Author: Kendall Russell

UnicomAirNet has signed a multi-year agreement with Eutelsat Communications to address the fast-growing In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) market in the Asia-Pacific region. As of 2019, UnicomAirNet will lease the remaining capacity...

The “Airbnb for satellite antennas” is introducing a new software platform to support the Launch and Early Orbit Phase (LEOP) for amateur Ultra High-Frequency (UHF) satellites. Tokyo-based startup Infostellar’s platform,...

Elettronica Industriale, a subsidiary of the Italian group Mediaset, has signed a multi-year capacity agreement with Eutelsat to accelerate its transition to High Definition (HD). Due to this contract, the...

Vector and Open Cosmos announced an agreement to reserve five orbital launches between 2019 and 2023 on the Vector-R launch vehicle. The announcement comes in advance of Vector’s first orbital...

Avanti Communications Group has signed a minimum commitment contract valued at $500,000 with Global Radiodata Communications (GRC), which develops and supplies mission-critical communication products and solutions to provide Ka-band satellite...

As worldwide security growth moves to more than $96 billion in 2018, research firm Gartner is predicting an increase of 8 percent from 2017 for cybersecurity investment. Organizations are spending more on...

New technology on the satellite side of the supply chain is allowing teleport operators downstream, such as CETel, to engage with previously inaccessible customers. In an interview with Via Satellite,...

Gogo announced that it has more than 200 aircraft equipped with its 2Ku In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) technology using the increased High Throughput Satellite (HTS) capacity delivered by the SES 15...

Iridium Communications announced that Marlink, Speedcast, Applied Satellite Technologies (AST), and Satcom Global are the initial global maritime launch partners for Iridium Certus, a global L-band satellite network. The first regional...

Northern Sky Research’s (NSR) China Satcom Markets (CSM) report finds a Chinese satellite industry primed to take a larger share of the global satcom market through attractive one-stop-shop offerings, aggressive growth...