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Amazon Enters D2D Market With Globalstar Acquisition and Plans for its Own System
Amazon has planted its flag in the direct-to-device (D2D) landscape with a deal to acquire Globalstar and deploy its own D2D satellite system. Amazon will acquire Globalstar under a roughly $10.8 billion deal announced Tuesday that includes Globalstar’s existing satellite operations, infrastructure, and assets, including its mobile satellite services (MSS) spectrum licenses. In addition, Amazon…
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EBAD’s Lisa Brown Talks Supporting Customer Missions at Space Symposium
Ensign-Bickford Aerospace and Defense (EBAD) has a 190-year history of supporting critical customer missions. An example of that deep heritage supporting customer missions was Artemis II. Lisa Brown, EBAD’s Space Market Segment Director spoke with Via Satellite during Space Symposium about how the company’s ordnance products supporting ignition and separation events in the Artemis II…
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Rocket Lab Closes Mynaric Acquisition at Higher Price Than Originally Agreed
Rocket Lab on Tuesday said it closed its acquisition of optical communications terminal (OCT) supplier Mynaric AG for $155.3 million, $5.3 million more than the original deal terms announced in March 2025. The final transaction price included a “nominal cash payment” and nearly 2.3 million shares of Rocket Lab’s stock. Original terms called for a…
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MDA SPACE Unveils Space Control Platform at 41st Space Symposium in Colorado
MDA Space, a trusted mission partner to the rapidly expanding global space industry, at the 41st Space Symposium in Colorado Springs announced MDA MIDNIGHT™, a space control platform for defence organizations to defend and protect the space domain. MDA MIDNIGHT is a maneuverable spacecraft that employs high-reliability rendezvous and proximity operations (RPO) to detect, identify,…
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NASA Administrator Isaacman Hails the Success of Artemis, Previews Plans for Artemis III and IV
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Getting back to the Moon with Artemis II has ignited plans to accelerate building a base on the Moon, while NASA takes steps to launch Artemis III and IV, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said during a keynote speech at the 2026 Space Symposium in Colorado Springs on Tuesday. “We’re going to…
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NASA Administrator Isaacman Hails the Success of Artemis, Previews Plans for Artemis III and IV
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Getting back to the Moon with Artemis II has ignited plans to accelerate building a base on the Moon, while NASA takes steps to launch Artemis III and IV, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said during a keynote speech at the 2026 Space Symposium in Colorado Springs on Tuesday. “We’re going to…
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Dawn Selected by ArkEdge to Provide Propulsion for Lunar Navigation Mission
Dawn Aerospace has been selected by ArkEdge Space to provide propulsion for a next-generation lunar navigation satellite, supporting Japan’s broader effort to establish positioning infrastructure around the Moon. The contract covers the development of a custom SatDrive propulsion system for a ~100 kg-class lunar satellite. The spacecraft forms part of ArkEdge Space’s Lunar Navigation Satellite…
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Exolaunch to Deploy 39 Satellites on SpaceX Falcon 9 CAS500-2 Rideshare Mission
Exolaunch, a global leader in launch mission management, satellite integration, and deployment services, will deploy 39 customer satellites (18 microsatellites and 21 cubesats) on the upcoming CAS500-2 rideshare mission with SpaceX, launching aboard a Falcon 9 rocket this spring. The mission underscores Exolaunch’s role as a core infrastructure provider within the global launch ecosystem, enabling more…
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Momentus Achieves Significant Milestones during Vigoride-7 Mission
Momentus, a U.S. commercial space company specializing in satellite technology, space transportation, and in-orbit services, shared a series of significant achievements in the ongoing Vigoride-7 mission, marking one of the most successful early-phase operations in the company’s history. Following separation from SpaceX’s Transporter-16 mission at approximately 520 km altitude, the Vigoride-7 Orbital Service Vehicle powered…
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Deloitte’s Space Business Launches Two New Satellites Into Orbit
Deloitte-2 and Deloitte-3, launched on March 29, 2026, from Vandenberg Space Force Base to expand Deloitte’s on-orbit footprint. The new satellites carry payloads designed to increase space data collection capacity and help meet clients’ growing needs for space-based data and insights. Project Constellation enables the engineering and testing of a software-only, on-orbit cyber defense capability…