Amazon announced a deal to acquire satellite operator Globalstar, a move that instantly vaults the company into the direct-to-device connectivity market and sets up a collision course with SpaceX’s Starlink. It’s a classic Amazon play: buy what you can’t build fast enough. But the company it’s trying to catch has spent five years proving that […]

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People who choose dangerous frontiers aren't miscalculating risk — they're running a different equation, one where the greatest danger isn't dying early but arriving at the end having never tested what they were capable of.

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Oxford, UK – Archangel Lightworks announces the successful close of an oversubscribed $13.5m Series A funding round to accelerate the commercialisation of its deployable optical ground station, the TERRA-M.

Amazon announced plans April 14 to buy satellite operator Globalstar in a deal valued at about $10.8 billion, marking its entry into the emerging market for providing connectivity directly to mobile phones and other cellular devices.

The company is in talks with Pentagon and intelligence agencies interested in flying payloads on OneWeb’s next-gen constellation

Axiom Space expects to test the spacesuit it is developing for Artemis lunar missions in space in 2027, either on the International Space Station or Artemis 3.

AI advances and rising geopolitical tensions are helping usher in a new phase of investment in space infrastructure, according to quarterly research released April 14 by early-stage investor Space Capital.

Sam Mehta: ‘We’ve invested hundreds of millions of dollars in inventory, getting long lead parts and components on order’

A pair of solid rocket launches have added to China’s satellite internet and commercial remote sensing capabilities, sending a total of nine satellites into orbit.