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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New constellation aims to turn the planet into a continuous data stream for machine learning

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.

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