Between the imminent debut of Blue Origin’s New Glenn and the seventh demo launch of SpaceX’s Starship, the team at SpaceX quietly hit a new record in first-stage booster reuse Jan. 10, launching a Falcon 9 booster on its 25^th mission.

The European Union is treating Italy’s consideration of a €1.5 billion ($1.6B) contract for secure Starlink services as a binary decision between Europe and a foreign provider…

Globalstar on Dec. 12 held its first investor day in years, bringing analysts and shareholders together to outline business priorities. Quilty Space attended the event, and walked away with the conclusion that..

Based on satellite design lives, OneWeb may need to replace half its fleet before IRIS2 enters service in 2030.

Telesat Lightspeed experienced a cascading series of delays over the past seven years, mainly related to financing, but the project’s recent preliminary design review shows Telesat’s timeline is no longer slipping hard to the right.

An overview of U.S. launch startups that expanded to additional markets or pivoted away from space launch. Credit: Quilty Space

The summer slump got a jump in July 2023 when the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), on behalf of Space Systems Command’s (SSC) Commercial Satellite Communications Office (CSCO), rolled out a $900M IDIQ for proliferated low Earth orbit (pLEO) satellite services.

If SpaceX achieves VP of Flight Kiko Dontchev’s recently established goal of another 26 launches by the end of the year, the company will not only notch a new record, but set the stage for an even higher flight rate in 2025.

in September, the U.S. Space Force selected four companies – Astranis, Axient, L3Harris and Sierra Space – to submit design concepts for a layer of “Resilient GPS” (R-GPS) aimed at producing smaller, more affordable spacecraft to supplement the existing GPS system.

Constellations are never quick, and Europe’s IRIS² is no exception.

On Oct. 21, United Launch Alliance began integrating its third Vulcan rocket on a mission that, if done this year, positions the company to make good on an ambitious launch cadence in 2025.

On Oct. 21, United Launch Alliance began integrating its third Vulcan rocket on a mission that, if done this year, positions the company to make good on an ambitious launch cadence in 2025.

On Oct. 11, SpaceX filed with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) requesting to modify Starlink’s architecture and establish what it calls “SpaceX V3.”

The Defense Department doles out study contracts in the six-to-seven figure range so often they are rarely worth mentioning in the grand scheme of needle movers, but the Space Development Agency’s Commercial Disposal Services awards are different. 

Military agencies have long been ideal customers for the satellite industry because of their willingness to pay a premium for resilient communications.

Every year at the perennial Paris pilgrimage, one or more trends emerge as the dominant theme of the show, and 2024 was no different.

Supply chain fragility has been a perpetual challenge for the satellite industry, often centering on subsystems and components for which there are very few suppliers.

Over the past two years, Starlink has hit the maritime industry like a tsunami, swallowing up cruise line, yachts, and merchant vessels at such high rates that competitors must adapt or die.