April 9th, 2019

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          By Brian Orlotti

On April 5th, Los Angeles CA based Relativity Space, a manufacturer of 3D-printed rockets, announced that it has signed its first commercial contract with Telesat, the Ottawa-based commsat operator and pillar of Canada's space sector.

The agreement is a major coup for the young American NewSpace firm and a sad reminder of Canada's willingness to support foreign space industries at the expense of its own plentiful and skilled homegrown talent...

          By Chuck Black

Seattle WA based Amazon.com has joined the list of companies planning to build large constellations of hundreds or thousands of low Earth orbiting satellites able to provide broadband internet connectivity to rural areas not currently being served...