Airbus has won a design study from the UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) to develop the technologies for a cluster of ultra-high-resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites for the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD).
Read More »UK Defence Minister Announces Industry Competition To Operate And Maintain SKYNET-6 MILSATCOM Programme
Speaking at the DSEi conference on 11 September 2019, the UK Defence Secretary outlined an ambitious and global vision for defence. He highlighted the UK’s decisive contribution to the fight against Daesh and RFA Mounts Bay’s role providing critical humanitarian relief in response to Hurricane Dorian.
Read More »Satellogic Partners With China’s ABDAS To Provide Earth Observation Data
Satellogic, the world’s first vertically integrated geospatial analytics company, has announced that they have partnered with ABDAS, based in Henan Province, China, to deliver exclusive access to a dedicated constellation of satellites.
Read More »Airbus And Telespazio To Sell MILSATCOM Capacity On French Syracuse IV
Airbus and Telespazio (Leonardo/Thales) have set up a partnership to market military telecommunications services using the future Syracuse IV satellites.
Read More »European Global Navigation Satellite Systems Agency Celebrates 15th Anniversary
Jean-Yves Le Gall, President of the Centre national d'études spatiales (CNES) and Chair of the Administrative Board of the European Global Navigation Satellite Systems Agency (GSA), celebrated the agency’s 15th anniversary in Prague with Europe’s space leaders in attendance on 10 September 2019.
Read More »SES Taps SpaceX To Launch Its O3b mPOWER MEO SATCOM Constellation
SES has selected SpaceX as a launch partner to deliver its next-generation Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) satellite constellation into space on board Falcon 9 rockets from Cape Canaveral.
Read More »Two Recently Launched ICEYE SAR Satellites Commissioned – Added to Commercial Constellation
ICEYE's two SAR satellites launched in July 2019 have finalized their initial commissioning, and are available for customer data orders.
Read More »Relativity Space Signs Launch Services Agreement for Multiple Launches with Momentus on Terran 1
Relativity Space has signed a Launch Services Agreement (LSA) with Momentus, the provider of in-space shuttle services that move satellites between orbits, to launch Momentus’ small and medium satellite customers on Relativity’s Terran 1 rocket, the world’s first and only entirely 3D printed rocket
Read More »Casablanca Online Successfully Enables Live Broadcasts of Copa America with SES and Newtec Dialog
Casablanca Online, a leading Brazilian SNG and service provider, provided IP connectivity to broadcasters’ outdoor production teams during the 2019 Copa America football event in summer.
Read More »Mobile Satellite Broadband Connectivity Challenge Solved with New Power Architecture Enabling Phasor’s ESA Technology
Phasor, the leading developer of enterprise-grade electronically-steered antenna (ESA) systems for satellite-based mobile broadband applications, has worked with Vicor to develop a power solution for its new system that provides connectivity speeds and bandwidth previously unachievable while on the move.
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