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...
Per Eutelsat chair Sunil Mittal: countries can't rely on another nation for satellite connectivity, so need their own networks.
United will let passengers log into Spotify accounts and stream their own libraries on seatback screens aboard its Starlink-equipped planes.
The Janus Henderson-led round funds CesiumAstro's 737-satellite Synchronicity network after a successful first demo satellite.
SES shares rose nearly 12% after Q3 revenue of €870 million topped estimates and total backlog hit a record €10 billion.
A Ukrainian diplomat says Kyiv's Starshield deal with Washington expires by mid-2027 and talks on a replacement are just starting.
Per Höttges: SpaceX would need years and roughly $200 billion to build a US network able to compete with incumbent carriers.
T-Mobile's own SEC filing confirms it received $2.9 billion cash plus $690 million in spectrum for the Grain sale, is entitled to 50% of Grain's further gain...
SpaceX taps Qualcomm's Dragonwing radios to build Starlink Mobile's nationwide US 5G network, with rollout starting in 2027.
NASA picked three companies to develop commercial Ka-band relay concepts succeeding its aging TDRS fleet.
SES and partners sent video messages over an optical ground-to-space link using its meoSphere pathfinder payload.
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.
Globalstar files its own FCC comment echoing SpaceX's and Ligado's concerns about the Rocket Lab-Iridium deal, while Rocket Lab and Iridium ask the FCC to di...
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.
An ITU filing shows Russia quietly designing a Rassvet-4 satellite after early losses in its Rassvet broadband constellation.
CAS Space's Lijian-2 rocket flew for the second time, delivering the 17th batch of Qianfan/Spacesail broadband satellites, per Xinhua.
EQT-backed SatPort buys Speedcast's teleport network of 12 sites in 11 countries, deal terms undisclosed.
SpaceX is negotiating to buy or lease Boost Mobile's network from EchoStar for Starlink Mobile, per the Washington Post.
SES will equip Finnair's 18 new Embraer jets and Air Astana's A321LR fleet with multi-orbit in-flight Wi-Fi.
Per Boost Mobile founder Peter Adderton: AST SpaceMobile "needs to pivot, and pivot FAST" against SpaceX's wireless push.
Canada and the EU issued a joint statement the same day outlining plans to explore wider Canadian participation in IRIS2, per European Spaceflight.
The FCC's own drone order confirms SpaceX's Grain spectrum transfer is still pending and that the agency expects drones and Starlink Mobile to coexist with t...
Finnish satellite maker ReOrbit proposes building Australia a sovereign, government-owned Starlink rival.
The Pentagon's inspector general declines a bipartisan Senate request to investigate the Starlink/Starshield disruptions, saying the matter is for the Air Fo...
A second Rassvet-3 satellite, No. 17, reentered Oct. 30 after never raising its orbit, per Defense Express; satellite No. 23 reportedly began climbing after...
SpaceX tells the FCC that T-Mobile's proposed interference protections would create 400 km buffer zones cutting millions off from direct-to-cell service, acc...
Putin says he and Musk are in "close contact" so Rassvet and Starlink don't interfere in orbit, while Fire Point's CEO says Ukraine has found workarounds cov...
Telesat's Q3 results confirm the GEO refinancing is still unresolved with five weeks to a Dec. 6 deadline, and a lender group has offered a C$3.2 billion res...
Filtronic landed a record $68.1 million SpaceX order and its first GEO satellite contract, per an Oct. 30 trading update.
MDA Space will supply digital antennas for 66 EU IRIS2 satellites in a deal worth over 100 million Canadian dollars.
Starlink is piloting location-based residential pricing and will raise Global Business maritime data prices 50 percent from December 1.
Per telecom analyst William Webb: SpaceX may need another $120-130 billion to compete head-on with T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon.
The FCC's Oct. 29 vote opened a formal rulemaking rather than granting the spectrum outright, leaving the carriers' band-exclusion request undecided during a...
Lithuanian prosecutors named the two suspects held in Germany, a Turkish-German and a Serbian-German man in their twenties, on terrorism charges carrying up...
Putin said at the Russia-Africa Summit he remains in "close contact" with Musk on satellite coordination, as Russia's digital minister put Rassvet's on-orbit...
Turkish police detained 85 people in raids on the Daltonlar criminal network linked to the Poland sabotage suspects, though Turkey's own statement does not t...
Eutelsat's backlog jumped to 12.1 billion euros as IRIS2 entered construction, adding 8.9 billion euros in backlog.
Telesat pushed back Lightspeed's global service start by three months to avoid spending a Falcon 9 launch slot on test satellites.
Lite Coms' new GT3 vehicle terminal connects to Starlink and OneWeb alongside 5G and LTE at the same time.
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...
Ukraine's HUR intelligence agency named 49 companies behind Rassvet's supply chain and said 23, including Roscosmos, remain unsanctioned.
Per T-Mobile CEO Gopalan: satellite service offers no "incremental TAM," so there is "no room" for an MVNO with SpaceX.
CTIA filed a formal 10-page petition on Oct. 22 quantifying the disputed bands at 290 MHz, about 60% of the FCC's 482 MHz proposal, and citing new T-Mobile i...
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.
CBS News photographs show Starlink connectivity at a Ukrainian air-defense site had dropped to 0.1 Mbps on Oct. 19, the day a Russian drone strike on a Khark...
The FCC approves the transfer of Globalstar's satellite licenses to Amazon, clearing a key regulatory condition toward the deal's expected 2027 close.
SpaceX's Starlink Group 15-16 batch flew on B1082's 26th flight overall, its 21st carrying Starlink.
Himera and GomSpace say their Obria Nano test satellite is operating in orbit, the first step toward a sovereign Ukrainian comms network.
The FCC approved transferring Globalstar's satellite licenses to Amazon, clearing the way for their $11.57 billion merger.
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Astranis turns its fourth SpaceX Falcon 9 launch into a dedicated 2028 mission for its whole Block 4 MicroGEO run.
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.
SpaceX's Oct. 23 FCC filing urges adding the lower 900 MHz band to its draft satellite-to-phone rules, backing NextNav's spectrum bid.
Per Schulman: SpaceX needs 4-6 years and $300-500B to rival Verizon in wireless; Musk says 2-3 years.
Per Scott Galloway: Tesla is "the patient" and SpaceX "the organ donor" in Musk's proposed merger.
Starlink Mobile launched nationwide in Brazil via Vivo, reaching 50 million eligible customers; 7 million phones already connected.
