Rakuten and Vodafone Invest in AST & Science’s mobile broadband network for smartphones
Rakuten and Vodafone have become the lead investors in a venture to extend mobile coverage to more people and devices across the planet, using the first mobile broadband network that will...
Addvalue & KSAT to collaborate on smallsat-to-ground communication
Singapore-based company Addvalue Technologies and Norway-based Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) have agreed to collaborate closely on enhancing communications services in support of small Low Earth Orbiting (LEO) satellites.
The collaboration will see Addvalue’s...
Papua New Guinea to use Aireon’s space-based air traffic surveillance
Papua New Guinea Air Services Limited (PNGASL), which provides air navigation services for the country's airspace, has signed an agreement to deploy Aireon’s space-based Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) air traffic surveillance...
Thai Air Force orders its first Earth Observation CubeSat
The Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) has just signed a contract with Innovative Solutions In Space (ISIS), a Netherlands-based company providing end-to-end CubeSat solutions, for its first ever Earth Observation CubeSat....
mu Space Founder & CEO to set up US$100m venture unit
James Yenbamroong revealed today his plan to establish a venture unit in 2019 in a move to go international and to create opportunities other than in satellite communications.
Yenbamroong, a satellite and...
Four Japanese companies form a joint venture to develop small rockets
Four Japanese companies – IHI Aerospace, Canon Electronics, Shimizu Corporation, and the Development Bank of Japan (DBJ) – have formed the New Generation Small Rocket Development Planning Co., Ltd.
This joint venture,...
Australia’s Myriota to acquire 4 exactEarth satellites
Myriota, an Australian company providing nanosatellite internet of things (IoT) connectivity, has signed an agreement with Canada's exactEarth Ltd. to acquire four of the latter's satellites, along with its global ground...
AstroTerrace & BridgeSat awarded optical communications contract for JAXA’s ETS-9
Japan-based startup AstroTerrace and US-based BridgeSat have been awarded a contract by Japan's National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) for Japan's Engineering Test Satellite 9 (ETS-9). NICT has been...
Globalsat Group and SatSure sign agreement for geospatial analytics in the Americas
Spatial analytics company SatSure and Pan-American Mobile Satellite Service (MSS) consortium Globalsat Group have signed an agreement for the joint marketing of large area analytics solutions in the Americas.
Under the agreement,...
Interview: Vivian Quenet, Managing Director APAC, Arianespace
Vivian Quenet was appointed the Managing Director for Arianespace in Singapore just under two months ago. He is in charge of the development and consolidation of Arianespace’s commercial and government relations...