The new satellite is 60 times as powerful as the whole fleet of its predecessors and can provide broadband at up to 500Kb per second. While that may seem low compared with the speed available to the average UK household, which is 10 times greater, it is a massive improvement on the current speed of just 64Kb per second.

The satellite will now take another four weeks to slot into its geosynchronous orbi

Other posts by :

1. IRIS2 free for government usage?
2. Bank: AST SpaceMobile will orbit 356 satellites by 2030
3. SpaceX launches 600th rocket
4. Starlink: 10m customers and counting
5. SES predicts end of ‘big’ Geo satellites
6. Amazon Leo gets approval for 4,504 extra satellites
7. SpaceX gets a portion of India
8. TerreStar wants to build LEO network
9. Musk: “No Starlink phone”

Categories: Articles, DTH/Satellite