SpaceX's own Q3 earnings call, already the item's lead source, also disclosed Starlink Mobile's 22 million monthly users and Musk's accelerated $500 billion-...
Zelensky says Starlink/Starshield speeds are fully restored and faults the US government; Ukrainian adviser Sternenko directly disputes Musk's claim Ukraine...
A Long March 8A carried nine more Guowang broadband satellites into orbit from Wenchang's commercial pad.
SpaceX's CFO disclosed Q4 capex guidance of $35-40 billion, about double Q3's spend, and defended the payback timeline on new AI compute during the same earn...
Ukraine's defense ministry says Starlink/Starshield speeds now exceed 400 km/h again, crediting direct talks with Washington; separately, Reuters reports the...
Musk acknowledges for the first time that SpaceX, not just the US government, was behind the restriction, saying Ukraine's military "violated Starlink terms...
The FCC opened a new docket for public comment on satellite operators' Upper C-band transition plans and set selection criteria for an independent clearingho...
The FCC's Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on additional Part 100 reforms, including NGSO call sign merging and a new space-based experimental licensing...
SpaceX's 10-Q shows $561 million of its Q3 profit came from marking up its stake in Musk's Boring Company after Boring's own funding round.
Trump says Musk "put it back," but a Ukrainian official tells Kyiv Independent the 161 km/h cap is unchanged and "nothing has changed anywhere."
Falcon 9 booster B1063 flew its 36th mission, landing on a droneship after lofting 27 Starlink satellites from California.
Starlink's new travel-registration requirement cut off South African roaming users amid a long-running ICASA licensing deadlock.
ICEYE and Nokia signed a Letter of Intent with Ukraine's defence ministry to build sovereign satcom Kyiv would control.
The FCC approved transferring three unbuilt AWS-3 licenses from Tristar to SpaceX for its direct-to-device network, waiving reauction.
SpaceX is negotiating with tower companies including Crown Castle for access to at least 80,000 US cell sites, Bloomberg reports.
Per Chinese state media, a polar vessel used Guowang satellites for its highest-latitude link yet, narrowing a gap with Starlink.
Speedcast deployed hybrid Starlink and Eutelsat OneWeb connectivity across 41 Wallenius Wilhelmsen roll-on/roll-off vessels.
AT&T and AST SpaceMobile completed the industry's first terrestrial-to-satellite cellular handoff, with beta testing next.
The Wall Street Journal, citing US officials, reports Musk ordered (not just proposed) the Starshield slowdown, and that he and Trump discussed it in two sep...
SpaceX's AI computing unit outearned Starlink for the first time as Q3 revenue hit $14.6 billion.
EuroSkyPark widens its Eutelsat-based network to cover Amprion's North Sea offshore grid sites, no price disclosed.
Solstar linked NASA's R5-S10 cubesat with Momentus' Vigoride-7 by Wi-Fi in a 30-minute proximity-ops test, relaying data via Iridium.
Bolivia will supply free Starlink antennas and 24 months of service to schools in 85 La Paz municipalities under its Aula Conectada program.
Carriers' trade group CTIA met FCC leadership Oct. 20 seeking to strip two bands from an Oct. 29 satellite-spectrum vote.
Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica and Vodafone sign a letter of intent to jointly bid for European 2 GHz satellite spectrum.
The FCC cleared Globalstar's 48-satellite C-3 constellation to operate nationwide for direct-to-device smartphone connectivity.
Secretary of State Rubio denies the White House ordered the Starlink slowdown and says Ukraine's separate request for Starshield access to strike inside Russ...
Musk says the Starmind computer will reach volume production in 2027, after Nvidia's Jensen Huang detailed the space-data-center partnership publicly.
Presidential tech adviser Serhii Beskrestnov says Russia's Rassvet satellites could give real-time strike guidance within six months.
Lithuania foiled an overnight arson attempt on a Starlink equipment facility, the third such sabotage bid in Europe since September.
US ambassador to the EU Andrew Puzder warns of "devastating" retaliation if Brussels reserves 2 GHz satellite spectrum for European firms.
Zelensky says the 161 km/h Starlink speed cap applies only in Ukraine, citing an EU test of the same terminals as proof the restriction is a deliberate "plan...
Starlink itself said on X it is "ready to connect India," its first direct statement in the feud; Musk replied "Much appreciated" to Reliance's prior response.
Reuters reports the restriction order came from inside the White House, tied to pressure on Kyiv over Russian refinery strikes, as eight senators ask the Pen...
Zelensky says at a Brussels press conference that Starlink speeds have risen but not fully returned, and that the restriction is still blocking some drone in...
The Telegraph reports Musk proposed the Starshield speed cap to Trump, who agreed, contradicting both men's public denials, as Trump himself says neither he...
Reliance issues its first on-record response to Musk, saying on X it has 'never feared competition' and that Jio's own satellite service awaits the same regu...
BAE Systems will build jam-resistant RF terminals for a Space Force data layer spanning low orbit to geosynchronous orbit.
CesiumAstro will add a $25 million engineering and manufacturing facility on Florida's Space Coast, creating 100 jobs.
Arqiva will provide Gulfsat managed Ku-band uplink services from its UK teleports onto Eutelsat 8 West B for three years.
The bipartisan Congressional Ukraine Caucus and Rep.
Ukraine says Starshield access has resumed though it is unclear if the speed cap is fully lifted, Kyiv pushes for a higher 450 km/h limit, and Zelensky tells...
Musk draws a public line between Starlink's civilian-only policy and government-controlled Starshield, Sen.
A senior US administration official told Axios the White House had no role in the restriction, and UK Defence Secretary Streeting said he and US counterpart...
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.
India's defence ministry contracted NewSpace India Limited to build GSAT-7C, the air force's first dedicated comms satellite.
Oman's Durri Space ordered three Cailabs TILBA-OGS laser ground stations to build an optical downlink network by 2028.
Brussels is preparing speedy antitrust clearance for Project Bromo, an Airbus-Leonardo-Thales satellite venture meant to rival SpaceX.
Ukraine's defense ministry says Starlink/Starshield speeds exceed 400 km/h again after a week of throttling, crediting direct US talks.
Per Deutsche Telekom CEO Hottges: Musk 'has to build' 85,000 antennas like T-Mobile's before Starlink Mobile seriously competes.
The Commission says Ukraine-GOVSATCOM talks are underway, with commercial capacity to bridge the gap until IRIS2 arrives in 2029.
Per ESPI's Elisabeth Clemmons: reserving 2 GHz spectrum for EU firms isn't enough without a full European D2D supply chain.
