Connectivity

Luxembourg-based satellite company OQ Technology selected Lithuania’s NanoAvionics to build, integrate, and operate a 6U nanosatellite for its upcoming constellation, OQ announced Monday. This is the second satellite that NanoAvionics […]

Mobile satellite and IoT service provider Globalstar reported some small signs of recovery from COVID-19 during its first fiscal quarter of 2021 (Q121), particularly with commercial IoT equipment sales revenues […]

Eutelsat and its partner Facebook Connectivity are expanding the use of the Express Wi-Fi platform to provide broadband services to rural and remote end-users across new regions in Sub-Saharan Africa. […]

OneWeb has signed its first commercial services contract with Hughes Network Systems for the U.S. Air Force Research Lab (AFRL). Hughes is the prime contractor on the project, and will […]

Last week, Eutelsat made the news with a deal to acquire around a 24% stake in OneWeb, in a deal worth over $500 million. The investment is an example of […]

SES has recently announced details of two new deals, one in the United States and one in Germany. SES Government Solutions (SES GS), a wholly-owned subsidiary of SES, has won […]

EchoStarMobile, an EchoStar subsidiary, has reached a deal with Semtech Corporation to test satellite Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity services enabled by the LoRaWAN protocol.  LoRaWAN is a protocol for […]

SpaceX launched another batch of 60 Starlink satellites on Tuesday afternoon. A Falcon 9 rocket took off from Launch pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral Florida […]

Following the widespread effects of the COVID-19 pandemic that has impacted the daily lives of billions of people in the past year, the world is in a critical moment in […]

Viasat has completed its purchase of Eutelsat’s share of Euro Broadband Infrastructure (EBI), the wholesale broadband services business, the company announced April 30. This purchase gives Viasat complete ownership of […]

As the satellite world enters a new era in which thousands upon thousands of satellites are launched into space, the onus will be on the industry to find new buyers […]

Eutelsat’s over $500 million investment for a 24% stake in OneWeb, announced Tuesday, marks one of the major Geostationary Orbit (GEO) operators making a substantial move in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO). […]

ST Engineering iDirect will extend the ground infrastructure of a 3G, 4G, and corporate internet services network in Brazil under the terms of a new contract with a Tier 1 […]

The FCC has granted SpaceX permission to lower the altitude of future satellites in the Starlink Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation. The FCC’s decision, announced Tuesday, came despite protests from Viasat, […]

Eutelsat has joined the OneWeb investment consortium with a $550 million investment. This brings funding for the new iteration of OneWeb to $1.9 billion — 80% of what is needed to […]

SES has renewed a broadcast capacity deal in Germany. The company announced April 27 that Bayerische Medien Technik GmbH (bmt) has signed a multi-year agreement to continue using SES’s satellites […]

Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. has recently signed two deals with telecommunications companies for its SkyEdge II-c Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) network platform. On Monday, Gilat announced a $3 million […]

OneWeb has seen another 36 satellites successfully launched as it looks to build up its Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation. Arianespace and launch partner Glavkosmos launched the satellites from the Vostochny […]

On Earth Day, Inmarsat announced a deal with the European Space Agency (ESA) to help in the area of national disasters. The satellite operator, alongside SINTEF, one of Europe’s largest […]

Dish Network Corporation has selected Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its preferred cloud provider and will construct its 5G network on AWS, the companies announced Wednesday.  Dish also announced that […]

Earth Observation Data Analytics (EOSDA) is looking to use satellite technology to make a difference in the areas of agriculture, oil and gas, forestry, and disaster recovery. The company recently […]

Amazon has signed a launch deal with ULA for nine Atlas V launches for its Project Kuiper satellite constellation. The Atlas V missions will launch from Space Launch Complex 41 […]

Myriota is partnering with sensor company Yabby Sensors, to provide dam operators and owners with a dam-monitoring solution in Australia based on Myriota’s satellite Internet of Things (IoT) platform. The […]

Gilat Satellite Networks reported April 19 that it’s Wavestream subsidiary received orders of more than $20 million for Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation gateways. Wavestream was chosen as the vendor of […]

Satellite ground technology specialist ViaLite received a contract from Orange Telecom to deploy its C-band radio over fiber (RF) links at Orange’s teleport facility in Bercenay-en-Othe, France. ViaLite announced April […]

SES and the Kazakhstan Government will explore rolling out satellite-enabled, high-speed connectivity services using the O3b mPOWER communications system to accelerate the nation’s Digital Kazakhstan project under the terms of […]

The satellite broadband market will grow to over 5 million subscribers worldwide and generate over $4 billion in revenue in 2026, according to ABI Research, which announced details of a […]

Oil and gas sector trading operations company Cisa Trading has selected Globalstar to deliver asset management solutions to its operations in Brazil. Cisa Trading said it required satellite tracking and […]

Smallsat broadband connectivity company Astranis has completed a $250 million Series C financing round that values the company at $1.4 billion. The financing round announced Wednesday was led by funds […]

Telesat has contracted Netcracker Technology to provide Business Support System/Operations Support System (BSS/OSS) software for is Lightspeed Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation. Under the terms of the agreement announced April 13, […]