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Following on the recent announcement of a successful demonstration of a high-bandwidth satellite connection in the high arctic, Kepler Communications is now partnering with Cobham SATCOM for what they’re calling “User Terminal-as-a-Service (UTaaS).”

While Maxar announced better than expected results on Monday, its Canadian MDA unit has seen its year over year revenue down by 25%.

The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) is holding an industry day on Friday November 15th for Nanoracks. The event follows the Space Health Forum taking place at CSA headquarters on November 13-14.

Just over three and half years after its formation, Vancouver based Helios Wire has been sold to EchoStar. It’s an exit for the founders, though one in which it’s hard to gage how the company was performing when it sold.

At the International Astronautical Congress in Washington today, Nanoracks announced an agreement with Maritime Launch Services (MLS) to use the upper stages of the Cyclone 4M (C4M) rocket for Outposts.

Maritime Launch Services (MLS) and the Ukrainian based Yuzhnoye Design Office announced this morning that Yuzhnoye had successfully completed the qualification test of the fully integrated upper stage of the Cyclone 4M rocket.

In an October 15, 2019 letter to the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) , Kepler Communications is petitioning the FCC to reconsider its order and authorization request from SpaceX to lower the altitude of 1,584 of its satellites to 550 km.

In an email to its industry list today, the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) confirmed it would lead an industry mission to Australia November 4 – 12, 2019.

Grant Bonin is a driven space systems engineer, so much so he doesn’t mind the commute between California and New Zealand, which he does at least once a month.

Oh my, with industry seemingly never satisfied with the government procurement system comes along a procurement snafu that has many shaking their heads.