Satellite News

Terminal manufacturer Intellian Technologies and technology systems integrator Network Innovations finalized a multi-year strategic agreement to develop and distribute next-generation tactical ground flyaway terminals for military and government defense markets. […]

On Sept. 23, 2026, direct-to-satellite IoT operator Hubble Network announced the completion of a $200 million Series C financing round, raising the company’s private market valuation to $1.6 billion. Led […]

Read the whole conference rather than a panel a day and one argument runs underneath it. The industry has stopped worrying about capital and technology. It is worrying about access: to launch, to spectrum, to the ground, to the parts.

The outgoing director of the ITU Radiocommunication Bureau said at World Space Business Week in Paris that he expects the 2027 World Radiocommunication Conference to produce a regulatory framework for direct-to-device services in mobile bands. The GSMA counts 151 operators with satellite services live, in testing or planned, and no settled business model.

Space Systems Command awarded Boeing up to $2 billion in June for two more MUOS satellites, which are not expected to launch before 2031 and 2032. Katherine Coens directs the Space Force division that runs the narrowband network they will join, and she sits for an interview opening the final day of the MilSat Symposium at Silicon Valley Space Week.

On Sept. 24, 2026, aerospace startup Beyond Reach Labs will formally open a 16,000-square-foot manufacturing and testing facility at Brooklyn’s Industry City complex in New York. Founded by SpaceX veterans […]

On Sept. 22, 2026, in-space transportation services provider Impulse Space secured a $28 million contract from the U.S. Space Force to deliver an orbital Space Domain Awareness (SDA) demonstration mission. […]

On Sept. 23, 2026, satellite communications provider Viasat announced that its subsidiary, Inmarsat Government, Inc., received the Marine Enterprise Commercial Satcom Satellite Services (MECS2) contract from the U.S. Space Force […]