Global Military Communications

29/08/2025

🏆 SSGS 2025 Awards Night – Celebrate Excellence 🏆
📌 On October 8th, join us to recognise outstanding achievements in Ground Segment Innovation across 7 categories:

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Nomination Deadline - September 15th 2025
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17/05/2023

SSC - Swedish Space Corporation, OneWeb, NorthwesTel partner on 10-year satellite network site to enhance connectivity in Canada

Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) has signed a 10-year contract with the low Earth orbit satellite communications company OneWeb to build and manage its Satellite Network Portal (SNP) in Yellowknife, NW, Canada. This new SNP will deliver increased bandwidth, performance and resiliency to all OneWeb se...

17/05/2023

Measat Global Berhad connects Malaysian Armed Forces personnel through high-speed satellite broadband

MEASAT Global Berhad - Malaysia's Rural Broadband Service Provider will be providing CONNECTme NOW satellite broadband services for free under its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programme to frontline Malaysian Armed Forces personnel serving at selected remote border checkpoint posts located....

16/05/2023

Tomorrow.io’s satellite launch paves way for groundbreaking progress in global weather forecasting

The Tomorrow Companies Inc., the world’s leading weather intelligence platform, today announced successful on-orbit operation of its first satellite, Tomorrow-R1. Launched at 11:48 pm PDT on April 14, Tomorrow-R1 is the world’s first commercially built weather-radar satellite. It is orbiting at ...

10/05/2023

Rocket Lab to launch Starling small satellite swarm for NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Rocket Lab USA, Inc., a global leader in launch services and space systems, today announced it has signed a deal to launch NASA’s Starling mission, a multi-CubeSat mission to test and demonstrate autonomous swarm technologies, as well as automated space traffic management for groups of spacecraft ...

09/05/2023

Astroscale and offer NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration commercial solution to reboost NASA's Hubble Space Telescope with orbital servicing

Astroscale US Inc., the market leader in securing long-term orbital sustainability across all orbits and Momentus Inc., a US commercial space company that offers orbital transportation and in-space infrastructure services, are collaborating to offer NASA a sustainable solution for its Hubble Reboost...

09/05/2023

Spire Global and OroraTech to demonstrate wildfire detection from space for Canadian Space Agency

The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has awarded a contract to Spire Global, Inc. subsidiary ExactEarth Ltd. to deliver preparatory work for implementation phases of a wildfire monitoring satellite. The contract is the initial step towards CSA’s planned WildFireSat mission, which aims to monitor all ac...

08/05/2023

iDirect Government showcases revolutionary new modem for next-generation terminal design at SOF Week

iDirect Government (iDirectGov), a leading provider of satellite communications to the United States military and government, is excited to announce the availability of their 450mp integrator kit at the 2023 Special Operations Forces (SOF) Week, May 8-11, in Tampa, FL, at booth 1335. The integrator....

08/05/2023

-, launch first pair of storm observing cubeSats to better understand cyclones

https://www.satelliteevolution.com/post/nasa-rocket-lab-launch-first-pair-of-storm-observing-cubesats-to-better-understand-cyclones

Two NASA CubeSats designed to study tropical cyclones, including hurricanes and typhoons, are in orbit after successfully launching at 1 p.m. Monday, NZST (9 p.m. EDT Sunday). The first pair of the agency’s TROPICS (Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a C...

08/05/2023

achieves first orbit raise with pioneering propulsion system

Momentus Inc., a US commercial space company that offers orbital transportation and in-space infrastructure services, successfully achieved the first orbital raise of its Vigoride-5 spacecraft using its pioneering Microwave Electrothermal Thruster (MET) that uses distilled water as propellant. The s...

08/05/2023

Rocket Lab successfully launches first batch of TROPICS satellites for NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Rocket Lab USA, Inc., a leading launch and space systems company, today successfully completed the first of two dedicated Electron launches to deploy a constellation of tropical cyclone monitoring satellites for NASA. The ‘Rocket Like a Hurricane’ launch lifted-off on May 8 at 13:00 NZST (01:00 ...

05/05/2023

Construction begins at Sutherland, the UK mainland's first vertical launch spaceport

Orbex Space, HIE

Orbex has announced that construction has begun at Sutherland Spaceport (formerly known as Space Hub Sutherland) in Scotland, making this the first vertical launch spaceport to be built on the UK mainland. Located on the North coast of Scotland, the spaceport will be the 'home' spaceport of Forres-b...