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Satellites

Starlink antenna with cityscape

SpaceX aims to expand its Starlink satellite operation to Texas and set up Starbase City

SpaceX is planning to break ground on a “state-of-the-art manufacturing facility” in Austin, Texas, to support a satellite operation that… Read More

BlackSky Global satellites

BlackSky satellite data venture makes a $1.5B deal to go public in SPAC merger

BlackSky Holdings, which is operating a growing fleet of Earth observation satellites as well as a cloud-based platform to analyze… Read More

Musk and Bezos

SpaceX’s Elon Musk and Amazon’s Project Kuiper stir up a war of words over satellites

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and Amazon’s Project Kuiper escalated a different kind of Star Wars today, over the orbital parameters… Read More

SpaceX launch

SpaceX puts record 143 satellites in orbit, with Spaceflight playing a supporting role

SpaceX set a record for the number of satellites sent into orbit by a single rocket, and that’s not the… Read More

LauncherOne ignites engine

Virgin Orbit sends 10 satellites to orbit, building on Paul Allen’s air-launch legacy

Eight months after an unsuccessful first attempt, Virgin Orbit finally lived up to its name today and used an innovative… Read More

Kymeta antenna on car

Korean tech conglomerate will invest $30M in Gates-backed Kymeta antenna venture

Hanwha Systems, a smart-technology company headquartered in South Korea, has agreed to make an $30 million investment in Redmond, Wash.-based… Read More

Ground Station

Project Kuiper plus AWS: How Amazon’s cloud and satellite internet ventures mesh

Amazon Web Services and the Project Kuiper satellite internet venture may be separate domains of Jeff Bezos’ business empire, but… Read More

Project Kuiper lab

Amazon’s Project Kuiper reveals details on customer terminals for satellite internet

Amazon’s Project Kuiper hasn’t yet said when it’ll start launching satellites or providing broadband internet access from above, but it… Read More

Starlink launch

SpaceX’s Starlink satellite network wins $885M in federal aid for rural broadband

SpaceX’s Starlink satellite network — which relies on hundreds of spacecraft built in Redmond, Wash. — has been awarded $885.5… Read More

MRZR and SUV

Kymeta rolls out its next-gen connectivity service, blending satellite and cellular links

Kymeta Corp., the Redmond, Wash.-based connectivity venture backed by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, is making the next generation of its… Read More

Spaceflight Inc. fills out its line of Sherpa orbital transfer vehicles for small satellites

Seattle-based Spaceflight Inc. today unveiled two new options for its Sherpa orbital transfer vehicle — one that uses an environmentally… Read More

Satellite constellation

Pentagon worries that satellite attacks could spark ‘mutually assured destruction’

In the years ahead, the long-running nightmare of the nuclear Cold War — mutually assured destruction — could return in… Read More

Skylark constellation

LeoStella takes on assembly role for NorthStar’s space traffic-monitoring satellites

Tukwila, Wash.-based LeoStella will oversee the assembly of the first three satellites for a constellation that’s designed to keep track… Read More

Satellite in orbit

Microsoft partners with SpaceX’s Starlink satellite service for Azure Space cloud platform

Microsoft says it’s taking the next giant leap in cloud computing, in partnership with SpaceX and its Starlink broadband satellite… Read More

HawkEye 360 satellites

Space Notes: Spaceflight makes launch deal, RBC Signals to host Swarm, and a new fellowship is born

— Seattle-based Spaceflight Inc. says it’s signed an agreement with HawkEye 360 to support multiple launches of the Virginia-based company’s… Read More

Kymeta u8 antenna

After a boost from Bill Gates, Kymeta wins FCC’s approval for next-gen antennas

Redmond, Wash.-based Kymeta Corp., the mobile connectivity venture backed by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, says it has won the Federal… Read More

Satellite factory

BlackSky will add sharper focus and night vision to future Earth-watching satellites

BlackSky’s satellites are already producing frequently updated, high-resolution views of planet Earth — but now the company says its next-generation… Read More

RZR vehicle with Kymeta antenna

Kymeta goes beyond antennas with acquisition of Lepton satellite service company

Kymeta Corp. — the satellite antenna venture that’s based in Redmond, Wash., and backed by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates —… Read More

Satellite constellation

Amazon vows to invest $10B in Kuiper satellites after getting FCC’s go-ahead

The Federal Communications Commission has authorized Amazon’s plans for a Project Kuiper constellation of 3,236 satellites that would provide broadband… Read More

Air Force goes with BlackSky’s Spectra AI platform to track impact of COVID-19

BlackSky, a satellite data venture with offices in Seattle, says it’s won a U.S. Air Force contract to track the… Read More

Spaceflight and Tethers Unlimited team up on deorbiting system for satellite carrier

Seattle-based Spaceflight Inc. says it’ll use a notebook-sized deorbiting system developed by another Seattle-area company to deal with the disposal… Read More

Ajit Pai

FCC chief seeks conditional approval for Amazon’s Project Kuiper broadband satellite network

The Federal Communications Commission’s chairman, Ajit Pai, says he’s proposing approval of Amazon’s plan to put more than 3,200 satellites… Read More

OneWeb satellites

British-Indian team puts in a winning $1B bid for OneWeb satellite broadband venture

Update for 12:20 p.m. Nov. 20: OneWeb has emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy with a new CEO, Neil Masterson, who… Read More

Ground Station

Amazon Web Services is creating its very own space force for cloud computing

Amazon Web Services today unveiled a new business unit devoted to developing data infrastructure and cloud services for the aerospace… Read More

SWIFT-SLX radio

Tethers Unlimited delivers software-defined radios to Millennium Space for satellite constellation

Bothell, Wash.-based Tethers Unlimited says it has completed an on-time delivery of 15 S-band software-defined radios in support of a… Read More

Relativity Space Vandenberg pad

Relativity makes deals with Vandenberg AFB and Iridium for California launches

Relativity Space, a startup that was born in Seattle but grew up in Los Angeles, says it has signed an… Read More

LeoStella satellite for BlackSky

LeoStella confirms delivery of BlackSky’s Earth observation satellites for SpaceX launch

Tukwila, Wash.-based LeoStella cast a spotlight today on the delivery of its first two built-from-scratch satellites for the BlackSky Earth-watching… Read More

SpaceX Falcon 9 launch

SpaceX sends Starlink and Planet satellites to orbit in a new kind of piggyback launch

SpaceX today launched dozens more of its Starlink broadband internet satellites, plus three piggyback satellites for Planet — marking the… Read More

Spaceflight SSO-A launch

Japanese firms finish acquisition of Spaceflight, with BlackSky satellite venture going its own way

Japan’s Mitsui & Co., working in partnership with Yamasa Co. Ltd., has completed the acquisition of Seattle-based Spaceflight Inc. from… Read More

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches eighth batch of 60 Starlink satellites and makes its ‘first fifth’ landing

Less than a week after sending two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station, SpaceX sent 60 more of its… Read More

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