The Hydra terminal is certified to deliver secure, high-performance connectivity across Viasat’s global GX satellite constellation using military Ka-band spectrum.

ALL.SPACE’s terminal system is designed to support multi-orbit, multi-link connectivity for mobile applications including land vehicles, maritime platforms, and mobile command systems.

Viasat GX Category 4 certification enables the ALL.SPACE Hydra terminal to maintain connectivity while platforms are moving, paused, or stationary.

Once final AI&T is completed, the program will provide Japan with a domestically-produced defense communications satellite for geostationary orbit.

The new satellite will expand frequency bands to meet an anticipated increase in communication demands.

Lockheed Martin Corporation is serving as a mission partner with Mitsubishi Electric to deliver an anti-jamming payload for Japan’s Next-Generation Defense Satellite Communication System.

The anti-jamming payload will enhance the satellite communications system’s resistance to interference.

Mitsubishi Electric will complete final assembly, integration, and test (AI&T) of the payload in Japan.

Lockheed Martin will develop the anti-jamming payload at its facilities in Colorado.

Lockheed Martin and Mitsubishi Electric will work together to identify opportunities to bring additional geostationary communications satellites to Japan and other partner nations in the Asia-Pacific region and to evaluate partnership structures.

The anti-jamming payload will provide interoperability with allied and partner nations.

The new geostationary satellite will serve as the successor to the current operational X-band defense communication satellite.

Jeff Schrader is vice president, Strategy & Business Development at Lockheed Martin Space.

Lockheed Martin and Mitsubishi Electric signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on geostationary defense communications satellites.

Kevin Kelly is chairman and CEO of Arcfield.

The awards have a total potential contract value of over $100 million as batch deliveries are completed.

The contract requires design, manufacturing, testing, and calibration of mission-specific instrumentation over a multi-year period.

Orion’s payloads incorporate decades of Orion heritage in advanced sensor and related technological areas.

Orion Space Solutions is a subsidiary of Arcfield.

Gregg Burgess is president and general manager of Orion Space Solutions.

Orion’s payloads are intended to enable space-based environmental monitoring (SBEM) capabilities.

An undisclosed proprietary customer awarded a contract valued at approximately $24 million to Orion Space Solutions to deliver more than 25 state-of-the-art payloads.

ExoAnalytic Solutions operates a global network of more than 400 consumer-grade telescopes for space domain awareness.

At the time of the 3S Northumbria acquisition in 2024, ExoAnalytic reported having more than 300 telescopes deployed worldwide.

ExoAnalytic’s algorithms operate autonomously to help missile interceptors discriminate between threat targets and harmless objects such as debris, fuel tanks, and hardware.

Anduril Industries has agreed to acquire ExoAnalytic Solutions.

ExoAnalytic operates as a merchant supplier of its services and will continue that business model.

ExoAnalytic Solutions provides software used across the space ecosystem for tracking and discriminating targets for missile defense.

ExoAnalytic will contribute orbital and related ground-based capabilities to Anduril’s Hydronaut and Lectronimo missions.

Anduril won a $100 million contract in November 2024 to provide its Lattice operating system to create a mesh network for ground-based sensors that track objects in space.

ExoAnalytic applies software and analytics to imagery from telescopes in high-altitude Earth orbits to autonomously monitor spacecraft, debris, anomalies, and other events in space.

Anduril has two self-funded space launches expected this year: Hydronaut, featuring Anduril sensors and compute payloads on Argo Space Corp.’s Navigator spacecraft, and Lectronimo, using an Apex-supplied bus with Anduril mission data processing and infrared imaging capabilities.

ExoAnalytic Solutions has about 130 employees.

ExoAnalytic acquired United Kingdom-based 3S Northumbria in 2024 to strengthen its space situational awareness services.

ExoAnalytic maintains a database of billions of correlated observations that are labeled with events including detected maneuvers, stability changes, and anomalies.

Modeling and simulation is a core area of ExoAnalytic’s expertise, and ExoAnalytic has worked with Anduril on multiple programs for several years.

Both Anduril and ExoAnalytic were founded by engineers and have engineering-driven corporate cultures.

The acquisition of ExoAnalytic will more than double Anduril’s space business headcount.

Anduril’s space business has 120 employees.

ExoAnalytic’s areas of expertise include digital signal processing, seeker theory, seeker design, target estimation, and discrimination of hard bodies from other objects.

ExoAnalytic’s algorithms enable tracking of missiles using radar and optical sensor data to predict target trajectories and enable downstream discrimination for interception.

Terms of the pending acquisition and the expected closing date were not disclosed.

ExoAnalytic Solutions is based in California.

Cypriot governmental users employed GOVSATCOM for safety and security purposes on the European Union’s south-eastern borders.

GOVSATCOM provides sovereign, reliable, and secure governmental satellite communications services for EU member states.

The initial GOVSATCOM service pooled capacity from eight satellites already in orbit provided by five countries.

GOVSATCOM serves as an operational bridge to the planned multi-orbit IRIS2 secure communications satellite constellation.

On 10 March, Cyprus became the first country to use EUSPA’s GOVSATCOM secure communications service for safety and security purposes along the south-eastern borders of the European Union.

EUSPA is the European Union’s space agency.

The secure communications services provided to Cyprus utilised capacity from a Greek governmental satellite operated by Hellas Sat.