Arianespace has taken delivery of its next mission’s second satellite (India’s GSAT-31) which will join Saudi Arabia’s HellasSat-4 craft which arrived a few days ago. The Ariane 5 launch is currently scheduled for February 5th (weather permitting). The launch also starts another year of launch campaigns for Arianespace which reported a flat 2018 in terms […]
Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL), based in Guildford, UK, unveiled its portion of Eutelsat’s highly versatile ‘Quantum’ satellite on January 9th. The satellite is being built under a public–private partnership between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the satellite operator Eutelsat with Airbus as the prime contractor. The satellite platform, which has been designed and manufactured […]
SpaceX is planning to launch thousands of satellites into various orbits in order to deliver broadband services to the whole planet. The first satellites will launch later this year, but there are some growing doubts. The influential Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in its ‘Spectrum’ issue talks about glitches with both of SpaceX’s […]
Deutsche Telekom has been limited to holding a 15 per cent stake in BT for three years, but this ends on January 29th. And BT obviously thinks it may launch a takeover bid. According to reports, BT is consulting takeover advisors Robey Warshaw and Goldman Sachs. Its shares are at a five-year low and the […]
Elon Musk was been busy tweeting over the holidays, talking about a visit to Boca Chica, South Texas to view construction on his ‘Starship Alpha’ space rocket, and telling fans that the overall Mars-focussed project had been “radically redesigned”. It has also emerged that since early December he has raised around $1 billion in fresh […]
It may not be quite a full roar of approval from analysts at Moffett Nathanson (MN), but an upgrade from ‘Sell’ to ‘Neutral’ on Charlie Ergen’s Dish Network is welcome news for the Denver-based DTH broadcaster. The hard facts, however, still make grim reading. Dish’s stock price has crashed 48 per cent this past year […]
Kacific is a satellite operator concentrating its resources on most of the Pacific islands, stretching from Indonesia and the Philippines in the West to Tonga and Guam, French Polynesia, New Zealand in the South and East Pacific. According to a report in trade publication Space News, the embryonic business is now planning a significant expansion. […]
OneWeb, which wants to place at least 600 satellites into orbit and supply the planet with broadband service, has denied it wants Russia to take a stake in the business. Reuters reported the original story that the would-be satellite operator wanted to bring Russia into its scheme. Reuters said that that discussions with Russian prime […]
Various equity analysts have reported in some detail on how they see the C-band restructuring evolving over the US. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) closed its timetable for comments on December 11th on its ‘Notice of Proposed Rulemaking’ last week. The FCC is not likely to make a decision until mid-2019, but a consortium of […]
Avanti Communications has had to enter Chapter 15 bankruptcy in the US as part of its recent financial restructuring. Chapter 15 is a section of the US bankruptcy code that deals with jurisdiction and under Chapter 15 a business based outside the US can obtain access to the US courts and the formula is used […]