SES, itself busy looking to absorb arch-rival Intelsat which it agreed to acquire last April, perhaps has its eyes on its next expansion step. Rumours – wholly unconfirmed – suggest an investment in AST SpaceMobile could be in the offing. The satellite operator’s Chief Strategy Officer JP Hemingway is already on record as saying that […]
The One NZ Satellite TXT initial service has commened rolling out to customers on eligible phones and plans at no extra cost, helping One NZ to deliver mobile coverage like never before where you have clear line of sight to the sky. Joe Goddard, Experience & Commercial Director at One NZ, says: “We have lift-off! […]
Paris-based satellite operator Eutelsat, which already has some 654 of its OneWeb satellites in low Earth orbit, is ordering another 100 satellites from Airbus Defence & Space. The new satellites will be built at the Airbus plant in Toulouse, and – perhaps surprisingly – not at the Airbus-owned OneWeb factory in Florida. The factory, Airbus […]
After a slight delay, SES has announced that its latest pair of O3b mPOWER satellites were successfully launched into space by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on December 17th. Both satellites will join the first six O3b mPOWER spacecraft already in operation at medium Earth orbit (MEO), adding incremental […]
Texas-based AST SpaceMobile wants to become the world’s ‘tower in space’ for its partner telcos. IT has the first five satellites in orbit, and a report from investment firm Hennessey Focus Fund says that steady cash-raising exercises during the past year has created a war chest of some $519 million (€494.9m) to spend on the […]
The latest edition of Novaspace’s Prospects for the Small Satellite Market market intelligence report forecasts robust growth in the small satellite (smallsat) industry, projecting a market value of approximately $113.3 billion (€107.9bn) over the next decade. This expansion will be fueled by the replenishment of satellite constellations globally and the rising complexity and cost of […]
At the 2024 Better Satellite World Awards Dinner, the SSPI UK Chapter named Dr David Parker FRAeS, Visiting Professor of Space Systems and Policy at the University of Southampton and former Chief Executive at the UK Space Agency, as its 9th Satellite Personality of the Year. The Satellite Personality of the Year Award celebrates an […]
China already has a total of 44 GPS satellites in orbit (at the end of 2023), known as the Beidou constellation. The country’s China Satellite Navigation System Management Office (CNSO) has explained how this existing system will be augmented. According to Xinhua News Agency, CNSO says that by the end of 2025 it will have […]
Some 24 years ago Telesat’s Anik F1 was launched. It has now been retired to a safe ‘graveyard’ orbit a few hundred kilometres above the normal geostationary arc. When Canada’s Anik F1 was sent into space in November 2000, it was the most powerful communications satellite ever built. Now this satellite is in its final […]
Es’hailSat, the Qatar Satellite Company, has enhanced its channel offerings by integrating Kidsy TV into its video distribution portfolio at the 26° East orbital position on Es’hail-2 satellite. The satellite footprint is strategically designed to cover the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, thus optimising signal coverage, and facilitating significant viewership potential for the […]