Marlink has expanded its support for the Morocco Desert Challenge (MDC) rally raid with new communication and navigation capabilities designed to further improve competitor safety and race management in extreme desert conditions.

The European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC) in Villanueva de la Cañada, Madrid, hosted the official kick-off event and contract signing ceremony for the Consolidation Phase of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) IRIS2 Low-LEO Pre-Operational and De-Risk Activities, within the Agency's Programme Related to EU Secure Connectivity. Under this framework, Alén Space is contributing to three strategic projects: ARGUS, Poseidon and LYRA.

Astroscale France and HEMERIA have announced plans to establish a strategic partnership to develop and export a French microsatellite solution for operations in geostationary orbit (GEO). The planned collaboration will combine the companies’ complementary expertise to address growing international demand for agile and capable GEO solutions across defence, sovereign and dual-use markets.

SES and Elveo Mobile have announced the expansion of their collaboration to accelerate delivery of direct-to-device (D2D) services in Europe. SES will leverage Elveo’s patented, proven and cost-effective D2D technology to enable seamless mobile roaming capabilities for European consumers, businesses, governments, institutional, and defense users.

Thales Alenia Space has signed a contract with Nigeria’s government-owned NIGCOMSAT Ltd to develop a new telecommunications satellite operating from geostationary orbit.

Iridium Communications Inc. and Deutsche Telekom IoT (DT IoT) have announced the successful transmission of a voice message over Iridium NTN Direct℠ in a demonstration with Toyota. The milestone message was sent from a Toyota vehicle equipped with a Nordic Semiconductor nRF9151 development board, a Deutsche Telekom IoT SIM and transmitted entirely via the Iridium satellite network during the Telekom Satellite Day 2026. The demonstration follows the successful completion of te

NewOrbit has secured a launch slot for its first satellite, marking a major step towards opening Very Low Earth Orbit to commercial missions.

Gilat Satellite Networks has announced that Gilat DataPath received an order valued at more than $32 million from the U.S. Department of War for DKET Systems that operate across Ku, Ka and X-band networks, with deliveries expected over the next 12 months.

Eutelsat and Germany’s OroraTech, a leader in space-based thermal intelligence, announced a new partnership where OroraTech will reserve space aboard Eutelsat’s future OneWeb Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites to host 48 thermal infrared payloads, with options for an additional 48.

EnSilica is opening a Space and Communications Semiconductor Centre of Excellence in Milan, Italy. The centre initially plans to recruit 20 specialist modem and mmWave engineers over the next six months, expanding EnSilica’s engineering presence in the European Union and enabling closer participation in European space, semiconductor and communications initiatives. The Milan centre will be EnSilica’s third site in Europe, alongside a growing design centre in Budapest, Hungary,