Via Satellite Senior Managing Editor
Rachel Jewett
Articles By Rachel
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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 […]
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SpaceNorthrop Grumman Selects Airbus for SDA Satellite Platforms
Airbus will supply Northrop Grumman [NOC] with satellite platforms for the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) Tranche 1 Transport Layer award, the companies said Tuesday. The Airbus U.S. Space & Defense subsidiary will […]
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SpaceRocket Lab Launches NASA Capstone Mission to Unique Lunar Orbit
Rocket Lab launched the CAPSTONE mission for NASA early Tuesday morning, sending the spacecraft on a journey to a unique lunar orbit. CAPSTONE — Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment — is […]