Open Cosmos is proud to announce that it has been awarded the Overseas Investment Achievement Award at the 15th edition of the UK-Portugal Business Awards, hosted by the UK Department for Business and Trade (DBT) in Portugal.

River Advisers, a leading regulatory consultancy firm serving the space and telecoms sectors, has today announced it is strengthening its core practices through a strategic realignment around Spectrum Strategy and International Coordination, and Global Licensing and Market Access.

Rivada Space Networks has expanded its EMEA Team with the appointment of Mustafa Afifi as Sales Director for the Middle East region. Mr. Afifi will focus on sectors including Telcos, Regional Satellite Operators and Satellite Resellers/Integrators, providing the most demanding enterprise and government customers with Rivada’s highly secure, high-bandwidth, global connectivity network.

Sidus Space (NASDAQ: SIDU) (the “Company” or “Sidus”), an innovative, agile space mission enabler, today announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Saturn Satellite Networks, Inc., a pioneering developer of space-based reprogrammable payloads and geostationary (GEO) satellite solutions redefining access to space communications.

Spire Global, Inc. (NYSE: SPIR) (“Spire” or “the Company”), a global provider of space-based data, analytics and space services, announced an expanded Space Services agreement with Myriota to design, build and operate 16 satellites with enhanced second-generation payloads for the IoT provider.

AST SpaceMobile, Inc. (“AST SpaceMobile”) (NASDAQ: ASTS) announced it has signed a Coordination Agreement with the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) to implement best practices between satellite communications and ground-based optical, infrared, and radio astronomy observations.

On Tuesday April 29th, 2025, at 6:15 a.m. local time (09:15 a.m. UTC, 11:15 a.m. CEST), Arianespace successfully launched the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Earth Explorer Biomass satellite from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying the Kuiper-1 mission for Amazon’s Project Kuiper lifted off on April 28 at 7:01 p.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

Rivada Space Networks today announced it has secured market access to its Outernet constellation in 33 countries and every continent, with Belgium, the Czech Republic, Sweden, and Costa Rica among the latest nations to soon offer next-generation communications capabilities.

Arianespace announces the appointment of Olivier Ricouart as Chief Technical Officer, starting May 1, 2025. He also joins the company’s Executive Committee.

A satellite developed by British academics and engineers is set to become the first in the world to measure the condition of the Earth’s forests from space.

Filtronic, a leader in high-performance mmWave technologies, will play an important role in the European Space Agency (ESA) and Viasat’s Direct-to-Device (D2D) initiative, contributing cutting-edge feeder link technology to enable seamless connectivity between Earth and the low Earth orbit (LEO) constellation.

Sierra Space, a leading commercial space company and defense tech prime that is building a platform in space to benefit and protect life on Earth, announced today that it recently conducted successful hypervelocity impact trials at NASA’s White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces, New Mexico, to optimize the structural integrity of Sierra Space’s Large Integrated Flexible Environment (LIFE®) habitat.

Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL), a leading provider of daily data and insights about change on Earth, today announced a multi-year contract with EMDYN, a European-based company providing agile intelligence-led solutions and security services.

HawkEye 360 Inc., the global leader in commercial signals intelligence and data analytics, has partnered with General Atomics – GA-Integrated Intelligence, Inc (GA-i3) to integrate its advanced RF data capabilities into GA-i3’s Optix platform.

Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the Company”), a global leader in launch services and space systems, today announced it has been selected by Kratos to launch a full-scale hypersonic test flight for the Department of Defense (DOD) under the Multi-Service Advanced Capability Hypersonic Test Bed (MACH-TB) 2.0 program.