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Viasat’s HaloNet: The Innovation of Reprogrammable Space Crypto
1+ hour, 35+ min ago (887+ words) Part 4 in a series on orbital communications Spacecraft today operate in an environment defined by two accelerating forces: the explosive growth of satellites in orbit, and the rapid evolution of cyber threats targeting them. As missions become more autonomous, networked,…...
Austria Commissions its First Military Sat
1+ week, 4+ day ago (427+ words) BEACONSAT, which will also be the country's largest locally developed sat, is scheduled to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in February 2027, where it will operate for at least one year to detect instances of satellite jamming and spoofing. While…...
Skynopy to Integrate its First Ground Station in Kenya
2+ week, 4+ day ago (456+ words) French ground-station-as-a-service startup Skynopy won an award from the French government to integrate a ground antenna, owned and operated by the Kenya Space Agency (KSA), into its commercial network." The SkyConnect Kenya award from the French Ministry of Economy, Finance,…...
Astrolight Plans to Demo Space-to-Ground Optical Comms
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (467+ words) The Russians are causing problems again. It was reported this week that Russian spysats may have intercepted what were supposed to be secure comms from European GEO satellites several times during the past three years. Lucky for Europe, Lithuanian optical…...
ReOrbit and Google Cloud Kick Start “Space Cloud” Data Network
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (383+ words) ReOrbit isn't waiting around for the space industry to finish debating the viability of data centers in orbit." The Finnish satellite manufacturer announced a partnership with Google Cloud yesterday to build a network of satellites to securely transport and process…...
Viasat’s HaloNet: Building the Bridge to a More Connected Orbit
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (719+ words) Part 3 in a series on orbital communications Inside Viasat's labs, David Greenidge and Skylar Cox lead a team of engineers who are designing a hybrid communications terminal to modernize and evolve not just the way missions are executed, but how…...
HEO Buys Satellogic’s In-Orbit Sat
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (556+ words) Why build a new satellite, when you can buy one already in orbit?" At least, that was the mentality of officials at HEO, an Australian non-Earth imaging (NEI) startup that announced the purchase of Satellogic's NewSat-34 yesterday. The move is…...
ESA Pours €73M into SWISSto12’s HummingSat Program
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (354+ words) SWISSto12 closed "73M in non-dilutive funding from ESA under the agency's Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems (ARTES) program, the Swiss satellite manufacturer announced this week. Member states who committed the funding at ESA's ministerial meeting in November include Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Sweden,…...
SkyFi Secures $12.7M Series A
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (524+ words) There's no shortage of EO imagery these days, and SkyFi wants to make sure customers can access that data as easily as clicking "add to cart." Today the Austin-based startup announced a $12.7M Series A co-led by Buoyant Ventures and IronGate…...
Viasat’s HaloNet: Eliminating Launch Telemetry Blackouts
2+ mon, 5+ day ago (514+ words) Part 2 in a series on orbital communications Typically, that data could only reach operators while the rocket was within line-of-sight of a ground station. "Over oceans or over the poles, those links drop out," Christianson said. "With HaloNet, the rocket…...