An intriguing idea been floated around by Defence news expert Larry Ramer, suggesting that Amazon should buy — or make a considerable investment — in AST SpaceMobile. Ramer explained: “In […]
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Forrester’s Digest: Viasat suffers satellite ‘hack’
California-based Viasat, which also owns London-based Inmarsat, says it was one of the victims in the “Salt Typhoon” hack against telecommunications providers. ‘Salt Typhoon’ is believed to be China-backed although […]
AST SpaceMobile confirms Ligado payment
AST SpaceMobile will pay around $550 million (€474.9m) to Ligado for its L-band spectrum over North America. The news was confirmed late on June 13th. The payment will allow Ligado […]
AST SpaceMobile to launch 243 satellites
AST SpaceMobile (AST), a would-be supplier of direct-to-consumer cellular telephony from space, has told the FCC that it will have 243 of its BlueBird satellites in orbit by the end […]
Forrester’s Digest: AST SpaceMobile suffers delayed BlueBird launch
AST SpaceMobile (AST) already has five of its Mark 1 ‘BlueWalker’ satellites in orbit but they are far from enough to provide even close to decent coverage of its direct-to-consumer […]
ST Engineering iDirect’s Public Safety solution Wins MSUA Satellite Mobile Innovation Award 2025
ST Engineering iDirect has been awarded the President’s Award for Humanitarian Aid/Disaster Response by the Mobile Satellite Users Association (MSUA) for its leading-edge satellite technology in public safety communications. ST Engineering iDirect’s […]
Forrester’s Digest: AST, Vodafone European D2D JV
AST SpaceMobile and Vodafone used the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, as well as AST’s financial results, to outline how they will expand their satellite-based direct-to-device connections to Europe, and […]
Lockheed Martin, Nokia + Verizon advance defense capabilities via 5G.MIL® collaboration
Demonstration advances interoperability of commercial 5G connections with militarycommunications systems—successfully integrated Nokia’s military-grade 5G solutions and Verizon network management capabilities into Lockheed Martin 5G.MIL hybrid base station Lockheed Martin (NYSE: […]