Swadeshi Jagran Manch, the RSS's economic wing and ideologically aligned with Modi's BJP, urges the government to block Starlink outright on national-securit...
Poland says German police detained two Turkish nationals at its request over the arson, and its special services minister said there is "no doubt" Russian in...
Germany has detained two more suspects, bringing the total to four, per RMF FM reporting cited by the Moscow Times.
UNN, citing RussianSpaceWeb tracking data, names two specific second-batch satellites forecast to reenter around Oct. 29 and Nov. 1.
SpaceX launched 27 more Starlink satellites from Vandenberg, with booster B1088 flying and landing for a 20th time.
Amazon's Leo Pro terminal hit over 400 Mbps in an Army field test, the next step toward tactical soldier connectivity.
Duncan Aviation placed a prepaid order for 40 Gogo Galileo HDX systems, Gogo's largest single MRO order this year.
Lyntris will build the RF payload for SES's share of the Space Force's anti-jam PTS-G satellite program.
Viasat ordered multiple All.Space Hydra Max multi-orbit satcom terminals, now certified on its global Ka-band network.
Zoho co-founder Sridhar Vembu and former ISRO chairman G.
York Space Systems will support two Space Force task orders testing Space Data Network interoperability and an in-orbit demo.
Musk vows SpaceX will price Starlink 'affordably' in India to compete with Jio, per Reuters, extending the pressure campaign days before Jio's record IPO.
Reuters reports, citing a Wall Street Journal account of people familiar with the matter, that the spectrum deal is valued at about $8 billion.
Musk escalated with a sarcastic 'Dear Prime Minister Ambani' letter and an unproven allegation of Reliance-linked BJP donations, per TechCrunch.
Amtrak is quietly testing Starlink connectivity on its new Cascades Airo trainsets, per Runway Girl Network.
Telecom Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia reiterates there is no monopoly and says Amazon Kuiper's India license application remains under examination, a potenti...
Per Reuters: Maj. Gen. Michael Traut says Russia's shadowing of ICEYE's satellite shows tactics that could hit Starlink.
Banglalink became the first operator in South Asia to launch Starlink Mobile, aimed at emergencies and dead zones.
India's Astrogate Labs and South Korea's Spacebeam signed an MOU to combine optical terminals with ground-station infrastructure.
A Long March 12 rocket launched 9 more broadband satellites for China's state-owned GuoWang (SatNet) constellation.
Conatel gave Starlink a general license plus seven Ku-band concessions to operate across Venezuela, per El Nacional and Reuters.
Amazon Leo's VP of business told Ars Technica the service beats Starlink on speed and will bundle with Prime, Eero, Fire TV and Ring.
Brazil's ANATEL granted Starlink 15+15 MHz of S-band spectrum for direct-to-cell service, half of what it requested.
Two German teenagers are accused of torching Starlink antennas at a Bulgarian teleport near Sofia on Oct. 9.
India's Ministry of Communications calls Musk's claim "baseless," says Starlink, Jio and OneWeb are at the same regulatory stage.
Musk escalated his 'oligarchs' claim by naming Mukesh Ambani directly, asking on X "Is Ambani the real boss of India?", per TechCrunch.
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.
SpaceX will acquire 14 MHz of nationwide low-band spectrum to give Starlink Mobile indoor coverage, pending FCC approval.
The Estonian startup will use the seed round to scale production of its Ermes space laser terminal.
Amazon's Kirkland factory has built 1,000 Leo satellites, with 396 already in orbit and more queued for upcoming launches.
Blue Origin's new Hutto campus will manufacture satellites for its TeraWave and Quartz programs, creating 2,000 jobs over 10 years.
TURKSAT and China Satcom agreed to jointly develop UAV comms, satellite IoT and border-security tech.
Astrolight established its first autonomous space-to-ground optical link, reaching 1 Gbps within a week of first light.
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...
Per Musk on X: 'Dear Prime Minister Ambani'; Starlink itself now says on X it is 'ready to connect India.'
Per CCTV coverage: Arctic expedition ships used China's Guowang constellation for a video call with Antarctica's Qinling Station.
T-Mobile quietly dropped Starlink and SpaceX branding from its T-Satellite homepage, days after launching a rival satellite joint venture.
Open Cosmos set a concrete ConnectedCosmos target: 192 satellites, more than 96 by end of 2028, full coverage by 2030, under ex-Rivada Liechtenstein Ka-band...
Per Elon Musk on X: Delta CEO Ed Bastian "will lose his job over this" for picking Amazon Leo over Starlink.
Kymeta will develop a swappable cartridge adding compute, SDR and RF sensing to its Osprey u8 satcom terminal for the DoD.
ThinKom's ThinAir SATCOM antenna will fly on the Navy's E-130J Phoenix II, the aircraft taking over the nuclear-command TACAMO mission.
SpaceX launched a Space Safety site disclosing conjunction statistics and offering a free collision-screening platform to other operators.
The FCC approved 15,000 next-gen Starlink Mobile satellites and waived SpaceX's need to lease spectrum from a carrier.
Iran escalated from warning about Starlink to formally protesting to Norway and threatening to treat its satellite infrastructure as a military target.
Nebex and Thrusters Unlimited will jointly structure $700M in capital for Mexican sovereign space programs in EO and telecoms.
Aselsan unveiled Gokbagi, a dual-use LEO communications constellation it calls Astralink globally, at IAC 2026 in Antalya.
Gilat secured a $28 million Peru connectivity contract plus a separate $10 million SkyEdge IV order, per Via Satellite.
Medvedev warns on Telegram that blocking Russia's Rassvet satellites over Ukraine's sanctions push could trigger "full-scale space warfare," threatening Star...
Musk later specified per-satellite power (250kW) and connectivity (10Tbps, with a path to 100+Tbps) figures for Starmind on X.
The same Sept. 30 FCC meeting also opened a rulemaking exploring 1,450 MHz more Ku/Ka-band and D-band spectrum, plus bands for non-connectivity space uses, p...
Zelenskyy tells the Financial Times he has personally and repeatedly asked Trump to sanction Rassvet's backers, newly naming China as a collaborator alongsid...
The three carriers finalized the direct-to-device JV first announced in May, naming Paul Roth interim CEO.
Airbus finished the first batch of a 669-satellite OneWeb renewal at its new Toulouse line, Eutelsat said.
ICEYE and Nokia will jointly build sovereign LEO satellite-communications systems that let governments own and control their own network.
