Satellite Industry Intelligence Since 1983
The best of SatNews—essential reads, standout reporting, and hand-picked stories worth your time.
Maxar Technologies (NYSE:MAXR) (TSX:MAXR) has received an order to build another geostationary communications satellite for longtime customer SiriusXM, following the SXM-9 satellite order that was announced earlier this month. The […]
Read More
Gilmour Space Technologies and Exolaunch now have a series of agreements for smallsat launch, deployment and in-space transportation services. Under the agreements, the companies will join forces to provide tailored […]
Read More
During the 36th Space Symposium, Spaceflight Inc. announced the company had achieved 100% mission success for both its primary and secondary missions for SXRS-5, including the commissioning and successful firing […]
Read More
The United States Space Force’s Space Systems Command, Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared program, successfully passed a major milestone, completing its Block 0 Geosynchronous Earth Orbit Space Vehicle Critical Design […]
Read More
Article by Lesley Conn, senior manager of Research and Analysis at Space Foundation Introduction This edition, a special publication for the 36th Annual Space Symposium, examines where we are as […]
Read More
Virgin Orbit, through its parent company Vieco USA, Inc. (“Virgin Orbit” or the “Company”) and NextGen Acquisition Corp. II (“NextGen”) (NASDAQ: NGCA), a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), have announced […]
Read More
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has invented a new type of satellite dish technology with a wide range of use on satellites and ground terminals, including space-based 5G. The Wide Angle […]
Read More
Rocket Lab will initiate final mission design and manufacture to supply two, interplanetary, Photon spacecraft for a science mission to Mars, delivering Decadal-class science at a fraction of the cost […]
Read More
Performed by Arianespace on Sunday, August 22, 2021, at precisely 3:13 a.m. local time at Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome (10:13 p.m. UTC on August 21), Soyuz Flight ST34 lifted-off, with 34 […]
Read More
Vector Acquisition Corporation (Nasdaq: VACQ) (“Vector”), a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) backed by leading technology investor Vector Capital, has announced that Vector’s shareholders voted to approve the […]
Read More
Satnews is a leading provider of satellite news, events, publications, research and other satellite industry information in both commercial and military enterprises worldwide.