Farah Ghouri finds out the status of the Lunar Pathfinder project, why the cubesat bubble is far from bursting, and how it will be “quite interesting” to discover life beyond Earth, from Sir Martin Sweeting, chief executive of Surrey Satellite Technology Limited...
Echostar completed its acquisition of its sister company DISH Network, a US satellite TV provider, on the cusp of the new year. The deal, first announced in August 2023, has brought together DISH Network’s satellite technology and 5G network with EchoStar’s satellite...
The US Space Development Agency (SDA) has signed contracts with both York Space Systems and Northrop Grumman for the development of satellites for its mesh network known as Transport Layer Tranche 2 Alpha. Colorado based York Space Systems was awarded a US$615 million...
French satellite operator Eutelsat Communications SA and UK government part-owned OneWeb have completed an all-share merger, to create Eutelsat Group, a new entity raring to compete in the commercial space race with Elon Musk’s Starlink and Jeff Bezos’s Project...
Satellite operator Thaicom Plc has ordered a fully reconfigurable high throughput communications satellite – as yet unnamed – from Airbus Defence and Space. It will use the software-defined OneSat platform/bus design from Airbus. The communications...
British defence company BAE Systems plans to acquire Ball Corporation’s aerospace subsidiary for US$5.6 billion in cash. The deal, pegged as one of the biggest acquisitions by a UK company this year, is also BAE’s biggest, making public the extent of its ambition to...