FiberCop, the company running Italy’s most widespread digital network infrastructure, has signed a strategic partnership with FMC GlobalSat and its 100 per cent owned subsidiary MTNSat (MTN), a satellite network operator, to develop hybrid terrestrial-satellite solutions to deliver stable connectivity in remote areas across Italy. This agreement represents one of the first architectures of its […]
Reports from the Russian Space Web (RSW) say that heads continue to roll at Russia’s Roskosmos. The site says that the Director General at ISS Reshetnev, prime developer of military and communications satellites, is “voluntarily resigning”. On October 10th, Roskosmos announced that Evgeny Nesterov, the head of ISS Reshetnev, Russia’s prime developer of military and […]
Canada-based MDA Space is making a modest C$10 million (€6.1m) investment in Maritime Launch Services (MLS) as a precursor to becoming an equity owner and strategic partner in MLS. MDA makes satellites and key technology such as the robotic ‘Canada Arm’ used on past Space Shuttles and at the International Space Station. MLS has a […]
SpaceX’s global Starlink broadband network is currently listed as finally coming to the poorly served Falkland Islands, a British Overseas Territory, sometime in what’s left of 2025. Starlink’ activity map currently says “available now” for the Islands. The bad news, however, is that the service is already being used by hundreds of local customers who […]
SES will soon provide more satellite capacity over Japan and across Asia for commercial airline customers following an agreement for the full Ku-band capacity of the geostationary communications satellite Superbird-C2, owned by SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation. The Superbird-C2 satellite will be repositioned from its current orbital location at 144 degrees East to a new orbital […]
Starlink has begun hiring staff in India ahead of official launch of its broadband-by-satellite service. Local reports say that the plan is to start inviting subscriptions “early in 2026”. Starlink has posted job openings for several high-level finance and accounting positions on its professional sites. These key positions, including Accounting Manager, Payments Manager, Senior Treasury […]
Viasat’s latest satellite, its giant ViaSat-3 F2 craft, will launch late in the evening of November 5th with the 44 minute launch window opening at 10.24pm Florida time subject to the usual weather conditions. The 6-metric tonnes satellite will lift off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station aboard a huge United Luanch Alliance’s Atlas […]
Canada-based MDA Space suffered a dramatic fall in its share price, down 16 per cent, because of reports that an important order for satellites to be built could be cancelled. The order was announced back in February and involved a C$1.1 billion (€0.68bn) contract to build low Earth orbiting satellites for Globalstar. The sell-off was […]
Novaspace’s 18th edition of the Earth Observation Data and Services Market report signals a decisive market shift: geopolitical instability and AI integration are accelerating demand for defense-grade EO capabilities. Sovereign control and precision intelligence now dominate buyer priorities, with customers demanding uncompromised access to both premium resolution and rapid revisit rates, reshaping the commercial EO […]
The FCC unveiled plans earlier this week to again hold an auction of satellite C-band spectrum. It has now emerged that SES, the main satellite beneficiary of the restructuring, is firmly in favour of the FCC’s scheme. The FCC plan is to auction “at least” 100 MHz by July 2027. The FCC said the commission […]