by Peter B. de Selding | Jul 20, 2017
PARIS — The incoming U.S. deputy director of national intelligence on July 19 said she would push for greater use of commercial satellite imagery from small-satellite constellations for intelligence purposes but cautioned that quicker revisit time is not a panacea....
by Peter B. de Selding | Jul 13, 2017
Updated with Orbital ATK, DARPA statements on court ruling PARIS — A U.S. District Court dismissed Orbital ATK’s lawsuit against a U.S. government effort to develop an in-orbit robotic servicing vehicle with contractor Space Systems/Loral (SSL), saying the court has...
by Peter B. de Selding | Jul 12, 2017
PARIS — Aeronautical and maritime satellite service provider Global Eagle Entertainment (GEE) on July 12 announced the first of what could be an expensive series of cash payments to its creditors as a penalty for not filing recent earnings statements. Los...
by Peter B. de Selding | Jul 6, 2017
UPDATE July 17: Sky and Space Global said its three Diamond satellites have successfully demonstrated their RF intersatellite links at up to 2 Mega Symbols per second, in what the company said is a first for nanosatellites. Commercial service from these first three...
by Peter B. de Selding | Jun 26, 2017
LE BOURGET, France — A long-delayed satellite carrying a laser-optical payload for intersatellite links and Ka-band broadband for Africa faces further delays because of an anomaly in its Ka-band system, government and industry officials said. The satellite, called...
by Peter B. de Selding | Jun 26, 2017
PARIS — Launch-service provider SpaceX has cut by more than half the time it takes to recover, refurbish and re-fly its Falcon 9 rocket’s first stage after just two campaigns and expects further substantial time savings as it gains more experience, a SpaceX official...
