Connectivity

Swift Navigation, a San Francisco tech firm building centimeter-accurate GPS technology to power autonomous vehicles, announced that it has raised a $34 million Series B financing round led by Forest...

Following an anomaly that occurred last week, SES’ AMC 9 satellite is drifting away from a fully synchronous orbit at a rate just under 0.2 degrees per day, Markus Payer,...

ABS and Telcom Satellites TV (TSTV) signed a multi-transponder agreement to deliver a Direct-to-Home (DTH) broadcast service into Nigeria on the ABS 3A satellite. The new platform is scheduled to...

IKO Media Group (iKOMG), an end-to-end service provider for broadcasters and content owners, announced it has signed a distribution agreement with Russian Television International (RTVi), a Russian-language television network whose...

Polynesian Exploration, a navigation startup company founded last October, has launched its high-accuracy navigation solution for demanding applications such as autonomous driving and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). The company designed...

With the new U.S. administration and Congress focused on spurring economic growth and job creation, our leaders should consider an arcane but critical issue affecting many economic sectors: the allocation...

Reederei Hamburger Lloyd, a Hamburg-based shipping group, will move its fleet of nine container ships and six bulkers to Marlink’s Sealink Plus VSAT package including unlimited L-band backup. According to...

Although its bondholders’ failed to approve the highly anticipated merger with OneWeb, Intelsat will push forward with its plans to offer hybrid services from both Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) and...

The Konnect Africa broadband venture set up by Eutelsat Communications has officially launched new-generation services this month, starting in Benin, Cameroon, Kenya, Lesotho, Nigeria, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania and Uganda....

In this article from our archives, we talked to Lufthansa's Product Director about the airline's first incursions in providing satellite-based In-Flight Connectivity (IFC). With the Paris Air Show 2017 going on this week and since the Global Connected Aircraft Summit happened just a few weeks ago, it's interesting to contrast how things have changed...