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Blues Expands Global Satellite IoT with Starnote on Iridium
Blues, a leader in IoT connectivity solutions, announced Starnote for Iridium at The Things Conference in Amsterdam. The new offering in Blues’ Starnote family is an accessory that plugs into a Blues Cellular or WiFi Notecard, providing fallback message routing through Iridium satellite IoT connectivity when primary connectivity is unavailable. Blues is accepting applications for…
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Dutch Telco KPN Signs Roaming Partnership With OQ Technology
KPN, the Dutch telco, is the latest big name telco to partner with a satellite player. It is forming a strategic roaming partnership with OQ Technology, a 5G non-terrestrial network (NTN) satellite operator. The collaboration will enable KPN customers to connect to OQ’s satellite network for 5G IoT coverage across land and sea. The two…
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Beyond Gravity to Supply Thruster Pointing Mechanisms for Swissto12 HummingSat Platform
Swissto12 has contracted Beyond Gravity to supply thruster pointing mechanisms for its small Geostationary Orbit (GEO) satellite platform, the HummingSat. The pointing mechanisms are being developed and built at the company’s site in Vienna, Austria, with deliveries between 2026 and 2027. The pointing mechanism will be based on Beyond Gravity’s product family of APPMAX pointing…
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Beyond Gravity to Supply Thruster Pointing Mechanisms for Swissto12 HummingSat Platform
Swissto12 has contracted Beyond Gravity to supply thruster pointing mechanisms for its small Geostationary Orbit (GEO) satellite platform, the HummingSat. The pointing mechanisms are being developed and built at the company’s site in Vienna, Austria, with deliveries between 2026 and 2027. The pointing mechanism will be based on Beyond Gravity’s product family of APPMAX pointing…
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Direct-to-Device and Defense Momentum: Takeaways from World Space Business Week
Back from Paris, Via Satellite Editor Mark Holmes joins On Orbit host Rachel Jewett to unpack some of the top takeaways from World Space Business Week. Two themes drove much of the conversation during the week — direct-to-device (D2D) and defense. Spectrum was a big topic of conversation with SpaceX’s big spectrum buy and Viasat…
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Launch Roundup: Falcon 9 launches Starlink and Kuiper satellites
SpaceX is scheduled to launch up to three times this week, with each mission planned to deploy internet communications satellites into low-Earth orbit: two for the company’s own Starlink megaconstellation and one for its competitor, Amazon’s Project Kuiper. China kicked off the week’s launch manifest, for those in UTC, with the launch of its 100th…
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Blue Origin reportedly plans to expand New Shepard suborbital space fleet and launch facilities
Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket ship lifts off for an suborbital trip in April. (Blue Origin Photo) The executive in charge of Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital space program has laid out plans to scale up the operation for weekly launches — and says the company is looking into setting up a second launch site,…
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Sen. Maria Cantwell releases report citing NASA whistleblowers’ concerns about budget cuts
Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., speaks during a hearing on legislative priorities for NASA. (Senate Commerce Dems via YouTube) U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., today released a report that quotes NASA whistleblowers as saying they’ve “already seen safety impacts” affecting the space agency, due to budget cuts that are canceling out previously appropriated funding. One whistleblower…
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Calian to Design Data Platform for Telesat Lightspeed
Telesat has tasked Calian Group with designing and deploying the data platform that will form the data backbone of its Lightspeed constellation. The data platform will support bi-directional, asynchronous data flows and will enable the secure data exchange between Lightspeed network components and the operational and business platforms that will leverage the system data. The…
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Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser Advances to First Flight for NASA and National Security Missions
Sierra Space, a proven Defense Tech company delivering solutions for the nation’s most critical missions and advancing the future of security in space, announced a strategic transition for its Dream Chaser spaceplane. Dream Chaser’s first flight will be a free-flyer, demonstration mission, which is expected to prove the technology and deliver critical data to NASA.…