E-letter: Briefs

BBC Studios (BBCS) and its subsidiary UKTV have awarded SES a multi-year contract to manage the playout and distribution of over 50 linear channels, and associated Video on Demand (VOD)...

The first flight of the Chinese rocket Kuaizhou-11 carrier rocket carrying two satellites failed on Friday, Chinese state media reports. The rocket was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center...

Intermap Technologies revealed a new contract with Zipline to deliver geospatial Elevation-as-a-Service to support their expanding medical operations in Africa, including on-demand emergency response to COVID-19 outbreaks. The subscription contract...

NovelSat will incorporate its satellite access waveforms into Envistacom’s Transport Virtualization Ecosystem (TVE). Envistacom announced Thursday it will deliver an open-architecture ecosystem which helps enable virtualized applications such as advanced...

Viasat removed internet speed limits delivered to the aircraft across all of its business aviation Ka-band service plans. Additionally, the company has doubled its minimum committed internet speed to the...

Satellite-connected Internet of Things (IoT) technology company hiSky has begun early field trials of a new “Smartellite” Ku-band satellite terminal that it has been developing over the course of a...

Antenna Research Associates (ARA) has completed its acquisition of AQYR Technologies to broaden its business with AQYR’s satcom ground terminals. The newly acquired company will operate as a wholly-owned subsidiary of...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has selected Airbus Defence and Space for major Copernicus environment missions, the agency announced Wednesday. Copernicus is the biggest provider of Earth Observation (EO) data...

NASA and Boeing’s major reviews of the company’s uncrewed Orbital Flight Test in December 2019 has concluded with 80 recommendations. The December flight test experienced an intermittent space-to-ground communication issue,...

T-Mobile has opened up its T-Mobile Home Internet pilot to residents of three Michigan counties, in a move that aims to put other Internet Service Providers (ISPs) on notice. The...