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Inmarsat takeover faces competition probe as rival UK satellite firm eyes merger

The £5.4 billion takeover of UK satellite giant Inmarsat by US firm Viasat is to be investigated over competition concerns, the industry watchdog has announced. Concerns over the impact of foreign takeovers in the industry ratcheted even higher on ...

25 Jul 2022 at 17:45

World

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard launches second satellite – report

Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard has launched a second reconnaissance satellite into space, state media reported, just as world powers awaited Tehran’s decision in negotiations over the country’s tattered nuclear deal. State television ...

08 Mar 2022 at 14:55

Scotland

Rockets to lift off from Shetland Islands by year’s end

Work is set to begin on the UK’s first commercial spaceport, which will see satellites launched into orbit from the Shetlands by the end of the year after plans won the backing of the local authority. The Lamba Ness peninsular in Unst will ...

28 Feb 2022 at 14:55

Satellite images show airfield damage in eastern Ukraine

A satellite image which appears to show damage to an airfield in eastern Ukraine has been shared by an Earth observation company on the day Russia launched an attack on its neighbour. American company Planet, which says it “processes and ...

24 Feb 2022 at 23:55

Taxpayer-backed OneWeb to resume satellite launches after SpaceX deal

Taxpayer-backed satellite firm OneWeb has announced it will resume launches after a deal with Elon Musk’s SpaceX. OneWeb cancelled a planned launch of 36 broadband satellites earlier this month because it would have used Russian Soyuz ...

21 Mar 2022 at 15:25

World

Iran launches rocket ‘bearing three devices’ into space, state TV reports

Iran on Thursday announced it had launched a satellite carrier rocket bearing three devices into space, though it is unclear whether any of the objects entered orbit around the Earth. The state TV report, as well as others by Iran’s ...

30 Dec 2021 at 11:55

Motoring News

All Hyundai Motor Group cars to get TomTom technology as standard

All of Hyundai Motor Group’s vehicles in Europe look set to utilise TomTom’s mapping and traffic data as standard. Furthering an existing partnership between the car company and the geolocation technology firm, the agreement will ...

02 Sept 2022 at 11:21

World

Old Nasa satellite set to fall from sky this weekend

A 38-year-old retired Nasa satellite is about to fall from the sky. Nasa said the chance of wreckage falling on anybody is “very low”. Most of the 5,400lb (2,450-kilogram) satellite will burn up upon re-entry, according to Nasa. ...

06 Jan 2023 at 23:45

World

US-French satellite launched to map world’s oceans, lakes and rivers

A US-French satellite that will map almost all of the world’s oceans, lakes and rivers has rocketed into orbit. The pre-dawn launch aboard a SpaceX rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California capped a highly ...

16 Dec 2022 at 13:02

World

China launches three astronauts to complete space station

China has launched a rocket carrying three astronauts to complete construction of the country’s permanent orbiting space station. The crew of the Shenzhou-15 will overlap for several days with the three-member crew ...

29 Nov 2022 at 16:33

National News

REVEALED: Where did the Nasa satellite fall on Earth?

An old Nasa satellite that studied the sun for more than a decade fell to Earth over the Sahara Desert, the space agency has reported. Nasa officials said they have received no reports of damage or injury so far ...

23 Apr 2023 at 08:33

National News

REVEALED: Where did the Nasa satellite fall on Earth?

23 Apr 2023 at 08:33

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