FCC approves direct-to-smartphone regulatory framework Original Publication Date: 2024-03-14 17:26 FCC approves ground rules for allowing satellite operators to use radio waves from terrestrial mobile partners. Federal Communications Commission voted March 14 unanimously in favor of its ...

Astra founders reduce offer to take company private Original Publication Date: 2024-02-28 00:02 Founders of satellite propulsion and launch vehicle company Astra cut offer. Chris Kemp and Adam London slashed by two-thirds their offer to buy outstanding shares of company. In November, Kemp and ...

H3 reaches orbit on second launch Original Publication Date: 2024-02-17 01:17 Japan's H3 rocket successfully reaches orbit on its second launch Feb. 16. The H3 rocket lifted off from the Tanegashima Space Center at 7:22 p.m. Eastern. On the vehicle’s inaugural launch in March 2023, that engine ...

House committee debates space mining Original Publication Date: 2023-12-13 03:53 House subcommittee takes up the topic of mining the moon and asteroids for the first time. Witnesses argue that space resource extraction could be essential for the future of the U.S. Democrats argue that the issue ...

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 ...

Ball, Northrop Grumman, Orbital Micro Systems and Spire claim NOAA contracts Original Publication Date: 2023-09-01 17:32 Ball Aerospace, Northrop Grumman, Orbital Micro Systems and Spire Global won contracts. The four companies will conduct studies and design sounders for the Near-Earth Orbit ...

Regulatory uncertainty as commercial human spaceflight takes off Original Publication Date: 2023-07-05 09:00 Virgin Galactic conducted its first commercial flight of its SpaceShipTwo vehicle June 29. Blue Origin started flying paying customers on its New Shepard suborbital vehicle in 2021. Both ...

FCC adopts revised NGSO spectrum-sharing rules Original Publication Date: 2023-04-21 01:57 The FCC adopted new rules April 20 governing how fixed-satellite service operators share spectrum. Operators awarded licenses in different FCC application processing rounds must avoid interfering with ...

SpaceX launches Intelsat’s IS-40e high throughput satellite Original Publication Date: 2023-04-07 17:32 SpaceX successfully launched Intelsat's IS-40e communications satellite April 7. The satellite deployed solar arrays and is receiving and sending signals. It will take three weeks for the ...

Technical issue scrubs SpaceX commercial crew launch Original Publication Date: 2023-02-27 12:31 SpaceX's Crew-6 mission was to launch at 1:45 a.m. Eastern Feb. 27. A problem with a rocket ignition system halted the launch about two and a half minutes before liftoff. The next launch attempt is ...