Connectivity

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, […]

Eutelsat has reached a deal to provide rural broadband to New Zealand’s Chatham Islands, the operator announced April 7. The Rural Connectivity Group — a joint venture between New Zealand’s […]

Competing with SpaceX‘s Starlink constellation drove the wider discussion during the “New World Order” panel at the SATELLITE show LEO Digital Forum, as satellite operators pushed their multi-orbit strategies and […]

SpaceX’s Starlink internet constellation will be able to serve every household in the rural United States in five years, SpaceX COO Gwynne Shotwell shared Tuesday during a discussion on the […]

Dish Network selected Palo Alto Networks as the cloud security services provider for its OpenRAN-based 5G wireless network in the United States. Dish’s 5G network will utilize Palo Alto Networks’ […]

In this regular round-up, Via Satellite looks at recent research reports in the space and telecommunications arena. This installment features a look at Euroconsult‘s first satellite broadband market analysis, a […]

Azercosmos has signed a new capacity deal with Media Holding, a Georgian media company, the company announced April 1. Under the deal, Georgian television channels Rustavi-2, Comedy TV, and Marao […]

BridgeComm reports that it has demonstrated high-speed optical communications of speeds beyond 100 Gb per second in a lab setting. The company announced Thursday that it will hold point-to-point demonstrations […]

Inmarsat has launched an Application and Solution Provider (ASP) program, the company announced April 1. This will be an ecosystem for providers of software, hardware and solutions, as well as […]

CloudOps, a managed services and software company based in Québec, will build the cloud infrastructure for Telesat‘s new Lightspeed Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite network, the companies announced March 30. […]

Inmarsat is seeking an injunction against the Dutch government in a Netherlands civil court to review spectrum allocation changes it made in a recent update to the country’s National Frequency […]

TrustComm, a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) satellite communications application specialist, is now a distribution partner of OneWeb. The companies announced an MoU on March 26 that TrustComm will deliver […]

OneWeb’s latest satellite launch early Thursday morning brings the Low-Earth Orbit constellation to 146 satellites. An Arianespace Soyuz rocket took off from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia on 25 March […]

Yahsat has announced a new deal to help disadvantaged students in refugee camps. The company announced March 25 that it is teaming up with Emirates Red Crescent Authority, which will […]

SpaceX continued its rapid launch cadence for Starlink missions, launching the fourth batch of satellites this month in an early morning launch on Wednesday. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 60 […]

Nuvotronics, a subsidiary of Cubic Corporation, has been awarded a contract worth more than $10 million to support the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) “5G to Next G” program, the […]

Globalstar Europe Satellite Services has announced a new partnership with Perth & Kinross Council in Scotland which will see its SPOT Gen4 devices deployed in Scotland to help workers in […]

Omnispace acquired a new strategic partner in its quest to build and operate a Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite-powered 5G network. The Washington D.C.-based operator reached a collaborative agreement with Lockheed […]

Satellite operator SES awarded a contract to Israel’s Gilat Satellite Networks to provide broadband connectivity via its SkyEdge II-c platform for a nationwide education program in Brazil. The Gilat SkyEdge […]