Canada-based MDA Space has opened a 185,000 square foot expansion of their existing manufacturing facilities in Montreal. The facility is specially designed to simultaneously and continuously assemble, integrate and test multiple MDA Aurora satellites, the company’s flagship line of digital satellite products. “Designed to meet the changing and highly competitive technical and business requirements of […]
US space agency NASA has objected to the FCC over Blue Origin’s ‘Project Sunrise’ application to deploy approximately 51,600 satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) at altitudes between 500 km and 1,800 km. While supporting commercial innovation, NASA emphasises that the constellation’s scale raises significant safety and sustainability concerns for its human spaceflight and science […]
Amazon Leo has filed a formal petition calling on the FCC to deny SpaceX’s 1 million-satellite proposal for orbiting data centres using the Sun to charge batteries and the cold of space to cool on-board processing. Amazon argues that the SpaceX 1 million satellite project would take “centuries” to deploy. Amazon Leo says: “Deploying the […]
Warner Bros International Television Production has revealed the key new titles it will be introducing to buyers at its Showcase event on Thursday 26th February. This latest slate introduces formats that take us from the courtroom to the classroom, as well as fun, fresh takes on popular reality and dating formats that are guaranteed to […]
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is reportedly delaying a planned unmanned Moon landing by its giant Starship rocket to June 2027. The manned version will then follow in 2028, according to reports. However, this schedule is somewhat later than originally sought by NASA which wanted the human landing by 2027. The dates come from an article in […]
Amazon’s Project Kuiper mega-constellation of broadband satellites has been renamed as Amazon Leo. The company has also showcased its latest terminals (Leo Nano, Leo Pro, and Leo Ultra). Rajeev Badyal, VP at Amazon Leo, said in a press statement explaining the change that Project Kuiper started out as the code name for the project when […]
Plume has appointed former Ubiety Chief Technology Officer and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) engineer Mik Cox as Senior Vice President of Technology Innovation. Cox will lead the company’s new technology innovation team. With almost half a billion devices connected to the Plume intelligent platform, Cox joins at a critical time where the company is […]
Lynk Global, a satellite-to-cellular operator which has SES as a major shareholder, has asked the FCC for a 60-day temporary authority to operate feeder links in the S-Band as part of a South African trial of its technology, with an unnamed local mobile operator (probably MTN), aimed at testing direct-to-device (D2D) voice calling. The test […]
AstroAgency, a strategic communications and market intelligence firm dedicated to the commercial space industry, is accelerating its expansion into North America, formalising two new transatlantic partnerships. UK-headquartered AstroAgency has signed two Memorandums of Understandings (MOU) with Voyager Technologies and Cislunar International, kicking off a six-month push to grow the firm’s connections and clients across the […]
Netflix is partnering with NASA to bring space a little closer to home and its streaming subscribers. Beginning this summer, Netflix will stream live rocket launches, astronaut spacewalks, mission coverage and live views of Earth from the International Space Station (ISS). NASA+ has been capturing live images from the ISS for years, and in 4K. […]