Mark Holmes

Yahsat has appointed Sulaiman Al Ali as its new chief commercial officer, the company announced July 1. Al Ali will lead both YahClick, Yahsat’s data solutions arm, and Thuraya, its […]

Globalstar is working with Thaicom and the Thailand Marine Department to deploy its SPOT Gen4 satellite trackers to provide safety and security for travelers on the island of Phuket. Globalstar announced […]

Hiber won a new deal in the oil and gas sector with Santos, a large oil and gas producer and exporter in Papua New Guinea. Hiber announced Wednesday that Santos […]

Inmarsat has unveiled a new connectivity solution alongside Hytera, Global Beam Telecom and Cobham Satcom to serve businesses in the Middle East. Inmarsat announced the push-to-talk (PTT) offering, BGAN PRISM […]

Summer is truly here and most of us have been enjoying being back on the road and seeing our friends and colleagues within the community. There are some interesting talking […]

TIM, Broadpeak, and Eutelsat have been testing multicast signal distribution over a satellite network in Italy, the companies announced June 27. The testing, delivered through the TimVision Box in Adaptive […]

A new report from Credit Suisse explores possibilities for consolidation among the largest companies in the satellite sector, estimating that in the event that SES and Intelsat merged, it could […]

Telespazio has signed a new deal with BlackSky which will enable the company to make BlackSky geospatial products and services commercially available to customers world-wide. The non-exclusive reseller agreement was […]

Avanti Communications will team up with Viasat to support the connectivity needs of Viasat’s customers in the energy sector. Capacity from Avanti’s fleet of HYLAS Ka-band satellites will be used […]

Speedcast has won a multi-year contract from a large American multinational retailer to provide a managed VSAT backup network for close to 3,000 store operations across Mexico, the company announced […]

Anokiwave has appointed Ryan Jennings as its new vice president of satcom and systems, the company announced June 16. Anokiwave is a fabless semiconductor company providing highly integrated millimeter-wave silicon […]

Thales Alenia Space and Telespazio have won a new deal with the Italian Ministry of Defense (MoD), the two companies announced June 17. It is a follow-on contract for the […]

The 5G revolution is set to reach a key milestone in 2022, according to a report released Thursday by analyst firm CCS Insight. The report predicts there will be over […]

SES’s Ka-band satellite, SES-17, is now fully operational over the Americas, the Caribbean and the Atlantic Ocean at 67.1 degrees West, the company announced June 16. The all-electric propulsion satellite […]

OneWeb and Stellar Blu Solutions have delivered high-speed, low-latency inflight LEO satellite connectivity to a commercial airliner, the two companies announced June 14. This first test flight was conducted aboard […]

Intelsat has signed a new deal with Air Canada which will see it equip up to 45 Airbus A321s with its satellite connectivity solutions. Intelsat announced the deal June 14 […]

National space camps are coming to the United Kingdom. Athena, the UK’s national team in space, formed by CGI, Inmarsat, Lockheed Martin UK and Serco, announced June 14, that it […]

Intelsat is launching a new IFC solution for use by its airline customers. In an announcement on Tuesday, the satellite operator said that its new  solution will feature a state-of-the-art […]

OneWeb has released initial findings from its first OneWeb Connected Passenger Report, a survey of passenger attitudes toward air travel and inflight connectivity (IFC) in the post-pandemic landscape. Some see […]

Satellite operator Eutelsat has just been granted ISO 14001 certification for its teleport in Turin, Italy, the company announced June 10. Issued by Bureau Veritas, a leader in certification services, […]

Inmarsat recently released a financial update showing encouraging signs aviation, maritime, and government market. Inmarsat is not publicly traded and normally does not release financial results, but this release comes […]

In this week’s Thursday Morning Conversation, we get a snapshot into how advanced mobility is impacting the passenger maritime sector. These speakers discuss connectivity requirements for high-quality performance, efficiency, scale […]

Ovzon, a mobile satellite communications solutions company, is preparing for the launch of its Ovzon 3 satellite, a major milestone for the company. Ovzon CEO Per Norén spoke with Via Satellite about […]

EnduroSat has teamed up with IBM and Red Hat for open source, hybrid cloud, and AI technologies on its satellite that recently launched as part of the SpaceX Transporter-5 rideshare […]

Telesat has revealed details of a new demonstration involving one of the world’s biggest telcos as its Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) plans kick into gear. Telefónica and Telesat completed one of […]

SES has revealed details of a cellular network connectivity demonstration in Kazakhstan that shows the potential for satellite-based cellular connectivity. Kcell, Kazakhstan’s leading mobile network operator, paired its terrestrial network […]

Benchmark Space Systems is the latest U.S. space company to invest in the United Kingdom. The company announced May 24 that it had opened a manufacturing and testing facility northwest […]

Welcome to the June edition of Via Satellite. It is exciting to say that the trade show season is in full swing as we return to seeing our community. We […]

On February 24th, the world changed for Ukraine as Russia mounted an invasion which marked a new era in world geopolitics. In the initial stages of the invasion, cities like […]

In late December, Eutelsat announced Eva Berneke as its new CEO, tapping a leader from outside of the industry at a pivotal time for the operator. Berneke, who has worked […]