Satellites

The Space Development Agency’s first operational satellites are scheduled to launch early next year due to supply chain issues that prevented a 2024 launch.

Starship, currently in a test phase, is going to change the way space industry players see satellites.

The expanded factory will be the world’s largest high-volume manufacturing facility in its satellite class.

The Next-Gen OPIR program includes two satellites for use in geostationary orbit (GEO).

The company is jointly opening two new facilities in Colorado called “Victory Works.”

The company’s service, called Astra, monitors the quality and reliability of primary Global Navigation Satellite System services.

The agency worked in the shadows for decades before being declassified in 1992.

Hanwha and its subsidiary Hanwha Defense Australia signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Advanced Navigation.

The UK is undergoing a major overhaul of its military satellite communications architecture.

The Space Development Agency is about to put the first operational satellites in its Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture on orbit.

Boeing plans to launch its Q4S satellite in 2026 to demonstrate quantum entanglement swapping.

The CEO of SES Global says the satellite operator has secured a multi-year deal to provide NATO access to its medium Earth orbit satellite constellation.

The EU says it has received one bid from the SpaceRISE consortium—SAS, Eutelsat and Hispasat—to develop and deploy the sovereign satcom constellation IRIS2.

The NRO says it plans to launch about a half a dozen missions in support of the next-generation proliferated architecture in 2024.

Space-to-space and space-to-air tests are planned to prove optical communications capability.

The Belgium-based company was established in 2018.

In an Aug. 17 post, X denounced the court order as “censorship.”

Spire Global has agreed to pay lender Blue Torch Capital $10 million toward outstanding principal as part of a deal to waive certain loan terms.

New technologies are leveraging the advantages of GEO.

The MOU, signed July 9, is a new milestone for the Alliance Persistent Surveillance from Space initiative.

Senators want a U.S. Space Force program executive office to manage the acquisition of satellites that can track both air and ground moving targets from orbit.