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Lately there has been a lot of attention paid to the heavens. Specifically, near-Earth space, between Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and Geosynchronous. We recently pointed out in “Money! In! Space!” that there is a business renaissance in space businesses and the related infrastructures. Startups in the space (pun intended) have been expanding old applications, creating new ones, and promising ones over the horizon, from intraorbital satellite taxis to future honeymoon lunar “cruises”.

Arianespace postpones Vega/SSMS launch due to storm over South Korea

L3Harris selected by Airbus for next gen mobile telecom satellite antenna

Eutelsat renews Sky Italia capacity contract, securing €450 million backlog

Hokkaido and Tokyo, Japan- Space BD Inc., the leading space startup in Japan that provides access to space using the International Space Station (ISS) Japanese Experiment Module “Kibo” and rideshares on Japan’s flagship launch vehicle “H3”,

Azercosmos, the premier satellite operator in the South Caucasus, has signed an extended partnership agreement with Globecast, the global solutions provider for media, to increase capacity and coverage across Africa.

Join SpaceWatch.Global for an interesting and informative Space Café WebTalk featuring Dr. Natália Archinard, Deputy Head of the Science, Education, Transport and Space Section at the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland, and Chair of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNCOPUOS). This event will take place on 22 September 2020 at 4:00 pm CEST.

August 2020 sure proved that a lot of private capital can flow into the space sector, with a total of US$2.2 billion. Sure, SpaceX represented over 80% of this total – the company’s latest filing shows $1.9 billion raised of a potential total of $2.066 billion – but even without it, the sector total would have come to almost $400 million, distributed across geographies and subsectors.

Gilat posts lower revenues and loss but confident for second half 2020

The US Space Development Agency (SDA) announced two contract awards for the first generation of the Transport Layer.