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| SpaceNews journalists are reporting from SmallSat 2025, held for the first time in Salt Lake City, Utah. We'll be bringing conference highlights to your inbox. For full coverage, go to spacenews.com/small-satellite-2025.
| | | | | By Jeff Foust Intuitive Machines has decided to bring in-house the production of satellites for a cislunar communications system, giving the company more control over schedule and the ability to pursue other satellite opportunities.
In an Aug. 7 earnings call, Intuitive Machines said it will produce the five satellites for a constellation that will provide communications services around the moon. The company previously said it would acquire the satellites from York Space Systems.
| | | | | | | Belgian startup Edgx has raised seed funding to develop Sterna, an artificial intelligence computer designed to run complex algorithms aboard satellites to speed up decisions and use limited bandwidth more efficiently.
Ascending Node Technologies has added a constellation-design tool to its Spaceline mission-planning software. Spaceline's constellation tool can accommodate customers sending satellites into multiple orbits around Earth or other planets.
European governments are planning to sharply increase their defense budgets in the next several years as part of a pledge made by NATO members at a June summit meeting to go from spending at least 2% of gross domestic product on defense to 5% by 2035. That increase will likely include investments in new satellite systems. | | | | | | | Booz Allen Hamilton's venture capital arm is seeking to ramp up space investments after tripling its funding pool to $300 million. Booz Allen Ventures announced its expanded venture capital commitment July 21, after deploying nearly all of its initial $100 million since its launch in July 2022.
French satellite antenna manufacturer Anywaves is continuing to expand internationally with Anywaves US, led by general manager Nicolas Hine. Hine, the former Mangata Networks vice president of global strategy who joined Anywaves in June, is evaluating potential sites for Anywaves US offices and, eventually, manufacturing facilities.
Umbra, a California-based developer of high-resolution synthetic aperture radar satellites, is moving into the satellite components market with the launch of a new business unit, Space Systems. The company is formally unveiling the venture Aug. 11 during the Small Satellite Conference.
| | Smallsat launch services provider SEOPS announced plans Aug. 11 to offer customers on-orbit spacecraft identification and tracking services. Two months of satellite identification, tracking and collision-avoidance services will be provided free of charge by SEOPS partner India-based space situational awareness specialist Digantara.
The Aerospace Corp. is preparing to send the first DiskSats to orbit later this year to demonstrate the performance and maneuverability of the small satellites. The four DiskSats were expected to travel to orbit in 2026 though the Space Force Space Test Program, but are now set to launch by the end of 2025.
| | Two small broadband satellites for Anuvu are ready for service after reaching geostationary orbit, their manufacturer Astranis said Aug. 7. The announcement follows a December launch that included four spacecraft.
Space-based Bluetooth connectivity startup Hubble Network has become the anchor customer for Muon Space's MuSat XL satellite platform, the smallsat maker's largest yet at 500 kilograms. Hubble ordered two MuSat XL satellites that are slated to launch in 2027.
More than 4,000 people from 45 countries have signed up to attend the Small Satellite Conference at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City Aug. 10-13. After 38 years in Logan, Utah, SmallSat moved to Salt Lake City because the convention center and surrounding hotels can accommodate thousands of exhibitors and participants. | | | | | |  | | In this episode of Space Minds, host Mike Gruss speaks with Sir Martin Sweeting, executive chairman of Surrey Satellite Technology Limited and a professor at the Surrey Space Institute of the University of Surrey, about the growth of the small satellite industry from its first meeting in 1987 of just a few dozen participants to today's 4,000+ attendees and preview the key issues the community will address at this year's conference. | | | | | | | |  | Latest Press Releases
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