UK-based Isotropic Systems designs and manufacturers antennas for high-throughput satellites including low Earth orbiting satellite constellations. It has just raised a further $40 million (€33m) in funding from a series of investors including SES and Boeing. What’s key, however, is that Isotropic’s equipment can handle signals from a variety of satellites. It is also suitable […]
Tototheo Maritime has signed a five-year data connectivity service agreement with SES that will be delivered via SES Networks’ Skala Global Platform. SES says that Tototheo Maritime’s customers will benefit from an efficient communication VSAT network that optimises fleet operations and cost efficiency, while enabling crew to stay connected to their families anytime and anywhere. […]
A rocket launched by New Zealand-based Rocket Lab last week, for its clients OHB Sweden and Thales Alenia, has posed a direct collision risk to satellites in the OneWeb constellation. According to Space Intel Report (SIR), OneWeb is demanding that the satellite be removed from its orbital plane. The satellite, GMS-T, is a protype Low […]
That the world’s major satellite operators are seeing their revenues under extreme pressure is not a surprise. That information emerges in each of their quarter-year financial reports. However, analysts at Northern Sky Research (NSR) have analysed that data for 2020 and their report makes tough reading. “At the start of 2021, the Global Satcom Industry […]
In a move to improve and scale connectivity services to its oil, gas, and mining customers throughout Peru, local telecom services provider ColinaNet will leverage SES Networks’ Managed Enterprise Services to support a broad range of advanced network applications. SES Networks says ColinaNet is pioneering its turnkey managed network solution in Peru to offer high-throughput […]
SES and Intelsat are still at legal loggerheads over the claimed $1.8 billion action by SES regarding the FCC’s 50/50 division of C-band incentive payments. Nevertheless, the pair met with Umair Javed, Legal Advisor for Wireless and International to FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel and presented a status report on their plans for clearing C-band frequencies. […]
Global Eagle Entertainment (GEE), a major supplier of in-flight entertainment and broadband connectivity to aircraft, is in Chapter 11 bankruptcy reconstruction. It entered bankruptcy on July 22nd 2020 and has subsequently struck an agreement with a number of new investors whereby a consortium will acquire almost all of GEE for $675 million. The buying consortium […]
SES Networks has won a contract to supply new satellite capacity to the north of Canada and its scattered population of Nunavut residents. Working in partnership with SSi Canada, SES says it will secure a significant increase in its satellite capacity, enhancing SSi’s ability to better serve consumers, students, government entities and businesses in Nunavut […]
European Commissioner for the Internal Market, Thierry Breton, says that he wants to propose his concept of a European satellite-based broadband network to the Commission this year. First priority would be to use a European Low Earth orbiting (LEO) public/private enterprise system and use it as a ‘gap filler’ for locations with non or low […]
Satellite operator’s video-based revenues are under pressure as broadcasters continue to go digital. The trend has generated comment from investment bank Exane/BNPP on January 13th, and which said it expected that video revenues would continue to deteriorate during 2021 for SES and Eutelsat. “In 2019 & 2020, Eutelsat had been able to report better quarterly […]