Satellite Internet coming to UK rail network as part of £7.8bn space strategy
British rail policymakers plan to enable seamless broadband on trains by 2030 after promising to do it by 2025
News - Space, Laurence Russell
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
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Orbital partners with Reflex Aerospace for space data center constellation
Experienced German developer finds its first US customer, promises it technology exclusively
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Blue Origin to become first telco on Mars with $700m NASA contract
Resurgent NASA has bold plans for Mars, could Rocket Lab also benefit?
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Amazon Leo files for three new 6-antenna ground stations in Florida, Minnesota, and Texas
LEO up-and-comer sets out on ambitious ground station expansion to keep pace with constellation hyperscaling
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SpaceX petitions FCC to block ViaSat-3 F2 satellite, citing interference concerns
Obligatory regulatory squabbling causes more problems for the ViaSat-3 program
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Starcloud closes $250m Series A extension at $2.3bn valuation to scale AI on orbital data centers
ODC pioneer secures nearly half a billion dollars of investment to prove out space computing
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Eight MDA-integrated Globalstar HIBLEO-4 satellites orbited successfully
Apple partner Globalstar expands fleet, intends further D2D expansions
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Blue Origin starts buildout of Quartz ground station network with partner RBC Signals
Rollout of mission-critical Quartz offering appears to cover unaddressed market share across government and defense
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Eutelsat releases 2025-26 financial results, with 69.5% increase in LEO revenues YoY
Legacy European satellite operator continues navigating GEO & broadcast decline through LEO market, IRIS² leadership
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Intel submits patent continuation on multi-orbit data center solution
CPU giant keeps four-year-old patent going as competing hyperscalers hurry to get them built
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Telesat expands Lightspeed capacity by 44% after securing $1.93bn Arctic military satcom contract
Canadian space champion sees compounding recommitment in funding on sovereign space connectivity
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FCC approves Xona application for 258-satellite PNT constellation
GPS competitor prepares to scale following March Series C
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Hisdesat contracts Airbus & Thales Alenia Space on SpainSat NG III after NG II disaster
High-profile government-funded geostationary contract predates the 2027 launch of Airbus, Leonardo, and Thales space giant
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ViaSat-3 F3 successfully deploys reflector and boom over Asia-Pacific, completing GEO trio
The storied ViaSat-3 constellation is finally complete, perhaps one of the last big GEO megaprojects of its kind
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Amazon Leo files for up to 5,105 D2D satellites for voice, data, and messaging for mobile devices
Amazon sets out plan for mobility, IoT market share, building upon Apple service
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Nvidia works with Lunar Outpost to deploy Lunar AI for Artemis Missions
Space compute meets space robotics for new era of Moon exploration
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Ukraine's sovereign €1bn communications constellation to launch in 2027
Danish-Ukrainian joint constellation project perseveres despite CEO passing away
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York Space completes $300m acquisition of All.Space, seeks to address unmanned connectivity gap
After acquiring Orbion and Solestial earlier in 2026, York is on a buying spree to verticalize a mission-critical package of space defense technologies
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SpaceX files FCC application for 100,000 Gen3 Starlink satellites
New satellites aim to solve orbital data center downlink bottleneck
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Orbital files for 100,000 space data satellites for 10GW compute constellation
Application claims space's passive radiative cooling power eliminates need for cooling tech
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FCC waives Amazon Leo deadline after extending it, as constellation gets ready for market
Regulator takes soft approach to breach of agreement in interest of enabling a significant Starlink competitor
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Launcher Rocket Lab acquires satellite operator Iridium in $8bn deal
New vertical launch operator will build competitor to SpaceX's Falcon 9
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India’s biggest telco, Jio Platforms, declares ambition for sovereign LEO in path to 6G
Subsidiary of Indian industry giant seeks to create sovereign network infrastructure extending to the stars
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Northwood announces Prism & Portal satellite ground station antennas, targets 10Gbps+ per site
California firm has already deployed 14 antennas across five sites
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Comtech to sell most of its satcoms segment to Gilat for $157.5m, and pivot to public safety
Legacy satellite tech company bought by the firm it failed to acquire six years ago
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NewOrbit raises $18.5m to build a satellite to survive VLEO for up to 5 years
UK startup building satellite to sustain 200-300 km elevation solely through AURA
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Muon Space announces Condor-Ultra orbital platform for up to 100kW compute
Startup announces new orbital data center satellite 100x more powerful than the one it announced last year
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SSC Space and NorthBase partner to expand global ground station network
Two Nordic space companies deepen collaboration amid European sovereignty push