Via Satellite
• Rachel Jewett
John-Paul Hemingway, previously a senior executive at SES, has joined Vast to lead business development for the company’s new satellite manufacturing venture. The appointment signals Vast’s shift toward in-house manufacturing as it builds out its satellite supply chain and commercial partnerships.
AeroTime
• Stephen Pope
By AeroTime: A California satellite startup is developing a low-Earth-orbit navigation network designed as a jamming-resistant commercial backup to GPS.
SpaceNews.com
• Andrew Jones
By SpaceNews.com: China’s secretive spaceplane has released an object into orbit during its ongoing fourth mission, according to space surveillance firm LeoLabs.
Payload
• Kepler Communications
By Payload: Historically, deploying a new capability in space required significant time, investment, and technical expertise. Companies often had little choice but to build nearly everything themselves—from spacecraft and payload integration to ground infrastructure and mission operations.
Ars Technica
• Stephen Clark
By Ars Technica: The Space Force wants to cut the time to field new satellites from years to weeks, days, or hours.
Bloomberg
• Kaula Nhongo
By Bloomberg: Namibia rejected more than 600 appeals against its decision to deny trillionaire Elon Musk’s Starlink a license to operate in the country, including a challenge brought by the satellite internet provider.
Bloomberg
• Carmen Arroyo, Rachel Metz
By Bloomberg: SpaceX has inked a multibillion-dollar agreement to provide computing resources to artificial intelligence startup Reflection AI, the latest in a string deals from Elon Musk’s firm as it vies to become an AI infrastructure provider.
CNBC
Wall Street Journal
Payload
• Douglas Gorman
By Payload: The new hardware comes amid Northwood’s rapid global expansion of its physical ground station footprint, and will allow the company to support more data downlinks over a wider range of frequencies.
SpaceWatch Global
• Joshua Faleti
Space Intel Report
• Peter B. de Selding
SpaceWatch Global
• Joshua Faleti
SpaceWatch Global
• Joshua Faleti
