Kacific Broadband Satellites Group and Microsoft recently announced their collaboration to bring high-speed satellite internet access to 750 rural educational and healthcare institutions with a geographical coverage of 10 million […]
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SpaceX’s Friday Starlink smallsats launch sets multiple records
SpaceX successfully launched 23 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral at 9:40 EDT. This was also a record for the first time that a Falcon 9 first-stage booster has flown for […]
SpaceX’s part 2 in a 3 part series of launches, Saturday’s Direct to Cell
SpaceX has delayed the Fridqy Starlink launch now targeting Saturday, April 6 for a Falcon 9 launch of 21 Starlink satellites, including six with Direct to Cell capabilities, to low-Earth […]
SpaceX is busy with April Starlink launches
SpaceX had a busy March launch schedule from both West Coast and East Coast, and April will follow suit. The first launch of Starlinks was on April 1st from Vandenberg […]
Nilesat selects Hughes JUPITER system for satellite broadband connectivity in Egypt
Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES), an EchoStar company (Nasdaq: SATS), today announced that Nilesat, a leading satellite operator in the MENA region has purchased a Hughes JUPITER™ System Gateway and […]
DARPA selects MBRYONICS optical terminal for DARPA’s Space-BACN Program
MBRYONICS, a satellite communications and photonics equipment provider, has been selected by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop the optical terminal, including the space telescope, the […]
Alef and Frontera scale Private Mobile Networks Platform for Texas schools to access equal educational opportunities
Alef, a mobile connectivity SaaS platform company, has teamed up with Frontera Consulting Group, a connectivity provider and consultancy firm specializing in community data connectivity engineering and deployment solutions. Together, […]
TNO and European collaborate to develop global quantum internet enabled from space
It is reported that the future global quantum internet is blocked due to signal losses in fiber over distance. Satellites are required so that cities and continents can be connected […]
Hughes awarded USSF contract for LEO satellite services
Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES), an EchoStar company (Nasdaq: SATS), has been awarded a five-year, Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the U.S. Space Force (USSF) for proliferated LEO […]
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launch of Starlink V2 mini small sats delayed and rescheduled
SpaceX‘s Falcon 9 rocket originally scheduled to launch 22 of the second-generation “V2” mini satellites, that are larger and have four times the bandwidth of the previous models, is now […]