Defense News officially confirmed a long-circulating industry rumor. Raytheon is done chasing SDA prime contracts.

What started as a binary battle between DTD spectrum approaches is increasingly looking like an “and” rather than an “or” outcome.

After watching startups launch dozens to hundreds of small imaging satellites in Low Earth Orbit, the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office is getting in on the action.

Sierra Space on April 5 announced a trio of satellite platforms meant to meet the needs of any orbit.

Companies are often reluctant to name-drop their competitors, but it’s no secret that virtually every satellite communications operator is squaring up against Starlink.

SpaceX is eyeing another segment of the space economy for disruption.

Netherlands-based IoT innovator, previously known as Magnitude Space, rebranded to "Hiber" in 2017, drawing inspiration from the idea of its modems entering a dormant state akin to “hibernating bears” between signal transmissions.

Among the dozens of meetings the Quilty team conducted at Satellite 2024 in Washington DC last week, one topic emerged more than any other: direct-to-device communications.

On March 12, Japan’s cabinet approved a 10-year fund of $6.7 USD billion (1 trillion yen) to promote satellites, space exploration, and transportation.

On March 1, NASA terminated a $2 billion program to create a refueling satellite, the On-orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing 1 (OSAM-1).

India has established itself as a global space power primarily through launch vehicles, navigation, and communications satellites.

f “space is hard” is the industry’s favorite adage, the runner up cliche is that we have a “do nothing Congress.”

Countries that spend heavily on defense almost always, by extension, are space powers, given the high number of dual-use technologies (propulsion, telecom, reconnaissance sensors).

It goes without saying that most of the industry’s regional satellite operators are too small to field their own large LEO or MEO constellations, yet all feel the pressure to expand beyond purely GEO-based connectivity.

At least six commercial space station efforts are under way to replace the International Space Station by 2031.

If the big fear among satellite services providers is Starlink capsizing their traditional business models, one such business model is taking on water.

Companies are often coy about when they want to do acquisitions, but not Rocket Lab.

Since at least 2018, China has had two or more purported LEO constellations in the works.