Viasat, Infostellar partner for smallsat ground segment services
Viasat and Infostellar, a Japanese Ground Segment as a Service (GSaaS) start-up, today announced the signing of a Real-Time Earth (RTE) agreement. Through the collaboration, Viasat will act as a market...
Infographic – Why small satellites are the future
What is the hype surrounding small satellites? How much has currently been invested in them? What are the key differences between GEO and LEO?
The global small satellites market is expected to...
NewSpace company Kineis to launch Europe’s first IoT nanosatellite constellation
Kineis, a new space company based in France, is planning on launching the first European Internet of Things (IoT) nanosatellite constellation of 20 nanosatellites by the year 2021. Through this, the...
ISRO awards contracts for satellite assembly, integration & testing to 3 industry players
On 18 July 2018, the U. R. Rao Satellite Centre (URSC), formerly known as the ISRO Satellite Centre (ISAC), signed a pact with private industry players in India for the Assembly,...
ISRO smallsat Microsat-TD to launch in early February with Cartosat-2F
India's space agency ISRO will launch Microsat-TD, a small earth observation satellite, in its first launch of 2018 in early February on a PSLV-XL launch vehicle. The launch of Microsat-TD has...
Malaysian govt & defense agencies to use Hughes JUPITER system
Hughes Network Systems today announced that it has been selected by Mutiara Smart Sdn Bhd to deploy the JUPITER System and bring enterprise-grade, managed network services to Malaysian government and defense...
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...
SKY Perfect JSAT Invests in LeoSat for Faster-Than-Fibre Connectivity
Asia’s largest satellite operator, SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation (SJC), has signed an agreement with US-based LeoSat Enterprises to invest in the latter, which seeks to provide the first commercially available, extremely...
Capricorn Space and Infostellar cooperate on On Demand ground segment services
Australian ground segment operator Capricorn Space and Japanese on-demand ground segment provider Infostellar have signed an agreement that will enable Infostellar customers access to their satellite constellations from the Australian Ground...
Astroscale & Surrey Satellite Technology sign contract on debris-removal mission
Astroscale and Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to pursue "joint opportunities in areas of innovative on-orbit technologies and missions designed to safeguard the orbital...