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Jason Rainbow

Jason Rainbow

Senior Staff Writer at SpaceNews

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Executives urge closer integration of commercial and military tech

Despite recent progress, space industry executives stress the need for greater integration of commercial technology with military capabilities to enhance the resilience and effectiveness of hybrid …
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Neuraspace installs second telescope to enhance space traffic monit...

Portuguese space traffic management startup Neuraspace has installed a second optical telescope to help track low Earth orbit objects across both hemispheres.
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Europe’s investment arm lends Sateliot a hand

The European Investment Bank is lending Sateliot 30 million euros ($32 million) to help the Spanish remote connectivity startup add 16 more nanosatellites to its low Earth orbit network before the …
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Telesat Lightspeed clears early design review

Telesat said Dec. 4 its Lightspeed constellation has passed an early design review, marking a key milestone in the Canadian geostationary operator’s bid to challenge Starlink’s growing broadband do…
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Astroscale approaches critical design review for OneWeb de-orbit mi...

The British subsidiary of Japan’s Astroscale is preparing for a critical design review early next year of a servicer that will attempt to remove a OneWeb broadband satellite from low Earth orbit in…
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SpaceX gets conditional approval for direct-to-smartphone service

The Federal Communications Commission granted SpaceX conditional approval Nov. 26 to use Starlink broadband satellites to keep T-Mobile smartphone users connected in cellular dead zones across the …
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Space station developers weigh in on NASA’s continuous presence ret...

Commercial space station developers are questioning whether NASA’s reconsideration of continuous human presence in low Earth orbit risks holding back International Space Station alternatives.
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DirecTV calls time on plans to merge with Dish

DirecTV is walking away from plans to buy Dish Network over a failed debt-exchange offer, although some analysts expect the satellite TV providers will return to the deal table given the potential …
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Investors betting on space growth under Trump administration

Investors are preparing for the incoming Trump administration to expand the defense budgets driving the space industry’s growth.
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Kepler goes all in on optical communications

Kepler Communications is seeking permission to operate larger but significantly fewer satellites for its proposed data relay constellation, which would now use lasers instead of radio frequencies t…
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Connecting the Dots | More data storage, more space AI

Expanding data storage in space is crucial for enabling more powerful artificial intelligence systems to process larger volumes of information directly from orbit. More capable hard drives would fa…
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AST SpaceMobile leans on Blue Origin to ramp up satellite launches

AST SpaceMobile said Nov. 14 it has booked rockets from Blue Origin and others to deploy enough satellites between 2025 and 2026 to provide full text, voice, and 5G data services to standard mobile…
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Spire Global offloads commercial maritime business for $241 million

Satellite operator Spire Global is selling its commercial ship-tracking business to an analytics provider to invest in other data markets and its hosted payload services.
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GITAI gets funds to develop in-orbit robotic servicer

Space robotics specialist GITAI has raised an extra $15.5 million in venture capital to help expand into the nascent in-orbit servicing market.
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Boeing ships first two redesigned O3b mPower satellites

Boeing has shipped the first pair of O3b mPower satellites with fixes addressing power issues that have hobbled the initial six in SES’s next-generation medium Earth orbit broadband network.
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Improving Space AI: Ground-to-orbit efforts aim to advance satellit...

AI-driven technologies are on the cusp of unlocking true autonomy in orbit, with the potential to enable spacecraft to operate independently and deliver more customized, intelligently managed data …
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Sony orders two satellites to test laser communications

Sony has partnered with California’s Astro Digital to test laser communications from two small satellites, using optical disc technology the Japanese conglomerate pioneered for CD players.
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Ex-Google exec attracts financial backers for LEO megaconstellation

Logos Space has early financial commitments needed to deploy 1,000 satellites for global broadband coverage, according to the former Google executive behind the one-year-old megaconstellation start…
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Viasat seeking Telesat LEO capacity as Starlink competition mounts

Geostationary operator Viasat is in advanced talks to buy broadband capacity from Telesat’s future low Earth orbit satellites as competition from Starlink is set to intensify in the incoming Trump …
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Former Intelsat executive joins Lynk Global as CEO

Ramu Potarazu, a former executive at geostationary operator Intelsat, has taken the helm of Lynk Global in the direct-to-smartphone satellite venture’s latest leadership shake-up as it seeks funds …
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Anuvu looks to HEO to upgrade inflight Wi-Fi

Anuvu is looking to rise above geostationary satellite delays with plans for 16 spacecraft in highly elliptical orbit, which would turbocharge broadband speeds for airlines using polar routes to sh…