Articles about Satellite – Page 11 of 14

NASA’s Rossi X-ray probe makes a quiet exit after spending 22 years in orbit

News Brief: A month after the breakup of China’s Tiangong-1 space lab, another spacecraft went to its fiery doom today… Read More

Bill Gates, Airbus and SoftBank invest in satellite video startup that wants to help us ‘see and understand the Earth live and unfiltered’

The latest spinout from Intellectual Ventures, EarthNow, says it’s coming out of stealth mode with backing from Microsoft co-founder Bill… Read More

Report: Probe blames Zuma spy satellite’s loss on Northrop Grumman, not SpaceX

News Brief: Investigators have tentatively concluded that January’s loss of a U.S. spy satellite code-named Zuma was due to problems… Read More

Deep Space Industries will equip BlackSky satellites with water-spraying thrusters

California-based Deep Space Industries says it has signed a contract to provide water-spraying thrusters for the BlackSky Earth observation satellites… Read More

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches fifth batch of Iridium NEXT telecom satellites

Another 10 next-generation Iridium telecommunications satellites were sent into orbit today aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from Vandenberg… Read More

FCC approves SpaceX’s plan to provide broadband services with Starlink satellites

The Federal Communications Commission says it has approved SpaceX’s application to provide broadband internet access via thousands of Starlink… Read More

Boeing HorizonX joins $15M funding round for Australia’s Myriota IoT satellite venture

Boeing’s HorizonX venture capital arm has made its first investment outside the U.S., as part of a $15 million Series… Read More

Jeff Bezos and National Reconnaissance Office talk about space and innovation

Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos paid a visit to the National Reconnaissance Office this week — which fits right in with his… Read More

Built to take a beating: Kymeta introduces portable KyWay Go satellite data terminal

Redmond, Wash.-based Kymeta Corp., the communications company backed by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, says it’s starting to roll out a… Read More

Spaceflight Industries firms up European satellite alliance and $150M funding round

It’s official: After receiving all government approvals, a French-Italian joint venture has taken a minority stake in Seattle-based Spaceflight Industries… Read More

FCC stings Swarm Technologies after an unauthorized launch of tiny satellites

A stealthy California startup called Swarm Technologies is facing the wrath of the Federal Communications Commission after its super-miniaturized satellites… Read More

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin strikes satellite launch deal with Japan’s Sky Perfect JSAT

Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, says it has signed up Japan’s Sky Perfect JSAT… Read More

BlackSky shows off first next-generation Global satellite for Earth observation

Spaceflight Industries’ BlackSky geospatial intelligence service is taking the wraps off its first operational satellite, Global-1, which will blaze the… Read More

SpaceX sends Spanish telecom satellite into orbit with 50th Falcon 9 rocket launch

SpaceX sent a Spanish broadband telecommunications satellite into orbit tonight, marking the 50th launch of a Falcon 9 rocket. The… Read More

With $13.5M boost, Astranis unveils big plan to beam internet from small satellites

Astranis Space Technologies is taking the wraps off a plan to provide internet access to billions of people, using small-sized,… Read More

SpaceX launches its first Starlink internet satellites (and Spain’s Paz satellite, too)

SpaceX put its first two prototype Starlink broadband satellites into orbit along with a Spanish radar imaging satellite today. The… Read More

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai endorses SpaceX’s plan for satellite broadband service

SpaceX’s plan to beam broadband services to America and the world via its Starlink satellite constellation got a big thumbs-up… Read More

Kepler Communications’ first satellite expands ‘Internet of Things’ to space

News Brief: Toronto-based Kepler Communications says its first Ku-band telecommunications satellite is in working order after a Jan. 19 launch… Read More

Amid Zuma satellite controversy, SpaceX gets a vote of confidence from Air Force

News Brief: The classified satellite known as Zuma was said to have disappeared soon after its Jan. 7 launch on… Read More

SpaceX puts 10 Iridium telecom satellites in orbit – and creates a spectacle in the sky

SpaceX has sent 10 more satellites into orbit for the Iridium NEXT constellation, passing the halfway point in its 75-satellite… Read More

Kymeta opens commercial availability for Kalo mobile satellite internet service

Kymeta today announced the commercial availability of Kalo, a mobile satellite internet service that it operates in partnership with Intelsat.… Read More

Planetary Resources’ prototype asteroid prospector set for January liftoff in India

Redmond, Wash.-based Planetary Resources’ technology demonstrator satellite for asteroid prospecting is due for launch in early January, along with more… Read More

UW team wins NASA’s nod for small satellites with magnetic braking systems

NASA says it’ll provide resources for a University of Washington research team that’s working on a concept to put small… Read More

19 spacecraft go missing after Russian weather satellite launch goes awry

Russia’s Meteor-M 2-1 weather satellite and 18 nanosatellites went missing today after their launch aboard a Soyuz rocket from the… Read More

After 7,000-mile odyssey, Kymeta’s satellite connected car comes home

REDMOND, Wash. — Kymeta Corp.’s Toyota RAV4 sport utility vehicle and the flat-panel satellite antenna on its roof are back at… Read More

Why net neutrality’s peril raises the stakes for future satellite broadband options

The Federal Communication Commission’s plan to start rolling back regulations on net neutrality comes as bad news for streaming video… Read More

Night launch sends next-gen JPSS-1 weather satellite (and more) into orbit

The first in a series of four next-generation weather satellites, known as the Joint Polar Satellite System-1 or JPSS-1, is… Read More

Planetary Resources’ Arkyd-6 prototype imaging satellite has left the building

Planetary Resources has been working on its Arkyd-6 imaging satellite for years, and today the company reported that the printer-sized… Read More

Why data analytics is becoming the next frontier for the commercial space industry

Thanks to incredibly shrinking satellites and launch costs, thousands of satellites are sending down streams of data about the state… Read More

Satellite readings track how climate change is thinning out mountain glaciers

Elevation readings captured by satellites confirm that glaciers in the western United States are fading away at a worrisome rate.… Read More