Starlink's new Community Host program lets one subscriber sell hour, day, week and month passes to nearby users.
Meridian says SpinLaunch is not for sale, and named its Kongsberg NanoAvionics-built demo satellite and France and Miami ground-test sites ahead of Thursday'...
The FCC voted Sept. 30 to exempt space operations from NEPA review and open 1,050 MHz of satellite spectrum.
Zelenskyy told the FT he has repeatedly pressed Trump to sanction the Russian and Chinese firms behind Russia's Rassvet satellite network.
Alaska Air Group says Starlink inflight Wi-Fi now covers more than 40% of its combined Alaska and Hawaiian fleet.
Iran formally protested to Norway over Starlink and said satellite internet infrastructure could become a legitimate military target.
The Export-Import Bank's direct loan will fund Astranis's expansion of domestic GEO-satellite manufacturing capacity.
Reuters reports the in-flight engine failure could complicate NASA's Artemis lunar-lander timeline, since Starship's lander variant depends on the same engin...
Via Satellite corrected its own report: NSSLGlobal acquired MetOcean Security UK, a division of MetOcean Telematics, not MetOcean Telematics itself, which re...
Ecuador's state carrier CNT switched on Starlink's direct-to-cell service, branded SatPower, reaching 82.4% of national territory at launch.
Per Axios: AT&T CEO Stankey calls SpaceX's Starlink cellular plan "not a viable strategy," citing cost and legal hurdles.
Starship reached orbit for the first time on its 14th flight, deploying the first operational Starlink V3 satellites.
SpinLaunch's satcom unit Meridian Space becomes an independent company, weeks before its first in-space demo.
Starlink Mobile direct-to-cell service went live nationwide in Kazakhstan through a Beeline carrier partnership, backed by the government.
Northrop Grumman delivered the first 21 of 150 planned SDA Tranche 1 Transport Layer satellites to Vandenberg Space Force Base.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov warned that letting Ukraine use Starlink to strike deep inside Russia would be a 'dangerous' step.
Russia's defense ministry says it hit a Kyiv data center that relayed Starlink connectivity for Ukrainian forces.
Investigators later found a bottle of flammable liquid near the burned distribution cabinet, a discovery that may indicate a homemade incendiary device, per...
Poland says fire at Exatel-Starlink ground station was likely sabotage
GomSpace and partners will study a future Arctic satellite constellation for secure maritime communication under an ESA-funded contract.
Iridium stockholders voted about 99.6% in favor to adopt the merger agreement with Rocket Lab, per a joint SEC filing.
Correction: NSSLGlobal bought MetOcean Security UK, a MetOcean Telematics division; MetOcean Telematics itself stays independent.
Airtel Africa launched Starlink's direct-to-device service in Uganda, its second African market after the DRC, per Space in Africa.
The FCC accepted the companies' license-transfer applications for filing on September 16, opening a public-comment period running through November 9, per Sto...
Nine more GuoWang broadband satellites reached orbit on a Long March-8A from Hainan.
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.
Eutelsat's own Sept. 22 release confirms the first live rail trial of the Sept. 17-certified Kestrel u5 terminal, naming the operator (PKP Intercity), route,...
Gogo and Boeing's Insitu tested a drone-mounted antenna linked to Eutelsat's OneWeb LEO network.
Boeing Defence Australia selected Lite Coms to supply tactical satcom terminals for the Australian Defence Force's LAND 4140 program.
NuRAN Wireless is piloting licensed Starlink LEO backhaul at a Nigerian site to accelerate its rural 4G rollout.
Arabsat contracted China's CGWIC to build its 50th-anniversary satellite, the first in Arabsat's fleet built by a Chinese manufacturer.
LMT Group and Novaspace will develop a concept for a Latvian satellite-comms innovation hub, modeled on ESA's 5G/6G NTN Hub.
SpaceX said uncoordinated Viasat-3 F2 transmissions in the shared 18.8-19.3 GHz downlink and 28.6-29.1 GHz uplink bands could exceed statutory equivalent pow...
The FCC's Licensing Division accepted the application for filing via a Sept. 18 Public Notice, which opens it to public comment but is not a grant; the Commi...
Kongsberg Canada signed an MOU with MDA Space and an LOI with Telesat on Arctic ISR and Lightspeed connectivity for defence use.
RFE/RL reported September 20 that Ukraine has repeatedly struck ground infrastructure tied to the program: Russia's Dubna satellite communications center out...
Aer Lingus has finished installing Starlink Wi-Fi on all its Airbus A321neo aircraft, ahead of an original 2027 fleet-wide target.
SpaceX flew Falcon 9 booster B1093 for the 17th time from Vandenberg, the droneship's 225th booster recovery.
ESA signed 18 consolidation contracts worth a combined €20 million, bringing together nearly 80 companies to study new secure and resilient connectivity serv...
Space Force officials confirmed Sept. 15 that SpaceX may define the SDN Backbone's own satellite count and constellation architecture rather than follow a fi...
A Long March-12 rocket deployed GuoWang's 25th satellite batch from Wenchang, taking the constellation past 200 satellites launched.
Kymeta's rail-certified terminal carried Eutelsat's OneWeb LEO service on its first live rail trial, aboard a PKP Intercity train in Poland.
ESA signed 18 consolidation contracts worth €20 million, covering nearly 80 companies, to study IRIS2's low-LEO layer.
Orange and Telesat commissioned the first European ground gateway for the Telesat Lightspeed constellation.
United and DISH are streaming nine live NFL and college football channels to Starlink-connected seatback screens through the Super Bowl.
The FCC granted SpaceX global facilities-based and resale authority to carry Starlink Mobile traffic between the US and foreign markets.
Estonia's CybExer will lead a 10-company consortium building a capability to test IRIS2's security against disruption and cyberattack.
Orienspace's Gravity-1 sea-launch rocket put eight more Qianfan broadband satellites and a test craft into orbit.
Viasat and Space42 formally establish Equatys, a shared direct-to-device satellite venture, with up to $1 billion in equity.
Space Force set performance targets, not a satellite count, for SpaceX's Space Data Network contract.
Hughes will supply the ground gateway system and local terminal-assembly support for NIGCOMSAT-2A and 2B.
Per Via Satellite, Open Cosmos says it can build one satellite a day across its four factories, holds Ka-band spectrum access, has accumulated more than $370...
The new satellites are expected to enter service by mid-2027 after orbit raising, testing and commissioning, per TechNode Global.
LandSpace's Zhuque-2E Y7 rocket deployed 10 more satellites for SpaceSail's G60/Qianfan broadband constellation.
