Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon tells investors the SpaceX deal's revenue lands mostly in fiscal 2028, calling it the start of a relationship with "tremendous po...
Orca Aerospace will supply autonomous-navigation software for Orbital's satellite data-center fleet in a deal worth up to $20 million.
United will let passengers log into Spotify accounts and stream their own libraries on seatback screens aboard its Starlink-equipped planes.
SpaceX taps Qualcomm's Dragonwing radios to build Starlink Mobile's nationwide US 5G network, with rollout starting in 2027.
Orbital Matter and EnduroSat plan a 2028 mission to 3D-print support booms in orbit for a 5 kilowatt solar array.
KT SAT, ST Engineering iDirect, Waldo and Intellian will build a Ku- and Ka-band ground system for South Korea's maritime network.
United's Starlink fleet grows to 671 aircraft as the airline deploys defensive AI and works toward a cockpit interface, per its CISO.
Sceye signed a five-year deal to fly a fleet of at least 40 stratospheric platforms for SoftBank over Japan.
Verizon partner Connected Solutions Group can now sell and install Starlink for US businesses.
EarthDaily and Panama's Geosolutions Consulting signed a deal to resell EarthDaily data across six Central American countries.
SES will equip Finnair's 18 new Embraer jets and Air Astana's A321LR fleet with multi-orbit in-flight Wi-Fi.
Voyager named retired Space Force chief Gen. Chance Saltzman chairman of its board of advisors.
ESA's Josef Aschbacher is in the UAE pursuing a framework space agreement as Europe looks to cut its reliance on the US.
Finnish satellite maker ReOrbit proposes building Australia a sovereign, government-owned Starlink rival.
KSAT signed a deal to provide ground station support for PierSight's planned SAR-and-AIS maritime satellite constellation.
American Tower's CEO says the company expects to be a top tower vendor if Starlink builds out a US network, the second tower operator after Crown Castle to c...
Shield Space formed a coalition of UK space companies to pitch a commercially built in-orbit defense force to NATO.
Canada's Terrestar signed an MOU to interwork its CaStar constellation with Viasat and Space42's Equatys D2D platform.
The two companies will fly Flexell's next-generation solar cells on Satoro-built demo satellites in 2027 and 2028.
Tanzania and Russia's Roscosmos signed a framework deal to launch Tanzania's first Earth observation satellite in March 2027.
United CEO Scott Kirby says the airline is crossing the 50% Starlink-equipped-flights threshold this week and sees customers switching airlines for it; Musk...
Kirby calls Delta's Starlink snub "a mistake" as United's Starlink fleet grows to 661 aircraft and carries 5.4 million passengers in September.
EasyJet will fit Starlink inflight Wi-Fi across roughly 300 Airbus jets starting in 2027, its first in-flight internet.
ST Engineering iDirect will provide the ground network for Oman's MB Sat-1, an Astranis-built microGEO satellite, per Via Satellite.
Flexell Space established a French subsidiary in Paris to support contract talks with European solar-cell customers, per SpaceNews.
Scanway and Pixxel signed an MoU to co-develop optical payloads, targeting 50cm imaging from LEO by 2028.
ICEYE is combining its SAR satellites with OroraTech's thermal data to track wildfires from first detection through damage assessment.
SynMax is adding EarthDaily Constellation imagery to its oil and gas intelligence platform, Hyperion.
ICEYE and Nokia signed a Letter of Intent with Ukraine's defence ministry to build sovereign satcom Kyiv would control.
SpaceX is negotiating with tower companies including Crown Castle for access to at least 80,000 US cell sites, Bloomberg reports.
The companies plan to pair EnduroSat's satellite manufacturing with Redwire's power systems for European VLEO, data center and PNT missions.
The Israeli and South Korean companies will explore combining optical payload hardware with AI-driven tasking and image-processing software.
Marble Imaging, Reflex Aerospace and Odysseus Space will fly a laser space-to-ground downlink on Marble's first satellite.
Speedcast deployed hybrid Starlink and Eutelsat OneWeb connectivity across 41 Wallenius Wilhelmsen roll-on/roll-off vessels.
AnySignal will provide radios and ground software for Reflect Orbital's first satellite and two follow-on missions.
EuroSkyPark widens its Eutelsat-based network to cover Amprion's North Sea offshore grid sites, no price disclosed.
Spaceborne Computer-4 rides Astrolab's FLIP rover to the lunar south pole, running NASA and Deloitte AI workloads on the Moon's surface.
Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica and Vodafone sign a letter of intent to jointly bid for European 2 GHz satellite spectrum.
