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...
Momentus to launch Taiwan’s IRIS-A satellite
Momentus, which is developing the Vigoride orbital transfer vehicle which uses water plasma thrusters, has signed an agreement with Taiwan's National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) and Odysseus Space for the upcoming...
Mitsubishi Electric begins developing new satellite
Amid the global Covid-19 pandemic, Mitsubishi Electric has announced that it has begun development of a new Earth Observation satellite for Japan's space agency JAXA.
The new satellite, known as the Global...
NASA, New Zealand partner to collect climate data from commercial aircraft using GNSS
NASA is partnering with the New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, New Zealand Space Agency, Air New Zealand and the University of Auckland to install next-generation Global Navigation Satellite...
Australia to develop cubesat for predicting bushfires
Australia is currently developing its first cubesat designed to predict where bushfires are likely to start and those that will be difficult to contain.
The development will take place at The Australian...
Chinese car manufacturer Geely enters LEO satellite business
One of China's largest car manufacturers and distributors, Geely, is about enter the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite business by manufacturing its own satellites for a commercial LEO constellation. The first...
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...
Airbus, Leonardo, join Australia’s satellite research consortium
On 27 February, Airbus and Leonardo Australia joined the government's SmartSat Cooperative Research Centre (Smartsat CRC), which officially opened the week before last.
SmartSat CRC is a consortium of universities, research organisations...
Chang’E-4 reveals details about the lunar subsurface on the far side
On 26 February 2020, findings from China's exploration of the far side of the Moon were published in Science Advances. These findings were drawn from China's lunar mission Chang'E-4, which landed...
Malaysia’s XOX, AdvanceTC, partner for satellite smartphones
Malaysia's XOX Mobile and AdvanceTC have announced an agreement to launch, over the next nine months, a range of 4G and 5G smartphones named XPLORE. This smartphone series will be designed...
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