Satellite Communications
SatNews Focus: The “Hotbird” Defense — Why Eutelsat’s Deal with beIN Matters in a LEO World
PARIS — While the industry's gaze is fixed on the mega-constellation race in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), Eutelsat ...
Musk’s next step could be expensive
By Chris Forrester — The past few days have seen the business pages full of reports that Elon ...
Startical Advances Space-Based ATM
MADRID — The race to provide seamless, global air traffic management (ATM) from orbit accelerated today as Startical, ...
Shield AI Expands into Space Domain with Sedaro
WASHINGTON – (December 3, 2025) – Shield AI and Sedaro have announced a strategic partnership focused on advancing ...
Iridium was awarded a new infrastructure contract
Iridium Communications holds a long-standing and strategic partnership with the U.S. Space Force (USSF), primarily centered around the ...
Moody’s upgrades Eutelsat
Moody’s Ratings has upgraded Eutelsat Communications SA’s long-term corporate family rating to Ba3 from B2, the rating agency ...
Orange becomes the 1st European operator to offer satellite SMS service via Skylo
Orange recently became the first European operator to offer satellite SMS service with Skylo, a non-terrestrial network operator ...
Proximus Global + Starlink to expand Direct-to-Cell satellite connectivity in Europe
BICS, a Proximus Global company, and Starlink have entered into a strategic partnership, appointing BICS as the preferred ...
OQ Technology achieves Europe’s 1st D2M emergency broadcast message from space
OQ Technology has achieved a major technological milestone using its LEO satellite constellation to successfully deliver Europe’s first ...
SES + Relativity Space expand their MLA for Terran R
SES, earlier this month, extended a multi-year, multi-launch services agreement with Relativity Space which is building the Terran ...
Viasat completes network control station installations for Spanish MoD
Viasat has worked with the Spanish Ministry of Defence (MoD) to install two redundant Network Control Stations (NCSs) ...
FCC proposes upper C-Band rules for 2027 auction to maximize mid-band spectrum for 5G and 6G
Announcement from the FCC...The Federal Communications Commission today took critical step toward releasing a large swath of mid-band ...
Speedcast has integrated new global high throughput service from Starlink as part of COSL Drilling’s hybrid solution
Speedcast has successfully integrated and deployed Starlink’s Global High Throughput Service (HTS) for offshore energy customer COSL Drilling ...
Hughes doesn’t have funding to cover the next 12 months activity
Hughes Satellite Systems owned by EchoStar admitted it doesn't have enough money now to cover its next 12-months ...
Infinite Orbits and SES to collaborate in Europe’s first commercial life extension mission
Infinite Orbits and SES are going to collaborate in Europe’s first commercial life extension mission—in-orbit services provide concrete ...
Thai Airways becomes 1st global airline to line-fit Neo Space Group’s IFC Solution on their Boeing 787 Dreamliner fleet
Neo Space Group (NSG) and Thai Airways (THAI) have announced that NSG Skywaves®—the Group’s advanced, in-flight connectivity (IFC) ...
U-Space closes a 24 million euros series A to expand into the global smallsat constellation market
After an initial €7 million funding round in 2022, the French small satellite manufacturer U-Space has announced a ...
MTN + FiberCop to develop hybrid terrestrial-satellite network architectures in Italy
The two companies have signed a strategic partnership aimed at offering high-speed connectivity across Italy, enabling high-performance backhaul ...
Viasat commitment to D2D explained
By Chris Forrester Silicon Valley Space Week’s second day, and part of its Satellite Innovation sessions, saw delegates ...
D2D: Next-Gen Satellite Devices Real-world, or Over-hyped?
By Chris Forrester Dr Tim Farrar, president of TMF Associates, moderated the popular Direct-To-Devices session at the Silicon ...
