Broadband-to-the-consumer specialist Viasat of California, which has yet to complete its latest constellation of high-capacity satellites (the ViaSat-3 fleet), is already working on an improved version. Mark Dankberg, CEO at Viasat, confirmed a ViaSat-4 iteration is now in the works. The current plan is to see the first ViaSat-3 (which can handle 1 Terabit/second traffic) […]
Intelsat has announced an agreement with Stratosat Datacom that provides for the delivery of high-speed broadband services to sites across Central Africa by integrating managed connectivity from Intelsat’s high throughput global network with valued-added engineering and management services from Stratosat. Together, the companies will bring internet and Virtual Private Networking (VPN) connectivity to markets across […]
Airline broadband and connectivity supplier GoGo reported revenues for Q2 up 9 per cent to $173 million (€193m), and EBITDA rising to $37.8 million (from $18.9m in the same period last year). “Gogo delivered a solid second quarter, driven by strong underlying service revenue, operational execution and successful implementation of cost controls, including lower than […]
A comprehensive review of the US C-band segment and its restructuring prospects has been issued by Northern Sky Research (C-Band Repurposing for 5G: Impacts and Analysis). The NSR report suggests that the upcoming Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decision on the proposed realignment of 180 MHz of spectrum will be mostly favourable. NSR says that following […]
While flying humans into space, and perhaps as far as Mars, might be Elon Musk’s ultimate goal – he is also saying to small satellite designers and operators to join his Falcon 9 club of clients. SpaceX says its new SmallSat Rideshare project will help get smallish satellites into Sun-Synchronous Orbits for ultra-low fees of […]
August 6th was a busy night both at the Kourou space centre in French Guiana and at Florida’s Cape Canaveral. Arianespace successfully launched Intelsat’s I-39 as well as the European Data Relay System’s satellite which has an additional payload in the form of bandwidth dubbed Hylas 3 for London-based Avanti Communications. The launch took place […]
A BBC report that satellite mega-constellation operator OneWeb had been blocked by Russia from sending or receiving signals from its orbiting satellites, has been corrected and updated. The BBC quotes Mikhail Kaigorodov, OneWeb’s commercial director for Russia, saying: “OneWeb’s joint venture in Russia has withdrawn its application for landing rights in the Russian Federation. The […]
SpaceX was due to launch Tel Aviv-based Spacecom’s Amos-17 satellite on August 3rd and has delayed the launch for several days due to a technical problem with the Falcon 9 launch rocket. The earliest date for launch is August 6th, probably during an early evening launch window from SpaceX’s Florida launch pad. Spacecom’s CEO David […]
OneWeb wants to girdle the planet with around 650 satellites to provide global broadband coverage. To do this the company needs the permission of major countries to send and receive signals from the overhead satellites. Russia has refused to grant these rights to OneWeb. OneWeb had applied to the Russian State Commission for Radio Frequencies […]
A major challenge for the new cluster of smaller satellite operators is safely releasing the satellites from the carrying rocket. When the rocket might be carrying 30-60 small – but extremely valuable – satellites the dilemma is critical. Now a member of a French grouping of ‘space enablers’ under the banner of the Newspace Factory […]