Mobility

Globalsat Equips Argentine Navy Yacht with Iridium Certus

By Rachel Jewett | April 3, 2020

Iridium’s partner Globalsat recently carried out the first South American installation of an Iridium Certus mobile satellite system on a regatta yacht belonging to the Argentine Navy. The installation was...

Finance

IFC Outlook: Post-Pandemic, the Need for Connectivity Will be Greater Than Ever

By William Calvert | April 2, 2020

For those in the In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) value chain, one of the first priorities related to dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic is how to deal with existing contracts that in...

Connectivity

Danish Operator Sternula Leads LEO Maritime IoT Project

By Rachel Jewett | April 2, 2020

Danish satellite operator Sternula is leading a consortium that plans to develop a network for Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites delivering ice chart data to ships at sea. According to a...

Mobility

Satcom Global Integrates Intellian NX Series With its Aura VSAT

By Rachel Jewett | March 26, 2020

Satcom Global’s Aura VSAT (Very Small Aperture Terminal) solution now includes Ku-band hardware from the Intellian NX series of maritime VSAT antennas, including the v85NX, v100NX, and v130NX models, the...

Partner Content

O3b mPOWER: Engineering Freedom

March 19, 2020

O3b mPOWER reaches new thresholds of system flexibility, performance, and scale, allowing you the freedom to create and differentiate new services, integrate and extend your networks seamlessly, optimise network resources...

Connectivity

Hughes Kicks Off Massive Community Wi-Fi Deployment in Rural Mexico

By Jeffrey Hill | February 28, 2020

Hughes Network Systems and Telecomunicaciones de México (TELECOMM) will deploy Express Wi-Fi Hotspots in as many as 4,000 rural communities in Mexico, the operator announced Feb. 28. TELECOMM, a decentralized...

Connectivity

Iridium Says Certus Upgrade Doubles Top Download Speeds

By Rachel Jewett | February 27, 2020

Iridium Communications has announced that its Iridium Certus 700 service is commercially available. The company said that when Iridium Certus was first launched in early 2019, it provided L-band upload...

Connectivity

Get SAT, Spacecom Demonstrate Mobile ISR Capabilities

By Rachel Jewett | February 24, 2020

Spacecom, which operates the AMOS satellite fleet, and Get SAT report that using AMOS-17’s steerable Ka-band High Throughput Satellite (HTS) beams and Get SAT’s miniaturized Micro-SAT satcom terminals, they have...

Mobility

Flyht to Provide SaaS to Azur Airline

By Rachel Jewett | February 24, 2020

Flyht Aerospace Solutions has received a $1.77 million purchase order for Software as a Service (SaaS) features FLYHTHealth and FLYHTMail from the airline Azur Havacilik A.S. (Azur), which is based...

Mobility

Comtech Receives $8.8M Contract for In-Flight Connectivity Amplifiers

By Rachel Jewett | February 20, 2020

Comtech Xicom Technology has received a contract valued at more than $8.8 million for Ka-band Solid-State amplifiers for an In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) satcom application. Comtech Xicom Technology is a California-based...