1+ hour, 4+ min ago  (21+ words) Condor-Ultra is three times larger than its Condor-XL satellite bus, and geared toward the nascent orbital-data-center market....

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (502+ words) ESA has picked a Kepler Communications-led team to test the agency's "fiber in the sky" Hyd RON orbital communications network, the companies announced Tuesday." Under the contract, Kepler will launch a sat in 2027 carrying the ATLAS-X laser communications terminal from…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (359+ words) Vantor introduced two new satellite classes today that will aim to improve on the company's imagery resolution and revisit rate. Meet the sats: These new offerings will build on the 30-cm class imagery provided by Vantor's World View Legion constellation,…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (431+ words) As demand for spectrum grows alongside the rising number of missions in orbit, a new startup is looking to ease management of this precious, finite resource. Airbase emerged from stealth today with a $5 M round led by Andreessen Horowitz. The…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (395+ words) Customers looking for satellite connectivity are often forced to choose between one provider or another. Those days are over. CA-based managed connectivity provider Contrivian announced a new product today'Contrivian Constellation'which combines Amazon Leo and Starlink connectivity into one solution, offering…...

2+ mon, 2+ week 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,…...

3+ mon, 1+ day ago  (427+ words) BEACONSAT, which will also be the country's largest locally developed sat, is scheduled to launch on a Space X Falcon 9 rocket in February 2027, where it will operate for at least one year to detect instances of satellite jamming and spoofing....

3+ mon, 1+ week 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 Sky Connect Kenya award from the French Ministry of Economy,…...

3+ mon, 3+ 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…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (383+ words) Re Orbit 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…...