Just days after criticising rival Elon Musk for the SpaceX plans to launch 1 million satellites suitable for operating orbital data-centres, Jeff Bezos and his Blue Origin rocket launch business has applied to place 51,600 satellites into orbit. Bezos and Blue Origin call the scheme ‘Project Sunrise’ and as one critic pointed out: “’Project Sunrise’ […]

Space Compass and SWISSto12 have executed a procurement contract for the first GEO optical data relay satellite. This agreement represents a milestone toward the realisation of Space Compass’s optical data relay service. With high‑speed, high‑capacity optical data relay service, Space Compass aims to transform Earth Observation from just a tracking record into a real-time decision-making […]

Globalsat Group has announced an agreement to become an authorised reseller for Amazon Leo, the low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite network. Under the terms of the agreement, Globalsat will provide high-speed, low-latency broadband connectivity to enterprise customers with mission-critical operations throughout North, Central and South America. The partnership marks a significant expansion for Amazon Leo’s commercial […]

Broadcasters are rebuilding live operations workflows around IP delivery as satellite and dedicated fibre distribution decline, according to research from Caretta Research produced in partnership with Zixi. The shift is already transforming live sports production. By moving contribution feeds and master control operations to IP and cloud infrastructure, broadcasters can scale coverage beyond the limits […]

SWISSto12 – a manufacturer of advanced satellite and payload systems – has announced the inauguration of a purpose-built assembly facility in Renens, Switzerland, to support the industrial-scale production of its HummingSat geostationary satellite platform. HummingSat is SWISSto12’s new class of small geostationary satellite, empowering nations and operators to deploy resilient communications with greater autonomy and […]

Taiwan telco Chungwa Telecom’s European division (which is 35 per cent owned by Taiwan’s government) has filed a six satellite request to build and launch a fleet of low Earth orbiting craft. The coordination filing has been made to the ITU via Germany (Taiwan is not a member of the ITU). However, while the six […]

Broadband satellite operator Amazon Leo has met the FCC to further discuss an “extension or waiver” to the FCC’s required obligation that Amazon Leo places at least 1,618 satellites (50 per cent of the planned total) to be in place by July 30th this year. The formal request was repeated to the FCC on March […]

Novaspace’s Capacity Pricing Trends, 8th Edition finds the satellite connectivity market has entered a Post‑Capacity Era, where bandwidth is no longer the basis of differentiation. Starlink’s vertical integration and cost compression are accelerating this shift, resetting competitive expectations across the sector. “The market has moved beyond capacity as a differentiator. As supply expands and economics converge, the real […]

The use of optical lasers between orbiting satellites are commonplace. Less common is using lasers from Earth to satellites. Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) says it has a solution. An installation in Chile near Santiago has successfully passed site acceptance testing and is now integrated into the NODES (Network of Optical Stations For Data Transfer To […]