Musk says the Starmind computer will reach volume production in 2027, after Nvidia's Jensen Huang detailed the space-data-center partnership publicly.
Arqiva will provide Gulfsat managed Ku-band uplink services from its UK teleports onto Eutelsat 8 West B for three years.
Solafune and Tohoku University opened a joint research center to build an Earth observation satellite that analyzes imagery onboard.
Alaska Communications will resell Starlink to business customers across Alaska as a high-speed or backup internet option.
United has Starlink on over 635 aircraft, covering nearly half its daily flights, and launched a tool to check which ones.
Amazon's Leo Pro terminal hit over 400 Mbps in an Army field test, the next step toward tactical soldier connectivity.
ispace-Europe and Italy's ALTEC will assess using ALTEC's Turin facilities to test lunar rovers and train mission operators.
India's Astrogate Labs and South Korea's Spacebeam signed an MOU to combine optical terminals with ground-station infrastructure.
American Airlines says Starlink will reach all 1,000+ mainline jets, not just the 500 Airbus planes it first committed to.
KLM says free, unlimited Starlink Wi-Fi will reach all cabins on intercontinental flights from mid-2027.
TURKSAT and China Satcom agreed to jointly develop UAV comms, satellite IoT and border-security tech.
Royal Air Maroc and Starlink officially confirmed the deal on Oct. 7, naming 41 aircraft, a Safar Flyer loyalty programme, and on-record executive quotes, af...
T-Mobile quietly dropped Starlink and SpaceX branding from its T-Satellite homepage, days after launching a rival satellite joint venture.
Global Invacom is delivering two TerraLink 370EO ground stations to eNexus Space Data for installation in New Zealand and Iceland.
Nebex and Thrusters Unlimited will jointly structure $700M in capital for Mexican sovereign space programs in EO and telecoms.
Xoople picked KSAT's KSATlite ground-segment service to support its new Earth-data constellation, the companies said.
Musk later specified per-satellite power (250kW) and connectivity (10Tbps, with a path to 100+Tbps) figures for Starmind on X.
The three carriers finalized the direct-to-device JV first announced in May, naming Paul Roth interim CEO.
Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA's science chief from 2016 to 2022, joins Blue Origin in January 2027 to lead its Advanced Concepts team.
ICEYE and Nokia will jointly build sovereign LEO satellite-communications systems that let governments own and control their own network.
Firefly agreed to fly Starcloud's SC-1L AI computing payload on its Elytra vehicle to test a future lunar data center.
Insurity is giving SpatialKey customers access to ICEYE's full natural-catastrophe data portfolio through one commercial relationship.
SSC Space and Saab agreed to explore combining SSC's ground and launch infrastructure with Saab's defense systems for Sweden.
Interstellar Mapping will map subsurface lunar volatiles to guide where Astrolab's FLIP rover searches for water.
Vietjet signed a deal with Starlink for gate-to-gate in-flight internet, timed to Vietnamese leader To Lam's visit to New York.
Eutelsat and Portuguese telecom MEO signed a deal to integrate Eutelsat's OneWeb LEO services into MEO's connectivity offering.
LMT Group and Novaspace will develop a concept for a Latvian satellite-comms innovation hub, modeled on ESA's 5G/6G NTN Hub.
SSC Space will provide tracking, data reception, and launch support for Airbus' higher-resolution Pléiades Neo Next satellites.
Kongsberg Canada signed an MOU with MDA Space and an LOI with Telesat on Arctic ISR and Lightspeed connectivity for defence use.
Aer Lingus has finished installing Starlink Wi-Fi on all its Airbus A321neo aircraft, ahead of an original 2027 fleet-wide target.
Estonia's CybExer will lead a 10-company consortium building a capability to test IRIS2's security against disruption and cyberattack.
Viasat and Space42 formally establish Equatys, a shared direct-to-device satellite venture, with up to $1 billion in equity.
French infrared-sensor maker Lynred will supply detection technology for constellr's next-generation thermal Earth observation satellites.
SES will use Elveo's D2D tech for European mobile roaming and the two will build LEO D2D satellites in Europe.
Telesat's own release: SatPort Infrastructure will build and host Lightspeed landing stations worldwide under a new build-to-suit agreement.
HawkEye 360 established its first European subsidiary in Luxembourg and signed a sovereign RF-intelligence MoU with Leonardo.
Intellian's new terminal spans Mil X-band, Military Ka-band and commercial Ka/Ku-band across every orbit, deployable in under 30 minutes.
