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Brig. Gen. Middleton: US Space Force Could Use a ‘Better Milsatcom Strategy’
PARIS — Acquiring resilient satellite communications lies at the heart of the U.S. Space Force’s commercial space strategy, but according to Brig. Gen. Jacob Middleton, Commander of U.S. Space Forces in Europe and Africa, the five-year-old branch of the Pentagon is still looking for a better way to secure connectivity. “Unfortunately, there’s no such thing…
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SDA Reports Optical Link Success with SpaceX, York Space PWSA Satellites
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—The Space Development Agency (SDA) continues to advance the communications capabilities of its first batch of satellites on orbit as part of the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA), demonstrating sustained linkage between two satellites for more than a day at a time, the agency’s top official said on Monday. Two weeks ago, the…
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SoftBank and Intelsat to Co-Develop ‘Ubiquitous Network’
SoftBank and Intelsat are teaming up to develop and launch a “Ubiquitous Network” concept that uses 5G connections between terrestrial and mobile and satellite communications networks. The companies announced Tuesday during World Space Business Week that they plan to jointly develop a hybrid communication solution based on 3GPP 5G non-terrestrial network standards. Explaining the need…
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Impulse and Space Network Services Signs GEO Rideshare Agreement at WSBW Paris
Impulse Space announced at the World Space Business Week conference in Paris, France, the signing of a GEO Rideshare agreement with Space Network Services, a French developer of small GEO satellites. Space Network Services’ GEO satellite, called Kaon, is a small and versatile telecommunication satellite designed for government and commercial customers that want to establish…
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D2D Market: Execs Believe Customers Will be Willing to Pay for Connectivity
PARIS — The direct-to-device (D2D) market has been the subject of excitement and hype in the satellite industry in the past few years, with the promise of expanding satellite’s market share and offering connectivity to phones and devices everywhere. It’s early days for this market, as Apple was an early-mover in offering the service to customers.…
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Google backs privately funded satellite constellation for wildfire detection
Space is more accessible than ever thanks to the proliferation of small satellites and more affordable launch prices, which opened the door to bespoke applications like global pollution monitoring, crop observations, and new ways of collecting weather and climate data. Now you can add wildfire detection to the list. Satellites have observed wildfires from space…
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Peraton Partners with Rivada Space Networks for Ultra-Secure LEO Communications in U.S
Peraton, a next-generation national security company and transformative enterprise IT provider, is partnering with Rivada Space Networks to offer a unique, ultra-secure low-earth orbit network capability to support mission-critical U.S. government communications around the globe. Based in the U.S., Peraton is already using first-generation LEO constellations; the company will now work with Rivada Space Networks…
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Planet Lab Signs Multi-Year Contract with the German Space Agency
Planet Labs Germany, a provider of daily data and insights about Earth, announced that they have signed a three year contract with the German Space Agency at German Aerospace Center ( DLR ). Through this multi-year contract, Planet will provide a series of Earth observation data products and services to the German Space Agency at…
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Mynaric Advances CONDOR Mk3 Production for Improvements in Yields and Supply Chain Issues
Mynaric, one of the leading providers of industrialized, cost-effective, and scalable laser communications products, today announced the successful advancement of the company’s volume production ramp for the CONDOR Mk3. Mynaric continues to work through previously announced production delays and has realized near-term improvement in production yields and supply chain-related bottlenecks. Production delays of CONDOR Mk3…
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Swissto12 Completes PDR With Intelsat and Viasat for HummingSat GEO Orders
Swissto12 completed preliminary design reviews with Viasat and Intelsat for both operators’ upcoming HummingSat satellites. Swissto12 is building small Geostationary (GEO) satellites for both Intelsat and Viasat for the Intelsat 45 and Inmarsat-8 satellites, respectively. HummingSat is also developed in partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA) under the framework of ESA’s Advanced Research in…