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Kacific Secures SIG 2025 Best Cooperation Award for Expanding Satellite Internet in Asia-Pacific
Kacific Broadband Satellites Group (Kacific) has won the Best Cooperation Award at the Satcoms Innovation Group (SIG) 2025 Awards for its work transforming the Asia-Pacific region by providing affordable, reliable, and high-speed internet to underserved areas. SIG promotes innovation in satellite communications to enhance efficiency, reduce operational impact, and save time and costs. In support…
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Europe Must Take a Page Out of the SDA’s Playbook and Embrace Flexibility and Iteration
Europe is scrambling to bolster its defenses. It doesn’t take a genius to see why. Geopolitical shifts are underway. There’s a war on the Eastern frontier. And the Americans say they’re overstretched: they want Europe to get out from under its security umbrella. In response, defense spending is rising across the continent. The big European…
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Thales Delivers Dual Travelling Wave Tubes for Airbus’ Optus-11 Satellite
Thales has delivered all the Dual-TWTs necessary for the optimal performance of the Optus-11 satellite, developed by Airbus Defence and Space, and operating in the Ku-band. This delivery will significantly improve the communication and data management capabilities of Optus-11, while enhancing its performance and operational reliability. Reconfigurable even in orbit, this flexible satellite represents a…
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Anuvu Improves Dedicated Space Platform for Faster IFC Speeds
Anuvu is making improvements to its Dedicated Space network platform which will see airline customers get a faster connectivity service. The company says upgrades will result in an over 35% increase in peak speeds for customers. Anuvu announced the improvements, April 22. Introduced in 2022, Dedicated Space optimizes network performance by dedicating satellite capacity to…
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Boeing Improves Defense and Space Margin in Q1
Boeing’s headquarters. Photo: Boeing Revenue in the Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) segment was down 9% in the first quarter of 2025, but the segment’s operating margin improved year-over-year. BDS reported revenue of $6.3 billion on Wednesday during Boeing’s first quarter results, in which leadership outlined the impact of tariffs on the company’s aviation…
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China launches three taikonauts to Tiangong, commercial sector continues to expand
China has launched its ninth crewed mission to the Tiangong space station, coinciding with the 55th anniversary of the launch of Dongfanghong-1, the country’s first satellite. Meanwhile, China has achieved the world’s first network of satellites using a distant retrograde orbit (DRO) in Earth-Moon space, with its DRO-B satellite completing a final manoeuver this month.…
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NASA SPHEREx Team to Ring NYSE Closing Bell with the New Space Telescope Mission
Members of the team behind NASA’s newest space telescope will ring the New York Stock Exchange closing bell in New York City at 4 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, April 22. The team helped build, launch, and operate NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) mission to explore…
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China unveils Shenzhou-20 crew for space station mission
Chinese astronauts Chen Dong, Chen Zhongrui and Wang Jie will carry out the Shenzhou-20 crewed spaceflight mission, with Chen Dong as the commander, the China Manned Space Agency announced on Wednesday. The Shenzhou-20 crewed spaceship is scheduled to be launched at 5:17 p.m. Thursday (Beijing Time) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China,…
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Redwire Launches New Drug Tech and Cancer Test to ISS with PIL-BOX Platform
Redwire Corporation, a leader in space infrastructure for the next-generation space economy, announced that it has launched a new drug development technology and a cancer-detection experiment to the International Space Station (ISS) as the company scales its in-space pharmaceutical drug development program based on the success of its PIL-BOX platform. To complement the existing PIL-BOX platform,…
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