Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) is leading a consortium made up of experienced space-related businesses as part of the European Space Agencies ‘Leopard’ project to clear dangerous space debris. The Leopard study will be led by SSTL and delivered by a consortium of leading UK space companies and academia to benefit from the wide breadth of […]
Northern Sky Research (NSR) forecasts that there’s going to be a huge increase in satellite-based broadband demand over the next few years. NSR’s VSAT and Broadband Satellite Market, 20th Edition finds High Throughput Satellites (HTS), themselves a major market growth factor, moving the segment from 800 Gb/s in 2020 demand to 15 Tb/s in 2030, […]
The Space Traffic Study from satellite and space sector research firm NSR finds that the amount of data to/from space will reach more than 500 exabytes of information from 2020 to 2030. Driven by the increasing needs for satellite-based connectivity and earth observation, data either generated in space or traveling through space will be roughly […]
Skyline Communications, a global provider of end-to-end vendor- and domain-agnostic digital transformation solutions for the ICT media and broadband industry, announces a record year in the making as the ICT media and broadband industry ramps up Digital Transformation investments. Whether you are creating a cloud-native proposition or next-gen data center, deploying an ST2110 all-IP foundation […]
Kymeta, the communications company making mobile global, and OneWeb, the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite communications company, have announced a joint development agreement (JDA) to develop an innovative flat-panel electronically steered user terminal that is compatible with the OneWeb network. The user terminal will support land fixed applications and lead the way to various mobility […]
Satellite communications operator OneWeb has signed a joint development agreement with GDC Advanced Technology (GDC). GDC is developing and testing a new In-Flight Connectivity terminal which OneWeb says will deliver the benefits of its LEO constellation including high throughput and low latency to airlines and their passengers from 2023. The pair say the terminal will […]
According to global technology intelligence firm ABI Research, the serviceable addressable market (SAM) for global satellite broadband over geostationary (GEO), medium earth orbit (MEO), and low earth orbit (LEO) satellites will stand at 330 million premises, equivalent to 1.3 billion household members in 2026. SAM has grown by 5.3 per cent compared to 2021. Fibre-optic […]
Quilty Analytics, in its latest quarterly ‘state of the industry’ report, quotes recognised satellite business leaders expressing their concerns on the risks to commercial space – and specifically LEO – and the launching of potentially tens of thousands of satellites. Quilty references three leading executives (Viasat’s Mark Dankberg, SES’s Steve Collar, and Steve Spengler, the […]
Canada-based Kepler Communications has applied to the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) for permission to launch 114,852 satellites into low Earth orbit (LEO). The application is in two parts: a smaller constellation of 332 satellites at 600 kms altitude, and a much larger constellation of 114,582 operating in 1152 different orbits ranging between 200 and 1000 […]
November 16th saw Eutelsat’s share price crash 5 per cent and SES suffer a 2 per cent fall on the day. In the US Viasat and Loral both fell 3 per cent with Echostar and Iridium falling 2 per cent. Asian satellite shares also fell. The reductions were seen as being “excessive” according to analysts […]