#satellite communications

A novel reflectarray satellite antenna developed for the Pentagon cuts power consumption by 95% while effectively blocking electronic warfare jamming, ensuring secure military communications in contested space

The U.S. Space Systems Command has awarded Viasat a five-year, $307 million contract to continue supplying commercial satellite communications services to the Marine Corps under a multi-orbit, multi-band architecture.

Engineers in Japan have developed a 64-gram foldable antenna for CubeSats that packs into a small box and deploys in orbit to boost communications performance.

The U.S. Space Force has awarded SpaceX a $57 million contract to demonstrate Link-182 satellite communications for the planned MILNET relay network, a key building block for future missile-defense architectures.

Taiwan’s space agency chief is urging other countries to join a shared communications constellation, framing space collaboration as both a resilience strategy and a way to reduce diplomatic isolation.

Eight CubeSats and one additional payload backed by the European Space Agency have entered orbit to demonstrate technologies aimed at improving how data is transmitted and processed in space.