The risk of satellites bumping into each other is already very real. Now China is joining the low Earth orbit ‘space race’ and planning to launch around 20,000 new craft into orbit. Add this 20,000 to the near-40,000 planned by Elon Musk, another 3300 from Jeff Bezos, around 800 from the UK-backed OneWeb plus dozens […]
Satellite operators backhaul business segments are readying “unprecedented” levels of capacity thanks to their existing bandwidth on offer. Additionally, the industry’s newly available High Throughput geostationary Satellites (HTS) and non-Geostationary craft whether from the likes of SES’s mPower fleet shortly coming on line and the growing number of Low Earth orbiting satellites will all add […]
Specialist satellite research from Quilty Analytics, in its latest report, has looked in detail at Ottawa-based Telesat and its Low Earth orbiting (LEO) plans for its Lightspeed project. Lightspeed is a 298-craft crosslinked next-generation constellation with an advanced ground infrastructure to create a highly secure, global mesh network that will mainly serve enterprise/ B2B markets, […]
China is forming a dedicated business to create and manage a massive fleet of 13,000 Low Earth orbiting (LEO) satellites. The system is designed to compete – at least locally – with Elon Musk’s Starlink global system. The creation of the new business seems to suggest that Musk will find it impossible to openly seek […]
Canada’s Innovation, Science & Economic Development (ISED) ministry has set out its proposals on how it will auction off satellite C-band frequencies in an 87-page document. Telesat, the current user of most of the C-band spectrum, had hoped to auction the spectrum itself in order to part-fund its expensive ‘Lightspeed’ Low Earth orbiting fleet of […]
Arianespace is due to use a Soyuz rocket on May 27th from Russia’s Vostochny Cosmodrome to launch an additional 36 OnWeb Low Earth orbit satellites into its existing constellation. The launch will take OneWeb’s fleet to 218 craft. The satellites will go into a near-Polar orbit at an altitude of 450 kms and the Arianespace […]
Northern Sky Research (NSR) in its latest analysis of capacity pricing, says that several markets are approaching price stabilisation across regions – if only temporarily. Report author Carlos Placido says that the industry’s Mobility applications (namely maritime and aero) that were the “star” performers driving pre-pandemic revenue growth for operators became the ones most adversely […]
OneWeb has signed what it describes as a “key distribution partnership” with Rock Networks in Canada. Ottawa-based Rock Networks is an end-to-end communications systems integrator focused on wireless and broadband solutions. The announcement was made during The Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries Canadian Defence Marketplace event. Rock Networks is a Canada-wide telecommunications hardware […]
Low Earth Orbit (LEO) global satellite communications company OneWeb has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Texas-based TrustComm, which will enable OneWeb to offer its network and connectivity services to US government clients and TrustComm customers. Based at the Ellington Joint Base in Houston, Texas, TrustComm was established in 1999 as a provider of […]
Quilty Analytics in their survey of Q1 activity in the space and satellite sector says that cash from public and private space investments continued to surge in Q1. Quilty’s core Satellite & Space Index, and which included examination of 27 publicly traded and space-related businesses, outperformed the major indices. The Quilty Monitor grew 26 per […]