Elveo Mobile partnered with Apex to stand up a dedicated U.S. factory for its planned 320-satellite direct-to-device constellation.
A new State Dept initiative links Artemis Accords countries to U.S. commercial space firms, starting with a Peru rural-broadband pilot.
Korean Air and Asiana will offer free Starlink in-flight Wi-Fi from Sept. 15, East Asia's first full-service-carrier rollout.
PGZ and ICEYE signed a letter of intent for a Polish-built satellite system Prime Minister Tusk called a step toward "a Polish Starlink."
LA-based Orbital named Germany's Reflex Aerospace exclusive satellite platform partner for its first orbital data center satellite.
France's U-Space and Japan's Tenchijin signed an MoU to build an infrared Earth observation system, per 01net.it.
ESA and ISRO renewed their cooperation agreement through 2032 and added space weather and human exploration to its scope.
ICEYE and Arianespace agreed to explore launching ICEYE's SAR satellites on Ariane 6 for European government missions.
RF startup AnySignal formalized a partnership putting its AnyLink ground network on Apex's satellite platforms.
Eutelsat and Skynopy signed a partnership to open Eutelsat's ground stations to Earth observation and orbital data center customers.
Satellogic promoted former NGA director Frank Whitworth from strategic advisor to president, effective immediately.
Samtel Avionics and Japan's BULL signed an MoU to explore integrating their space debris-removal technologies.
AT&T Business is folding Amazon Leo satellite broadband into a managed fiber-5G-satellite offer for enterprise customers.
Sompo Japan will use ICEYE's Flood Insights SAR data to speed up flood insurance claims assessment.
Austrian Airlines put its first Starlink-equipped Airbus A320neo into service, part of Lufthansa Group's 850-aircraft rollout.
LatConnect 60 signed an NSIL ground-station agreement and a GeoSyze channel partnership to expand its SWIRSAT business into India.
Via Satellite reported separately that Deutsche Telekom is the first operator to sign for Starlink Mobile V2, which SpaceX plans to deploy across 10 European...
Via Satellite's own Sept 3 writeup independently covers the Sept 1 Axelspace/Airbus GRUS imagery partnership with distinct wording and a CEO quote, giving ge...
Kineis is making its satellite IoT connectivity available directly through Netmore's LPWAN platform across 18 countries.
SynMax's Theia platform becomes the sole maritime-intelligence channel for Satellogic's upcoming Merlin constellation.
4iG and SpaceX signed Europe's first Starlink Mobile and Sovereign Solutions agreements, launching in Hungary and Albania.
Telesat Government Solutions and Cailabs US will study pairing Lightspeed's optical inter-satellite links with Cailabs' ground stations.
Axelspace and Airbus Defence and Space will jointly distribute GRUS satellite imagery to a broader customer base.
Swedish satellite operator Ovzon signed its first German partnerships to test its satcom platform with a government customer.
Kepler Communications will host NorthStar's optical space-domain-awareness sensors on its data-relay satellites.
ICEYE opened ICEYE Korea under Eric Rhee and signed an MOU with Seoul National University on SAR research.
ICEYE opens a Dutch subsidiary and R&D hub tied to its existing SAR intelligence work for the Royal Netherlands Air and Space Force.
ICEYE opens ICEYE India in New Delhi, planning local SAR component manufacturing for Indian defense customers.
MaiaSpace's fifth commercial contract lets French broker Ride sell auxiliary payload space on future Maia launches from 2028.
LatConnect 60 bought a Transcelestial optical comms terminal and ground network to speed imagery downlink for its SWIRSAT constellation.
Qatar Airways says its Starlink Wi-Fi rollout now covers 150 widebody jets, including the first Starlink-equipped Boeing 787-9.
Eartheye Space signed an MOU giving strategic consultancy IN2 access to its multi-sensor satellite tasking and analytics.
Speedcast deployed an all-LEO Starlink connectivity solution across TGS's seismic survey fleet under a multi-year deal.
HEO and Planet Labs signed a deal letting HEO task idle SkySat satellites to photograph other objects in orbit.
SES deepens its stake in Elveo Mobile, the D2D operator formed from the Lynk/Omnispace merger, to build a multi-orbit D2D offering.
Space42 and Leonardo DRS agreed to explore integrating satellite communications with C5ISR mission systems for UAE national security use.
Redwire named Kanematsu its commercial partner in Japan for power generation, microgravity payload and robotics offerings.
Nova Systems and Planet formalized a partnership supplying Earth observation and AI analysis to Australia's defence community.
