MILAN – French-led satellite operator Eutelsat and Indian maritime service provider Station Satcom have signed a multi-year agreement to expand Eutelsat-owned OneWeb LEO connectivity services across Station Satcom’s maritime fleet, the companies announced April 30. The agreement builds on a previous activation in 2025 covering hundreds of Station Satcom vessels and broadens the number of […]

The European Space Agency (ESA) is using Extended Reality (XR) to support training, enhance operations, improve simulation environments, and to bring the wonders of space to the public.

This latest Picture of the Month from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope features Messier 77 (M77), a barred spiral galaxy famous among astronomers for its combination of relative proximity and spectacular features to study. It is located 45 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus (The Whale). This new image from Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) highlights its swirling spiral arms, the dust in its disc and its piercingly bright core like never before.

Indian launch startup Skyroot Aerospace has raised $60 million in a funding round that gives the company a valuation of more than $1 billion.

A decade ago, the space technology company Stellar Exploration needed about three years to build, test and deliver a small satellite propulsion system. Today, the same system takes about a year. Increasingly, customers are requesting deliveries in half that time. “That’s not reasonable, but people have no hesitation asking,” said CEO Tomas Svitek.

DENVER – In the last year, leaders from the Republic of the Marshall Islands, a 181-square kilometer landmass surrounded by two million square kilometers of water, wanted to reduce the time it takes to detect of vessels suspected of illegal fishing. During a 12-day campaign by the Marshall Islands Marine Resources Authority, satellite radar and […]

Garrant: ‘We are ready to award and execute at speeds that have never been seen before, but that would be for naught if we aren’t able to produce and deliver at speed and scale’

In this episode of Space Minds, Mike Gruss talks with Terran Orbital’s Peter Krauss about what he’s learned about culture from primes and startups.

DENVER – Odin Space, a British startup focused on mapping and analyzing sub-centimeter orbital debris, announced plans May 7 to establish its first U.S. office in Los Angeles. “We are expanding in the United States because that is where the demand has moved fastest, and where the strategic stakes of attribution are highest,” James New, […]