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GomSpace to supply satellites for Sky and Space Global constellation
Mar 01, 2017 (SPX)
GomSpace ApS a subsidiary of GS Sweden AB has been selected by and has entered into a procurement contract with the UK company Sky and Space Global (UK) Ltd. to...
OneWeb, Intelsat merge to advance satellite internet
Feb 28, 2017 (AFP)
Satellite telecom firms OneWeb and Intelsat announced plans Tuesday to merge, and a fresh $1.7 billion investment from Japan's SoftBank to advance an ambitious ...
Kacific places order with Boeing for a high throughput satellite
Feb 22, 2017 (SPX)
Kacific Broadband Satellites Pte Ltd (Kacific) has ordered its Kacific-1 satellite from The Boeing Company (Boeing) based on the 702 satellite platform. This co...
ESA affirms Open Access policy for images, videos and data
Feb 22, 2017 (ESA)
ESA has announced it has adopted an Open Access policy for its content such as still images, videos and selected sets of data. For more than two decades, ESA ha...
Iridium Announces Target Date for Second Launch of Iridium NEXT
Feb 17, 2017 (SPX)
Iridium Communications has announced it has received a targeted launch date of mid-June for the second mission of ten Iridium NEXT satellites. Originally antici...
SpaceKnow raises $4 million in Series A funding
Feb 15, 2017 (SPX)
SpaceKnow announced the company has raised $4 million in Series A financing led by BlueYard Capital and previously existing investor Reflex Capital. This invest...
Italy, Russia working closely on Mars exploration, Earth monitoring satellites
Feb 14, 2017 (Sputnik)
There are neither sanctions nor politics in space and cooperation there between Russia, the US and Europe is absolutely vital. In an interview with Sputnik, the...
A New Space Paradigm
Feb 14, 2017 (SPX)
The space community has reached a fork in the road to future space exploitation. One fork leaves us with a "business as usual" scenario. This option leads to th...
Why it's time for Australia to launch its own space agency
Feb 14, 2017 (SPX)
Any nation that hopes to have a space program needs to be able to keep an eye on its orbiting assets at all times. This means that Australia has become a key li...
Government announces boost for UK commercial space sector
Feb 14, 2017 (SPX)
Grants worth 10 million pounds are being made available to help develop commercial launch capability for spaceflight, Science Minister Jo Johnson announced this...
NASA seeks partnerships with US companies to advance commercial space technologies
Feb 07, 2017 (SPX)
NASA is seeking partnerships with U.S. companies focused on industry-developed space technologies that can advance the commercial space sector and benefit futur...
Iridium Adds Eighth Launch with SpaceX for Satellite Rideshare
Feb 03, 2017 (SPX)
Iridium Communications has contracted with SpaceX for an eighth Falcon 9 launch. Along for the ride are the twin-satellites of the NASA/GFZ Gravity Recovery and...
An exciting year in space for Intelsat
Feb 03, 2017 (SPX)
This past year brought a number of positive developments in the ongoing partnership between commercial satellite service providers and our government customers....
Space, Ukrainian-style: Through Crisis to Revival
Jan 31, 2017 (SPX)
148 successful launches, 300 space vehicles placed in orbit and a number of high-profile international projects - this is just a partial list of Ukraine's inves...
ESA Planetary Science Archive gets a new look
Jan 25, 2017 (ESA)
ESA launches a new version of its Planetary Science Archive (PSA) website, the online interface to data from the agency's space science missions that have been ...
Shaping the Future: Aerospace Works to Ensure an Informed Space Policy
Jan 20, 2017 (SPX)
The Aerospace center for space policy analysis - one of five strategic initiatives recently announced by President and CEO Steve Isakowitz - issued an informati...
Iridium-1 NEXT Launched on a Falcon 9
Jan 18, 2017 (SPX)
SpaceX has successfully launched 10 satellites for Iridium Communications. This was the first of several such launches in the Iridium satellite replacement prog...
Russia-China Joint Space Studies Center May Be Created in Southeastern Russia
Jan 17, 2017 (Sputnik)
A joint-working space center of Russian and Chinese specialists could be built in Russia's southeastern Zabaikalsky Territory, the press service of the region's...
EchoStar 19 positioned in orbital slot
Jan 13, 2017 (SPX)
Hughes Network Systems reports that it has begun system level testing of its new EchoStar XIX satellite - the world's highest capacity broadband satellite - fol...
Airbus DS and Energia eye new medium-class satellite platform
Dec 26, 2016 (Sputnik)
Europe's largest aerospace group Airbus Defence and Space (Airbus DS) will develop and manufacture an advanced medium-class satellite platform in cooperation wi...
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