Atlas Space Operations is gaining access to 11 ground antennas sites through the AWS Solution Provider Program.

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – OHB subsidiary LuxSpace plans to fly DcubeD actuators and other hosted payloads on its upcoming Triton-X Genesis mission.

The Federal Communications Commission approved Amazon’s plan Feb. 8 to deploy and operate 3,236 broadband satellites, subject to conditions that include measures for avoiding collisions in low Earth orbit.

Viasat is exploring hybrid narrowband direct-to-smartphone services using satellites in geostationary and non-geostationary orbits, CEO Mark Dankberg said Feb.

SpaceX will attempt a static-fire test of all 33 engines in its Starship booster as soon as Feb. 9, a test that could allow the company to attempt an orbital launch a month later.

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency awarded Maxar a five-year $192 million contract to provide satellite imagery to U.S.

Space startups often make the mistake of waiting too long to establish the ground infrastructure to support their satellites.

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While demand for launches of smallsats is higher than ever, industry officials warned that price pressures and lack of access to capital could cause many companies to go out of business in the near future.

During a break from looking at planets around other stars, ESA’s CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite (Cheops) mission has observed a dwarf planet in our own Solar System and made a decisive contribution to the discovery of a dense ring of material around it.

The dwarf planet is known as Quaoar. The presence of a ring at a distance of almost seven and a half times the radius of Quaoar, opens up a mystery for astronomers to solve: why has this material not coalesced into a small moon?