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Orbex has won a new contract with D-Orbit for two launches aboard Orbex Prime, the company’s micro-launcher, over the course of the next three years. Orbex announced the deal, Feb. 3. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. D-Orbit offers logistics services to the space market, for example, by transporting satellites once in orbit…

Viasat received a task order award to provide satellite communications services to support Department of Defense missions under the Proliferated Low-Earth Orbit (PLEO) contract, Viasat announced Feb. 3. This is Viasat’s first task order on the PLEO contract and it is worth $3.5 million.Viasat will provide Ku-band Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) services through a partner network…

Indra Group, a Spanish technology and defense company, has agreed to acquire an 89.68% stake in satellite operator Hispasat from Redeia, a Spanish infrastructure corporation, for 725 million euros ($747 million), Indra announced Feb. 3.  The deal includes Redeia’s 43% share in Hisdesat, a Spanish government satellite services provider, with Indra already holding 7% of…

LONDON — The space industry needs to get serious about sustainability and not just pay lip service to it, industry leaders agreed last week at the the Royal Aeronautical Society conference: Leading Global Change through the Earth & Space Sustainability Initiative (ESSI), held in London. Joanne Wheeler MBE, managing partner for Alden Legal and director…