Alex Rodriguez’s blank-check firm announced plans to merge with satellite communications provider Lynk Global in a deal worth at least $800 million. Rodriguez’s special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), Slam Corp., signed a letter of intent to merge with Lynk, Bloomberg reported ahead of the companies’ joint press release issued Monday. […]
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Evgeny Postrigan, 50, died ‘from asphyxia’ at his home in town of Zheleznogorsk By Will Stewart Published: 11:52 GMT, 18 December 2023 | Updated: 12:10 GMT, 18 December 2023 The chief accountant of a major Russian space satellite company sanctioned over the war in Ukraine has been found dead at his […]
WASHINGTON — TrustPoint, a startup developing a next-generation global navigation satellite system, announced Dec. 18 it selected SpiderOak to provide cybersecurity for its future network. TrustPoint, based in Dulles, Virginia, plans to deploy a constellation of small satellites to deliver positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) services for commercial and national […]
HELSINKI — China sent the classified Yaogan-41 optical satellite towards the geostationary belt Friday using the country’s largest launch vehicle. The sixth Long March 5 rocket lifted off from the coastal Wenchang Satellite Launch Center at 8:41 a.m. Eastern (1341 UTC) Dec. 15. The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. […]
TAMPA, Fla. — International regulators have left the door open to relaxing a cap on satellite transmission power in non-geostationary orbit as soon as 2027, NGSO operators say, even as their geostationary peers assert any change has been blocked until at least four years later. A proposal to review Equivalent […]
While watching the atmosphere of seven “hot Jupiters” blow away, a suitcase-sized cubesat has found some surprising variations in how quickly the giant, bloated worlds are evaporating. CUTE, which stands for the Colorado Ultraviolet Transit Experiment, was launched in September 2021 and orbits the Earth at an altitude of 525 […]
WASHINGTON — Rocket Lab successfully launched a Japanese radar imaging satellite on the first flight of its Electron rocket since a failure nearly three months ago. The Electron rocket lifted off from the company’s Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand at 11:05 p.m. Eastern Dec. 14. The vehicle deployed its […]
WASHINGTON — Satellite manufacturer Apex will open a new factory next year to ramp up production of small satellites. The company announced Dec. 14 it signed a lease for a nearly 4,300-square-meter building in the Playa Vista neighborhood of Los Angeles that will be a production facility it calls Factory […]