Eartheye Space raises $1.5 million Original Publication Date: 2024-09-09 00:31 Singapore startup Eartheye Space raised $1.5 million in pre-seed funding. Eartheye, founded in 2022, calls itself the “Uber Eats’ of Earth-observation data. With the recent investment, Eartheye will be expanding into ...

Scout Space eyes military customers for space domain awareness sensor Original Publication Date: 2024-04-04 09:00 Scout Space is developing a space domain awareness sensor aimed at the military market. The company on April 4 announced it won a $1.8 million Small Business Innovation Research ...

Intelsat expands OneWeb LEO partnership Original Publication Date: 2024-03-20 02:46 Intelsat has bought at least five times more capacity from Eutelsat’s OneWeb constellation. The companies announced March 19 that Intelsat has made a firm commitment to buy $250 million worth of LEO capacity ...

Guetlein calls for a change in culture in ‘responsive space’ Original Publication Date: 2024-01-20 20:31 Space Force last year launched a small satellite on a Firefly rocket in a demonstration of responsive launch. More Victus Nox-style missions are being planned in the coming years. But ...

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 ...

Starlink and SES join forces for multi-orbit cruise connectivity Original Publication Date: 2023-09-13 06:50 SES and SpaceX are pooling their broadband satellites to offer cruise operators an integrated service. The SES Cruise mPowered + Starlink service would mostly use SpaceX’s low Earth ...

BAE Systems plc announces the proposed acquisition of Ball Aerospace – SatNews Original Publication Date: 2023-08-17 00:00 BAE Systems plc has entered into a definitive Stock Purchase Agreement to acquire the Ball Aerospace business from Ball Corporation for c.$5.55 billion in cash. The ...

Apogeo Space orders second space tug for connectivity constellation Original Publication Date: 2023-06-06 22:02 Apogeo Space plans to launch nine picosatellites next year with an orbital transfer vehicle. The satellites are due to launch on a Vigoride tug slated to join the SpaceX Falcon 9 ...

NOAA seeks funding increases for next-generation satellite programs Original Publication Date: 2023-04-06 23:08 NOAA requests $417.4 million for next-generation geostationary weather satellites. That program received $285 million in the fiscal year 2023 omnibus spending bill. The agency is also ...

Cobham to supply satellite terminals to Inmarsat for U.S. Navy network Original Publication Date: 2023-02-14 18:44 Cobham Satcom will supply as many as 170 terminals to Inmarsat for the U.S. Navy. Inmarsat Government last year won a $578 million 10-year contract to maintain and operate the ...