A bolder approach to space strategy will see £500 million allocated to national programmes to back high-growth technologies and help British companies scale and compete on the international stage.

SES, a space solutions company, is expanding humanitarian connectivity at the Farchana refugee settlement in Chad in cooperation with emergency.lu, the public-private partnership led by Luxembourg’s Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, Defence, Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade and the UN Refugee Agency.

Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT), developer of space-based national security solutions, will provide a robust anti-jamming payload for Japan’s Next-Generation Defense Satellite Communication System which was awarded to Mitsubishi Electric by the Japan Ministry of Defense.

Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (NASDAQ: GILT, TASE: GILT), a worldwide leader in satellite networking technology, solutions, and services, today announced that it received a multi-million dollar order from a leading In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) Integrator for Gilat Wavestream’s AeroStream Ka-band Wideband amplifiers to support the deployment of connectivity solutions on commercial aviation aircraft.

PLD Space, an international space transportation company, has closed a €180 million Series C equity funding round led by the renowned Japanese manufacturer Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, alongside with other investors.

British companies developing satellite communications technology are to receive £30 million in government funding, Space Minister Liz Lloyd announced today, as the UK looks to secure a larger share of a global market worth £40 billion.

Redwire Corporation (NYSE: RDW), a global leader in aerospace and defense technology solutions, today announced a new high-performance, low-mass solar array product, the Extensible Low-Profile Solar Array (ELSA), designed to meet the needs of mass-manufactured satellites that require standardized, modular power solutions to enable on-orbit operations.

Astroscale France, the French subsidiary of Astroscale Holdings Inc. (“Astroscale”), today announced its participation in ECO-Tethers, a new system study under the European Space Agency’s (ESA) FIRST! Technologies in Sustainability for Future Space Transportation programme.

Bright Ascension has announced the launch of HELIX® Edge, a mission-ready payload software package designed to dramatically reduce the time, effort and risk involved in developing spacecraft payload software.

Marlink, a global leader in secure managed services for business-critical digital solutions, has introduced Sealink Multi-LEO, a new hybrid connectivity service that delivers a single, fully managed data allowance across the Starlink and Eutelsat OneWeb low Earth orbit satellite networks, with future LEO networks to be added when they become available.

Radisys Corporation, a global leader of open telecom solutions and AccelerComm, a leading provider of flight-proven high-performance 5G technology for satellite networks, today announced an expansion of their long-standing 5G NTN collaboration by integrating NB-IoT NTN with existing NR-NTN RAN.

As satellite connectivity rapidly becomes the most strategically important and disruptive extension of the 5G network, Ceva, Inc. (NASDAQ: CEVA), the leading licensor of silicon and software IP for the Smart Edge, today announced PentaG-NTN™, a new 5G-NTN (Non-Terrestrial Networks) modem IP subsystem purpose-built for satellite user terminals supporting LEO and MEO constellations.

IEC Telecom Group has officially launched its office in Malaysia, marking a strategic expansion of its enterprise connectivity services across Southeast Asia.

Space42, the UAE-based AI-powered SpaceTech company, and Viasat, Inc., a global leader in satellite communications, will discuss continued progress toward their planned direct-to-device (D2D) infrastructure and offer an early look at the priorities for Equatys, the companies' forthcoming joint entity, during a co-hosted program at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week.

Nations across the world are facing a growing and largely invisible threat: the disruption and manipulation of satellite navigation signals through jamming and spoofing. To address this challenge, Danish satellite manufacturer Space Inventor is partnering with Austrian propulsion specialist GATE Space on the BEACONSAT mission – Austria’s largest domestically developed satellite and the country’s first military satellite.

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: KTOS), a technology company in Defense, National Security and Global Markets, today announced that its OpenSpace Platform has been deployed as a key part of SSC Space Go, a new service from SSC Space that delivers seamless data access for small satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO).