Orbital Sidekick (OSK) on Thursday revealed that the company received a 12-month contract to serve as a technology partner with the Intelligent Pipeline Integrity Program (iPIPE). With this award, OSK will provide daily monitoring of pipeline assets in the oil and gas industry. OSK is the first commercial company to deploy hyperspectral sensors in space,…

Intelsat revealed on its corporate blog on Tuesday that the Intelsat CellBackhaul service is coming to Europe. The company recently implemented a new gateway using Comtech hubs at the Intelsat datacenter in Fuchsstadt, Germany, designed to enable the service. Intelsat made its CellBackhaul service available in the U.S. in May. According to the post, Intelsat…

Iridium Communications revealed Wednesday that Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) Kobelco Construction Machinery (KCM) integrated Iridium's satcom connectivity into its hydraulic excavator machinery, heavy equipment, and the KOMEXS remote asset management platform. Iridium's service provides KCM equipment global coverage for the first time, as well as programming deployed assets to provide automated recurring telematics and equipment…

HiSky partnered with SpaceCom to launch services via the AMOS-17 satellite, HiSky revealed Monday. HiSky aims to streamline its systems and increase data rates of very small mobile terminals by enabling connectivity via AMOS-17's steerable beams. HiSky and SpaceCom have worked together before, as they signed a cooperation agreement in 2017 to offer Mobile Satellite…