Mobility

El Al Airlines is the national airline of Israel, and has been running strong since 1948. But with the COVID-19 pandemic affecting every corner of the world, the airline —...

Iridium Communications has started offering its real-time maritime emergency service, the company announced Tuesday. The service, Iridium Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS), commenced operation on Dec. 11th, marking...

SES has signed an agreement with Pivotel to build a new satellite ground station at the Pivotel teleport in Dubbo, New South Wales, Australia. This ground station, announced Monday, will...

Inmarsat confirmed Thursday that its GX5 Geostationary Orbit (GEO) satellite entered commercial service. This is the company’s most powerful GEO satellite to date, and its fourteenth satellite currently in service....

EchoStar Mobile is partnering with Jersey Telecom (JT) to offer a cellular roaming network for its new SYNERGY service suite. EchoStar Mobile will be combining its European S-band mobile satellite network...

Satcom Global has added the NSS-6 satellite to its Ku-band Aura Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) network to expand network coverage and capacity across the North Pacific. In a Dec....

ThinKom Solutions is supplying its ThinAir Ka2517 aero satellite antennas to GDC Technics, the company revealed Thursday. The Ka2517 antenna will be used to enable Inmarsat’s GX Aviation broadband satellite In-Flight Connectivity...

Marlink will provide Inmarsat FleetXpress service on eight vessels for Turkish shipping service provider Manta Shipping. The agreement, announced Tuesday, was signed through Marlink’s local partner Ozsay Satellite to support...

Inmarsat and Addvalue have established a real-time link between satellites in high and Low-Earth Orbit (LEO), the companies announced Monday. This new system consists of an Addvalue on-board terminal and...

SKYTRAC Systems is partnering with Scandinavian Avionics (the headquarters of The SA Group), the company revealed last Monday. The partnership’s goal is to increase market share for Skytrac’s broadband and...