ESA's Celeste IOD-2 satellite transmitted and received standardised 5G positioning signals from LEO for the first time, ESA says.
KDDI signed with SpaceX for next-generation Starlink Mobile V2 service, which it calls Asia's first such contract.
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.
Rocket Lab finished raising $1.944 billion via stock sales, securing the cash it needs for the Iridium acquisition.
A pilot filed a proposed class action Sept. 15 alleging SpaceX ran a bait-and-switch on Starlink's Roam plan, per Law360.
Intellian's new terminal spans Mil X-band, Military Ka-band and commercial Ka/Ku-band across every orbit, deployable in under 30 minutes.
The Boeing-built trio, launched on booster B1080's 29th flight, brings the O3b mPOWER medium-Earth-orbit constellation to its full complement of 13 satellites.
Open Cosmos raised €300 million, its largest round to date, to scale satellite manufacturing and space data services.
Elveo Mobile partnered with Apex to stand up a dedicated U.S. factory for its planned 320-satellite direct-to-device constellation.
Nigeria's NIGCOMSAT contracted Thales Alenia Space to build the NigComSat-2A geostationary communications satellite.
A new State Dept initiative links Artemis Accords countries to U.S. commercial space firms, starting with a Peru rural-broadband pilot.
Per Laser Light's release: the company opened a formal RFI seeking a prime contractor for its planned all-optical HALO constellation.
Datacom will use ST Engineering iDirect's Intuition ground system to offer cloud-native satellite services across Asia Pacific.
SpaceX launched SES's final three O3b mPOWER satellites, completing the constellation on the Falcon family's 700th flight.
Independent satellite-tracking analyst Marco Langbroek published an orbital-tracking analysis on his SatTrackCam blog September 11 disputing ISW's failure fr...
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."
SES introduced SES CORE, a single-interface platform for broadcasters to orchestrate content delivery across satellite, fiber and IP.
Per Reuters (FOIA): UK defence ministry has spent almost $40 million on SpaceX's Starlink and Starshield satellite services.
Per European Spaceflight: Eutelsat awarded 5.4 billion euros in IRIS2 deals and separately ordered 229 more OneWeb refresh satellites.
Per Aviation Week: Finland's Stubb urged Musk at the Paris summit to loosen Starlink limits for Ukraine against Russia.
MDA Space extended its Aurora satellite line with a defense-focused variant offering anti-jamming and anti-spoofing protection.
Eutelsat selected Arianespace for two dedicated Ariane 64 launches in 2027 and 2028 to renew and expand its OneWeb LEO constellation.
KT SAT booked an Ariane 6 rideshare slot for its AscendArc-built KOREASAT 9 satellite, launching in the second half of 2028.
Saudi Arabia's stc group ordered a dedicated Astranis MicroGEO satellite, launching on Astranis' Block 3 mission targeting Q1 2027.
Eclipse Space, founded by former SpaceX engineers, unveiled three satellite platforms for customer-owned constellations.
Amazon Leo expanded its Arianespace launch order from 18 to 24 Ariane 64 missions running through 2031.
Eutelsat and Skynopy signed a partnership to open Eutelsat's ground stations to Earth observation and orbital data center customers.
AT&T Business is folding Amazon Leo satellite broadband into a managed fiber-5G-satellite offer for enterprise customers.
Austrian Airlines put its first Starlink-equipped Airbus A320neo into service, part of Lufthansa Group's 850-aircraft rollout.
Eutelsat and Tusass launched an EU- and Denmark-funded project extending OneWeb LEO connectivity to remote Greenland communities.
Senegal's high court froze Starlink's five-year license pending a legal challenge, per Space in Africa.
SpaceX flew Falcon 9 booster B1088 for the 19th time from Vandenberg, the droneship's 223rd booster recovery.
ST Engineering iDirect piloted its INT3000 modem, which supports both 5G NR-NTN and existing DVB satellite waveforms in one device.
Sparkle and Hellas Sat extended quantum-safe encryption over a live satellite link connecting their Athens and Cyprus infrastructure.
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...
KSAT vice president of Hyper Edvard Foss told Via Satellite Sept. 3 that KSAT is now selecting a manufacturer and industrial partners for the full operationa...
SES will deliver combined GEO and LEO satellite connectivity to the Peruvian Navy's bases, aircraft, and vessels.
SpaceX urged the FCC to sunset its High-Cost rural subsidy fund as 'rent-seeking'; rural ISPs' trade group objected.
The Institute for the Study of War reported September 1, citing satellite tracking data, that none of the second batch's 16 satellites had reached the conste...
4iG and SpaceX signed Europe's first Starlink Mobile and Sovereign Solutions agreements, launching in Hungary and Albania.
SAS finished fitting Starlink Wi-Fi to all 81 of its Airbus A320neo aircraft six months after starting.
Farcast validated its electronically steered antenna over Telesat's LEO 3 test satellite, a step toward a Lightspeed user terminal.
Open Cosmos becomes an approved provider on the UK's £8 billion TacSys defence-communications framework.
Boeing has delivered the last three satellites needed to complete SES's 13-satellite O3b mPower constellation.
Booster B1063 launched 27 Starlink satellites from Vandenberg, two flights short of SpaceX's Falcon 9 reuse record.
Telesat Government Solutions and Cailabs US will study pairing Lightspeed's optical inter-satellite links with Cailabs' ground stations.
Kymeta secured a $20 million DoD order for more than 100 Osprey u8 multi-orbit satcom terminals.
Inmarsat Maritime launched a Safety Data Hub combining three years of distress-call data with weather patterns to flag maritime risk trends.
Per SatNews: MDA Space is applying its software-defined AURORA satellite platform to the direct-to-device market, targeting 2027 deliveries.
OHB will build all 18 IRIS2 medium Earth orbit satellite platforms under a contract worth almost €1 billion from SES.
The Defense Innovation Unit tapped All.Space's Hydra satcom terminal for its 10ⁿ rapid-manufacturing program.
Viasat's second next-generation ViaSat-3 satellite began commercial operations, adding over 1 Tbps of capacity across Asia-Pacific.
Northwood Space opened a new California factory that more than fivefolds its antenna manufacturing footprint and adds 400 jobs.
Viasat-3 F2 began commercial service over the Americas Sept. 17, even as SpaceX's FCC petition to block or restrict it remains undecided.
SpaceX urged the FCC to examine Iridium's history of anticompetitive filings as regulators review Rocket Lab's proposed Iridium acquisition.
