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October 27th, 2025 — November 2nd, 2025

D2D: Next-Gen Satellite Devices Real-world, or Over-hyped?

By Chris Forrester Dr Tim Farrar, president of TMF Associates, moderated the popular Direct-To-Devices session at the Silicon Valley Space Week held at Mountain View on October 28. The popularity [ [...]

Lynk + Omnispace reveal plans to merge to deliver global D2D connectivity with partner SES

Lynk Global and Omnispace plans to merge to deliver a comprehensive, Direct-to-Device (D2D), connectivity solution, bridging the gap between today’s satellite and terrestrial networks. Following  [...]


Success as India launches its heaviest communication satellite, the CMS-03 on Sunday

India’s LVM3 launch vehicle has successfully launched the CMS-03 communication satellite in its 5th operational flight (LVM3-M5) on November 02, 2025. CMS-03 is a multi-band communication sat [...]

Spectrum at a Crossroads. GEO, MEO, LEO, HAPS and Drones all need access

By Chris Forrester There were apologies all around because of the US government shut-down meant that actual military personnel at the Silicon Valley Space Week’s Milsat Symposium on October 29 [& [...]

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launches Bandwagon-4 on Saturday from the Cape

On Sunday, November 2 at 1:09 a.m. ET, Falcon 9 launched the Bandwagon-4 mission to orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. […]  [...]

stc group + AST SpaceMobile announce 10-year commercial agreement + long-term revenue commitment for space-based cellular broadband connectivity

Collaboration for rollout in Saudi Arabia and select markets in the Middle East and Africa AST SpaceMobile, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASTS) and stc group have signed a 10- year commercial agreement […] [...]

Raising the cash. Getting the ‘block & tackle’ right

By Chris Forrester Silicon Valley Space Week’s second day, and part of its Satellite Innovation sessions, kicked off with another busy room to hear ‘Mobilizing Capital for Space Innovation: Wha [...]

Germany’s army to purchase 40 satellites worth €3 billion

Germany’s army is poised to order 40 low-Earth orbit satellites from a joint venture between Rheinmetall AG and Iceye Oy, a deal worth approximately €3 billion that is pending final [&helli [...]

Mil/Gov win to optimize Gogo multi-orbit 5G ATG, LEO, and GEO connectivity networks

SD Government (SDG), the division of Gogo (NASDAQ: GOGO) that provides SATCOM to global governments, has received a five-year, federal contract to deliver multi-band, multi-orbit, airborne global s [...]

WISeKey affiliate WISeSat.Space teams with INNOSPACE for post-quantum satellite launches

WISeKey International Holding’s subsidiaries WISeSat.Space and SEALSQ Corp. have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish a strategic partnership with INNOSPACE Co., Ltd., a South  [...]

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