Intelsat’s share price fell back 12.34 per cent on November 12th, badly hurt by a negative report from investment bank JPMorgan and amid concerns that there are now significant “complications” in how the proposed C-Band Alliance might fare in the long-awaited FCC decision on reassignment of key satellite frequencies. JPMorgan specifically downgraded Intelsat from ‘Overweight’ […]
Despite all manner of negotiations spread over some 17 months between would-be mega-satellite operator OneWeb and Intelsat, the pair never actually reached an agreement, says OneWeb in an application to a New York court. OneWeb – and its financial backer Japan’s SoftBank – is asking the court to dismiss an action started on September 10th […]
World-be satellite operator LeoSat has abandoned its launch plans. It was reported back in September that LeoSat was having difficulty in raising the next stages of its financial needs. On Oct 21st Ronald van der Breggen, CEO, announced he had left the company leaving founder Mark Rigolle in charge. News has emerged from specialist newssite […]
Ottawa-based Telesat is looking to order up to 300 Low Earth Orbiting satellites, and had been expected to confirm its supplier about now. However, Telesat’s CEO Dan Goldberg told analysts that it was taking longer to decide on a manufacturer and now says that a decision was more likely during the first few months of […]
Last week Eutelsat and the C-Band Alliance (CBA) submitted fresh filings to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Eutelsat’s was a radical series of suggestions, while the CBA gave further comprehensive details of how they would handle their $2.5 billion – $3.5 billion transition plan. However, Eutelsat’s dramatic intervention would – if accepted by the FCC […]
SpaceX placed another 60 of its Starlink satellites into orbit on November 11th. The lift-off took place at 09.56 am Florida-time from Cape Canaveral. Deployment of the 60 craft was confirmed barely one hour after launch at 10.59 am. The SpaceX plan is to eventually have thousands of these Low Earth Orbiting satellites circling the […]
It is for the FCC to determine the terms and financial obligations of the C-Band Alliance’s scheme for the restructuring of satellite spectrum over the US. While nothing is yet agreed, a consensus has emerged that the three key members of the Alliance (Intelsat, SES and Telesat) will volunteer to pay a 25 per cent […]
Spacecom, operator of the AMOS satellite fleet, has announced that a leading Angolan satellite services company has signed a contract for C-Band HTS capacity on the newly launched AMOS-17 communication satellite. The Angolan company will utilise capacity on AMOS-17 primarily for cellular backhaul to better connect rural and low-density communities throughout the Southern African country. […]
The C-Band Alliance on November 7th sent a strongly-worded seven-page letter to two senior members of the US House Sub-committee on Communications & Technology. The letter starts politely enough, telling Chairman Michael Doyle and Ranking Member Robert Latta that it wanted to correct some misstatements. But the message soon became blunt saying, in effect, ‘hands […]
OneWeb is to delay the launch of its first batch of 34 satellites until the New Year, saying that they want to give the craft additional checks. They will then be flown to the Russian cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakhstan for launch probably in late-January. OneWeb launched its first 6 debut satellites back in February, and […]