Swedish satellite operator Ovzon signed its first German partnerships to test its satcom platform with a government customer.
The UAE's TDRA granted Starlink Satellite Communications a 10-year license to provide satellite broadband nationwide.
Ukraine asked the ITU to bar Russia's Rassvet satellites from covering its territory in any frequency band.
Astrum Space is merging with SPAC Black Spade Acquisition III at a roughly $1 billion valuation.
Kepler Communications will host NorthStar's optical space-domain-awareness sensors on its data-relay satellites.
SpaceX is halving Starlink residential prices for people living near its new Starbase Louisiana spaceport site.
Zelensky awarded Elon Musk Ukraine's Order of Freedom for Starlink's role while pressing him to allow wider use over Russia.
Hughes Satellite Systems bondholders allege EchoStar stripped over $1.5 billion from the subsidiary before its Chapter 11 filing.
RussianSpaceWeb's Anatoly Zak reported August 24 that three of the second batch's satellites have since abandoned their climb attempts, with orbits decaying...
Iranian police say they arrested 163 people and seized 997 unauthorized Starlink terminals between March and July 2026.
Kepler says its 33-satellite optical relay constellation is now delivering commercial services worldwide, per a company release.
KSAT is running demo campaigns with NOAA and ESA to validate its future HYPER relay network ahead of a late-2027 launch.
SpaceX's Starlink filed a fresh Gen 2 constellation application with India's IN-SPACe after regulators rejected its first bid.
Qianfan operator SpaceSail closed a 7 billion yuan ($1B) Series B, a record for China's satellite-internet sector.
Qatar Airways says its Starlink Wi-Fi rollout now covers 150 widebody jets, including the first Starlink-equipped Boeing 787-9.
Rocket Lab said Aug. 18 it will use a Rocket Lab-built Photon spacecraft to demonstrate secure optical inter-satellite links and interoperability with the SD...
Speedcast deployed an all-LEO Starlink connectivity solution across TGS's seismic survey fleet under a multi-year deal.
Added Space.com's confirmed 24-satellite count and the return-to-flight context (first launch since the Aug 10 Long March-7A failure), which the original CGT...
Viasat picked Rocket Lab to build the satellite bus for its Space Force PTS-G anti-jam GEO satellite.
SES deepens its stake in Elveo Mobile, the D2D operator formed from the Lynk/Omnispace merger, to build a multi-orbit D2D offering.
A Long March-12 launched GuoWang's 24th satellite batch from Hainan, China's first flight since the Aug 10 Long March-7A failure.
SpaceX reversed the roaming exclusion after Polish government pressure; updated headline and copy to reflect the resolution and attached two new corroboratin...
A US appeals court kept Devas' $562.5 million award against ISRO's Antrix alive; with interest it now tops $2 billion.
Airtel Africa commercially deployed Starlink's satellite-to-mobile service in the DRC, the first such commercial launch on the continent.
Lynk and Omnispace closed their merger as Elveo Mobile, and investor SES announced an expanded D2D investment and collaboration.
Telesat's first-half 2026 results show falling GEO revenue and a Lightspeed cost jump to $5.2 billion, per the company.
SpaceX opened Starlink orders in Vietnam under a five-year pilot that caps the service at 600,000 subscribers.
Amazon Leo, Lockheed, Northrop, Rocket Lab and York Space each get $12M to test linking to Space Force's satellite network.
Intuitive Machines signed a $600 million-plus deal with an undisclosed customer for three geostationary satellites.
BSCL shifted its BS-1 satellite after a US tracking alert flagged INSAT-1A debris passing within 852 meters.
Optus undocked Northrop Grumman's Mission Extension Vehicle from Optus D3, completing phase one of its Project Aurora life-extension.
Space42 and Leonardo DRS agreed to explore integrating satellite communications with C5ISR mission systems for UAE national security use.
Texas paused over $3 billion in BEAD broadband disbursements after lawmakers accused the state broadband office of favoring Starlink.
CesiumAstro is buying RF chipmaker Jariet Technologies to build its own satellite semiconductors in-house.
A Falcon 9 booster flying its 18th mission delivered 29 Starlink satellites to orbit from Florida.
SpaceX reversed Starlink's Poland roaming exclusion days before it was due to take effect, after Polish officials protested.
Marlink agreed to buy Global RadioData Communications, a UK satellite and RF comms specialist serving the UK Ministry of Defence and NATO.
Commissioner Andrius Kubilius said the deal will "boost secure governmental capacity by more than 60% within the Union." Payload reported the division of lab...
The companies signed an MOU to demonstrate a 2.5 Gbps optical link between a reentry capsule and an orbiting satellite in 2027.
Kepler signed its first dedicated launch vehicle mission, booking a Rocket Lab Neutron flight from Virginia no earlier than 2028.
AST SpaceMobile's Q2 net loss widened to $230.9 million, driven partly by a $125.9 million write-off tied to the lost BlueBird 7 satellite.
Voyager Technologies won a Space Force contract to develop space-to-space communications; value undisclosed.
A routine Falcon 9 batch from California deployed 24 more Starlink satellites; the booster completed its 16th flight.
The FCC voted unanimously August 6 to adopt the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and seek public comment, per Broadband Breakfast, but the adopted item dropped...
Eutelsat's full-year results show LEO connectivity revenue up 69.5% to EUR297 million, now a quarter of total revenue.
SES cleared a key IRIS² milestone and confirmed up to €1.35 billion to build 18 medium-orbit satellites for the EU program.
Gilat says its patent-pending AI system canceled satellite-link interference at up to 10x conventional performance.
The new process lets MatSing produce Luneburg lens antennas at apertures and frequencies it says were previously lab-only.
The European Commission and SpaceRISE concluded a deal adding 66 satellites to IRIS2, taking the program to EUR15.6 billion.
The FCC unanimously adopted a rulemaking exploring ~200 MHz of unlicensed Wi-Fi and IoT spectrum for direct-to-device satellite service.
Telesat signed a definitive $2.3 billion CAD contract with Canada's Defence Investment Agency for 15 years of Military Ka-band Arctic connectivity under the...
On SpaceX's first earnings call as a public company, COO Gwynne Shotwell said the company 'definitely' intends to build the terrestrial component of a Starli...
SpaceX launched three new Block 2 BlueBird direct-to-cell satellites for AST SpaceMobile from Cape Canaveral.
RussianSpaceWeb's updated tracking, citing U.S.
Canada awarded Telesat a C$2.3 billion Arctic military satcom contract, expanding Lightspeed by 69 satellites to 225 total.
