The launch of a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V 551 rocket carrying the ViaSat-3 Flight 2 (F2) mission for Viasat is planned for no earlier than Monday, November 3, […]
ULA’s Atlas V plans ViaSat-3 F2 launch November 3 doubling the bandwidth of Viasat’s entire fleet
UPDATE: Wednesday Starlink smallsats Group 11-5 launched, Thursday for SpainSat NGII + Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday Starlink launches from both coasts
Early Wednesday, October 22 at 7:16 a.m. PT, Falcon 9 launched 28 Starlink smallsats to low-Earth orbit to join the Starlink constellation from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at […]
Hughes expands with the strategic acquisition of Anderson Connectivity
Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES), an EchoStar company (Nasdaq: SATS),has acquired Anderson Connectivity, a leading aerospace innovator in design, engineering, and manufacturing services based in Melbourne, Florida. This acquisition significantly […]
ESA-supported test leads to better in-flight connectivity
Better in-flight streaming and video-calling might just become more accessible thanks to a project supported by the European Space Agency (ESA). Building upon the success of an experiment for a […]
Eutelsat and MBC Group, a MENA network, extend broadcast agreement
Eutelsat renewed its partnership with the MBC Group, the MENA media network. The companies have established a long-standing relationship. Raymond Estphan Rahme, RVP MENA Sales Eutelsat’s Video Business Unit, commented: “We […]
1st data rec’d from Met-Op-SG’s IASI-NG
The IASI-NG instrument (Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer-New Generation) flying on the Metop-SGA1 weather satellite has sent back its first data. Lifted into space from the Guiana Space Centre by an […]
Eutelsat: Video is down and OneWeb is up for Q1
Eutelsat’s Q1 numbers (it has a trading year that ends on June 30th) shows overall revenues down by 2.2 per cent YoY at €293 million. The division with the largest […]
Globalstar intros their RM200M 2-way satIoT module
Globalstar (NASDAQ: GSAT) has brought their commercial RM200M two-way satellite IoT module to industry attention—this solution that enables affordable and resilient connectivity for critical assets everywhere and is now globally […]
Kepler awarded contract to support Canadian Arctic Defence
Kepler Communications has been awarded a multi-year contract from Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) to demonstrate real-time data sharing and connectivity for Continental Defence, including the Canadian Arctic. The […]
Viasat demos 1st satellite SMS messages on Android smartphone in Mexico
Viasat, Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT) has completed an in-country, first-of-its-kind, direct-to-device (D2D) demonstration in Mexico, featuring native SMS messages on the Android smartphone. The demonstration showcased smartphones sending and receiving messages […]