Satellite News

On September 1, 2026, Canadian satellite manufacturer MDA Space announced an expansion of its product roadmap to support growing commercial demand for Direct-to-Device (D2D) communications satellites. Designed to address terrestrial […]

On August 31, 2026, Teledyne Space Imaging, a business unit of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated, announced that it surpassed 1,000 space-qualified scientific imaging sensors operating in orbit. The milestone was achieved […]

On August 31, 2026, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) achieved an orbital milestone by deploying its first geostationary Earth observation imager. The satellite platform provides persistent meteorological imaging and […]

On August 31, 2026, space situational awareness (SSA) provider NorthStar Earth & Space was selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) to lead the FALCON initiative, an international industrial and […]

On August 31, 2026, SpaceX submitted a petition to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) requesting that regulators block or attach strict operational conditions to a proposed satellite deployment by geostationary […]

Elve said on August 19 that its 100 watt millimeter wave space amplifier had reached TRL-8, in a market where the incumbent describes itself as the only American maker of space-qualified traveling wave tubes. Dr. Diana Gamzina, the company’s founder and chief executive, joins the ground bottleneck panel on the opening day of Satellite Innovation at Silicon Valley Space Week.

For decades the U.S. had one supplier of space-qualified traveling wave tube amplifiers. Elve CEO Diana Gamzina says its TRL-8 qualification makes it two — and the Justice Department spent the first half of 2026 making the same single-source argument about the market next door. Qualification is not flight heritage, and the incumbent counts more than 340 million on-orbit hours.

On Sunday, August 30, 2026, NASA launched the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center. Following orbital insertion, […]