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Report: Satellite payloads worth $15bn by 2027

A report from Fortune Business Insights says that the satellite payload market will be worth $15.34 billion by 2027. This growth represents a CAGR of 7.49 per cent. The satellite payloads in the study are made up of private and government satellite and in particular the explosion in growth of communications satellites from the likes […]

October 1, 2020By Chris Forrester

Gates buys into satellite antennas

There are now three major would-be mega-constellation low Earth orbit satellite developers: Elon Musk’s Starlink, Jeff Bezos’ Project Kuiper and the UK/India joint-venture OneWeb (should it emerge from bankruptcy).  The missing link for each of them is a very low-cost phased array antenna to bring satellite broadband to the mass market. Which is perhaps where […]

August 27, 2020

Analysis: Amazon’s Project Kuiper is a $10bn investment

The Jeff Bezos-backed Project Kuiper will see investment topping $10 billion, says Chris Quilty, senior researcher at Florida-based Quilty Analytics, in the firm’s latest Satcom Quarterly Briefing. The end result, for broadband consumers, could be impressive. Quilty is blunt, saying that Amazon’s involvement in the plan to launch 3236 satellites to Low Earth orbit (LEO) […]

August 25, 2020By Chris Forrester

FCC wants to approve Bezos’s mega-constellation

FCC chairman Ajit Pai says he wants to approve Jeff Bezos and Amazon’s massive plan for a mega-constellation of an initial 3,236 satellites known as Project Kuiper. Pai, on July 10th, said he has shared his proposal with the other key members of the FCC. He Tweeted: “Earlier today, I shared with my colleagues a […]

July 13, 2020By Chris Forrester

Amazon creates Satellite Solutions division

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is reaching even further into the sky with a new division called Aerospace & Satellite Solutions. A report in the WSJ says that it will focus on space projects for a variety of customers including NASA, the US military and Space Force and important aerospace companies such as Lockheed Martin and […]

July 1, 2020By Chris Forrester