Jersey-based OneWeb, which is planning a 900-spacecraft constellation of broadband satellites, is ordering solar panels from an Albuquerque, New Mexico factory. SolAero, in a statement, says that it is expanding its existing facility to meet the new demand. SolAero already supplies solar panels to satellites and will start qualifying OneWeb’s order in March in readiness […]
Global Eagle Entertainment (GEE) is a specialist provider of aircraft-based In Flight Entertainment (IFE), of which more in a moment. However, GEE said February 2nd that 2016 had been a record year for its live event telecasts to cruise ships on its MTN-TV channel. MTN-TV delivered nearly 700 events and 2,627 hours of live televised […]
Streaming live content and using social media at 36,000 feet are poised to become reality at the end of this year for passengers connected to Taqnia Space Aero services’ platform following an agreement with Eutelsat Communications and Taqnia Space (TSC), owned by the Public Investment Fund (PIF) of Saudi Arabia. The multi-million dollar, multi-year deal […]
Intelsat has announced that Quantis Global, a broadband service provider in Europe and Northern Africa, has signed an agreement to enhance and expand the Quantis network using services provided by Intelsat EpicNG high-throughput satellites (HTS) and IntelsatOne Flex services, bringing higher performing broadband services across the region. Quantis, part of Eurona Wireless Telecom, will incorporate […]
SES has announced that Satcom Global, a provider of global satellite communications services to the maritime and land sectors, will become a key partner for SES. The differentiated mobility solution will form a crucial part of Satcom Global’s new Ku-band VSAT service, Aura, providing seamless, reliable and high-speed connectivity to hundreds of maritime, offshore and […]
Nokia and the Orange Group are to collaborate on the development of services that will allow industries and consumers to take advantage of the efficiencies and business models made possible by 5G. Under a new collaboration agreement, Nokia and Orange say they will drive the definition and development of these new services, with a focus […]
It’s like the 70s all over again, suddenly the world is all about brinkmanship. President Trump seems keen to confront all except President Putin, his only serious rival for biggest ego on the planet. But they’ll fall out and the planets will collide; hopefully in a hissy twitter spat rather than a shooting war. Talking […]
A surgical dissection of SpaceX’s recent suggestions that it could be generating $30 billion (€27.9bn) in annual revenues flowing from its projected constellation of 4400 satellites are “too optimistic no matter what assumptions are made and could stoke unrealistic expectations undermining the industry’s credibility,” according to a blunt analysis by specialists at Northern Sky Research […]
Elon Musk’s SpaceX rockets have been given a clean bill of health by the FCC following a catastrophic explosion on September 1st, and the first launch takes place today (January 9) at 10.22 am (Pacific Time). The launch was originally scheduled for January 8, but postponed because of anticipated bad weather and heavy rain at […]
Channel Islands-based OneWeb has raised $1.2 billion (€1.14bn) from Japan’s Softbank in a new funding round. OneWeb is planning to build a super-constellation of 640 broadband and data satellites to supply Internet-by-satellite connectivity to the planet. It already has manufacturing agreements in place with Airbus Group, and the plan is to start launching these satellites […]