Satellite News

Intelsat said it lost communication with its Intelsat 29e satellite, made by Boeing Co., that continues to affect wireless operator, aeronautical and maritime customers in the North Atlantic, Latin America and Caribbean regions.

BlackSky, a provider of geospatial intelligence, satellite imaging, and global monitoring services, announced it has successfully achieved several significant on-orbit milestones of its first two Earth-imaging spacecraft, Global-1 and -2. Demonstrating the full operational performance of the spacecraft, the company showcased several images of economic points of interest taken by the first two smallsats in its high-revisit, Earth-imaging constellation.

A new, first-of-its-kind space weather model reliably predicts space storms of high-energy particles that are harmful to many satellites and spacecraft orbiting in the Earth’s outer radiation belt.

TESAT, KSAT and GomSpace have partnered up to introduce full optical communications capability for new small satellite missions and space-based services.