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Telesat wins DARPA contract to manufacture satellite buses for Blackjack program

Telesat will adapt two Airbus Arrow spacecraft for the Blackjack program WASHINGTON — Telesat announced Oct. 14 it has won a $18.3 million...

SpaceX, Hughes and Viasat qualify to bid for $20.4 billion in FCC rural broadband subsidies

WASHINGTON — SpaceX, Hughes Network Systems and Viasat are eligible to compete for a share of the $20.4 billion in broadband subsidies the...

Space industry rebounds from pandemic

WASHINGTON — Despite dire predictions just six months ago, space companies in general, and startups in particular, have survived the pandemic and its...

Space debris a frequent topic at Satellite Innovation 2020

SAN FRANCISCO – Tracking and avoiding the growing debris field in low Earth orbit was clearly on the minds of speakers on the...

Chinese Private Constellations and the Art of the Pivot

In one of the most influential entrepreneurship books of the last 10 years, The Lean Startup by Eric Ries describes the necessity to test, iterate, and pivot until ultimately reaching a product that fits the market. Chinese tech companies have shown us that they excel at this practice (see the history of a company like Meituan [1]), and it increasingly seems like Chinese NewSpace companies, …

The UK government to acquire satellite company OneWeb in deal funded in part by India’s Bharti Global

Distressed satellite constellation operator OneWeb, which had entered bankruptcy protection proceedings at the end of March, has completed a sale process, with...

Low orbiting satellites for broadband internet service face challenges amid funding concerns and competition

In the last two years, we’ve written several stories about Facebook’s mission to make broadband internet available to rural communities in third world...

DOD announces Defense Production Act Title 3 COVID-19 projects to support space defense industrial base

2 June 2020 As part of the national response to COVID-19, the US Department of Defense (DoD) has signed a $12.45m contract award...

SoftBank-backed Oyo cuts salaries, furloughs employees

Oyo is furloughing more employees globally and levying a 25% pay cut across the board through July this year as the Indian budget...

Gold Surpasses $1,700 While Bitcoin Corrects

Starting today, and for the next six weeks or so, companies will be reporting how they fared during the first three months...

India’s Oyo furloughs thousands of employees as revenue drops by over 50%

Oyo has placed thousands of employees on furloughs for up to three months in the U.S. and several other markets as the Indian...

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