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OneWeb partners with Network Innovations

OneWeb has signed up Alberta-based Network Innovations as a distribution partner to serve Canada “and across the globe” to benefit essential government and enterprise customers. OneWeb’s partnership with Network Innovations will focus on expanding bandwidth for government and enterprise markets. Utilising the power of OneWeb’s network, Network Innovations can augment its engineered solutions by adding […]

December 15, 2021By Chris Forrester

EU selects 2nd LEO consortium study

The European Commission has selected a second consortium to supply potential ideas for a future Low Earth Orbiting (LEO) system for Europe. Last week it named New Symphonie, which is led by Euroconsult and Unseenlabs, to present its ideas. It received €1.4 million in funding for a 6-month study. The second consortium has now been […]

December 15, 2021By Chris Forrester

Türksat 5B launches Dec 19

Türksat 5B will be launched on December 19th, subject to the usual weather considerations. The current plan calls for the launch to take place from Florida by SpaceX on one of its Falcon 9 rockets. The satellite, built by Airbus, was shipped to Florida in November and arrived from France on November 29th. Türksat 5B […]

December 13, 2021By Chris Forrester

Forecast: Satellite broadband demand to boom

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, […]

December 10, 2021By Chris Forrester

Analyst: The mystery of SpaceX’s value

Tim Farrar of TMF Associates says the recent “breathless” valuations for SpaceX (ranging from between $80 billion to $100 billion) are inconsistent. He says the quoted company valuations have near-tripled over the past year, and with SpaceX’s share price – albeit privately held – rising from about $200 per share to $560 over the same […]

December 9, 2021

OneWeb to build satellites in UK

Broadband satellite operator OneWeb, which owns a 50/50 joint venture satellite construction company (with Airbus) in Florida, is to start producing its satellites in the UK. OneWeb said that the move would be worth some $3 billion (€2.6bn) to the UK economy. Chris McLaughlin, OneWeb’s head of government affairs, said that a manufacturing programme would […]

December 9, 2021By Chris Forrester

Forecast: 1,700 satellites to be launched annually

Paris-based analysts Euroconsult say that over the remaining years of this decade to 2030 there will be an average of 1,700 satellites launched each year. The numbers reflect a four-fold increase in numbers (although only a doubling in terms of mass). Euroconsult says the race is heating up to rapidly deploy commercial mega constellations for […]

December 8, 2021By Chris Forrester

Astranis targets Peru with broadband-by-satellite

Astranis Space Technologies, a private American geostationary communications satellite operator and manufacturer headquartered in San Francisco, is proposing to work with Andesat to see satellite services brought to Peru. “This first satellite, which will go into service in 2023, will light up about 1,000 cell sites and provide broadband internet to approximately three million people […]

December 8, 2021By Chris Forrester

Inmarsat modifies satellite for UK’s GPS

Inmarsat-3 F5, launched back in 1998, is being reconfigured in orbit from its 54 degrees West location to serve the UK’s global positioning system. The UK, because of Brexit, is officially unable to access the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) system. The modification will have the result of focusing the satellite’s beams to provide […]

December 8, 2021By Chris Forrester

OneWeb, Kymeta joint venture

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 […]

December 2, 2021