally valued at $3.05 million, as part of interim financing ...

ULA gearing up for first Vulcan launch Original Publication Date: 2023-11-17 05:39 All major components for the first Vulcan Centaur rocket are now at the launch site. United Launch Alliance prepares for a launch in late December. The primary payload for Cert-1 is Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar ...