Via Satellite
• Rachel Jewett
Sky Perfect JSAT and Astroscale have formed a strategic partnership to advance reliable, sustainable on-orbit servicing capabilities. Sky Perfect JSAT will invest in Astroscale as part of the agreement, targeting new infrastructure-support services in orbit.
Via Satellite
• Rachel Jewett
By Via Satellite: Eutelsat’s U.S. government service provider Eutelsat Network Solutions has added the Get SAT Aero Blade terminal to its lineup, to give more multi-orbit options to government and defense customers.
Space.com
• Josh Dinner
By Space.com: The Liquid Oxygen Flight demonstration (LOXSAT) will help NASA test and develop technologies to support in-space transfer and storage of cryogenic propellants, critical abilities for the Artemis program to return astronauts to the moon.
European Spaceflight
• Andrew Parsonson
By European Spaceflight: ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher has called on Europe to develop an autonomous human spaceflight capability.
Space Intel Report
• Peter B. de Selding
By Space Intel Report: LA PLATA, Maryland — Small satellite manufacturing GomSpace of Denmark and Sweden reported a 43% increase in revenue and a 22% increase in adjusted EBITDA for the three months ending March 31 and booked a sizable net profit relating to a long-standing debt from an undisclosed satellite constellation startup.
SpaceNews.com
• Sandra Erwin
By SpaceNews.com: WASHINGTON — Since SpaceX disrupted the satellite communications market with low-latency broadband from low Earth orbit, traditional satellite operators have promoted “multi-orbit” architectures that combine low Earth orbit, medium Earth orbit and geostationary satellites into integrated communications systems designed to survive outages, attacks and congestion.
Payload
• Jacqueline Feldscher
By Payload: The commercial space station company announced this morning that it would start selling satellite buses, specifically targeting the low-cost, high-volume, high-power niche for missions from comms, to EO, to national-security programs.
Runway Girl
• Mary Kirby
By Runway Girl: Boeing and Gilat have reached a milestone toward offering Gilat’s multi-orbit Sidewinder ESA a future line-fit solution for IFC.
SpaceWatch Global
• Joshua Faleti
Space Intel Report
• Peter B. de Selding
European Spaceflight
• Andrew Parsonson
