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Northwood Space Raises $30M Series A to Disrupt Satellite Ground Stations
Satellite ground technology startup Northwood Space has raised $30 million in a Series A funding round led by Alpine Space Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). Also Capital, Founders Fund, and StepStone Group joined as major investors and the round also included participation from BoxGroup, Humba Ventures, Balerion Space Ventures, Banter Capital, Long Journey, Aabid Razvi,…
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Iridium CEO Details How Tariffs Impact Supply Chain, Estimates $3M Impact in 2025
Iridium CEO Matt Desch walked investors through how tariffs are impacting Iridium’s equipment supply chain, saying that for now, Iridium is absorbing a higher cost of importing goods into the U.S. rather than passing on the cost to its customers. Desch explained that most of Iridium’s equipment is manufactured in Thailand by a contracted facility.…
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Microchip Expands Radiation-Hardened MOSFET Line with JANSF 300 Krad Certification
Microchip Technology announces its completion of its family of radiation-hardened (rad-hard) power MOSFETs to the MIL-PRF-19500/746 slash-sheet specification and the achievement of JANSF qualification for its JANSF2N7587U3, 100V N-channel MOSFET to 300 Krad (Si) Total Ionizing Dose (TID). The JANS qualification represents the highest level of screening and acceptance requirements, ensuring the superior performance, quality…
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A Chinese-born crypto tycoon—of all people—changed the way I think of space
For a quarter-century, dating back to my time as a budding space enthusiast, I’ve watched with a keen eye each time people have ventured into space. That’s 162 human spaceflight missions since the beginning of 2000, ranging from Space Shuttle flights to Russian Soyuz missions, Chinese astronauts’ first forays into orbit, and commercial expeditions on…
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A Chinese-born crypto tycoon—of all people—changed the way I think of space
For a quarter-century, dating back to my time as a budding space enthusiast, I’ve watched with a keen eye each time people have ventured into space. That’s 162 human spaceflight missions since the beginning of 2000, ranging from Space Shuttle flights to Russian Soyuz missions, Chinese astronauts’ first forays into orbit, and commercial expeditions on…
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Tuesday Telescope: A rare glimpse of one of the smallest known moons
Welcome to the Tuesday Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light—a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science. We’ll let other publications offer you a daily horoscope. At Ars Technica, we’ll take a different route, finding inspiration from very real images of a universe that is…
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Comtech Delivers Next-Gen VSAT Systems for APAC Navy Fleet Modernization
Comtech Telecommunications Corp., a global communications technology leader, announced that Comtech Satellite Networks Technologies Corp., located in Montreal, Canada, recently completed initial deliveries of the Company’s next generation Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) systems to a strategically significant allied Navy partner in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. The initial deliveries of Comtech’s VSAT systems mark…
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Gilat Wins $15 Million in New Commercial Orders
Gilat Satellite Networks (Gilat) has won orders with commercial satellite operators worth over $15 million to be delivered throughout 2025. The company reported its commercial division continues to perform strongly and the orders reflect strong ongoing momentum for its equipment and services across GEO, MEO, and LEO Very High Throughput Satellite (VHTS) constellations. The demand…
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Rohde & Schwarz Expands Testing Equipment Portfolio to Support Telesat’s Lightspeed LEO Network
Rohde & Schwarz, a global leader in mobile network testing services, has enhanced measurement options across its testing equipment portfolio to meet the unique requirements of advanced, next-generation satellite networks. Telesat, one of the world’s largest and most innovative satellite operators, has been leveraging Rohde & Schwarz’s advanced testing equipment to optimize service link design…
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NASA Science Launches to International Space Station on SpaceX CRS-32 Mission
Following the successful launch of NASA‘s SpaceX 32nd Commercial Resupply Services mission, new scientific experiments and supplies are bound for the International Space Station. The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, carrying approximately 6,700 pounds of cargo to the orbiting laboratory for NASA, lifted off at 4:15 a.m. EDT Monday, on the company’s Falcon 9 rocket from Launch…