A study from Juniper Research, experts in the Internet of Things market, forecasts that total global satellite IoT revenue will grow from $2.9 billion (€2.6bn) in 2024 to $5.8 billion in 2027. The study attributes this substantial growth to the increasing need for IoT connectivity in remote locations and areas that cannot be easily served […]

The geostationary arc is suffering badly from the recent break-up of Intelsat’s I-33e. More than 500 individual pieces of debris have now been identified by specialists at ExoAnalytics. The researchers say the majority of the piece are “softball-sized or smaller” although there are pieces described as being of car-door size. ExoAnalytics managed to add identification […]

SES Open Orbits, SES’s global inflight connectivity network, has been selected by Thai Airways and Turkish Airlines to equip aircraft across their fleets with in-flight connectivity (IFC) solutions, supporting both linefit and retrofit installations. These new IFC services are delivered by SES along with one of its key SES Open Orbits connectivity service partners, Neo […]

Equity investment analyst Andres Coello from Scotiabank has issued an update for satellite operator AST SpaceMobile (AST) now that AST has successfully unfurled its five solar arrays. The bank’s view states: “Impressive execution should unlock cheaper credit and accelerate prepayments.” The bank was impressed and stated that the 23-day period from launch to unfurling the […]

Eutelsat owned satellite constellation OneWeb has received all the “necessary authorisations” to start services over India. OneWeb India, which is backed by Bharti Airtel, is the first satellite operation to be granted authorisation. However, OneWeb is still waiting for its spectrum to be allocated. IN-SPACe is the government agency responsible for regulating space activities and […]

There are reports out of Indonesia that its Nusantara Lima (N5) high-throughput satellite, due to be launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket this winter, could be delayed because of the break-up of Intelsat’s i-33e craft on October 21st. Boeing built the Intelsat satellite and the Indonesian craft has a near-identical specification and uses the […]

AST SpaceMobile has confirmed that each of their five BlueBird satellites launched by SpaceX in September have successfully unfurled their massive solar and transmission arrays. Each satellite carries 64 sq metres of array. AST is building follow-on satellites which are even larger in size and has ambitions to become a global connectivity supplier of satellite-to-cellular […]

Researcher and industry consultant Dr Tim Farrar, of TMF Associates, has predicted that SpaceX’s Starlink broadband-by-satellite system is likely to end this year with around 5 million customers (although he stresses that they must not be termed as ‘subscribers’), and that during 2025 these would grow to around 8 million. Back in 2021 Elon Musk […]

Munich based satellite technology company Unio Enterprise has been placed into insolvency by a German commercial court on October 16th. SES, along with other high-profile technology names, were investors in the business. UNIO had tried to bring together these names to develop solution for space-to-Earth connectivity. On October 17th the company announced that, with approval […]

Canadian atellite operator, Telesat, has announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Airbus SAS to collaborate on the integration of the Telesat Lightspeed low earth orbit (LEO) network within the Airbus HBCplus Ka-band solution portfolio. Airbus launched its HBCplus satellite connectivity solution as a supplier-furnished line-fit catalogue option and also for retrofit on all […]