Retired Space Force Lt. Gen. John Shaw joined Lunar Outpost's board, representing investor Industrious Ventures.
Proteus Space elevated former Space Force CTIO Kim Crider from advisor to its board of directors.
The companies signed an MOU to demonstrate a 2.5 Gbps optical link between a reentry capsule and an orbiting satellite in 2027.
Planet's near-daily imagery is now available to Rwandan government agencies, universities and startups under a new national program.
Space.com's Aug 9 writeup independently covers the same Aug 4 Kreios/NanoAvionics VLEO propulsion demo announcement already led by SpaceNews (trade) and corr...
Bulgaria's government signed an MOU with EnduroSat to turn a former air base into a European satellite production hub.
Kreios Space will fly its air-breathing electric propulsion system on a NanoAvionics satellite bus in 2027.
On its first earnings call as a public company, SpaceX said it will use only Nvidia GPUs for its Starmind AI1 orbital compute satellites.
Royal Air Maroc and Starlink officially confirmed the deal: free Wi-Fi for loyalty members on 41 aircraft starting early 2027.
ICEYE names a 15-year JPMorgan veteran to lead its UAE entity as it deepens government ties in the country.
Fortastra and Hadrian will jointly evaluate additive and precision manufacturing methods for Fortastra's satellite buses.
SES will equip 60+ LATAM Airbus and Embraer aircraft with multi-orbit GEO/LEO inflight connectivity using a new low-profile antenna.
Orbcomm's Skywave will embed Iridium's Short Burst Data satellite service into its heavy-equipment IoT terminals.
SES Space & Defense will deliver always-on LEO Relay Services to Starlab's commercial space station via O3b mPOWER.
Spire and SATE will spend 18 months building an ESA-funded AI system, called STRAIDE, for real-time satellite health monitoring.
ICEYE and KT SAT will supply near-real-time flood monitoring to South Korean government and commercial customers.
IHI and Kuva Space signed an MOU to explore Hyperfield-2 hyperspectral satellites for Japan's EO constellation.
The UK government and Space Florida each pledged $200,000 to launch a new joint aerospace innovation fund.
Former ISRO chairman S Somanath joins Agnikul Cosmos's board as an observer ahead of its Mission 02 booster-recovery attempt.
The companies will study using JSAT's ground network for ispace's ULTRA lunar lander, targeted for 2028.
Icarus Robotics selected KULR to supply batteries for its Joy free-flying ISS robot, per SpaceNews.
Amazon Leo and Herotel will launch a satellite-internet service, evry, for South Africa in 2027.
Frontier and four sister Indigo Partners airlines will equip more than 1,000 aircraft with Starlink Wi-Fi starting in 2027.
Spire and Italy's SATE will spend 18 months building AI to diagnose satellite health and failures, under an ESA-backed program.
ICEYE established ICEYE Portugal and a Lisbon R&D center of excellence, naming Rui Costa as country CEO.
Rivada partnered with Nepal's Mercantile Space to deliver sovereign satellite connectivity over its planned Outernet constellation.
Senegal's Sonatel expanded its Gandoul satellite gateway with 16 new Eutelsat OneWeb LEO antennas to grow as a regional connectivity hub.
NASA and SBA partner to unlock capital for space suppliers
ICEYE formally established a German entity in Berlin and Munich, naming Philipp Herkelmann CEO of ICEYE Germany.
Per SpaceNews, Arianespace and Infinite Orbits will explore direct-to-GEO rideshare services on Ariane 6 from 2029.
NASA and the SBA signed an agreement to help attract private capital for space technology suppliers.
Former German Chancellery chief Wolfgang Schmidt joins Planet's European Advisory Board.
Telesat is donating Telstar 19 VANTAGE capacity to Top Comunications for Venezuela's earthquake recovery effort.
Per BIS Infotech: an MoU to design, manufacture and deploy SAR EO systems within India, pairing ICEYE tech with AgniKul launch.
Korea Aerospace Industries pairs its satellite platforms with the Israeli-US startup's imaging payload tech, per The Elec.
The insurer and satellite operator will use SAR imagery to pay wildfire claims within days instead of the usual lengthy claims process.
The Japanese operator's optical imagery joins the PIF-backed platform for agriculture, land-use and disaster monitoring.
SES and Airbus signed a lease in Noordwijk, Netherlands for Eagle-1's optical ground station, per European Spaceflight.
The Israeli defence company and German manufacturer co-fund a very-high-resolution, high-revisit satellite line, per their release.
Spire and the German defence integrator will explore satellite-based early warning against ballistic and hypersonic missiles.