Articles about Satellites – Page 5 of 8

SpaceX’s Starlink satellite network wins $885M in federal aid for rural broadband

SpaceX’s Starlink satellite network — which relies on hundreds of spacecraft built in Redmond, Wash. — has been awarded $885.5… Read More

Kymeta rolls out its next-gen connectivity service, blending satellite and cellular links

Kymeta Corp., the Redmond, Wash.-based connectivity venture backed by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, is making the next generation of its… Read More

Spaceflight Inc. fills out its line of Sherpa orbital transfer vehicles for small satellites

Seattle-based Spaceflight Inc. today unveiled two new options for its Sherpa orbital transfer vehicle — one that uses an environmentally… Read More

Pentagon worries that satellite attacks could spark ‘mutually assured destruction’

In the years ahead, the long-running nightmare of the nuclear Cold War — mutually assured destruction — could return in… Read More

LeoStella takes on assembly role for NorthStar’s space traffic-monitoring satellites

Tukwila, Wash.-based LeoStella will oversee the assembly of the first three satellites for a constellation that’s designed to keep track… Read More

Microsoft partners with SpaceX’s Starlink satellite service for Azure Space cloud platform

Microsoft says it’s taking the next giant leap in cloud computing, in partnership with SpaceX and its Starlink broadband satellite… Read More

Space Notes: Spaceflight makes launch deal, RBC Signals to host Swarm, and a new fellowship is born

— Seattle-based Spaceflight Inc. says it’s signed an agreement with HawkEye 360 to support multiple launches of the Virginia-based company’s… Read More

After a boost from Bill Gates, Kymeta wins FCC’s approval for next-gen antennas

Redmond, Wash.-based Kymeta Corp., the mobile connectivity venture backed by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, says it has won the Federal… Read More

BlackSky will add sharper focus and night vision to future Earth-watching satellites

BlackSky’s satellites are already producing frequently updated, high-resolution views of planet Earth — but now the company says its next-generation… Read More

Kymeta goes beyond antennas with acquisition of Lepton satellite service company

Kymeta Corp. — the satellite antenna venture that’s based in Redmond, Wash., and backed by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates —… Read More

Amazon vows to invest $10B in Kuiper satellites after getting FCC’s go-ahead

The Federal Communications Commission has authorized Amazon’s plans for a Project Kuiper constellation of 3,236 satellites that would provide broadband… Read More

Air Force goes with BlackSky’s Spectra AI platform to track impact of COVID-19

BlackSky, a satellite data venture with offices in Seattle, says it’s won a U.S. Air Force contract to track the… Read More

Spaceflight and Tethers Unlimited team up on deorbiting system for satellite carrier

Seattle-based Spaceflight Inc. says it’ll use a notebook-sized deorbiting system developed by another Seattle-area company to deal with the disposal… Read More

FCC chief seeks conditional approval for Amazon’s Project Kuiper broadband satellite network

The Federal Communications Commission’s chairman, Ajit Pai, says he’s proposing approval of Amazon’s plan to put more than 3,200 satellites… Read More

British-Indian team puts in a winning $1B bid for OneWeb satellite broadband venture

Update for 12:20 p.m. Nov. 20: OneWeb has emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy with a new CEO, Neil Masterson, who… Read More

Amazon Web Services is creating its very own space force for cloud computing

Amazon Web Services today unveiled a new business unit devoted to developing data infrastructure and cloud services for the aerospace… Read More

Tethers Unlimited delivers software-defined radios to Millennium Space for satellite constellation

Bothell, Wash.-based Tethers Unlimited says it has completed an on-time delivery of 15 S-band software-defined radios in support of a… Read More

Relativity makes deals with Vandenberg AFB and Iridium for California launches

Relativity Space, a startup that was born in Seattle but grew up in Los Angeles, says it has signed an… Read More

LeoStella confirms delivery of BlackSky’s Earth observation satellites for SpaceX launch

Tukwila, Wash.-based LeoStella cast a spotlight today on the delivery of its first two built-from-scratch satellites for the BlackSky Earth-watching… Read More

SpaceX sends Starlink and Planet satellites to orbit in a new kind of piggyback launch

SpaceX today launched dozens more of its Starlink broadband internet satellites, plus three piggyback satellites for Planet — marking the… Read More

Japanese firms finish acquisition of Spaceflight, with BlackSky satellite venture going its own way

Japan’s Mitsui & Co., working in partnership with Yamasa Co. Ltd., has completed the acquisition of Seattle-based Spaceflight Inc. from… Read More

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches eighth batch of 60 Starlink satellites and makes its ‘first fifth’ landing

Less than a week after sending two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station, SpaceX sent 60 more of its… Read More

Bankrupt OneWeb files with FCC to put 48,000 broadband satellites in orbit

Even though the OneWeb satellite venture is going through bankruptcy and a potential sale, it filed an application overnight with… Read More

New rules streamline procedures for licensing commercial space imaging systems

The Commerce Department has released a new set of rules aimed at making the procedure for licensing Earth-imaging satellite systems… Read More

How BlackSky’s Spectra geospatial data platform uses AI to make sense of satellite images

How do you know when a region’s economy has recovered from the coronavirus pandemic? You could wait for the verdict… Read More

Amazon reportedly registers interest in bankrupt OneWeb’s broadband satellite constellation assets

Amazon is among the players in a bankruptcy bidding game with the assets of the OneWeb satellite venture at stake,… Read More

Amergint acquires Tethers Unlimited to focus on satellite communications and space services

Colorado-based Amergint Technology Holdings says it has acquired Tethers Unlimited, a Bothell, Wash.-based space venture that’s working on a wide… Read More

Report: Amazon joins other satellite constellation ventures in checking out bankrupt OneWeb’s assets

London’s Telegraph newspaper reports that Amazon is understood to be among the entities sifting through the assets of OneWeb, a… Read More

Geek of the Week: BlackSky’s Andrew Steen finds a job within his orbit, keeping satellites ‘happy’

As a boy growing up in New Jersey, Andrew Steen had a range of hobbies and interests. He tried his… Read More

SpaceX seeks regulatory changes as it gears up for Starlink broadband service

In a new regulatory filing, SpaceX says it plans to start offering commercial broadband internet service using its Starlink satellite… Read More