Month: November 2019

T-Mobile CEO John Legere is stepping down. The wireless operator announced that its Board of Directors has named Mike Sievert as CEO, effective May 1, 2020. Currently President, COO and...

Inmarsat received formal confirmation from its launch partner, Arianespace, that the company’s GX5 satellite will be launched from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana on Nov 22. The...

Gilat Satellite Networks selected SES for the development and deployment of a global multiple application Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) platform for its O3b mPOWER Medium-Earth Orbit (MEO) communications system....

Kepler Communications and Cobham formed a strategic partnership aimed at eliminating barriers to the adoption of data services over Kepler’s Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) network. Under the new arrangement, organizations can...

The C-Band Alliance (CBA) filed its Treasury Contribution Proposal today with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The contribution proposal states that if the FCC adopts the CBA proposal, the CBA...

Airbus space engineers are currently testing the Copernicus Sentinel-6A satellite at the Space Test Center of Industrieanlagen-Betriebsgesellschaft mbH (IABG) in Ottobrunn — near Munich, Germany — to prove its readiness...

BlackSky, a provider of geospatial intelligence, satellite imaging, and global monitoring services, secured a $50 million senior secured loan from Intelsat. The transaction results in an industry first, creating a...

A major cybersecurity challenge for satellite manufacturers is that their products have to be designed to be beyond the reach of human hands for decades. Automobile companies face the opposite...

Luokung Technology, a Chinese spatial-temporal big-data processing technology company, revealed that Geely Technology Group and Acuitas Capital have made strategic investments in Luokung through the purchase of preferred shares and common...

Satellite companies vying to sell to the government and defense markets know their prospective customers want them to be cyber-secure, but the absence of industry standards and guidance leaves them...