Hawaiian Airlines says it will now be offering free Starlink broadband connectivity to its passengers. Service will start next year on the airline’s trans-Pacific flights. “When we launch with Starlink we will have the best connectivity experience available in the air,” commented Hawaiian Airlines CEO Peter Ingram. Jonathan Hofeller, SpaceX VP/Starlink commercial sales, said its […]
On the heels of the news that Delta Air Lines is in talks with Elon Musk’s Starlink broadband satellite service to supply connectivity to its passengers comes news that one, somewhat smaller, airline has signed up to Starlink. JSX Air, which describes itself as a “hop on jet service”, says it has signed up to […]
SpaceX successfully placed another 53 of its Starlink broadband satellites into their transfer orbit on April 21st. A few minutes after its 17.51 UTC launch, the Falcon 9 booster landed on the operation’s floating barge ‘Just Read The Instructions’ ready for future re-use. SpaceX, as well as a high-intensity schedule of scientific and NASA-related satellite […]
French regulator Arcep (which is the authority for the regulation of electronic communications) says it will now hold public hearings on SpaceX’s request to operate its Starlink broadband-by-satellite service over France. The regulator has been criticised for issuing operational licences to Starlink (in February 2021) without holding obligatory public hearings. Arcep now says it invites […]
One of the mostly ignored elements of the Amazon Project Kuiper multi-rocket news – which in the words of Quilty Analytics “rightfully grabbed all the headlines” – might not be the most important story. Quilty says that Amazon’s announcement that it can build an all-electronically-steered flat panel antenna (FPA) for about $500 represents an earth-shattering […]
France’s highest administrative court, the Conseil d’Etat, has revoked Elon Musk’s Starlink licence to operate in the country. The ruling is based on French frequency rights granted in February 2021 to SpaceX’s Starlink last year and issued to the broadband service by regulator Arcep. Starlink will have to cease to operate in France. The Conseil […]
The Philippines is preparing to register Elon Musk’s Starlink service an operating licence for its broadband-by-satellite system, said by Trade Secretary Ramon Lopez as the first in South-East Asia. Local reports say that Starlink is now researching where to locate three dedicated Gateways throughout the archipelago for its first services and to set up its […]
Elon Musk has confirmed that SpaceX is targeting 60 launches during 2022 for its Falcon 9 rocket. Besides its own Starlink launches, the SpaceX client list includes NASA flights and various scientific missions as well as new obligations this coming winter from OneWeb which has abandoned planned launches by Russia. Musk, in a tweet, added […]
A panel session at the Satellite 2022 show heard Jonathan Hofeller, VP of Starlink commercial sales at SpaceX, say that whilst Starlink is best known for its consumer broadband service, it was also working to provide services for enterprises and other sectors. He also stated that Starlink currently has 250,000 subscribers around the world. Hofeller […]
The question of whether India would ever refuse OneWeb an operating licence has never been in doubt. Now OneWeb has received its all-important Global Mobile Personal Communications by Satellite (GMPCS) licence. The formal permission came from India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT), paving the way for OneWeb to launch its broadband service in India later this […]