Space

EchoStar agreed to sell its entire portfolio of AWS-4 and H-block spectrum licenses to SpaceX in a deal valued at approximately $17 billion. The transaction includes up to $8.5 billion...

BT Group and Starlink have announced a landmark agreement to deliver high-speed satellite broadband to customers in the UK’s most remote regions. The partnership will integrate Starlink’s low-latency, low-Earth orbit...

Google has unveiled Project Suncatcher, an ambitious research initiative to explore solar-powered satellite constellations equipped with Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) and free-space optical links. The project aims to investigate how large-scale...

AST SpaceMobile and stc group have entered a 10-year commercial agreement to bring direct-to-device satellite broadband connectivity to Saudi Arabia and key markets in the Middle East and Africa. The...

Muon Space signed an agreement with SpaceX’s Starlink to integrate Starlink’s “mini laser” terminals into Muon’s Halo™ satellite platform, establishing the first persistent optical broadband network for commercial satellites. The...

Semtech has expanded its partnership with Skylo Technologies to introduce what they describe as the industry’s first single-vendor IoT platform integrating both terrestrial and satellite connectivity. The collaboration combines Semtech’s...

AST SpaceMobile signed a definitive commercial agreement with Verizon to deliver space-based cellular broadband service across the continental United States beginning in 2026. The deal expands the companies’ strategic partnership...

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr is pushing to overhaul the nation’s sluggish satellite licensing system, pledging to replace years of bureaucratic delay with a streamlined, “licensing assembly line” built for the...

Bell and AST SpaceMobile have successfully completed Canada’s first space-based direct-to-cell test using unmodified smartphones. The demonstration, conducted in New Brunswick, validated 4G VoLTE calls, video calls, broadband data streaming...

Iridium and Deutsche Telekom have entered into a partnership to integrate Iridium’s NTN Direct service with Deutsche Telekom’s global IoT network. The collaboration will extend NB-IoT direct-to-device (D2D) connectivity over...

SES has teamed up with U.S.-based K2 Space to accelerate the development of its next-generation medium Earth orbit (MEO) satellite network. The initiative builds on SES’s operational experience with multi-orbit...

Globalstar has activated its HIBLEO-XL-1 satellite system filing, signaling an expansion of mobile-satellite service (MSS) capacity across new orbital shells and frequency bands, beyond its existing L/S/C-band holdings. This move...

PsiQuantum has raised $1 billion in Series E funding to accelerate development of the world’s first million-qubit, fault-tolerant quantum computer. The Palo Alto–based company said the new capital will fund...