India’s Space Research Organisation (ISRO) says its massive and heaviest-ever GSAT-11 satellite has arrived at its geostationary orbit (at 36,000 kms) and with its all-important solar panels and reflectors correctly deployed. ISRO says that four orbit-raising manoeuvres were carried out over the recent weekend, following the launch by an Ariane rocket on Dec 5th. The […]
The C-Band Alliance (CBA) says it is happy to assure its smaller regional and rural clients (that is, non-Tier 1 carriers) that capacity for their efforts to support rural broadband and help address the digital divide across the US will be made available. But the spectrum will need to be bought. The CBA is looking […]
Europe’s two satellite giants SES and Eutelsat have not enjoyed the best of times on the stock market these past few trading days. Their prospects have not been helped by news from AT&T-owned DirecTV which says that it will not be ordering any more DTH satellites for the US. DirecTV has some 19.6 million subscribers […]
Boeing says it has cancelled an order from China for a geostationary satellite (a HS-702 version). Boeing blames “default for non-payment” according to reports. However, other reports say that the contract had previously been approved by the US Commerce Department, despite the Chinese connections. The proposed project, called Global IP and its Gisat-1 craft, is […]
The C-Band Alliance (CBA), which supports the reallocation of some of its members’ frequencies over the US, says it is “extraordinarily pleased with the level of support shown for the Market-Based Approach in the opening round of comments”. The Alliance, made up of Intelsat, SES, Eutelsat and Telesat, in a statement December 7th, says its […]
The Next Generation Mobile Networks Alliance (NGMN) has written to the European Commission’s President Jean-Claude Junker (and its various Directorate Commissioners responsible) to speedily adopt the Cellular-V2X technology in place of 801.11p in order to reduce the ‘time to market’ and harmonisation for network operators and the motor industry in the build-up to 5G, and […]
Eutelsat has signed a distribution agreement with Masmovil to supply its Ka-Sat broadband-by-satellite capacity to users in Spain. The contract offers broadband access speeds of up to 50Mbps and data downloads from 30GB to 150GB per month. Fees will start at €37.9 per month. The service will launch in January. Equity analysts at investment bank […]
Speciality services provider RigNet, which supplies telecoms connectivity to oil rig crews, VSAT customers, mobile connectivity and wireless broadband, has suffered a significant set-back in a dispute with Inmarsat. The arbitration has been heard at the International Centre for Dispute Resolution. The dispute is centred on a $65 million “strategic” capacity lease in 2014 for […]
Russian space agency Roscosmos says it will create a new mega-constellation of satellites to serve Internet of Things demand. The ‘Marathon’ constellation will likely comprise hundreds of craft and operate alongside Russia’s Glonass GPS system and as part of Russia’s planned ‘Sphere’ project which calls for 640 satellites, and to be fully deployed by 2026. […]
Eutelsat carried live 8K signals from Rome’s Vatican City to Japan in order to help launch the world’s first 8K channel for NHK, the country’s public broadcaster. NHK partnered with Eutelsat on December 2nd from the Vatican where images were transmitted to Tokyo via Eutelsat 12 West B satellite with a mobile uplink provided by […]