A new startup wants laser-linked MEO satellites to compete with subsea cables on long-haul data routes.
Nine more GuoWang broadband satellites reached orbit on a Long March-8A, taking the constellation past 180 launched.
Viasat's Q1 FY2027 revenue held flat at $1.2 billion as both remaining ViaSat-3 satellites near service entry.
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.
AST SpaceMobile began active satellite-to-phone service in Japan alongside Rakuten Mobile, its first commercial market outside the US.
ETL Systems buys Croatian software specialist Amphinicy to broaden its satellite ground-segment portfolio.
EchoStar's satellite broadband unit files Chapter 11 after missing an August 1 debt deadline, without a pre-negotiated plan.
Hughes Network Systems, EchoStar's satellite broadband subsidiary, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on August 2 in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas, per Advanced Television. Hughes had $102 million in cash on hand against $1.5 billion in borrowings that matured August 1, and filed without a pre-negotiated restructuring plan. EchoStar's own SEC 8-K, filed the same day, discloses an Item 1.03 bankruptcy event.
The Space Force awarded K2 Space $22.9 million to build and test laser communications terminals on two satellites by 2028.
Upgraded the lead to the Federal Register's official Report and Order text (FCC 26-46), published July 31 with the docket numbers and Sept 29, 2026 effective...
Spain's satellite operator signed the industrial contract for a replacement secure-comms satellite after SpainSat NG II's total loss.
A routine Starlink batch from Vandenberg reused a Falcon 9 booster for the 26th time.
Eutelsat detailed its MoU on July 28, per Via Satellite: the company will give Polish space companies access to its facilities to test and validate IRIS2 use...
SES will equip 60+ LATAM Airbus and Embraer aircraft with multi-orbit GEO/LEO inflight connectivity using a new low-profile antenna.
On July 27, the FCC published the order setting gross incentive payments at approximately $5.6 billion for SES and $504 million for Eutelsat, per SatNews and...
EchoStar closed its $20.25 billion spectrum sale to AT&T, funding debt payoff across its satellite and wireless units.
On July 27, the FCC published the order setting gross incentive payments at approximately $5.6 billion for SES, $504 million for Eutelsat, and just under $20...
The FCC exempted SpaceX's Starlink routers from its foreign-router ban, granting conditional approval through February 2028.
ESA is soliciting feasibility studies to turn its Gateway-built Lunar Link payload into a standalone lunar comms satellite.
Eutelsat told Payload the filing is "part of our long-term planning for the evolution of our LEO constellation" and that its LEO investment needs are "fully...
Amazon Leo asked the FCC to license 5,105 satellites for direct-to-device service on Globalstar spectrum, starting 2028.
A defunct SpaceX Starlink satellite burned up over the Netherlands on July 24, producing a widely observed fireball, per Dutch outlets.
The FCC voted July 22, 2026 to adopt the Space Modernization Order on a unanimous 3-0 vote, replacing the legacy Part 25 satellite rules with a new Part 100,...
Intellian's new C100M terminal, built on Iridium Certus 100, gives it a dedicated terminal for every Iridium Certus GMDSS service tier.
Score moved from 5 to 4.
On July 21, the bipartisan leadership of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee wrote to the FCC asking it to postpone the vote and confine its r...
The FCC voted to auction 160 MHz of upper C-band spectrum for 5G by July 2027, forcing satellite operators to relocate.
Taiwan eases foreign-ownership caps for satellite operators, opening a path for Starlink's entry.
Poland more than doubled its IRIS2 contribution to 656.3 million euros; Eutelsat has now detailed its side of the MoU.
Contrivian folded networking-software maker Big Network into its Starlink-plus-terrestrial connectivity platform.
The UK government opened GBP62 million in space-sector funding, including a third C-LEO satcom technology round.
ThinKom's ThinAir GT2517 is the first airborne antenna certified to operate on SES's O3b mPower constellation.
Per RussianSpaceWeb: Bureau 1440's second Rassvet batch fell short of altitude per ISW; an independent tracker disputes that read.
IN-SPACe, ISRO and DoT's WPC wing reportedly found Jio's 1,600-satellite plan "on par" with Starlink; neither party has confirmed it.
Swissto12 raised a $70 million Series C to scale up HummingSat small-GEO satellite manufacturing.
Two Starlink mini laser terminals on Orion's exterior will downlink 4K video during Artemis III's crewed rendezvous demonstration.
Amazon Leo and Herotel will launch a satellite-internet service, evry, for South Africa in 2027.
The SEC filing flags possible vertical integration into launch and an advanced-stage Rakuten joint venture for Japan's J-LEO program.
FCC proposes letting Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and IoT devices link directly to satellites across 225+ MHz of unlicensed spectrum.
A Falcon 9 launched 27 Starlink satellites from Vandenberg, landing its booster on a droneship in the Pacific.
Frontier and four sister Indigo Partners airlines will equip more than 1,000 aircraft with Starlink Wi-Fi starting in 2027.
Per Correnti, via Corporate Jet Investor: Starlink's aviation price hike 'lacks any reasonable ethical process.'
The satellite operator's assured-PNT chip is now shipping to device makers after 150+ organizations expressed interest.
SpaceX's Starlink V5 dish weighs less, draws roughly half the power of the V4, and trades a little peak speed for efficiency.
Lead upgraded to NATO's own 7 July announcement after Florian approved a NATO registry institution profile (2026-07-12), which makes nato.int a first-party d...
Payload's July 10 follow-up reports commercial suppliers behind several national programs feeding into HALO: ICEYE is providing SAR satellites to Finland and...
Rivada partnered with Nepal's Mercantile Space to deliver sovereign satellite connectivity over its planned Outernet constellation.
Space42 and Skylo tested two-way SMS and SOS messaging to standard Android phones via the Thuraya-4 satellite.
Ovzon tested its GEO satellite and mobile terminals nearly 1,300 km inside the Arctic Circle with NATO country observers.
Senegal's Sonatel expanded its Gandoul satellite gateway with 16 new Eutelsat OneWeb LEO antennas to grow as a regional connectivity hub.
ULA flies final Atlas V mission carrying Amazon Leo satellites
FCC to vote on satellite licensing overhaul July 22
Telesat signed a firm $2.3 billion CAD contract for Canada's Arctic military connectivity, expanding Lightspeed by 69 satellites.
York Space Systems closed its purchase of satcom terminal maker All.Space at $300 million, down from the $355 million first announced.
