The next batch of Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellites is slated for launch on September 25th from Cape Canaveral. The launch, dubbed KA-03, will be handled by United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) […]
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Forrester’s Digest: EGNOS upgraded by European Commission
The European Commission has confirmed a significant upgrade to EGNOS, Europe’s satellite-based flight and positioning augmentation system. On August 25th, the GEO-3 satellite Eutelsat 5 West B moved from test […]
Forrester’s Digest: Starlink tops 7m customers
Elon Musk’s Starlink broadband-by-satellite service has revealed that it now has 7 million global customers. This number is up from 6 million confirmed just a few weeks ago in June, […]
Forrester’s Digest: Dish/DirecTV merger back on?
Financial discussions about a potential merger between the two declining DTH operators over North America could be on again. Indeed, those discussions have gone on for years and, despite changes […]
Forrester’s Digest: EchoStar sells spectrum to AT&T for billions
Pay-TV operator EchoStar is selling $23 billions-worth (€19.8 billion) of terrestrial spectrum designed to improve 5G and home Internet access. AT&T and EchoStar have also agreed to enhance their long-term […]
Forrester’s Digest: Belgium vs France for IRIS2 LEO contract
The EU-backed IRIS2 mega-constellation of super-secure satellites has seen the SpaceRISE consortium, which is managing the project, launch its first contest for the building of the 270-satellite LEO segment of […]
Forrester’s Digest: UK Space Agency absorbed by British government
The move by the UK government to shift the UK Space Agency into its Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT) has been described as both good news, and bad, […]
Forrester’s Digest: New CEO at Arabsat
Saudi Arabia-based satellite operator Arabsat has appointed Dr. Badr Alsuwaidan as President and CEO. Since 2020, Alsuwaidan has served as SVP and CTO, where he played a pivotal role in […]
Forrester’s Digest: Amazon dismisses OneWeb as a rival
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy didn’t mention Elon Musk’s Starlink, or Eutelsat’s OneWeb, or Canada’s Telesat Lightspeed or any of the ever-growing list of would-be low Earth orbiting (LEO) satellite constellations […]
Forrester’s Digest: Amazon’s Kuiper readies next launches
Amazon’s Project Kuiper, its would-be broadband satellite rival to Elon Musk’s Starlink, is gearing up for its next launches. It has a new 100,000 square foot payload processing facility at […]