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 […]
Hughes Network Systems and OneWeb have announced their selection by the US Air Force Research Lab to demonstrate managed LEO satellite communications (SATCOM) services to connect the Arctic region to sites around the globe. Under the agreement, Hughes will test and implement these end-to-end services on the OneWeb system between selected US Northern Command (NORTHCOM) […]
Eutelsat is taking a 24 per cent stake in UK/India-owned low Earth orbiting business OneWeb. Eutelsat will invest $500 million (€455.4m) in the company, which “almost” fully funds the satellite venture. Eutelsat will use its FCC-granted ‘incentive’ payment for giving up its C-band frequencies over the US to fund its stake. In a press statement, […]
Eutelsat is taking a 24 per cent stake in OneWeb. Eutelsat’s fresh cash values OneWeb at $2.3 billion. However, Eutelsat is paying a significant premium to enter OneWeb. When the UK government and India’s Bharti Global invested their cash into OneWeb they placed their $500 million into the business and received 42 per cent of […]