SES’s wholly-owned subsidiary, SES Space & Defense, has won a five-year Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) with the US Space Force’s Space Systems Command to provide reliable and secure managed satellite services. This deal enables the Department of War (DoW) to quickly order global Ku-band connectivity, helping people stay connected and protected, even in the world’s […]
Sir Richard Branson’s space tourism business says it will resume its commercial sub-orbital flights later this year. Virgin Galactic said it remains on track, technically and financially, to start commercial flights of its next-generation suborbital spaceplane before the end of the year. Virgin Galactic says Q3 will see test flights re-start. The news came during […]
The Cowboy Space business has filed with the FCC for permission to mount 20,000 satellites for a constellation named Stampede. It has raised $275 million to help fund its ambitions. Based in Silicon Valley’s San Carlos, California, Cowboy Space made its filing on May 14th saying it wanted to start launches in 2028. The filing […]
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 […]
Ann Vandenbroucke, Chief Regulatory Officer at Rivada Space Networks, has left the company. Vandenbroucke is a highly-regarded expert in the field of satellite regulation and previousely held a similar post at Avanti Communications. Her departure note said: “As the amazing time at Rivada ends, I can say I seldom had more fun, purpose and teamspirit […]
A report from analysts at McKinsey & Co, issued to coincide with ‘May the 4th be with you’, says that the Star Wars Day captures our imagination with visions of interstellar exploration and technological possibility. “This May 4th, those themes are increasingly reflected in the real-world evolution of the aerospace and defence sector. From the […]
Seraphim Space, the London-based investment company which specialises on space-related activity, is to raise £350 million (€403.9m) in order to capitalise on the space market. Seraphim described the timing as being at a “critical inflection market”. “Recent developments have caused a significant cost reduction in access to space, with lower satellite and launch costs — […]
Seraphim Space, the SpaceTech investment group, has announced the establishment of the Global Space Futures Advisory Council – a council created to address key strategic, commercial, and geopolitical opportunities and challenges facing the space sector. Bringing together leading space specialists from across the global space ecosystem, the Advisory Council includes former astronauts, space entrepreneurs, senior […]
Researchers at investment bank Morgan Stanley’s Space Team estimates that the roughly $350 billion (€296.9bn) global space industry could surge to over $1 trillion by 2040. Indeed, the team say “Space is the place” with institutional and private cash going into what it lists as the ‘Top 60’ space-related businesses worthy of an investment. The […]
Space Compass and SWISSto12 have executed a procurement contract for the first GEO optical data relay satellite. This agreement represents a milestone toward the realisation of Space Compass’s optical data relay service. With high‑speed, high‑capacity optical data relay service, Space Compass aims to transform Earth Observation from just a tracking record into a real-time decision-making […]