Rwanda’s Space Agency (RSA) has signed a strategic partnership with Atlas Space Operations to utilise a teleport in Rwanda. RSA is building a major teleport capable of hosting multiple ground stations to serve and connect with satellites in different orbits. The partnership with Atlas Space Operations – signed by Mike Carey, co-founder and COO at […]
Space-focused investment business Seraphim, which this week partnered with the European Space Agency (ESA), has issued its annual map of how it sees the complete space business. It sees itself as a ‘space accelerator’ and its Seraphim Space Investment Trust targets early and growth stage Space Tech companies that have the potential to dominate globally […]
French space mobility company Exotrail has raised an additional $58 million (€53.9m) in a Series B cash-raising exercise. The funds raised will help develop: – the scale-up of Exotrail’s known products: spaceware space-proven electric propulsion systems and spacestudio mission design software; – the introduction and growth of Exotrail’s new products: spacetower operations software and its […]
Denmark and Sweden-based small satellite builder GomSpace has lost a major Spanish contract and revenue last year suffered dramatically as a consequence. GomSpace was building an air-traffic constellation of satellites for Spain’s Startical. GomSpace has cut its workforce by 30 per cent (70 staff), and that CEO Niels Buus has stepped down to be replaced […]
SES Space & Defense has requested – and been granted – a new FCC experimental test licence (a Special Temporary Authority) to “test and demonstrate a terminal for operations with the O3b constellation for prospective government customers,” says the application. The two-unit tests will take place at Port St Lucie, Florida, beginning in on February […]
Seraphim Space Accelerator, part of Seraphim, the Space focused Investment group, has entered a partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA). The European Space Agency is dedicated to the peaceful exploration and use of space for the benefit of humankind. With an annual budget of €8 billion, they’re pushing the frontiers of science and technology, […]
Under the overall umbrella of the African Union Commission (AUC) and the Egyptian government, the African Space Agency has been created. Its HQ is within the grounds of Egypt Space City outside Cairo. A special ceremony was held with Egypt’s Ministry of Higher Education & Scientific Research on January 25th to formally inaugurate and declare […]
Yury Borisov, Director General of Russia’s state space corporation Roscosmos, has said the company wants to deploy more than 1,000 satellites by 2030. This is a rate 5-times higher than currently being launched. Borisov, speaking at the Korolev Academic Space Conference in Moscow, said that in order to achieve such growth, it is necessary to […]
The UK Space Agency has announced £50 million (€56.7m) of funding for innovative projects that aim to “supercharge” the UK’s satellite communications industry. The funding, which comes as part of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Advanced Research in Telecommunications Services (ARTES) programme, is available for a wide range of projects, such as developing new satellite […]
Paris-based Euroconsult says that the satellite industry is rapidly changing and adopting laser links for communications both to-and-from Earth, but very much from satellite to satellite. The links are more efficient and harder to intercept. Euroconsult’s report looks at the prospects for further growth and says that inter-satellite communications via optical links are rapidly becoming […]