Via Satellite Senior Managing Editor
Rachel Jewett
Articles By Rachel
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SpaceBoeing, NASA Push First Crewed Starliner Flight to the ISS to 2023
NASA and Boeing have pushed back the first Starliner flight test with astronauts to February 2023, the agency said Thursday. The flight was previously expected in December of this year. […]
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SpaceHawkEye 360 Signs R&D Agreement with Army to Evaluate RF Data
HawkEye 360 has signed a two-year Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) to demonstrate its technology to the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC). The CRADA will explore […]
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SpaceSpace Force Wide Field of View Testbed is Online
The U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command’s Wide Field of View (WFOV) Testbed is online and the bus checkout is complete, Millennium Space Systems said Monday. The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s (NRL) Blossom […]
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SpaceInmarsat Wins Navy Military Sealift Command $578M Follow-On Contract
Inmarsat Government has received a follow-on contract worth up to $578 million to provide satcom services to the Navy Military Sealift Command over a 10-year period. The indefinite-delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract […]
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CongressSenators Press FCC to Reconsider Ligado Decision
A bipartisan group of eight senators sent a letter to the FCC this week, asking the commission to reconsider Ligado Networks license modification request due to potential GPS interference. Ligado is working to deploy […]
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SpaceIsotropic Systems Rebrands to All.Space Ahead of ‘Swiss Army Knife’ Terminal Rollout
Isotropic Systems is changing its name to All.Space ahead of the rollout of its ‘smart terminal,’ which the company hopes will differentiate the value of satellite capacity in the telecoms world and grow […]
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SpaceBiden Nominates Saltzman to Lead Space Force
President Biden nominated Lt. Gen. B. Chance Saltzman to be the U.S. Space Force’s next Chief of Space Operations, succeeding Gen. John “Jay” Raymond, who is projected to retire later this […]
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SpaceMillennium Space Systems Reveals Previously Undisclosed DARPA Red-Eye Mission
Millennium Space Systems shared details of a previously unknown small satellite mission for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) that tested crosslinks and on-orbit processing. Millennium Space Systems began the Red-Eye program […]
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Intelligence CommunityBlackSky Wins IARPA Award to Support Analysis Automation Project SMART
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) has awarded BlackSky [BKSY] a second award to support a research program to automate analysis of satellite imagery. On Thursday, BlackSky announced the $4.4 million award […]
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SpaceNorway’s Kongsberg to Acquire Smallsat Manufacturer NanoAvionics
Norwegian company Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace is acquiring smallsat manufacturer NanoAvionics under a deal announced Tuesday, valuing NanoAvionics at 65 million euros ($67 million). Kongsberg will acquire 77% of the company, and […]