Leading Philippine telco company PLDT's wireless subsidiary Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) is collaborating with US-based Omnispace to explore and demonstrate the capabilities of space-based 5G communications using low earth orbit (LEO) satellites.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California has selected Microchip Technology Inc. of Chandler, Arizona, to develop a High-Performance Spaceflight Computing (HPSC) processor that will provide at least 100 times the computational capacity of current spaceflight computers.

Europe’s first commercial satellite capable of being completely reprogrammed while in space is now in commercial use.