China launched a group of internet satellites into orbit on December 9th reports China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, the State-owned space contractor. The satellites, the 15th group of low-orbit hardware in China’s State-owned internet network, were lifted by a Long March 6A carrier rocket at 6:11 am (Beijing time) from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch […]
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has created a €500 million fund for Space-based technology. The fund, ‘Space Tech EU’ is intended to bring together the skills of the of EIB, the European Commission and the European Space Agency (ESA) to help de-risk space projects, making them more acceptable for other financing from European banks. The […]
Azerbaijan has reached a new milestone in its space journey with the successful launch of the country’s first-ever satellite designed and built by school students. The PocketQube satellite, created by 7th-9th grade students under the SPACE Academy of Azercosmos, was launched into orbit aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket. Symbolically this honoured event was dedicated to […]
Even though some programme approvals are still pending, the European Space Agency (ESA) wrapped up its two day Ministerial meeting in Bremen, Germany, by announcing it had received commitments from its 27 member states which total €22.1 billion for the next three years. The sum is the largest-ever with the ESA noting: “Confirmed support for […]
Germany has explained its plans for its space policy. The German defence ministry, in a statement on November 19th, and with a detailed report from Boris Pistorius, German’s defence minister, and Johann Wadephul, the country’s foreign affairs minister, said they wanted to ensure and secure Germany’s long-term ability to act in space – in both […]
Spaceflux a UK-based player in space domain awareness (SDA) and space intelligence, has won three major multimillion-pound, multiyear UK government contracts to provide advanced space surveillance and tracking (SST) data across multiple orbital regimes. The UK Space Agency (UKSA) and the UK Ministry of Defence (UKMoD) contracts, awarded under the National Space Operations Centre (NSpOC) […]
Luxembourg-based OQ Technology, a pioneering European direct-to-device (D2D) satellite connectivity provider with 60 MHz of high-priority MSS S-band spectrum, has achieved a major technological milestone using its Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellation to successfully deliver Europe’s first direct-to-mobile emergency broadcast message from space — transmitted directly to standard smartphones without any hardware or software […]
Reports from the Russian Space Web (RSW) say that heads continue to roll at Russia’s Roskosmos. The site says that the Director General at ISS Reshetnev, prime developer of military and communications satellites, is “voluntarily resigning”. On October 10th, Roskosmos announced that Evgeny Nesterov, the head of ISS Reshetnev, Russia’s prime developer of military and […]
Hubble Network, the company enabling any Bluetooth device to connect directly to satellites, has announced two key additions to its leadership team as it advances its mission to deliver seamless global connectivity for devices. “Hubble’s mission is to make global connectivity as easy as any digital interaction,” said Alex Haro, Co-Founder and CEO of Hubble […]
FCC chairman Brendan Carr is not everyone’s favourite legislator, but his latest proposal looks like winning favourable support from the industry. He wants to create a ‘Space Assembly Line’ in order to ‘fast track’ applications and to demolish barriers to entry for the space and satellite sector. However, good as this idea is, he also […]