An Earthjustice-led coalition asked the FCC to complete a full environmental review before licensing any orbital data center satellites.
Per SpaceNews, Apolink's IPoS-TDsM cubesat launched on Transporter-17 and is now relaying signals on an experimental FCC S-band license.
SES Space & Defense won a 5-year blanket purchase agreement to supply the US Space Force with managed Ku-band connectivity.
Eight NATO members will network their sovereign military satellites into a shared hybrid constellation.
SpaceX doubled its Starlink Business Aviation subscription prices and raised hardware costs to $200,000, per Benzinga.
On July 6, 2026, Iridium said it completed its acquisition of the remaining 61% of Aireon, the space-based air-traffic-surveillance venture it did not alread...
CesiumAstro asked the FCC to license its own 737-satellite Synchronicity constellation for reconfigurable connectivity.
Eutelsat asked the FCC for US market access for a planned 528-satellite Next constellation alongside its existing OneWeb fleet.
The largest Qianfan group yet per China in Space: 20 satellites, taking the constellation to 238 deployed.
Another SpaceSail constellation batch, launched a day before a second group flew from Hainan.
An Atlas V 551 deployed 29 Amazon Leo satellites in what ULA says is the rocket's last flight carrying a satellite payload.
Telesat is donating Telstar 19 VANTAGE capacity to Top Comunications for Venezuela's earthquake recovery effort.
The FCC voted to replace Part 25 with Part 100, calling it a 'licensing assembly line' for satellite operators.
SpaceX filed with the FCC for up to 100,000 Gen3 Starlink satellites framed around AI-scale connectivity demand, per trade coverage.
Dish DBS and Dish Wireless file prepackaged Chapter 11; EchoStar, Hughes and the AT&T spectrum sale continue.
Rocket Lab agreed to acquire Iridium Communications in a cash-and-stock deal valuing Iridium at about $8 billion enterprise value.
Rocket Lab and Iridium Communications said they signed a definitive agreement for Rocket Lab to acquire all outstanding Iridium common stock, per a joint press release filed as an exhibit to Rocket Lab's 8-K with the SEC on June 29, 2026. Iridium stockholders will receive $27.00 in cash plus Rocket Lab shares under an exchange ratio collared between $67.50 and $112.50, a structure the companies say has a notional value of $54.00 per Iridium share and implies an $8.0 billion enterprise value. Both boards approved the deal unanimously, Rocket Lab has commitments for a $3.6 billion bridge loan from Deutsche Bank and Wells Fargo, and the companies expect to close in mid-2027 subject to Iridium stockholder and regulatory approval. On July 6, 2026, Iridium said it completed its acquisition of the remaining 61% of Aireon, the space-based air-traffic-surveillance venture it did not already own, paying about $367 million to providers in Canada, England, Denmark, Ireland, and Italy, per SpaceNews, consolidating Aireon as a wholly owned subsidiary ahead of the Rocket Lab deal's close. The FCC accepted the companies' license-transfer applications for filing on September 16, opening a public-comment period running through November 9, per Stocktwits; Iridium's shareholders are scheduled to vote on the merger at a special meeting on September 24, per Iridium's definitive proxy filing as reported by TradingView. Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck said September 22 that Iridium's L-band spectrum, not its satellites, is the deal's core asset: "Spectrum is physics. You can't just magic up spectrum," he said, estimating Rocket Lab could have deployed a comparable constellation for roughly $350 million instead of the deal's $8 billion price, per Stocktwits.
Shotwell confirmed on SpaceX's first earnings call that it will build a terrestrial network for Starlink Mobile using EchoStar spectrum.
MDA Space will build the digital payload and antennas for Japan's next-generation defence communications satellite.
Per Space.com: the planned AI satellite network gets a name, at a scale about 100 times today's Starlink.
Per Securities Times via Reuters: up to three new investors for at most a 20% combined stake to fund constellation buildout.
Lite Coms won a $22 million satcom contract for an undisclosed government customer's operational readiness.
The RIL AGM statement commits to evaluating sovereign LEO capability; reported figures of ~1,600 satellites are unconfirmed.
Three Block 2 direct-to-cell satellites launched successfully, per AST's release; the prior BlueBird 7 was lost in May.
ESA says the upgraded boosters made this the heaviest payload ever launched by a European rocket, beating Ariane 5's ATV.
SES and Airbus signed a lease in Noordwijk, Netherlands for Eagle-1's optical ground station, per European Spaceflight.
Comtech agreed to sell most of its Satellite and Space Communications segment to Gilat's Wavestream unit for $157.5 million.
ConnectLA signed an $8.2 million BEAD deal with Starlink for 10,635 rural locations too costly to reach with fiber.
The FCC waived the July 2026 1,616-satellite milestone; late satellites temporarily lose processing-round spectrum priority.
Space Systems Command awarded SpaceX $2.29 billion to build the backbone of its new military Space Data Network.
The FCC approved SpaceX's roughly $17 billion purchase of EchoStar spectrum, with a $2.4 billion escrow condition.
Amazon Leo will absorb Globalstar's satellite fleet and direct-to-device spectrum rights in a deal expected to close in 2027.
Amazon agreed April 14, 2026 to acquire Globalstar for up to $90 per share in cash or Amazon stock, a deal worth roughly $11.6 billion, per Amazon's own release. Globalstar shareholders holding about 58% of voting power approved the deal by written consent. Closing is expected in 2027, subject to regulatory approvals and Globalstar meeting satellite-deployment milestones tied to its HIBLEO-4 replacement constellation, with up to $110 million of downward price adjustment if those milestones are missed, per Amazon and IoT Business News. Amazon said it will use Globalstar's direct-to-device spectrum licenses and more than 30 years of low Earth orbit satellite operations expertise to build a next-generation Amazon Leo direct-to-device system. Globalstar CEO Paul Jacobs said the combination "will advance innovations in digital connectivity," and Apple SVP Greg Joswiak noted Apple and Amazon's existing infrastructure relationship, per Amazon's release. The FCC approved the transfer of Globalstar's licenses to Amazon on Oct. 27, finding no competitive harm and noting the deal would let Amazon Leo offer direct-to-device service to underserved areas and improve emergency communications, per Via Satellite and Light Reading; the commission dismissed a competing bidder's objection due to a separate arbitration dispute.
Delta will equip 500 aircraft with Amazon Leo satellite WiFi starting in 2028, passing over SpaceX's Starlink for the deal.
A space particle strike during orbit-raising destroyed Spain's new secure military comms satellite before it entered service.