Satellite News

Rocket: Electron; Payload: 30 smallsats; Date: 20 November 2020, 1520 UTC; Launch site: Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand. The ‘Return to Sender’ mission deployed satellites for TriSept, Swam Technologies, Unseenlabs, and the Auckland Programme for Space Systems at The University of Auckland. The mission brings the total number of satellites launched by Rocket Lab to 95.

OneWeb announced its emergence from U.S. Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and achievement of all relevant regulatory approvals. A consortium of UK Government (through the UK Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy) and Bharti Global, has invested US$1 billion of new equity to offer broadband connectivity services, via a constellation of 650 LEO satellites.

Speedcast International Limited and Inmarsat announced that they have reached agreement on the sale of Speedcast’s primary Fleet Xpress, FleetBroadband and Fleet One service contracts to Inmarsat.

The Mandalorian visits the estuary moon of Trask in “Chapter 11: The Heiress” and finds an important character in the “Star Wars” universe.

The Mandalorian visits the estuary moon of Trask in “Chapter 11: The Heiress” and finds an important character in the “Star Wars” universe.

The Real Right Stuff,” the new National Geographic documentary now on Disney Plus soars past the Mercury astronaut stories depicted in the eight-episode “The Right Stuff.”

On Nov. 22, 1989, the space shuttle Discovery launched on a classified mission: STS-33. See how it happened in our “On This Day In Space” series!

A new mathematical framework helps physicists define the degree of quantumness of a system